International Research Forum on Monetary Policy: Second Conference, Washington, DC, December 1-2, 2006
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Organizers
    Lucrezia Reichlin [email protected]
    Dale Henderson [email protected]
    Volker Wieland [email protected]
    Matthew Canzoneri [email protected]
 
Media Contact:
    Deborah Lagomarsino [email protected]

Friday, December 1, 2006
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Ben Bernanke, Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
1. DSGE Interpretations of Historical Episodes
  Chair: Lucrezia Reichlin
9:15 a.m. Three Great American Disinflations (355 KB PDF)
Authors: Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
Christopher Erceg, Federal Reserve Board
   Presentation (387 KB PDF)
Andrew Levin, Federal Reserve Board
Ryan Michaels, University of Michigan
Discussants: Lars Svensson, Princeton University
   Presentation (55 KB PPT)
Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College
   Presentation (114 KB PPT)
11:00 a.m. The Mistake of 1937: A General Equilibrium Analysis (368 KB PDF)
Authors: Gauti Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
   Presentation (274 MB PPT)
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Chicago
Discussants: Athanasios Orphanides, Federal Reserve Board
   Presentation (1.6 MB PDF)
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   Presentation (38 KB PPT)
1:15 p.m. Luncheon Speaker
Lucas Papademos, Vice-President
European Central Bank
2. Job Search, Wage Setting, and Microeconomics
  Chair: Matthew Canzoneri
2:00 p.m. Identifying the Role of Labor Markets for Monetary Policy in a Estimated DSGE Model (1.06 MB PDF)
Authors: Kai Christoffel, European Central Bank
Keith Kuester, European Central Bank
Tobias Linzert, European Central Bank
   Presentation (2.5 MB PPT)
Discussants: Wouter den Haan, London Business School
   Presentation (56 KB PPT)
Monika Merz, University of Bonn
   Presentation (18 KB PDF)
3:15 p.m. A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment (264 KB PDF)
Authors: Olivier Blanchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jordi Galí, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
   Presentation (256 KB PDF)
Discussants: Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University
   Presentation (134 KB PDF)
Kai Christoffel, European Central Bank
   Presentation (542 KB PDF)
5:00 p.m. Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining (689 KB PDF)
Authors: Mark Gertler, New York University
   Presentation (485 KB PDF)
Antonella Trigari, IGIER, Bocconi University
Discussants: Olivier Blanchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   Presentation (72 KB PDF)
Carl Walsh, University of California, Santa Cruz
   Presentation (173 KB PDF)
6:15 p.m. Conference adjourns
6:45 p.m. Dinner Speaker
Donald Kohn, Vice Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Saturday, December 2, 2006
3. Investment in Housing and the Business Cycle
  Chair: Volker Wieland
8:30 a.m. Mortgage Markets, Collateral Constraints, and Monetary Policy: Do Institutional Factors Matter? (538 KB PDF)
Authors: Alessandro Calza, European Central Bank
   Presentation (253 KB PDF)
Tommaso Monacelli, IGIER, Bocconi University
Livio Stracca, European Central Bank
Discussants:

Jonathan Heathcote, Georgetown University and Federal Reserve Board
   Presentation (80 KB PDF)
Matteo Iacoviello, Boston College
   Presentation (3.2 MB PDF)

4. Expectation Formation, Learning, and Policymaking
  Chair: Volker Wieland
9:45 a.m. Bayesian and Adaptive Optimal Policy
under Model Uncertainty (652 KB PDF)
Authors: Noah Williams, Princeton University
Lars Svensson, Princeton University
Discussants: Eric Schaling, University of Johannesburg
   Presentation (148 KB PDF)
James Bullard, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
   Presentation (606 KB PDF)
11:00 a.m. Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy with Near-Rational Expectation (339 KB PDF)
Author:

Michael Woodford, Columbia University
   Presentation (195 KB PDF)

Discussants: Christopher Sims, Princeton University
   Presentation (39 KB PDF)
George Evans, University of Oregon
   Presentation (70 KB PDF)
5. Empirical Analysis of Disaggregated Prices
  Chair: Dale Henderson
1:30 p.m. Menu Costs, Multi-product Firms, and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.13 MB PDF)
Author: Virgiliu Midrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and New York University
    Presentation (581 KB PDF)
Discussants: Ricardo Reis, Princeton University
   Presentation (185 KB PDF)
Kirstin Hubrich, European Central Bank
   Presentation (501 KB PDF)
2:45 p.m. Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated U.S. Data (1.03 MB PDF)
Authors: Marc Giannoni, Columbia University
   Presentation (1.7 MB PDF)
Jean Boivin, Columbia University
Ilian Mihov, INSEAD
Discussants: Mark Watson, Princeton University
   Presentation (154 KB PDF)
Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University
   Presentation (229 KB PDF)
4:00 p.m. Conference ends
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