FRB Conference on Key Developments in Monetary Economics

October 8-9, 2009 - Washington, DC

Papers and Discussants

  • Changes in the Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism
    • Jean Boivin, Université de Montréal
      Michael T. Kiley, Federal Reserve Board
      Frederic S. Mishkin, Columbia University
      Discussant: Ray Fair, Yale University
  • Interactions Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy
    • Matthew B. Canzoneri, Georgetown University
      Robert E. Cumby, Georgetown University
      Behzad Diba, Georgetown University
      Discussant: Maurice Obstfeld, University of California at Berkeley
  • Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections
    • Mark Gertler, New York University
      Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University
      Discussant: Christopher Erceg, Federal Reserve Board
  • Monetary Policy under Uncertainty
    • Lars P. Hansen, University of Chicago
      Thomas J. Sargent, New York University
      Discussant: Robert Tetlow, Federal Reserve Board
  • Credibility, Reputation and Discretionary Policy
    • Robert G. King, Boston University
      Discussant: Julio Rotemberg, Harvard Business School
  • Microeconomic Evidence on Price-Setting
    • Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University
      Benjamin A. Malin, Federal Reserve Board
      Discussant: Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
  • Imperfect Information and the Effects of Monetary Policy
    • N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University
      Ricardo Reis, Columbia University
      Discussant: John Leahy, New York University
  • Money and Inflation
    • Bennett T. McCallum, Carnegie-Mellon University
      Edward M. Nelson, Federal Reserve Board
      Discussant: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia University
  • Inattention and Macroeconomic Dynamics
    • Christopher A. Sims, Princeton University
      Discussant: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
  • Monetary Policy Rules
    • John B. Taylor, Stanford University
      John C. Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
      Discussant: Andrew Levin, Federal Reserve Board
  • The Mechanism Design Approach to Monetary Theory
    • Neil Wallace, Pennsylvania State University
      Discussant: Edward Green, Pennsylvania State University
  • New Monetarist Economics
    • Stephen Williamson, Washington University
      Randall Wright, University of Pennsylvania
      Discussant: Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago
  • Optimal Monetary Stabilization Policy
    • Michael Woodford, Columbia University
      Discussant: V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota