Monetary economics program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Monetary Economics Program met in Chicago on March 4, 2011. NBER Research Associate Valerie A. Ramey of the University of California, San Diego and Jon Steinsson of Columbia University, organized this program:

* Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER, and David Sraer, Princeton University, "Quiet Bubbles"

* Judith Chevalier, Yale University and NBER, and Anil K Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER, "Best Prices"

* Douglas Davis and Oleg Korenok, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Nominal Price Shocks in Monopolistically Competitive Markets: An Experimental Analysis"

* James D. Hamilton, University of California, San Diego and NBER, and Jing Wu, University of California, San Diego, "The Effectiveness of Alternative Monetary Policy Tools in a Zero Lower Bound...