Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models

August 2-4, 2012 at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Organizers: Bruce McGough and Bruce Preston

Please note that attendance is by invitation only.

For information about conference logistics, please contact Julie Fletcher (Julie.K.Fletcher@stls.frb.org).

Program Information

August 2

Opening Remarks

Christopher Waller, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

George-Marios Angeletos, MIT
Jennifer La'O, Chicago Booth School of Business

Luis Gonzalo Llosa, UCLA
Venky Venkateswaran, Pennsylvania State University

Giacomo Rondina, University of California, San Diego
Todd Walker, Indiana University

Francesco Bianchi, Duke University
Leonardo Melosi, London Business School

Gaetano Gaballo, Banque de France

Perceptual Distortions, Valuation and Choice

Michael Woodford, Columbia University

August 3

Some Methodological Issues in Adaptive Learning in Macroeconomics

George Evans, University of Oregon

Carlos Carvalho, PUC-Rio
Fernanda Nechio, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Eric Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Adaptive Learning and Monetary Exchange

Ryan Baranowski, University of California, Irvine

Bill Branch, University of California, Irvine

Excessive Optimism, Leverage, and Boom and Bust Cycles

John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

August 4

Jess Benhabib, New York University
George W. Evans, University of Oregon
Seppo Honkapohja, Bank of Finland

Learning and the Yield Curve

Arunima Sinha, Santa Clara University

Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam
Mei Zhu, University of Amsterdam

Antonio Mele, University of Oxford
Krisztina Molnár, Norwegian School of Economics
Sergio Santoro, Bank of Italy