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The San Francisco Fed's Research Department organized six conferences
during 1999 and the first quarter of 2000.
The four conferences addressing macroeconomic and monetary policy
issues were cohosted with the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy
Research at Stanford University. Topics covered in these four conferences
included policy rules under uncertainty, challenges and choices
for the Eurosystem, the relationship between inflation and unemployment,
and the so-called new economy and its implications for monetary
policy.
The conference on financial crises in emerging markets was organized
solely by the department's Center for Pacific Basin Studies and
covered a broad range of issues, including the determinants of currency
and banking crises in emerging markets, the specific roles of capital
flows and the financial sector, and the appropriateness of various
policy responses.
The conference on the Western economy was cosponsored with the
Association for University Business and Economic Research and focused
on trade and high-tech activities in the western United States as
a whole, as well as on economic trends in individual western states.
These conferences bring professional economists from the Federal
Reserve System and from research institutions together with policymakers
from the U.S. and abroad. Many of the papers presented are "works
in progress" and therefore represent the latest research on policy-related
issues.
Attendance at all of the conferences is by invitation only. In
addition, the papers are chosen from submissions by a select group
of noted researchers.
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