This year, the Conference is hosted by the Economics Department at the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. As in other years, it is sponsored also by the University of Texas, the Dallas Fed, Rice and Southern Methodist Universities and the University of Houston. Click here for driving directions from Austin, Dallas or Houston, and here for local maps and directions (conference site, hotel, restaurant).

The following is the preliminary program. In most cases, the title of the paper is also a link to a site from where the paper can be downloaded. To download a printable PDF file of the program, click here.

8:00: Continental Breakfast

8:25-8:30 am: Welcome & Rules of the Game

8:30 - 9:20 Henning Bohn (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty: the Risk Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies

9:20 - 9:40 Monika Merz (Rice University), Discussant.

9:40 - 9:55 Open discussion

9:55 - 10:45 Selo Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California) - Myopia and Social Security

10:45 - 11:05 Gregory Huffman (Southern Methodist University), Discussant.

11:05 - 11:20 Open Discussion

11:20 - 11:35 BREAK

11:35 - 12:25 Mark Bils (University of Rochester) - Quantifying Quality Growth

12:25 - 12:45 Mark Wynne (Dallas Fed), Discussant

12:45 - 1:00 Open Discussion

1:00 - 2:15 LUNCH

2:15 - 3:05 Craig Burnside (The World Bank) - On the Fundamentals of Self-Fulfilling Speculative Attacks

3:05 - 3:25 Scott Freeman (University of Texas), Discussant

3:25 - 3:40 Open discussion

3:40 - 4:00 BREAK

4:00 - 4:50 Michael Woodford (Princeton University) - Implementing Optimal Policy through Inflation-Forecast Targeting

4:50 - 5:10 Yasar Barut (Rice University), Discussant

5:10 - 5:25 Open Discussion

7:15: DINNER at Christopher's, followed by nightcap at Auernheimer's.

9:00 - 9:50 Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University) - The Great Inflation of the 1970's

                    9:50 - 10:10 Henry Tam (Texas A&M University), Discussant

10:10 - 10:25 Open Discussion

10:25 - 10:45 BREAK

10:45 - 11:35 V.V.Chari (University of Minnesota) - How Big is the Time Inconsistency Problem in Monetary Policy?

11:35 - 11:55 Jim Dolmas (Southern Methodist University), Discussant

11:55 - 12:10 Open Discussion

                                        12:10 LUNCH AND FAREWELL UNTIL 2001