Monetary Policy and Accession to the EU: Inflation-Targeting Versus Exchange Rate Targeting

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Popper room
Friday, September 27, 2002 - 4:00pm
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Date: 
Friday, September 27, 2002 - 4:00pm to 7:30pm

Program

Following BESS Seminar with Marvin Goodfriend, 2:00-3:30 p.m.

September 27, 2002

4:00-5:30 p.m.

Draft Paper Session

  • Richard Anton Braun (University of Tokyo): "Should the Bank of Japan do more to stimulate the Japanese Economy?"
  • Laszlo Halpern (Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - CEU): "Balassa Samuelson and Accession"
  • Max Gillman (CEU): "Causality of the Inflation-Growth Mirror in Accession Countries"
  • Marvin Goodfriend (US Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

5:30-5:45 p.m. Coffee break

5:45-7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: "Monetary Policy and Accession to the EU: Inflation-Targeting Versus Exchange Rate Targeting"

Richard Anton Braun (University of Tokyo); Zsolt Darvas (National Bank of Hungary); Marvin Goodfriend (US Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond); László Halpern (Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of the Sciences - CEU); János Vincze (Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration - Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

7:00-7:35 p.m. Reception