Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in Cambridge on July 17. NBER Research Associates Erik Hurst, University of Chicago, and Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Christopher J. Nekarda, Federal Reserve Board, and Valerie A. Ramey, University of California, San Diego and NBER, "The Cyclical Behavior of the Price-Cost Markup"

* Olivier Coibion, College of William and Mary; and Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Johannes F. Wieland, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; "The Optimal Inflation Rate in New Keynesian Models" (NBER Working Paper No. 16093)

* Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University and NBER, "Monetary Policy as Financial- Stability Regulation"

* Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER, "Bounds on...