Post Keynesian Workshop

["Lee, Frederic" <leefs@xxxxxxxx>]

Just thought that people might be interested in the content of the workshop and those close to Ottawa might want to go to it.

Fred Lee

[these details can be found at ICAPE BBS, http://pub238.ezboard.com/bicape]


1st Bi-Annual Canada/US Eastern Border Post-Keynesian Workshop
Central banking in the modern world: Alternative perspectives

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
September 19-20, 2003

Organizers: Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia, ROBINSON Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
E-mails: mlavoie@xxxxxxxxxx; mseccare@xxxxxxxxxx
Tel.: (613) 562-5800 ext. 1687; (613) 562-5800 ext. 1691
Fax: (613) 562-5999

Program:

Friday, September 19, 2003
Room: FTX 323, Fauteux Hall,
(Fauteux Hall is situated at the corner of Copernicus and Thomas More, one block west of King Edward Avenue, and two blocks south of Laurier Street)

Session 1: Monetary Policy I

8:30-9:20	Louis-Philippe Rochon (La Trobe University) and Sergio Rossi (University of Lugano)
The monetary circuit and the central bank

9:20-10:10	Mark Setterfield (Trinity College)
Central bank behaviour, stability and macro outcomes in the New Consensus model: a Post-Keynesian perspective

10:10-10:40	Coffee break

Session 2: Monetary Policy II

10:40-11:30	John Smithin (York University)
Optimal monetary policy?

11:30-12:20	Brenda Spotton (Atkinson College, York University) and Robin Rowley (McGill University)
Monetary dialogue and dogma at the Bank of Canada

12:20-14:10 	Lunch

Session 3: Economic history and history of thought

14:10-15:00 	Jane Knodell (University of Vermont)
Central Banking in Early Industrialization.

15:20-16:10	Robert Dimand (Brock University)
Minsky and Tobin on the instability of a monetary economy

16:30-17:20	Robert Prasch (Middlebury College)
Allan Meltzer and the history of the Federal Reserve



Saturday, September 20, 2003
Room: FTX 315, Fauteux Hall

Session 4: Interest rate determination

8:30-9:20	Sonmez Atesoglu (Clarkson University)
Monetary transmission: Federal funds rate and prime rate

9:20-10:10	Mario Seccareccia  (University of Ottawa)
Long-term interest rates, liquidity preference and the limits of central banking.

10:10-10:40	Coffee break

Session 5: Fully-consistent stock-flow models

10:40-11:30	Gennaro Zezza (University of Cassino) and Claudio Dos Santos (Levy Economics Institute)
The role of central banks in stock-flow consistent models

11:30-12:20	Marc Lavoie (University of Ottawa)
A fully-coherent post-Keynesian model of currency boards

12:20 	End of workshop, lunch


The organizers wish to acknowledge the generous financial support provided by the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, U.S.A.