New York Area Workshop on Monetary Policy - Federal Reserve Bank of New York


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New York Area Workshop on Monetary Policy

November 7, 2008


9:00 a.m.	Continental breakfast

9:30 a.m.	Liquidity, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University John Moore, Edinburgh University and London School of Economics Discussant: Gauti Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

10:40 a.m.	Coffee break

11:00 a.m.	Credit Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy Vasco Curdia, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Michael Woodford, Columbia University Discussant: Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie-Mellon University

12:10 p.m.	Lunch

1:20 p.m.	Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters Robert J.Barro, Harvard University Emi Nakamura, Columbia University Jon Steinsson, Columbia University Jose F. Ursua, Harvard University Discussant: Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania

2:30 p.m.	Coffee break

2:50 p.m.	Ratings Shopping and Asset Complexity: A Theory of Ratings Inflation Vasiliki Skreta, New York University Laura Veldkamp, New York University, Stern School Discussant: Adam Ashcraft, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

4:00 p.m.	Coffee break

4:20 p.m.	Regime Switches, Agents' Beliefs, and Post-World War Francesco Bianchi, Princeton University Discussant: TBA

5:30 p.m.	Adjourn

Workshop Location
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
13th Floor, Board Room
33 Liberty Street
New York, New York

Workshop Organizers
Argia Sbordone, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Gauti Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Contact
Please address any questions to:

Argia Sbordone, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
argia.sbordone@ny.frb.org

Gauti Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
gauti.eggertsson@ny.frb.org