2008 QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop

14 March, 2008 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Conference

Location

Hand-Purvis Conference Room 213, Dunning Hall

PROGRAM

9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 Christopher Waller (Notre Dame)
  Dynamic Taxation, Private Information, and Money
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)
  Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All! (with Juan Carlos Conesa and Sagiri Kitao)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Monika Piazzesi (Chicago GSB and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
  Bond Positions, Expectations, and the Yield Curve (with Martin Schneider)
2:00 - 3:00 Gita Gopinath (Harvard)
  Frequency of Price Adjustment and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
3:30 - 4:30 David Backus (NYU)
  Asset Prices in Business Cycle Analysis (with Bryan Routledge and Stanley Zin)
6:00 Reception and Dinner