The seminar will be held from May 18 - May 21, 2010, on the Island of Reichenau at the Lake of Constance. The first session will begin on May 19 at 9:00 a.m., the last session will terminate on May 21 at noon.

The conference takes place at the Strandhotel Löchnerhaus, on the Island of Reichenau in Lake Constance. Click here for additional local information and timetables for the trains from Zurich Airport to Konstanz and busses/trains from Konstanz to Reichenau.

Presenter	Title	.pdf
Ruediger Bachmann (University of Michigan), Jinhui Bai (Georgetown University)	Government Purchases Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Heterogeneity and Wealth Bias in Political Decision Making
Christian Bayer (University of Bonn), Ruediger Bachmann (University of Michigan)	Firm-Specific Productivity Risk over the Business Cycle: Facts and Aggregate Implications
Gianluca Benigno (LSE)	Revisiting Overborrowing and its Policy Implications with Huigang Chen (JD Power), Christopher Otrok (University of Virginia), Alessandro Rebucci (Inter-American Development Bank), Eric R. Young (University of Virginia)
Marcel Fratzscher (ECB), Benjamin Born (University of Bonn), Michael Ehrmann (ECB)	Macroprudential policy and central bank communication
Marcus Hagedorn (University of Zurich)	Spot Wages over the Business Cycle? with Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
Robert Kollmann (Free University of Brussels), Werner Roeger (DG ECFIN)	Banks and the International Transmission of Macroeconomic Shocks
Stefan Niemann (University of Essex), Paul Pichler (University of Vienna), Gerhard Sorger (University of Vienna)	Inflation dynamics under optimal discretionary fiscal and monetary policies
Charles Nolan (University of St. Andrews), Tatiana Damjanovic (University of St. Andrews)	Relative price distortions and inflation persistence
Luca Sala (University of Bocconi)	Potential Output, the Output Gap and the Labor Wedge with Ulf Soderstrom (Sveriges Riksbank), Antonella Trigari (University of Bocconi)
Irina Telyukova (University of California San Diego)	Directed Search over the Life Cycle with Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania), Ludo Visschers (Simon Fraser University)
Policy Session Speaker: James Bullard (President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank)

More information on the Konstanz seminar, its history and academic and policy accomplishments are available here.