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Presents a summary of six papers presented at a conference on "Interest Rates and Monetary Policy" held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on March 19 and 20, 2004. Term of the structure of interest rates and how it interacts with macroeconomic fundamentals; Model estimation on high-volatility regime that tends to be associated with economic downturns; Use of the dynamic New Keynesian model for constructing and evaluating monetary policy rules.

Summarizes papers presented at the 'Finance and Microeconomics' conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 28 and March 1, 2003, under the joint sponsorship of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Dynamics of corporate earnings; Stock market reactions to Federal Reserve policy; Analysis of the yield curve and gross domestic product growth; Exchange rates and fundamentals.

Summarizes the papers presented at the economic conference 'Nominal Rigidities' held in San Francisco, California. Construction of models concerning the effects of change in monetary policy on economy; Proposition regarding the conduction of monetary policy under Friedman rule; Flexibility of prices results highly volatile inflation rates.

Presents a summary on the paper presented at the 'Asset Prices, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy' conference held at Stanford University in California. Steps in understanding the guidelines of the Central Bank on asset prices; Analysis on the forecasting ability of asset prices for inflation and output; Use of asset prices for policymakers.