These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Jerry Tempelman (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM
Session: Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting (AEA)
Presiding: Ann Owens (Hamilton College)

Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models
Marco Del Negro (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania, NBER, CEPR)
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A Case Against Explicit Inflation Targeting
Jerry Tempelman (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Inflexibility of Inflation Targeting Revisited: Modelling the Anchoring Effect
Jan Libich (La Trobe University)
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Optimal Monetary Policy in a Financially Fragile Economy
Ufuk Devrim Demirel (University of Colorado, Boulder)
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