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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
AND
CALLS FOR PAPERS
(updated)
The University of York is pleased to announce
its first one-day conference on
"Recent Advances in Macroeconomics and Monetary Theory"
Co-sponsored by
The Bank of England
The Money, Macro and Finance Group
The ESRC
Friday 10 November 2000
10:00 - 17:00
Huntingdon Room
King's Manor
University of York
Please, visit our homepage at
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~gt4/conference.htm
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
The programme consists of invited papers and of a poster session for
young economists, see below.
REGISTRATION
Attendance to the conference is free, but we request participants to
register.
Please, send an email to Ms Amanda Gill at
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with your:
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TRAVEL EXPENSES REIMBURSEMENT
The (standard class) travel expenses of presenters and attendees
from staff and PhD students based at UK institutions will be covered
by the Money, Macro, and Finance Group.
Claim forms will be available at the conference venue. Registered
participants will be given priority.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE POSTER SESSIONS
Young economists, current doctoral students and recent PhD's, are
invited to submit papers for presentation at the poster sessions.
A presenter at the poster session should prepare a 8-10 page display of
the paper he/she intends to present and copies of his/her paper for
interested members of the audience.
If you would like to present a paper at the poster session, please send
a copy of the paper and your contact details, to the attention of
Dr Gabriel Talmain
Department of Economics
University of York
Heslington
YO10 5DD
Deadline: November 1st, 2000.
We will try to accommodate as many submissions as possible within our
space constraint.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
10:00-10:30
Poster session and coffee
10:30 - 11:15
Paper TBA
Peter Westaway
(Bank of England)
11:15 - 12:00
Paper TBA
Gilles St Paul
(Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30
Poster session
13:30 - 14:15
"Capacity Constraints, Asymmetries and the Business Cycle."
Gary Hansen
(UCLA)
14:15 - 15:00
"Can Stochastic Discount Models Explain the FOREX Risk Premium?"
Peter N. Smith and Mike Wickens
(York, York and CEPR)
15:00-15:30
Poster session and coffee
15:30 - 16:15
"Moral Hazard and US Stock Market: Has Mr Greenspan Created a Bubble?"
Marcus Miller, Paul Weller, and Lei Zhang
(Warwick and CEPR, Iowa, Warwick)
16:15 - 17:00
"Scale Effects, Time-varying Markups, and the Cyclical Behavior of
Primal and Dual Productivity"
Sumru Altug
(York and CEPR)
Discussants include: Vitor Gaspar (European Central Bank) and TBA
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From: Gabriel Talmain, Reader in Economics,
Department of Economics, University of York,
York, YO10 5DD, U.K.
Homepage: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~gt4/talmain.htm
Tel: 44-(0)1904-433795 (direct); 44-(0)1904-433778 (Secretaries)
Fax: 44-(0)1904-433759; email: [log in to unmask]
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