NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Summer Institute 2003
Monetary Economics Workshop
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 14 - 18, 2003
Preliminary Program


Monday, July 14:

12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM LAURENCE BALL, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER
RICARDO REIS, Harvard University
Monetary Policy in Inattentive Economies
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM DANIEL LEVY, Bar-Ilan University
ANDREW T. YOUNG, Emory University
The Real Thing: Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959
3:15 PM Adjourn

Tuesday, July 15:

12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM STEPHEN R. BOND, Oxford University
JASON G. CUMMINS, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Uncertainty and Company Investment:
An Empirical Investigation Using Data on Analysts' Profit Forecasts
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM JEFFREY C. FUHRER, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
GLENN D. RUDEBUSCH, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Estimating the Euler Equation for Output
3:15 PM Adjourn

Wednesday, July 16:

12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM BEN S. BERNANKE, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
KENNETH N. KUTTNER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
What Explains the Stock Market's Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM REFET S. GURKAYNAK, BRIAN SACK and ERIC SWANSON,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates:
Evidence and Implications for Macroeconomic Models
3:15 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 17:

12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM Discussion with Ben S. Bernanke, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM VALERY A. RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER DANIEL J. VINE, UC, San Diego
Tracking the Source of the Decline in GDP Volatility:
An Analysis of the Automobile Industry
3:15 PM Adjourn

Friday, July 18:

12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM MAURICE OBSTFELD and ALAN J. AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER
The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM GAUTI EGGERTSSON, International Monetary Fund
MICHAEL WOODFORD, Princeton University and NBER
The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy
3:15 PM Adjourn