Agenda
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Registration and continental/buffet breakfast |
| 8:45 | Welcoming remarks Dennis Lockhart, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| 9:00 | Optimal Fiscal Feedback on Debt in an Economy with Nominal Rigidities Tatiana Kirsanova and Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Exeter Discussant James Nason, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 | Optimal Simple and Implementable Monetary
and Fiscal Rules: Expanded Version Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe, Duke University Discussant John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) |
| 11:30 | Housing and the Macroeconomy:
The Role of Implicit Guarantees for Government-Sponsored Enterprises Karsten Jeske, FRB Atlanta and Dirk Krueger,University of Pennsylvania Discussant Brian Peterson, Indiana University |
| 12:30 p.m. | Buffet Lunch |
| 2:00 | On Policy Interactions Among
Nations: When Do Cooperation and Commitment Matter? Hubert Kempf, Sorbonne/Paris and Leopold von Thadden, European Central Bank Discussant Dale Henderson, Board of Governors |
| 3:00 | Who Signs Banknotes and Why? Issues in Central Bank Finance Peter Stella, International Monetary Fund Discussant Chris Sims, Princeton University |
| 4:00 | Coffee break |
| 4:30 |
Bond Positions, Expectations, and the Yield Curve Monika Piazzesi, University of Chicago and Martin Schneider, New York University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Discussant Jon Faust, Johns Hopkins University |
| 5:45 | Reception |
| 6:30 | Dinner |
| Friday, April 20, 2007 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Continental/Buffet Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Foreign Official Institutions and the Market for
U.S. Federal Agency Debt W. Scott Frame and Ellis Tallman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Discussant David Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 | Panel Discussion: Prospective
Fiscal Policies and Monetary Authority Responses Chris Sims, Princeton University Ken Wallis, University of Warwick Frank Smets, European Central Bank |
| Buffet Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Adjourn |
