Sixteenth Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics

Sixteenth Annual Symposium of The Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics

San Francisco, April 3 – 4, 2008 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 101 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105

INFORMATION FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

FRBSF is located at 101 Market St., between Main and Spear Streets San Francisco, CA 94105-1579, phone: 415-974-2000

Please use the Bank's main entrance on Market Street between Main and Spear Streets.

Public parking is available in the garage at 123 Mission Street (entrance on Main Street between Mission and Howard Streets, around $26) and in surface lots at Main and Howard Streets (around $15). There are also several parking garages on Spear Street between Market and Howard Streets (around $20 and up).

The Bank is a nonsmoking building. Smoking is permitted in the outdoor courtyard area on the 4th floor, near the Bank's Conference Center.

NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION

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CONFERENCE HOTEL

Hyatt Regency 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, California 94111 Telephone: 415-788-1234 Reservations: 800-694-8284

The conference hotel is located directly across Market St. from FRBSF. Downtown San Francisco is rich in culture and beauty – and the Hyatt Regency San Francisco hotel puts you right in the heart of it. http://sanfranciscoregency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp

AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION

From San Francisco Airport

Travel time is approximately 25 minutes from SFO to the downtown area. Taxi fare from the airport to the downtown area is approximately $45.

The door-to-door Super Shuttle ($16) departs every 10 to 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, from the upper level median strip or courtesy island of the North, Central, and South terminals at SFO. The shuttle stops at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, directly across the street from the Fed.

BART trains leave SFO every 15 minutes and take approximately 35 minutes to reach the downtown area. From the International Terminal, enter SFO-International BART station, which is located on level 3 of the International Terminal. From the Domestic Terminal, follow the signs across the overpass and take the SFO-AirTrain to SFO-International BART station. Once on BART, exit at Embarcadero Station, which is located by the Hyatt Regency Hotel. One-way BART fare from SFO to the Embarcadero Station is $5.35.

From Oakland Airport

From OAK, either take the AirBART shuttle (fare is $2) to the Colliseum BART station and take any San Francisco bound train to the Embarcadero Station (fare is $3.55 + $3 AirBART fare), or take any shuttle from the airport to the hotel. Fare is approximately $25-$30.

INFORMAL GATHERING ON WEDNESDAY April 2

Conference participants are invited to greet one another at an informal gathering to be held at the Gordon Biersch brewery on Wednesday evening April 2. The brewery offers a dramatic view of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and is located just a short walk from the conference hotel along the Embarcadero that runs by San Francisco's historic waterfront. The conference hotel is located near the intersection of Market St. and Spear St. The brewery is located near the intersection of Embarcadero and Harrison St.

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Theaters & Performances Visitor Information Services

American Conservatory Theater 24/7 Travelers Medical Group (A.C.T.) 490 Post St., Suite 225, 415-981-1102 Geary Theater, 415 Geary Street (Union Square), 415- Walk-in/emergency care medical services for 749-2228, www.act-sfbay.org travelers (Multilingual). Award-winning theater company presents seven major plays each season from the classic to the San Francisco Convention & contemporary in its landmark home. Visitors Bureau Benjamin Swig Pavilion on the lower level of Hallidie Federal Reserve Bank Beach Blanket Babylon Plaza at Market and Powell Streets (near cable car of San Francisco Club Fugazi, 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. Formerly turnaround ), 415-391-2001, www.sfvisitor.org Visitor’s Green St. (North Beach), 415-421-4222, Zany musical revue spoofs popular culture, featuring excellent singers sporting enormous hats and stun- SF Gate 1001 Van Ness Ave., 415-561-8700 or Guide ning visual pun costumes. Presented cabaret-style. 415-447-6308, www.sfgate.com/eguide SF Gate is the essential on-line choice of the San San Francisco Symphony Francisco Bay Area for listings on food, movies, Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Avenue near Grove music, nightlife, performances, art, events, etc. St., 415-864-6000, provided by the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. Hotels www.sfsymphony.com Home to the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Ticketmaster California Inc. Dining Michael Tilson Thomas. Formal season is September 415-421-TIXS (8497), www.ticketmaster.com through May. Shop ping Offering customers the ultimate in convenience by purchasing tickets to sporting events and concerts Museums San Francisco Opera through select Rite-Aid stores, on-line or over the War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Avenue, 415- telephone. 864-3330, www.opera.com One of America’s leading opera houses and led by Pamela Rosenberg, General Director. Formal season is September through January. Courtesy of the San Francisco Ballet Event Management Unit War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Avenue, 415-865-2000, www.sfballet.com America’s oldest ballet company. Eclectic repertoire of full-length, neo-classical and contemporary ballets. Formal season is February through May. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 101 Market Street San Francisco, California 94105 415.974.2000

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domestic animals. Over 1,000 mammals, birds, birds, mammals, 1,000 Over animals. domestic

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Houses more than 800 exotic, endangered, and and endangered, exotic, 800 than more Houses

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Super Shuttle 800-258-3826 www.supershuttle.com 800-258-3826 Shuttle Super

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10:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to to a.m. 11:00 from lunch and a.m. 10:00 Regent’s Cab 415-457-1004 Cab Regent’s Home to the Giants baseball team. baseball Giants the to Home

through Friday serving breakfast from 6:30 a.m. to to a.m. 6:30 from breakfast serving Friday through De Soto Cab Co. 415-970-1300 Co. Cab Soto De www.sfgiants.com

