| 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 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. SEA*  | 
						Session 02I* Credit and Asset Prices: New Time Series Tools, Indicators  | 
            
Organizers:  | 
          Enrique Martinez-Garcia, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas  | 
Session Chairs:  | 
          Nathan S. Balke, Southern Methodist University  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Monitoring Housing Markets for Episodes of Exuberance" "Incorporating the Beige Book into a Quantitative Index of Economic Activity" "The (Un)Sustainability of the U.S. International Debt Position: Do Not Rely Too Much on Valuation Effects" "Solving the Price Puzzle with an Alternative Measure of Monetary Policy"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Olivier Coibion, The University of Texas at Austin  |