NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

Monetary Economics Workshop

Christina Romer and David Romer, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 10 - 14, 2006

PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 10:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Discussion with STANLEY FISCHER, Governor of the Bank of Israel and NBER
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	LINDA GOLDBERG, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
	MICHAEL KLEIN, Tufts University and NBER
	Establishing Credibility: Evolving Perceptions of the European Central Bank
3:10 pm	MATTEO CICCARELLI and BENOÎT MOJON, European Central Bank
	Global Inflation
4:05 pm	Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 11:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	MARK GERTLER and JOHN LEAHY, New York University and NBER
	A Phillips Curve with an Ss Foundation
1:55 pm	CARLOS CARVALHO, Princeton University
	Heterogeneity in Price Stickiness and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
2:50 pm	Break
3:05 pm	THOMAS SARGENT, New York University and NBER
	NOAH WILLIAMS, Princeton University and NBER
	TAO ZHA, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
	The Conquest of South American Inflation
4:00 pm	Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	JEAN BOIVIN and MARC GIANNONI, Columbia University and NBER
	ILIAN MIHOV, INSEAD
	Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated U.S. Data
1:55 pm	PETER KLENOW, Stanford University and NBER
	JONATHAN WILLIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
	Real Rigidities and Nominal Price Changes
2:50 pm	Break
3:05 pm	GITA GOPINATH, Harvard University and NBER
	ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER
	Sticky Borders
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 13:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER
	TAKEO HOSHI, UC, San Diego and NBER
	ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER
	Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan
1:55 pm	ROBERT BARSKY, University of Michigan and NBER
	ERIC SIMS, University of Michigan
	Information Shocks, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence
2:50 pm	Break
3:05 pm	MICHAEL ELSBY, University of Michigan
	Evaluating the Economic Significance of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
4:00 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 14:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	LUCA BENATI, Bank of England
	UK Monetary Regimes and Macroeconomic Stylised Facts Slides
1:55 pm	GARY RICHARDSON and WILLIAM TROOST, UC, Irvine
	Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics during the Great Depression: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Federal Reserve District Border in Mississippi, 1929 to 1933
2:50 pm	Break
3:05 pm	MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto
	Read All About It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock?
4:00 pm	Adjourn
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