The CDMA Conference 2011
Wednesday 31st August - Friday 2nd September 2011Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models
At the School of Economics and Finance, Castlecliffe,
The Scores, St Andrews.
Note: All sessions take place in School I, United College.
Lunch, however, is at Castlecliffe, School of Economics and Finance.
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Wednesday 31st August 2011Thursday 1 September 2011
| Morning session: 09:00-1:00 |
| 9:00-9:45 |
Bennett McCallum (Carnegie Mellon University)
Paper "A Continuity Refinement for Rational Expectations Solutions"
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| 9:45-10:30 |
Bruce McGough (Oregon State University) with George Evans (University of
Oregon and University of St. Andrews) and Roger Guesnerie (Paris School of
Economics and Collège de France)
Paper "Eductive Stability in Real Business Cycle Models"
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| 10:30-11:15 |
Fabio Milani (University of California, Irvine)
Paper "Animal Spirits and the U.S. Business Cycle"
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| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45-1:00 |
Keynote Speech 2
Michael Woodford (Columbia University)
"Robustness of Policy Analysis to Departures from Model-Consistent
Expectations"
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| Lunch at Castlecliffe 1:00-2:15 |
| Afternoon Session 2:15-6:15 |
| 2:15-3:00 |
Bruce Preston (Columbia University) with Stefano Eusepi (Federal Reserve
Bank of New York)
Paper "The Maturity Structure of Debt, Monetary Policy and Expectations Stabilization"
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| 3:00-3:45 |
Argia Sbordone (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) with Timothy
Cogley (New York University) and Christian Matthes (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
Paper "Optimal Disinflation Under Learning |
| 3:45-4:30 |
Break
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| 4:30-5:45 |
Keynote speech 3
Albert Marcet (The London School of Economics and Political Science) with
Klaus Adam (Mannheim University and CEPR) and Pei Kuang (University of
Frankfurt)
"House Price Booms and the Current Account"
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| 7:30 |
Dinner at the St Andrews Links Clubhouse
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The conference is to be held in School 1, United Colleges, with lunch served at Castlecliffe, School of Economics and Finance, and accommodation is in New Hall, a University residence. Please refer to the pdf map or the Google map below.
Guests that have booked accommodation can check-in at New Hall after 2pm on the 30th August and check-out is 10am on the day of departure.
Breakfast will be served at New Hall. We will arrange for transportation from
New Hall to School 1 in the event of inclement weather, but it is a beautiful (10 minute) walk from New Hall to School 1 on a sunny day. There will be
someone in the New Hall lobby ready to show guests the way to School 1 at around 9:00am.
Please get in touch with the organisers if you have specific queries. |
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Trains: The nearest train station is at Leuchars, which is ten minutes from St Andrews by taxi.
Local Taxis: Taxi companies wait outside the station (across the footbridge), but otherwise two local companies are
HM Taxis (01334 474700) and Williamsons Taxis (01334 839279).
Airports: Dundee (15 miles from St Andrews), Edinburgh (50 miles) and Glasgow (90 miles). Public transport from Dundee can take 30 minutes (or a 15 minute taxi); from Edinburgh about 2 hours and from Glasgow about 3 hours. |
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There will be no dinner provided at New Hall but there are a number of good, reasonably priced local restaurants along
South Street, Market Street and St Mary’s Place, including:
- Doll's House (Scottish), 3 Church Square.
- Pizza Express (Italian), 3-4 Logies Lane.
- Zizzi (Italian), 87-89 South Street.
- The Glasshouse Restaurant (Italian), 80 North Street.
- Nahm-Jim (Thai-Japanese), 60-62 Market Street.
- Byre Theatre, Abbey Street.
- Zizzi's (Italian) South Street
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You can see information about other eateries here. Some information about St Andrews and the region is available from:
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There is a Tourist Information site at 70 Market Street.
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