Papers for SEA Sessions November 2010

Saturday
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
SEA* Session 08C*
Politics and Central Bank Decisions

Session Chair
Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina

Papers:

"Politics and the Fed"
Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University (Contact Author)

"Stock Returns and Monetary Policy under the MPC Framework:
Do Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Communication Make a Difference"
Georgios Chortareas, University of Athens (Contact Author)

"Dissent"
Alessandro Riboni, Université de Montréal (Contact Author)
Francisco Ruge-Murcia, Université de Montréal

"The Political Economy of the Bailouts of 2008-2010, Is There an Upper Bound to Social Insurance?" (Revised 12/17/10)
Roger Congleton, George Mason University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Ellen Meade, American University
Alessandro Riboni, Université de Montréal
Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina
Rob Roy McGregor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte


Sunday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
SEA* Session 14F*
Monetary Policy Committee Decisions

Session Chair:
Rob Roy McGregor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Papers:

"Deliberation and Learning in Monetary Policy Committees"
Rob Roy McGregor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Contact Author)
Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina
Todd A. Vermilyea, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

"Too Many Cooks? Committees in Monetary Policy"
Helge Berger, Freie Universität Berlin (Contact Author)
Volker Nitsch, Technische Universität Darmstadt

"Is There a Limit on FOMC Dissents? Evidence from the Greenspan Era"
Ellen Meade, American University (Contact Author)
Petra Gerlach-Kristen, Bank for International Settlements

"Deliberation and Oversight in Monetary Policy, 1976-2008"
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, London School of Economics and Political Science (Contact Author)
Andrew Bailey, Bank of England

Discussants:

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, London School of Economics and Political Science
Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University
Georgios Chortareas, University of Athens
Volker Nitsch, Freie Universität Berlin