| Thursday, October 24, 1985 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Coffee and rolls |
| 9:10 a.m. | Welcoming remarks |
| Morning Session | |
| Moderator: Arthur J. Rolnick, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | |
| 9:15 a.m. | Robert Townsend, University of Chicago “Economic Organization with Limited Communication” |
| Discussant: Ramon Marimon, Minnesota | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Gail Makinen, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress “Some Neglected Monetary Aspects of the Poincare Stabilization of 1926” |
| Discussant: John Taylor, Stanford | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session | |
| Moderator: Bruce Smith, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Carnegie-Mellon University | |
| 1:45 p.m. | Christina Romer, Princeton University “Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data” |
| Discussants: Edward Prescott, Minnesota, andChristopher Sims, Minnesota | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Arthur J. Rolnick and Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis “Explaining the Demand for Free Bank Notes” |
| Discussant: Richard Sylla, North Carolina State | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Cocktail party |
| 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| Friday, October 25, 1985 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Coffee and rolls |
| Morning Session | |
| Moderator: Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | |
| 9:15 a.m. | Thomas Sargent, University of Minnesota “Monetary and Fiscal Policy During Three Revolutions” |
| Discussant: Robert Lucas, Chicago | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Charles Calomiris, Northwestern University “Understanding Greenback Inflation and Deflation: An Asset-Pricing Approach” |
| Discussants: Bruce Smith, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Carnegie-Mellon University, and George McCandless, Dartmouth | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session | |
| Moderator: Preston Miller, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | |
| 1:15 p.m. | Peter Garber, Brown University “Nominal Contracts in a Bimetallic Standard” |
| Discussants: Neil Wallace, Minnesota, and Tony Kuprianov, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 p.m. | Angela Redish, University of British Columbia “Currency Depreciation in Early Modern England and France” |
| Discussant: John McCusker, Maryland | |