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International Seminar on Macroeconomics |
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Richard
Clarida and Francesco Giavazzi, Organizers |
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Dutch National Bank |
Westeinde 1 1017 ZN |
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June 18-19, 2010 |
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PROGRAM |
FRIDAY, JUNE 18:
8:45 am Welcome
Fiscal Policy
Chair: Jeffrey Frankel
9:00 am Karel Mertens,
Morten
Ravn, University College
Technology - Hours Redux: Tax Changes and the Measurement of Technology Shocks
Discussants:
Michael
McMahon,
Tommaso
Monacelli,
10:15 am Coffee Break
Global Business Cycles
Chair: Francesco
Giavazzi
10:30 am S. Boragan Aruoba,
Francis
Diebold,
M.
Ayhan Kose, IMF
Marco
Terrones, IMF
Globalization, the Business Cycle, and Real-Time Macroeconomic Monitoring
Discussants:
Lucrezia
Reichlin,
Kenneth
West,
Fiscal Policy
Chair: Francesco Giavazzi
11:45 am Thomas Laubach,
Fiscal Policy and Interest Rates: The Role of Sovereign
Default Risk
Discussants:
Carlo Favero, Bocconi University
Martin Feldstein, Harvard University and
NBER
Chair: Henk Brouwer
2:00 pm Wouter den Haan,
University of Amsterdam
Matija Lozej,
Pigou
Cycles in Closed and Open Economies with Matching Frictions
Discussants:
Paul
Beaudry,
Guido Lorenzoni, MIT and NBER
3:15 pm Coffee Break
Monetary Policy
Chair: Henk Brouwer
Michael
Klein,
Discussants:
Richard Clarida, Columbia University and NBER
Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER
4:45 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Boat tour around the Amsterdam canals
7:00 pm Dinner at Restaurant Christophe
SATURDAY, JUNE 19:
Monetary Policy
Chair: Richard Clarida
9:00 am Stijn Claessens, IMF
M.
Ayhan Kose, IMF
Marco Terrones, IMF
Financial
Cycles: What? How? When?
Discussants:
Stephen Cecchetti, Bank for International Settlements and NBER
Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University and NBER
10:15 am Coffee Break
Financial Crises
Chair: Richard Clarida
10:30 am Christopher Erceg, Federal Reserve Board
Jesper Linde, Federal Reserve Board
Asymmetric Shocks in a Currency Union with Monetary and Fiscal
Handcuffs
Discussants:
Bianca
De Paoli, Bank of
Hans-Helmut Kotz, Deutsche Bundesbank
11:45 am Travis Berge, UC, Davis
Oscar Jorda, UC, Davis
Alan Taylor, UC, Davis and NBER
Discussants:
Robert Cumby, Georgetown University and NBER
Mark
Taylor,
1:00 pm Lunch and Adjourn
Guided tour Historic walk through
Dinner at Ship