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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Julio Rotemberg, Organizers

November 4, 2011

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 3, 2011
6:30 pm	Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (Across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) Cambridge, MA
Friday, November 4, 2011
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Rudiger Bachmann, University of Michigan and NBER Tim Berg, IFO Institute Eric Sims, University of Notre Dame and NBER Inflation Expectations and Readiness to Spend:Cross-Sectional Evidence Discussants: Olivier Coibion, College of William and Mary and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:20 am	Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER Brent Bundick, Boston College Uncertainty Shocks in a Model of Effective Demand Discussants: Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
11:20 am	Break
11:40 am	Atif Mian, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, Amir Sufi, University of Chicago and NBER, What Explains High Unemployment? The Deleveraging-Aggregate Demand Hypothesis Discussants: Daniel Shoag, Harvard University
12:40 pm	Lunch-Dante Lounge
1:40 pm	Bartosz Mackowiak, European Central Bank Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern University Inattention to Rare Events Discussant: Laura Veldkamp, New York University and NBER
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER Managing a Liquidity Trap: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Discussants: Jess Benhabib, New York University and NBER
4:00 pm	Eric Leeper, Indiana University and NBER Nora Traum, North Carolina University Todd Walker, Indiana University Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass Discussants: Harald Uhling, University of Chicago and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
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