NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Twenty-second Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

 

Daron Acemogu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, Organizers

 

March 30 and 31, 2007

 

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY MARCH 30:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          CHARLES ENGEL, University of Wisconsin and NBER

NELSON MARK, University of Notre Dame and NBER

KENNETH WEST, University of Wisconsin and NBER

Exchange Rate Models Are Not As Bad As You Think

 

Discussants:  KENNETH ROGOFF, Harvard University and NBER

          BARBARA ROSSI, Duke University

 

10:30 am         Break

 

11:00 am         KIMINORI MATSUYAMA, Northwestern University

Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections

 

Discussants:  MARK GERTLER, New York University and NBER

          NOBUHIRO  KIYOTAKI, Princeton University and NBER

 

12:30 pm         Lunch – Ballroom B

 

 2:00 pm          PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

IOANA MARINESCU, University of Chicago

Cyclical Budgetary Policy and Economic Growth: What Do We Learn from OECD Panel Data?

 

Discussants:  RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER

          ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 3:30 pm          Break

 

 4:00 pm          ROBERTO PEROTTI, Universita' Bocconi and NBER

In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy

 

Discussants:  RICARDO REIS, Princeton University and NBER

          VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 5:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel  

 

SATURDAY MARCH 31:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          JESUS FERNANDEZ-VILLAVERDE, Duke University and NBER

JUAN RUBIO-RAMÍREZ, Duke University

How Structural Are Structural Parameters?

 

Discussants:  TIMOTHY COGLEY, UC, Davis

          FRANK SCHORFHEIDE, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

10:30 am         Break

 

11:00 am         FLORIN BILBIIE, University of Oxford

FABIO GHIRONI, Boston College and NBER

MARC MELITZ, Princeton University and NBER

Monetary Policy and Business Cycles with Endogenous Entry and Product Variety

 

Discussants: VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

          JULIO ROTEMBERG, Harvard University and NBER

 

12:30 pm         Adjourn

 

 

 

3/19/07