New Instruments of Monetary Policy: The Challenges

March 12th 2010
Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Trinity College, Cambridge

Sponsored by The Money Macro and Financial Research Group and the Centre for International Macroeconomics and Finance.

Programme

10.30 Tea/Coffee, Registration
   
  Introduction: Hamid Sabourian (Cambridge)
   
11.00 - 12.00 Spencer Dale (Bank of England)
“Quantitative Easing: one year on”, Slides
   
12.00 -1.00 Sharon Kozicki, Lena Suchanek and Eric Santor (Bank of Canada)
Central Bank Balance Sheets and Long-Term Forward Rates”, Slides
   
  Discussant: Demosthenes Tambakis (University of Cambridge), Comments
   
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch Break
   
2.00 - 3.00 Round Table (Chairman, Sean Holly, University of Cambridge)

Huw Pill (European Central Bank (ECB))
Colin Ellis (Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd)
Charles Goodhart (LSE and Morgan Stanley)
David Cobham (Herriot-Watt), Remarks
Marcus Miller (Warwick) "When money matters", Slides
   
3.00 - 3.50 Douglas Gale (NYU)
Liquidity and Monetary Policy Instruments”, Slides
   
  Discussant: Jagjit Chadha (University of Kent), Comments
   
3.50 - 4.10 Tea
   
4.10 - 4.50 Hans Gerbach (ETH, Zurich) and Jan Wenzleberger
(University of Keele)
Interest Rate Policy and Stability of Banking Systems”, Slides
   
  Discussant: Peter Sinclair (University of Birmingham)
   
4.50 - 5.40 Richard Harrison (Bank of England)
Asset purchase policy at the effective lower bound for interest rates”, Slides
   
  Discussant: Mike Wickens (University of York), Comments
   
5.40 - 6.30 Stephania Villa (Birkbeck College) and Jing Yang (Bank of England)
Financial intermediaries in an estimated DSGE model for the UK”, Slides
   
  Discussant: Tiago Cavalcanti (University of Cambridge), Comments
   

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