Friday March 5, 1999: Berkeley 223 Moses Hall, U.C. Berkeley

Open by Invitation Only

Last Updated: February 3, 1999

• Center for German and European Studies, UCB
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard

• Barry Eichengreen
• Jeffry Frieden
• Andrew Rose

• Mindy Ruzicka

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 "Divided Opinion and Common Currency: The Political Economy of Public Support for EMU" by Matthew Gabel, University of Kentucky. An early version is available as a PDF file. But the later version is now also available as a PDF file.

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 "Comparative Politics and Public Finance" Gerard Roland, ULB and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (joint with Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini). A PDF version is available.

12:15 Lunch

1:15 "Mobile Capital, Domestic Institutions, and Electorally-Induced Monetary and Fiscal Policy" William Clark, New York University and Georgia Institute of Technology (joint with Mark Hallerberg). A PDF version is available.

2:45 Coffee Break

3:00 "Fiscal Requirements for an Independent Central Bank" Matthew Canzoneri, Georgetown University

4:45 Reception, Women’s Faculty Club