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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

MONETARY ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Mark Gertler and Emi Nakamura, Organizers

March 5, 2010

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK

33 Liberty Street, 10^th Floor

New York, NY 10045

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 4:

6:00 pm Reception and Dinner

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

West Wing, 1^st Floor

33 Liberty Street

New York, NY 10045

FRIDAY, MARCH 5:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am MARTIN ELLISON, University of Oxford

THOMAS SARGENT, New York University and NBER

A Defence of the FOMC

Discussant: GIORGIO PRIMICERI, Northwestern University and NBER

10:00 am Break

10:20 am V.V. CHARI, University of Minnesota and NBER

PATRICK KEHOE, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

Bailouts , Time Inconsistency and Optimal Regulation

Discussant: EMMANUEL FARHI, Harvard University and NBER

11:20 am Break

11:40 am PIETRO VERONESI and LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER

Paulson’s Gift

Discussant: THOMAS PHILIPPON, New York University and NBER

12:40 pm Lunch

1:40 pm MARKUS BRUNNERMEIER, Princeton University and NBER

YULIY SANNIKOV, Princeton University

A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector

Discussant: GUIDO LORENZONI, MIT and NBER

2:40 pm Break

Monetary Economics Program, Page 2:

3:00 pm MARY AMITI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER

Exports and Financial Shocks

Discussant: VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN, New York University and NBER

4:00 pm MARCO DEL NEGRO, GAUTI EGGERTSSON, ANDREA FERRERO,

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

NOBUHIRO KIYOTAKI, Princeton University and NBER

The Great Escape: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed’s Non-Standard Policies Response to the Crisis

Discussant: JESUS FERNANDEZ-VILLAVERDE,

University of Pennsylvania and NBER

5:00 pm Adjourn

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