Yale Department of Economics

Economics 542a
Macroeconomics Workshop

Organized by: Tony Smith and Aleh Tsyvinski

A forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in macroeconomics. Presentations by research scholars and participating students of papers in closed economy and open economy macroeconomics and monetary economics.

Fall 2008 Tuesday, 2:20-3:50 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106
September 9 Manuel Amador, Stanford University, "Learning from Prices: Public Communication and Welfare"
September 16 Darrell Duffie, Stanford University, "Capital Mobility and Asset Pricing" (joint with Bruno Strulovici). Meet with speaker.
September 26 (Friday) Room 106, 2:30- 4 pm Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and U.S. Monetary Policy Experimentation".
September 30 Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, "The Political Economy of Non-Linear Capital Taxation" (with Ivan Werning).  meet the speaker.
October 7 Gauti Eggertsson, NY Federal Reserve Bank, "Was the New Deal Contractionary?". Meet the speaker.
October 14 Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA, "Equilibrium Default" (with Ivan Werning).   meet the speaker
October 21 V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Federal Reserve, "The Behavior of Small and Large Firms over the Business Cycle" (joint with Larry Christiano and Patrick Kehoe).
October 28 Robert Barro, Harvard University, "Macroeconomic Crises since 1870".
November 4 Hal Cole, University of Pennsylvania
November 11 Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University
November 18 Patrick Kehoe, University of Minnesota
December 2 Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University PhD student

Past Workshops     Macro Lunch     Macro Reading Group

Schedule maintained by Nancy King

Last updated: October 09, 2008