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	CESifo Economic Studies Conference on What’s Wrong with Modern Macroeconomics? CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 6 - 7 November 2009 Programme

	Friday, 6 November 2009
08:15 – 08:45 08:45 – 09:00	Registration Welcome Address
	Session I Chair: Gerhard Illing
09:00 – 09:50	The Roles of Ideology, Institutions, Politics and Economic Knowledge in Forecasting Macroeconomic Developments ALEX CUKIERMAN (Tel-Aviv University) (via video link) Discussant: Panu Poutvaara (University of Helsinki)
09:50 – 10:40	Uncertainty, Risk-taking and the Business Cycle FRANK SMETS (ECB) Discussant: Camilo E. Tovar
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
	Session II Chair: Efraim Sadka
11:00 - 11:50	Macroeconomic Agenda: Compare Competing Paradigms and Identify Robust Policy Recommendations VOLKER WIELAND (Goethe University Frankfurt) Discussant: Antonio Spilimbergo (IMF)
11:50 – 12:40	Liquidity Constraints and Non-market Clearing: A Recipe for Recession? John Drifill and MARCUS MILLER (University of Warwick) Discussant: Jouko Vilmunen (Bank of Finland)
12:40 – 14:00	Lunch
	Session III Chair: Paul de Grauwe
14:00 – 14:50	Analysis of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: A New Paradigm Charles Goodhart, Carolina Osorio and DIMITRI TSOMOCOS (Oxford University) Discussant: Daniel Gros (Center for European Policy Studies)
14:50 – 15:40	Unemployment Risk and Aggregate Consumption Behaviour XAVIER RAGOT (Banque de France) and Edouard Challe Discussant: Efraim Sadka (Tel-Aviv University)
15:40 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00	Panel discussion Moderator: Robert M. Solow Panellists: Hans Gersbach, Charles Goodhart, Hans-Werner Sinn, Mark Thoma, Martin Wolf
20:00	Conference Dinner
	Saturday, 7 November 2009
	Session IV Chair: Volker Wieland
8:30 – 9:10	Top Down or Bottom Up Macroeconomics PAUL DE GRAUWE (University of Leuven) Discussant: Casper de Vries (University Rotterdam)
9:10 – 9:50	The Economic Crisis is a Crisis for Economic Theory ALAN KIRMAN (G.R.E.Q.A.M.) Discussant: Mark Thoma (University of Oregon)
9:50 – 10:30	Reconstucting Macroeconomics: More is Different THOMAS LUX (University of Kiel) Discussant: Pablo Rovira Kaltwasser (University of Leuven)
10:30 – 10:50	Coffee Break
	Session V Chair: Hans Gerbach
10:50 – 11:30	The Banking Crisis - Capitalism's Business as Usual PATRICK MINFORD (Cardiff University) Discussant: Sebastian Watzka (University of Munich)
11:30 – 12:10	What's Wrong with Modern Macroeconomics? Why its Critics Have Missed the Point MIKE WICKENS (York University) Discussant: Hans Dewachter (University of Leuven)
12:10 – 13:00	General Discussion
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
	END OF CONFERENCE

CESifo Economic Studies Conference on

What’s Wrong with Modern Macroeconomics?

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 6 - 7 November 2009

Programme

Friday, 6 November 2009

Session I Chair: Gerhard Illing

Session II Chair: Efraim Sadka

Session III Chair: Paul de Grauwe

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Session IV Chair: Volker Wieland

Session V Chair: Hans Gerbach

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
6 - 7 November 2009

Session I
Chair: Gerhard Illing

Session II
Chair: Efraim Sadka

Session III
Chair: Paul de Grauwe

Session IV
Chair: Volker Wieland

Session V
Chair: Hans Gerbach