Konferens om penningpolitiska regler i Stockholm juni 12 - 13 1998
Sveriges Riksbank – IIES Conference on Monetary Policy Rules, Stockholm, June 12-13, 1998, Preliminary Programme
Sveriges Riksbank and the Institute for International Economic Studies will organize a conference on Monetary Policy Rules in Stockholm, June 12-13, 1998. The programme of the conference is given below;
Friday, June 12
Opening
Governor Urban Bäckström, Sveriges Riksbank
International Experiences with Different Monetary Policy Regimes
Author: Prof Frederic Mishkin, Columbia University
Discussant: Prof Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics
The Robustness and Efficiency of Monetary Policy Rules as Guidelines for Interest Rate Setting by the European Central Bank
Author: Prof John Taylor, Stanford University
Discussant: Prof Leonardo Leiderman, Bank of Israel
Money Growth Targeting
Author: Prof Jürgen von Hagen, University of Bonn
Discussant: Prof Stephen Cecchetti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Nominal Income Targeting in an Open-Economy Optimizing Model
Authors: Prof Bennett McCallum and Dr Edward Nelson, Carnegie-Mellon University
Discussant: Dr Glenn Rudebusch, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Output-gap and Price Inflation Volatilities: Reaffirming Tradeoffs in an Optimizing Model
Author: Dr Dale Henderson (with Cristopher Erceg and Andrew Levin) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Discussant: Dr Stefan Gerlach, BIS
Saturday, June 13
Inflation Targeting as a Monetary Policy Rule
Author: Prof Lars E.O. Svensson, IIES
Discussant: Prof Alan Blinder, Princeton University
Pioneering Price Level Targeting: the Swedish Experience 1931-1937
Authors: Dr Claes Berg, Sveriges Riksbank and Prof Lars Jonung,Stockholm School of Economics
Discussant: Prof Mervyn King, Bank of England
PANEL: Conclusions for Monetary Policy and the ECB
Chair: Dr Lars Heikensten, Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank
Panel: Prof Alan Blinder, Princeton University
Prof Otmar Issing, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Prof Mervyn King, Executive Director, Bank of England
Prof Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University
Dr Donald Brash, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Claes Berg, Chief Economist and Head of Economics Department, Sveriges Riksbank
Torsten Persson, Professor, IIES, Stockholm University
Lars E.O. Svensson, Professor, IIES, Stockholm University
Anders Vredin, Head of Research Department, Sveriges Riksbank
ORGANIZING SECRETARY:
Loulou Wallman, Senior Economist, Economics Department, Sveriges Riksbank