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
PROGRAM
FRIDAY
MARCH 30:
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
CHARLES ENGEL,
NELSON MARK,
KENNETH WEST,
Exchange Rate Models
Are Not As Bad As You Think
Discussants: KENNETH ROGOFF,
BARBARA ROSSI,
10:30
am
Break
11:00
am
KIMINORI
Aggregate
Implications of Credit Market Imperfections
Discussants: MARK GERTLER,
NOBUHIRO
KIYOTAKI,
12:30
pm
Lunch Ballroom B
2:00 pm
PHILIPPE AGHION,
IOANA MARINESCU,
Cyclical Budgetary
Policy and Economic Growth: What Do We Learn from OECD Panel
Data?
Discussants: RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and
NBER
ANIL KASHYAP,
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,
VALERIE RAMEY, UC,
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,
JUAN RUBIO-RAMÍREZ,
How Structural Are
Structural Parameters?
Discussants: TIMOTHY COGLEY, UC,
Davis
FRANK SCHORFHEIDE,
10:30
am
Break
11:00
am
FLORIN BILBIIE,
FABIO GHIRONI,
MARC MELITZ,
Monetary Policy and Business
Cycles with Endogenous Entry and Product Variety
Discussants: VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN,
Federal Reserve Bank of
JULIO ROTEMBERG,
12:30
pm
Adjourn
3/19/07