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 |