Old Age, New Economy and Central Banking

A CEPR/ESI Conference
Hosted by the Bank of Finland

Helsinki 14/15 September 2001

 

Friday 14 September
14.00 – 15.30	Accountability, Transparency and Communication Strategy of the ECB Sirkka Hämäläinen (European Central Bank)
15.30 – 17.00	Accountability and Transparency of Monetary Policy Alex Cukierman (CentER Tilburg University, Tel Aviv University and CEPR)
17.30 – 19.00	Do we have a New Economy? Sushil Wadhwani (Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England)
Saturday 15 September
09.00 – 10.00	Price Stability, Flexible Exchange Rates and Real interest Rates in Small Open Economies Sándor Valkovszky (National Bank of Hungary) *János Vincze (National Bank of Hungary)
10.00 – 11.00	Open-Economy Inflation Forecast Targeting Kai Leitemo (Norges Bank)
11.30 – 12.30	Declining Labour Share - Evidence of a Change in the Underlying Production Technology? *Antti Ripatti (Bank of Finland) Jouko Vilmunen (Bank of Finland)
13.30 – 14.30	Retirement Savings in an Aging Society: A Case for Innovative Government Debt Management Henning Bohn (University of California, Santa Barbara)
14.30 – 15.30	New Economy – New Policy Rules? James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) *Eric Schaling (Rand Afrikaans University)

* Denotes presenter