Thursday, October 16, 2003
"Inflation Targeting: A Theoretical Evaluation"
Michael Woodford, Princeton University
Discussant: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Duke University
"The Macroeconomic Effects of Inflation
Targeting"
Andrew Levin and Fabio M. Natalucci, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System and Jeremy M. Piger, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Discussant: Harald Uhlig, Humboldt University
"The Role of Policy Rules in Inflation Targeting"
Kenneth N. Kuttner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Discussant: Monika Piazzesi, University
of Chicago
"Is Inflation Targeting Best-Practice Monetary Policy?"
Dale W. Henderson and Jon Faust, Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System
Discussant: Benjamin M. Friedman, Harvard
University
Friday, October 17, 2003
"Practical Problems and Obstacles to Inflation Targeting"
Laurence H. Meyer, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Discussant: Lars E.O. Svensson,
Princeton University
Panel Discussion: "Inflation Targeting"
Ben S. Bernanke, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System
Otmar Issing, Executive Board of the European
Central Bank
Donald L. Kohn, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System