Conference in Honor of Ernst Baltensperger

Information
Program

8 June 2007

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]

Organizing Committee:
Harris Dellas (University of Bern)
Thomas Jordan (SNB)
Ulrich Kohli (SNB)

Venue:
World Trade Institute