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Nominal Rigidities

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., and the Central Bank Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Central A & B)
Saturday, June 16, 2001

Conference Summary

AGENDA

9:00 A.M. Continental Breakfast
   
9:30 A.M.

Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy (PDF - 740KB)
LAWRENCE J. CHRISTIANO, Northwestern University
MARTIN EICHENBAUM, Northwestern University
CHARLES EVANS, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 
Discussant:

 

JULIO ROTEMBERG, Harvard University
   
10:30 A.M. Sticky Information Versus Sticky Prices: A Proposal to Replace the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (PDF - 170KB)
GREG MANKIW, Harvard University
RICARDO REIS, Harvard University
 
Discussant:
WILLIAM DUPOR, University of Pennsylvania
   
11:30 A.M. Break
   
11:45 A.M.

Closed and Open Economy Models of Business Cycles with Marked-up and Sticky Prices (PDF - 206KB)
ROBERT BARRO, Harvard University
SILVANA TENREYRO, Harvard University

 
Discussant:
VALERIE RAMEY, University of California San Diego
   
12:45 P.M. Lunch
   
2:00 P.M. Predicting the Effects of Fed Policy in a Sticky Price Model (PDF - 337KB)
ELLEN McGRATTAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  Discussant: ANDY LEVIN, Board of Governors
   
3:00 P.M. Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Equivalence Results
PEDRO TELES, Bank of Portugal and U. Catolica Portueguesa
ISABEL CORREIA, Bank of Portugal, U. Catolica Portuegesa and CEPR
JUAN PABLO NICOLINI, Universidad di Tella
 
Discussant:
V. V. CHARI, University of Minnesota
   
4:00 P.M. Break
   
4:30 P.M.

Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy Under Sticky Prices
MARTIN URIBE, University of Pennsylvania
STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHE, Rutgers University and CEPR

 
Discussant:
PEDRO TELES, Bank of Portugal and U. Catolica Portueguesa
   
5:45 P.M. Reception
   
7:00 P.M. Dinner at the Harbor Village Restaurant, Four Embarcadero Center
   
List of Participants
   

Hotel:

Harbor Court, 165 Steuart Street,
San Francisco CA 94105
http://www.harborcourthotel.com/