Department of Economics

Harris Dellas

Conference in Honor of Ernst Baltensperger - Bern, 8 June 2007

(Sponsored by JMCB, SNB, University of Bern)

Program

Program (PDF)

09:50-10:00

Welcome

10:00-11:05

Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University

Understanding Business Cycle Comovement [download] (with Nir Jaimovich)

Discussant:

Fabrice Collard, Université de Toulouse [download]

10:55-11:05

Coffee break

11:05-12:00

Matthew Canzoneri, Georgetown University

Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination when Bonds Provide Transaction Services [download] (with R. Cumby, B. Diba and D. Lopez-Salido)

Discussant:

Aleksander Berentsen, University of Basel [download]

12:00-13:15

Lunch

13:15-14:10

Mark Gertler, New York University

An Estimated Monetary DSGE Model with Unemployment and Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining [download] (with Luca Sala and Antonella Trigari)

Discussant:

Marcel Savioz, SNB [download]

14:10-14:20

Short coffee break

14:20-15:15

Robert G. King, Boston University

Managing Expectations [download] (with Yang Lu and Ernesto Pasten)

Discussant:

Andreas Fischer, SNB [download]

15:15-15:45

Long coffee break

15:45-16:40

Thomas J. Sargent, New York University

Robustness and U.S. Monetary Policy Experimentation [download] (with Timothy Cogley, Riccardo Colacito and Lars Peter Hansen)

Discussant:

Klaus Neusser, University of Bern [download]

Dinner

16:40-16:50

Short coffee break

16:50-17:45

Michael Woodford, Columbia University

How Important is Money in the Conduct of Monetary Policy? [download]

Discussant:

Stefan Gerlach, BIS [download]

Harris Dellas (University of Bern)

Thomas Jordan (SNB)

Ulrich Kohli (SNB)

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