Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Ricardo Reis and Mark W. Watson, Organizers

March 2, 2012

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 2
1
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
Yuliy Sannikov, Stanford University

The I Theory of Money
2
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, Boston College
Keith Kuester, University of Bonn
Juan Rubio-Ramírez, Emory University

Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity
3
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund
Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Fiscal Devaluations
4
Eric T.. Swanson, University of California, Irvine and NBER
John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium- and Longer-Term Interest Rates
5
Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
Francesco Lippi, LUISS Guido Carli University

Price Setting with Menu Cost for Multi-product Firms
6
Carola Frydman, Northwestern University and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER

The Panic of 1907: JP Morgan, Trust Companies, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis