| All sessions, whether invited or contributed, will include four papers. The deadline for society members to join the organizing committee is November 20, 2016. The deadline for completed session proposals is May 1. Program Committee: Chair: W. A. Barnett, U. of Kansas, Lawrence, and Center for Financial Stability, NY City Committee Members:Invited Sessions Organizers William Barnett, U. of Kansas, barnett@ku.edu Ernst Berndt, MIT, eberndt@mit.edu Jane Binner, U. of Birmingham, jane.binner@gmail.com Sadullah Çelik, Marma University, scelik@marmara.edu.tr Baoline Chen, BEA, Baoline.Chen@bea.gov Dean Croushore, U. of Richmond, VA, dcrousho@richmond.edu Erwin Diewert, U. of British Columbia, erwin.diewert@ubc.ca Mohamed El-Hodiri, University of Kansas, mohamedelhodiri@gmail.com Ester Faia, Goethe University, Germany, faia@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de Larry Goodman, CFS President, lgoodman@the-cfs.org Francis Gross, ECB, Francis.Gross@ecb.int Grzegorz Halaj, ECB, Grzegorz.Halaj@ecb.int Robert Hill, U. of Graz, robert.hill@uni-graz.at Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen, r.c.inklaar@rug.nl Fredj Jawadi, U. of Evry, fredj.jawadi@univ-evry.fr Arthur Jonath, Profit and Entropy, aj@profitandentropy.com John Keating, U. of Kansas, jkeating@ku.edu Arthur Kennickell*, Federal Reserve Board, arthur.kennickell@frb.gov Cecilia Susanna Jona-Lasinio, LUISS University Rome, jonalasi@istat.it Wendy Li, Bureau of Economic Analysis, wendy.li@bea.gov Thomas Lubik, Fed Reserve Bank of Richmond, thomas.lubik@rich.frb.org Jacques Mairesse, ENSAE, Paris, Jacques.Mairesse@ensae.fr Claudio Morana, claudio.morana@unimib.it, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Leonard Nakamura, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, leonard.nakamura@phil.frb.org Patrick Pintus, Banque de France, papintus@gmail.com Apostolos Serletis, University of Calgary, serletis@ucalgary.ca Stephen Spear, Carnegie Mellon U., ss1f@andrew.cmu.edu Jay Stewart*, BLS, Stewart.Jay@bls.gov Biyan Tang, Wabash College, biyantang84@gmail.com Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen, m.p.timmer@rug.nl Gazi Salah Uddin, Linköping University, Sweden, gazi.salah.uddin@liu.se Simon van-Norden, HEC Montreal, simon.van-norden@hec.ca Laura Jackson Young, Bentley University, ljackson@bentley.edu. Nan Zhang, Hiroshima Shudo University, zhang@shudo-u.ac.jp.*Planning to organize two sessions. Contributed Sessions OrganizersGaetano Antinolfi, Washington University, gaetano@wustl.edu: banking, monetary economics, financial economics, macroeconomics. Imen Ben Mohamed, Central Bank of the UAE and ENS-Cachan-Paris, benmohamed.imen@gmail.com: credit market imperfections and business cycles, labor market frictions and financial shocks. Shatakshee Dhongde, Georgia Institute of Technology, shatakshee.dhongde@econ.gatech.edu: health disparities, human capital, measurement of inequality, multi-dimensional deprivation and poverty. Ester Faia, Goethe University, Germany, faia@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de: macro-finance-banking, macro-labor. Barbara Fraumeni, Central University for Finance and Economics, Beijing, Barbara_Fraumeni@hotmail.com: human capital. Thomas Lubik, Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, thomas.lubik@rich.frb.org: applied time series, empirical macro, Bayesian DSGE, and indeterminacy. Ryan Mattson, West Texas A&M University, rmattson@mail.wtamu.edu; Aggregative Measures, Money and Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, Central Banking, Supply of Money and Credit, Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance.Fabio Milani, University of California at Irvine, fmilani@uci.edu: Empirical Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Expectations and Learning in Macroeconomics.Claudio Morana, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, claudio.morana@unimib.it: financial econometrics, empirical macro & finance, boom-bust economic and financial cycles. Patrick Pintus, Banque de France, papintus@gmail.com: macroeconomics, macrofinance, learning, financial frictions. Xiao Qiao, SummerHaven Investment Mangement, xiaoqiao10@gmail.com: asset pricing, financial econometrics, volatility models, investments, and return predictability. Gazi Salah Uddin, Linkoping University, Sweden, gazi.salah.uddin@liu.se: nonlinear and nonparametric financial econometric methods in equity and commodity markets; dependence and directionality in asset classes; multi-scale co-movements; network based dependence modelling. Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen, m.p.timmer@rug.nl: Productivity, Economic Growth, International Trade and Global Value ChainsJesus Vazquez, University of Basque Country, Spain, jesus.vazquez@ehu.es: learning and macroeconomic dynamics; DSGE modelling and estimation; Real-time learning issues in macroeconomics. |