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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Monetary Economics Program Meeting
John V. Leahy and Virgiliu Midrigan, Organizers
March 7, 2014
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Benjamin Strong Room, 10^th Floor 33 Liberty Street New York, NY 10045
PROGRAM
Thursday, March 6, 2014
6:30 pm	Dinner Church & Dey Restaurant (Located in the Millenium Hilton Hotel) 55 Church Street New York, NY 10007
Friday, March 7, 2014
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Christina D. Romer, University of California at Berkeley and NBER David H. Romer, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Transfer Payments and the Macroeconomy: The Effects of Social Security Benefit Changes, 1952-1991 Discussant: Alisdair McKay, Boston University
10:00 am	Break
10:20 am	Roc Armenter, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Perils of Nominal Targets Discussant: Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:20 am	Break
11:40 am	Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER Matteo Maggiori, New York University and NBER International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics Discussant: Alessandro Dovis, Princeton University
12:40 pm	Lunch-Liberty Room, 1^st Floor
1:40 pm	Francesco Bianchi, Duke University Cosmin L. Ilut, Duke University and NBER Monetary/Fiscal Policy Mix and Agents' Beliefs Discussant: Eric Leeper, Indiana University and NBER
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER Philippe Martin, Sciences Po Inspecting the Mechanism: Leverage and the Great Recession in the Eurozone Discussant: Emi Nakamura, Columbia University and NBER
4:00 pm	Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER Saroj Bhattarai, Pennsylvania State University Bulat Gafarov, Pennsylvania State University Time Consistency and the Duration of Government Debt: A Signalling Theory of Quantitative Easing Discussant: Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
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