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Texas Monetary Conference: April 1 and 2, 2005
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The University of Texas at Austin will host this year's Texas Monetary Conference. The conference will bring together 10 scholars (including one of the most recent Nobel Prize winners) to focus on topics in monetary economics, payments systems, and inequality. These topics were chosen to honor one of the founders of the Texas Monetary Conference, Scott Freeman, who made fundamental contributions in those areas. The Texas Monetary conference is a joint endeavor between the Dallas Fed, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M, the University of Houston, and the University of Texas at Austin. The conference will begin at 1:30pm on Friday, April 1 and run until 5:00pm on Saturday, April 2 at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Bernard and Andre Rapoport Building, Room 1.118.
The participant list includes (in alphabetical order):
1. Matthias Doepke (UCLA): "Patience Capital and the Demise of the Aristocracy"
2. Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern): "Firm Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Business Cycle"
3. Ed Green (Penn State): "Costly State Verification with an Aggregate Shock"
4. Finn Kydland (University of California at Santa Barbara): "Endogenous Money, Inflation, and Welfare"
5. Chris Phelan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis): "Tax Riots"
6. Martin Schneider (NYU): "Real Effects of Inflation through the Redistribution of Nominal Wealth"
7. Neil Wallace (Penn State): "Monetary theory at the beginning of the 21st century"
8. Warren Weber (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis): "Were U.S. State Banknotes Priced as Securities?"
9. Ivan Werning (MIT): "Social Discounting and Inequality"
10. Randy Wright (Penn): "Money and Banking in Search Equilibrium"