CDMA Conference 2004

The Inaugural CDMA Conference was held in St Andrews on the 17th and 18th of September 2004. The full list of delegates who attended the conference, and the group photo, can be found here.

Friday 17th September

0900-1000	Welcome and Coffee
1000-1100	Richard Mash, New College, Oxford University
Paper	'A Critique of rule-of-thumb/indexing Microfoundations for inflation persistence'
Discussant	Neil Rankin, Warwick University
1100-1130	Coffee
1130-1230	Anton Muscatelli, Glasgow University
Paper	'Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions in a New Keynesian Model with Liquidity Constraints'
Discussant	Peter MacMillan, St Andrews University
1230-1430	Lunch
1430-1530	Patrick Minford, Cardiff University
Paper	'Inflation Persistence as Regime Change in a Classical Macro Model'
Discussant	Charles Nolan, St Andrews University
1530-1600	Coffee & Group Photograph
1600-1700	Luisa Corrado, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Faculty of Economics
Paper	'Habit Formation and Interest Rate Smoothing'
Discussant	Mike Wickens, University of York
1700-1800	Nobu Kiyotaki, LSE
Paper	'A Model of Job and Worker Flows'
Discussant	John Driffil, Birkbeck College
2000	Dinner

Saturday 18th September

0900-1000	John Driffil, Birkbeck College
Paper	'The Specification of Monetary Policy Inertia in Empirical Taylor Rules'
Discussant	David Cobham, St Andrews University
1000-1100	Parantap Basu, University of Durham
Paper	'Inequality and Industrialization'
Discussant	Gary Shea, St Andrews University
1100-1130	Coffee
1130-1230	Keith Blackburn, Manchester University
Paper	'Public Expenditures, Bureaucratic Corruption and Economic Development'
Discussant	Chris Rogers, Cambridge University
1230-1430	Lunch
1430-1530	Christoph Thoenissen, St Andrews University
Paper	'Consumption and Real Exchange Rates with Incomplete Markets and Non-traded Goods'
Discussant	Frank Smets, European Central Bank
1530-1600	Coffee
1600-1700	Huw Dixon, York University
Paper	'The Issue of Persistence in DGE Models with Heterogeneous Taylor Contracts'
Discussant	Andrew Snell, University of Edinburgh
1700-1800	Seppo Honkapohja, Cambridge University
Paper	'Performance of Inflation Targeting Based On Constant Interest Rate Projections'
Discussant	Jagjit Chadha, St Andrews University
2000	Dinner