THE 53rd INTERNATIONAL ATLANTIC ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Paris, France
13-17 March 2002

Monetary Policy and Public Expenditures
Saturday 13:45 - 15:45

Chair: David Tuerck, Suffolk University

Renate Thimester, Loyola Marymount University, U.S. Fiscal Policy Measures Affecting Social Security

Meena Seshamani, University Of Oxford, Aging and Health Care Expenditures: An International Comparison

David Tuerck, Suffolk University, A Market-Clearing Model for State Tax Analysis

Geoffrey Wyatt, Heriot-Watt University, and Iannis A. Mourmouras, University of Thessaloniki, The Optimal Composition of Public Expenditure: Theory and Evidence

Ying Liu, Denise Cote, Jean-Paul Lam, Pierre St-Amant, and John Kuszczak, Bank of Canada, Performance and Robustness of Simple Monetary Policy Rules in the Canadian Economy

Discussants: David Tuerck, Suffolk University, Renate Thimester, Loyola Marymount University, and Mart Sorg, University Of Tartu