QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics: 14 March 2008

9:00 - 9:30Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 Christopher Waller (Notre Dame)
Dynamic Taxation, Private Information, and Money
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)
Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All! (with Juan Carlos Conesa and Sagiri Kitao)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Monika Piazzesi (Chicago GSB and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Bond Positions, Expectations, and the Yield Curve (with Martin Schneider)
2:00 - 3:00 Gita Gopinath (Harvard)
Frequency of Price Adjustment and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
3:00 - 3:30Coffee
3:30 - 4:30David Backus (NYU)
Asset Prices in Business Cycle Analysis (with Bryan Routledge and Stanley Zin)
6:00Reception and Dinner