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Workshop on 'Consumption, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy'

Organised by the Centre for Finance and Credit Markets, Nottingham and we are grateful for co-funding from the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group and the School of Economics, Nottingham.

Session 1

Chair: Paul Mizen (University of Nottingham)

• 'Real Time' Early Warning Indicators for Costly Asset Price Boom/Bust Cycles: A Role for Global Liquidity' Lucia Alessi and Carsten Detken (European Central Bank)
• 'Liquidity, Inflation and Asset Prices in a Time-Varying Framework for the Euro Area' Christiane Baumeister, Eveline Durinck and Gert Peersman (Ghent University)

Discussant: John Tsoukalas (University of Nottingham)

 

Session 2

Chair: Spiros Bougheas (University of Nottingham)

• 'Household External Finance and Consumption' Timothy Besley, Neil Meads and Paolo Surico (Bank of England)
• 'House Price Volatility and Household Indebtedness in the US and the UK' Richard Disney (University of Nottingham) and John Gathergood (University of Nottingham)

Discussant: Atsuyoshi Morozumi (University of Warwick , Nottingham w.e.f. August 2009)

 

Session 3

Chair: Richard Disney (University of Nottingham)

• 'Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices' Stefan Gerlach (Goethe University , Frankfurt) and Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche (Swiss National Bank).
• 'Household Debt in the Consumer Age: Source of Growth—Risk of Collapse' Barry Cynamon (University of Chicago) and Steven Fazzari (Washington University , St Louis)

Discussant: Alec Chrystal (CASS, London)