Past Conferences


Area Conference on Macro, Money & International Finance
Preliminary Programme
Friday, 14 March 2008
Session 1
09:00 - 09:10	Welcome & Introduction
09:10 -10:00	Do Sticky Prices Make Sense? NILS GOTTFRIES and Johan Söderberg Discussant: Stephane Dees
10:00 - 10:50	Persistence and Nominal Inertia in a Generalized Taylor Economy: How Longer Contracts Dominate Shorter Contracts HUW DIXON and Engin Kara Discussant: Gabriella Legrenzi
10:50 - 11:10	Coffee Break
Session 2
11:10 - 12:00	Identification of New Keynesian Philips Curves from a Global Perspective STEPHANE DEES and M. Hashem Pesaran Discussant: Huw Dixon
12:00 - 12:50	Time-Varying Effects of Oil Supply Shocks on the US Economy Christiane Baumeister and GERT PEERSMAN Discussant: Timo Wollmershäuser
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:50	The Stress of Having a Single Monetary Policy in Europe JAN-EGBERT STURM and Timo Wollmershäuser Discussant: Reinhard Neck
Session 3 Presentations by Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
14:50 - 15:40	A Two-Country Natrex Model for the Euro/Dollar MARIANNA BELLOC and Daniela Federici Discussant: tba
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50	Input-Output Connections between Sectors and Optimal Monetary Policy ENGIN KARA Discussant: tba
16:50 - 17:40	Monetary Policy, Model Uncertainty and Exchange Rate Volatility AGNIESZKA MARKIEWICZ Discussant: tba
19:00	Conference Dinner at the Seehaus Restaurant
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Session 4
08:30 - 09:20	Growing Apart? A Tale of Two Republics: Estonia and Georgia THORVALDUR GYLFASON and Eduard Hochreiter Discussant: Jakob de Haan
09:20 - 10:10	Political Regime Change, Economic Reform and Growth Accelerations RICHARD JONG-A-PIN and Jakob de Haan Discussant: Gernot Doppelhofer
10:10 - 10:30	Coffee Break
Session 5
11:30 - 11:20	Robust Model Averaging GERNOT DOPPELHOFER and Melvyn Weeks Discussant: Nils Gottfries
11:20 - 12:10	The Empirics of China’s Outward Direct Investment YIN-WONG CHEUNG and Xing Wang Qian Discussant: Gunther Schnabl
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch
Session 6
13:10 - 14:00	The Undisclosed Renminbi Basket: Are the Markets Telling Us Something About Where the Renminbi - US Dollar Exchange Rate is Going? MICHAEL FUNKE and Marc Gronwald Discussant: Mathias Hoffmann
14:00 - 14:50	A Role Model for China? Exchange Rate Flexibility and Monetary Policy in Japan Christian Danne and GUNTHER SCHNABL Discussant: Yin-Wong Cheung
14:50 - 15:10	Coffee Break
Session 7
15:10 - 16:00	The Consumption-Real Exchange Rate Anomaly: An Asset Pricing Perspective MATHIAS HOFFMANN and Thomas Nitschka Discussant: Gert Peersmann
16:00 - 16:50	Taxation, Corruption and the Exchange Rate Regime CARSTEN HEFEKER Discussant: Jan-Egbert Sturm
	End of Conference

Area Conference on Macro, Money & International Finance

Preliminary Programme

Area Conference on
Macro, Money & International Finance