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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

MONETARY ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Valerie Ramey and Jon Steinsson, Organizers

 

March 4, 2011

 

Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago

230 South LaSalle Street

Chicago, IL

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 3:

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 4:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER

 

David Sraer, Princeton University

 

Quiet Bubbles

 

 

 

Discussant:  Alp Simsek, Harvard University

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:20 am

Judith Chevalier, Yale University and NBER

 

Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Best Prices

 

 

 

Discussant:  Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

11:20 am

Break

 

 

11:40 am

Douglas Davis, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Oleg Korenok, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Nominal Price Shocks in Monopolistically Competitive Markets: An Experimental Analysis

 

 

 

Discussant:  Timothy Cason, Purdue University

 

 

12:40 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:40 pm

James Hamilton,  UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Jing Wu, UC, San Diego

 

The Effectiveness of Alternative Monetary Policy Tools in a Zero Lower Bound Environment

 

 

 

Discussant:  John Cochrane, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

2:40 pm

Break 

 

 

3:00 pm

Karel Mertens, Cornell University

 

Morten Ravn, University College London

 

Fiscal Policy in an Expectations Driven Liquidity Trap

 

 

 

Discussant:  Gauti Eggertsson,  Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

4:00 pm

Isabel Correia, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

 

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER

 

Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Pedro Teles, Universidad di Tella

 

Unconventional Fiscal Policy at the Zero Bound

 

 

 

Discussant:  Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn