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> PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME FOR THE 18 - 20 MARCH, 2004, CONFERENCE ON: > '> NEW> '>  MONETARY POLICY: IMPLICATIONS AND RELEVANCE 
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> PLACE OF CONFERENCE: DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
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> PROPOSED PROGRAMME
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> Thursday 18 March, 2004
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> Registration: 1.15p.m. Music Room E Staircase, Downing College
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> 2.00pm - 3.30pm       (Chair and Opening: John McCombie)
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> Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer: New Consensus Monetary Policy: A Critique
> Michelle Baddeley and Giuseppe Fontana: Monetary Policy in the Information Economy: Old Problems and New Challenges  
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> 3.30pm - 4.00pm       Coffee
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> 4.00pm - 5.30pm       2 papers (Chair: Dimitri Papadimitriou)
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> Tony Thirlwall: Saving and Financial Liberalisation in Developing Countries
> Valpy Fitzgerald: The New Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies
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> 7.00p.m.      Dinner  
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> Friday 19 March, 2003
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> 9.30am - 11.00am      2 papers (Chair: Randy Wray)
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> Nigel Allington  and John McCombie: Asset Pricing and Monetary Policy 
> Stephanie Bell: The Relationship of Public Debt to Monetary Policy Outcomes
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> 11.00am - 11.30am.    Coffee
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> 11.30am - 1.00pm      2 papers (Chair: Michelle Baddeley)
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> Georgios Chortareas: Characterising Monetary Policy in Europe: Evidence from Central Bank Reaction Functions 
> Tom Palley: Monetary Policy in an Era of Financial Speculation: The Case for Asset-Based Reserve Requirements 
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> 1.00pm - 2.00pm       Lunch
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> 2.00pm - 3.30pm       3 papers (Chair: Tony Thirlwall)
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> Karim Basta: FED and Japanese Monetary Policies Compared 
> Dimitri Papadimitriou: Federal Reserve Policy and its Effects on the U.S. Economy
> Elias Karakitsos: The Risk of Replacing the Equity with the Property Bubble
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> 3.30pm - 4.00pm       Coffee
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> 4.00pm - 5.30pm       2 papers (Chair: Philip Arestis)
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> Charles Goodhart: Some Questions on the Experience of Monetary Targetry in the UK
> Charles Freedman: Reflections on the Bank of Canada Monetary Policy
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> 7.15p.m. Conference Dinner (After Dinner Speaker: Bernard Connolly, on The Politics of Monetary Policy)
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> Saturday 20 March, 2003
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> 10.00am - 11.30am     2 papers (Chair: Elias Karakitsos)
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> Jan Kregel: Monetary Policy and Capital Flows
> Randy Wray: International Aspects of Current Monetary Policy
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> 12.00noon - 1.00pm     Lunch 
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> 1.00pm - 3.00pm Warren Mosler: Current Events in Financial Markets: Economic and Specific Trading Opportunities. This is a round-the-table discussion (for those that can and are interested in staying on for this session). 
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> 3.00pm Departure
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> NB: Edward Elgar will publish the proceedings of the conference. It would be helpful if papers were available at the conference; but this is not essential. Final versions should be with the editors by the end of October. Please make sure that you send a copy in word, either via e-mail or on a diskette in the post, to Philip Arestis ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>; address: Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EP, UK; Tel. 01223 766 971).
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