The 16th Annual Texas Monetary Conference
May 3–4, 2008
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Jointly sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, University of Texas—Austin, Texas A&M University, Rice University, Southern Methodist University and University of Houston

Tentative Program

Saturday, May 3

8.00 a.m.		Continental Breakfast
8:55 a.m.		Welcome & Rules of the Game
9:00 a.m.		Executing Long Run Restrictions Bill Dupor, Ohio State University
9:50 a.m.		Discussant Nathan Balke, Southern Methodist University
10:05 a.m.		Open Discussion
10:15 a.m.		Inflation and Interest Rates with Endogenous Market Segmentation Julia Thomas, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
11:05 a.m.		Discussant Paula Hernandez-Verme, Texas A&M University
11:20 a.m.		Open discussion
11:30 a.m.		Break
11:45 a.m.		Optimal Monetary Policy with Uncertain Fundamentals and Dispersed Information Guido Lorenzoni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:35 p.m.		Discussant Borghan Narajabad, Rice University
12:50 p.m.		Open Discussion
1:00 p.m.		Lunch
2:30 p.m.		Forming Priors for DSGE Models Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
3:20 p.m.		Discussant Erwan Quintin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
3:35 p.m.		Open Discussion
3:45 p.m.		Break
4:00 p.m.		Investment Shocks and Business Cycles Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University
4:50 p.m.		Discussant Pedro Amaral, Southern Methodist University
5:05 p.m.		Open Discussion

Sunday, May 4

Copies of papers will be available at the conference.

For more information, contact Jim Dolmas at 214-922-5161 or jim.dolmas@dal.frb.org.