| Saturday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA*  | 
						Session 03A* Government Policy and the Macroeconomy  | 
            
Organizers:  | 
          Michael Plante, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas  | 
Session Chairs:  | 
          Nathaniel Throckmorton, College of William & Mary  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "A Case for Credit Easing at the Zero Lower Bound" "The Limitations of Forward Guidance" "Estimates of State-Contingent Deviations from Rational Expectations, with an Application to Forward Guidance" "Fuel Subsidies, the Oil Market, and the World Economy"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Nathaniel Throckmorton, College of William & Mary  | 
| Sunday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA  | 
						Session 16G Real-Time Expectations and Monetary Policy  | 
            
Organizers:  | 
          Olivier Coibion, The University of Texas at Austin  | 
Session Chairs:  | 
          Olivier Coibion, The University of Texas at Austin  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Stock Returns and Monetary Policy Actions: Time Varying Response and Time Varying Volatility" "Indeterminacy and Learning: An Analysis of Monetary Policy in the Great Inflation" "Monetary Policy Shifts and the Forward Discount Puzzle" "Firms’ Inflation Expectations: New Survey Evidence"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Gregory Givens, The University of Alabama  |