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and airport shuttles. Transit information available at at available information Transit shuttles. airport and

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Located at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area, Area, Bay Francisco San the of center the at Located

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510-577-4000, 510-577-4000, www.oaklandairport.com

Turn LEFT onto MAIN ST. MAIN onto LEFT Turn

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Main Streets). The visitor entrance is on Market Street. Market on is entrance visitor The Streets). Main Turn RIGHT onto HOWARD ST. HOWARD onto RIGHT Turn

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Theaters & Performances Visitor Information Services

FRBSF Preferred Hotels Aqua One Market San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Numbers indicate location on downtown map.) Seafood (L&D $$-$$$) American SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, 415-357-4000 (L&D $$$) 252 California Street www.sfmoma.org One Market Street 415-981-0983 The West Coast’s most comprehensive 20th Century 415-777-5577 Galleria Park Hotel Hyatt Regency art collection; 15,000 works of art including Boulevard paintings, sculpture, photographic and media arts. 191 Sutter Street 5 EmbarcaderoEmbarcadero Center Palomino 415-781-3060 415-788-1234 American www.sanfranciscoregency. (L&D $$–$$$) Mediterranean M. H. de Young Memorial Museum www.galleriapark.com hyatt.com (L&D $$) One Mission Street Golden Gate Park, 415-863-3330, www.thinker.org *directly across the street from the bank 345 Spear Street Diversiﬁ ed art museum boasting 22 galleries of Harbor Court Hotel 415-543-6084 Prescott Hotel 415-512-7400 American, African, and oceanic art and textiles from 165 Steuart Street the 17th to the 20th Century. (Reopens to the public 415-882-1300 545 Post Street Rubicon October 15, 2005.) Californian/French Tonno Rosso www.harborcourthotel.com 415-563-0303 Italian (L&D $$) (L&D $$$) www.prescotthotel.com 155 Steuart Street California Academy of Sciences 558 Sacramento Street Hotel Griffon 415-495-6500 875 Howard, 415-321-8000, www.calacademy.org 415-434-4100 155 Steuart Street Hotel Nikko Explore the ocean’s sea life, view stars during the day, 415-495-2100 survey African animals and wild California, ride an 222 Mason Street Chevy’s Ozumo www.hotelgriffon.com 415-394-1111 Contemporary Japanese earthquake, travel back three billion years in time. Mexican (L&D $) www.hotelnikkosf.com (L&D $$) Includes Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium, Two Embarcadero Ctr. and the Natural History Museum. 161 Steuart Street Hotel Triton 415-391-2323 415-882-1333 342 Grant Street Sir Francis Drake Asian Art Museum of San Francisco 800-800-1299 450 Powell Street Gordon Biersch 200 Larkin Street, 415-581-3500, www.hoteltriton.com 415-392-7755 American (L&D $$) Shanghai 1930 www.asianart.org www.sirfrancisdrake.com Asian Chinese (L&D $$) Two Harrison Street The largest museum in the western world devoted 133 Steuart Street Park Hyatt 415-243-8246 exclusively to Asian art houses permanent collections 333 Battery Street 415-896-5600 showcasing the arts and cultures of over 40 Asian 415-392-1234 countries. www.parkhyattsanfrancisco. Taylor’s American Food (L&D $) Yank Sing com Dim Sum (L&D $$) 1 Ferry Plaza California Palace of the One Rincon Center 866-EAT-FOOD 415-957-9300 Legion of Honor Lincoln Park, 34th Avenue and Clement Street, Kokkari 415-863-3330, www.thinker.org Slanted Door Ancient and European art from 2500 B.C. through Greek (L&D $$) Vietnamese?French the 20th century. One of the world’s leading 200 Jackson Street (L&D $$) collections of Rodin sculpture with dramatic views 415-956-9662 1 Ferry Plaza of the Golden Gate and the City. 415-861-8032 Shop ping PARK HYATATT

One Market Plaza 1 Market Street between Steuart and Spear Streets, Email: [email protected] Includes drugstore, ﬂ orist shop, Federal Express, food court, optometrist, shoe repair and a variety of other small shops and services.

Embarcadero Center between Sacramento and Clay Sts., Battery St. and Justin Herman Plaza, 415-772-0700 Spanning 6 city blocks, the center is home to 125 shops and restaurants and includes a theater complex.

Rincon Center 180 Steuart St. at Howard St. Includes US Post Ofﬁ ce, shoe repair, laundry, food court and other retail shops.

Union Square Four block radius between Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton Sts. Downtown shopping and theater district. Includes elegant stores and richly appointed shops which cater to every taste, accented by a palette of posies brimming from sidewalk ﬂ ower stands.

San Francisco Shopping Centre 865 Market St. (corner of Fifth St.), 415-495-5656. A unique mix of upscale, trend-setting retailers housed in a nine-story vertical mall served by America’s only spiral escalators. The top ﬁ ve ﬂ oors house Nordstrom, while the remaining four levels are home to 90 other leading merchants. DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO Hotels Dining Museums

Rincon Center 180 Steuart St. at Howard St. Includes US Post Ofﬁ ce, shoe repair, laundry, food court and other retail shops.