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The conference will start at 8:30 a.m.
Conference dinner |
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Business Cycles, International
Transmission |
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Organizers: Jean Boivin, Hafedh Bouakez, Michel Normandin and Nicolas Vincent |
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| Friday - October 19, 2007 - Standard Life | ||||
| 8:30 - 10:00 : Pricing Behavior | ||||
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Information-Constrained State-Dependent, Pricing Michael Woodford (Columbia University) Discussant: John Leahy (New York University) |
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Endogenous Information Menu Costs and Inflation Persistence Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California at Berkeley) Discussant: Nicolas Vincent (HEC Montréal) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 Pause | ||||
| 10:30 - 12:00 : Empirical Evidence on Inflation and Prices | ||||
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A Measure of "Pure" Inflation (with Ricardo Reis) Mark Watson (Princeton University) Discussant: Francisco Ruge-Murcia (University of Montréal) |
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Rigid Prices: Evidence from US Scanner Data Jeff Campbell (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Discussant: Oleksiy Kryvtsov (Bank of Canada) |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch | ||||
| 13:30 - 15:00 : International Trade and Asset Prices | ||||
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International Trade in Durable Goods: Understanding Volatility, Cyclicality, and Elasticities (with Jian Wang) Charles Engle (Unversity of Wisconsin) Discussant: Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Board) |
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Leads, Lags and Logs: Asset Prices in Business Cycle Analysis (with Byran Routledge and Stanley Zin) David Backus (New York University Discussant: Paul Gomme (Concordia University) |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 Pause | ||||
| 15:30 - 17:00 : Great Moderation | ||||
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On the Sources of the Great Moderation (with Luca Gambetti) Jordi Gali (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI) Discussant: Sharon Kozicki (Bank of Canada) |
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The Great Moderation and the US External Imbalances (with Alessandra Fogli) Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota) Discussant: André Kurman (UQAM) |
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| Saturday - October 20, 2007 - Standard Life | ||||
| 8:30 - 10:00 : International | ||||
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Optimal Pass-Through of Oil Prices (with Nooman Rebei and Désiré Vencatachellum) Hafedh Bouakez (HEC Montréal, Cirpée) Discussant: Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) |
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Financial Globalization and Monetary Policy (with Alan Sutherland) Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia) Discussant: Sylvain Leduc (Federal Reserve Board) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 Pause | ||||
| 10:30 - 12:00 : Fiscal Policy | ||||
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Is It Is or Is It Ain't My Obligation? Regional Debt in a Fiscal Federation Russell Cooper (University of Texas) Discussant: Pierre Yared (Columbia University) |
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In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy Roberto Perotti (Bocconi) Discussant: Kevin Moran (Université Laval, CIRPÉE) |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch | ||||
| Saturday - October 20, 2007 - Amphitheater IBM | ||||
| 13:00 - 14:30 : Panel on Monetary Policy | ||||
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Presentation Michel Patry (Director of HEC Montréal) Panel on Monetary Policy Moderator: Daniel Racette (HEC Montréal)
Modern Central Banking: A Canadian Perspective |
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Last updated: October 22, 2007 © HEC Montréal, 2007. All rights reserved. |
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