Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy

Semi-annual Conference

Editors:    Bennett McCallum

                 Charles I. Plosser

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April 23-24, 2004

Simon School, University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Schedule
"The Economics of Exchange Rates" in Honor of Alan Stockman
April 23-24, 2004 

Thursday, April 22

8:00 pm-11:00 pm      Welcome Reception, Hyatt Regency - refer to hotel monitor

Friday, April 23

       8:30 am                Bus transportation to campus

 8:45-9:15 am              Packet Retrieval and Breakfast

                                    CONFERENCE SESSION I - SCHLEGEL 207

     Chairman:              Charles Plosser         

 9:15-10:30 am            "Explaining the Puzzling Tax Dynamics of the European Union: Quantitative Lessons of Tax Competition in Financially Integrated Countries"

by Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

                                    Discussant:  Ellen McGrattan

10:30-10:45 am           Break

10:45-12:00 pm          "Latin America in the Rear View Mirror"

by Harold Cole, Lee Ohanian and James Schmitz

                                    Discussant: William Easterly

     12:00 pm               Luncheon – Schlegel Hall Rotunda

                                    CONFERENCE SESSION II - SCHLEGEL 207

     Chairman:              Bennett McCallum

 1:30-2:45 pm             "Exchange Rate Regime Durability and Performance in Developing Versus Advanced Economies"   

                                    by Aasim Husain, Ashok Mody and Kenneth Rogoff

                                    Discussant: David Backus

2:45-3:00 pm              Break

 3:00-4:15 pm             "Rational Speculation and Exchange Rates"

                                    by Margarida Duarte and Alan Stockman

Discussant:  Maurice Obstfeld

        4:30 pm               Bus Transportation back to the Hyatt Regency

        6:30 pm               Bus departs Hyatt Regency for transportation to the Country Club of Rochester

        6:45 pm               Cocktails, Country Club of Rochester

        7:30 pm               Dinner, Country Club of Rochester

         9:30 pm               Transportation back to the Hyatt Regency

Saturday, April 24

          8:00 am             Bus transportation to campus

    8:15-8:45 am           Breakfast

                                    CONFERENCE SESSION III - SCHLEGEL 207

     Chairman:              Thomas Cooley

  8:45-10:00 am           "Implications of State Dependent Pricing for Dynamic Macroeconomic Modeling"

by Michael Dotsey and Robert King

                                    Discussant: Susanto Basu

10:00-10:15 am           Break

10:15-11:30 am           "Tax Distortions and the Case for Price Stability"

by Fabrice Collard and Harris Dellas

                                    Discussant:  Lawrence Christiano

      11:30 am               Lunch available in Schlegel Hall Rotunda.

12:15 pm               Bus transportation to airport.

Transportation will also be available for earlier or later flights if needed.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Bennett McCallum and Charles Plosser, Co-chairs:  Andrew Abel, Thomas Cooley,
                                                Janice Eberly, Marvin Goodfriend, Sergio Rebelo, Alan Stockman and Stanley Zin