69th International Atlantic Economic Conference

March 24 - 27, 2010 | Prague, Czech Republic

E60-1 2914 Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Friday, 26 March 2010: 16:45-18:45
Chair:
Klaus Beckmann, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität (UniBw) Hamburg—Germany
Predicting FOMC Decisions Using an Ordered-Probit Model
James Calhoun, British Petroleum—USA; Adam Kurkiewicz, Wells Fargo Funds Management Group—USA; Farrokh Nourzad, Marquette University—USA
Game Theoretic Simulations of Responses to the 2008 - 2009 Financial Crisis
Craig S. Marcott, University of St. Thomas—USA; Paul T. Armstrong, University of St. Thomas—USA
Active and Passive Fiscal and Monetary Policies:  An Analysis Using Brazilian Data
Marcelo S. Portugal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul—Brazil
An Analysis of Nonlinearity of the Brazilian Central Bank Reaction Function
José L. Rossi Jr., Insper—Brazil; Terence Pagano, Insper—Brazil
Discussants:
Andreas Buehn, Technische Universitaet Dresden—Germany ; Klaus Beckmann, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität (UniBw) Hamburg—Germany ; Michael Dorsch, The American University of Paris—France and Marcelo S. Portugal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul—Brazil