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Economics 542a
Macroeconomics Workshop
Organized by: Eduardo Engel
and Guillermo Ordoņez
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. To receive announcements about
this seminar subscribe to the Macro Workshop
E-mail List. |
| Fall 2009 |
Tuesday, 2:20-3:50
pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 |
| September 1 |
Fatih Guvenen, University of
Minnesota, "Taxation of Human Capital and
Cross-Country Trends in Wage Inequality" (with Burhan Kuruscu, UT Austin and
Serdar Ozkan, UPENN) |
| September 8 |
Julia Thomas, Ohio State University,
"Collateral Constraints, Capital Specificity and
the Distribution of production: The Role of Real and Financial Frictions in Aggregate
Fluctuations" (with Aubhik Khan) |
| September 15 |
Mark Bils, University of Rochester,
"Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary
Policy Shocks" (with Pete Klenow and Ben Malin) |
| September 22 |
Kjetil Storesletten, Minneapolis
Federal Reserve, "Growing like China"
(with Zheng Song and Fabrizio Zilibotti) |
| September 29 |
Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern
University, "Business Cycle Dynamics under
Rational Inattention" |
| October 6 |
Larry Jones, University of
Minnesota, "Risk Sharing, Inequality, and Fertility"
(with Roozbeh Hosseini and Ali Shourideh) |
| October 13 |
Robert Shimer, University of
Chicago, "Human Capital and Unemployment" |
| October 20 |
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University,
"Really Uncertain Business Cycles" (with
Max Floetotto and Nir Jaimovich) |
| October 27 |
Joe Kaboski, Ohio State University,
"Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors"
(with Francisco Buera and Yongseok Shin) |
| November 3 |
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern
University, "On the Optimality of a Unified Unit of
Account" (with Martin Schneider, Stanford). |
| November 10 |
Nir Jaimovich, Stanford University,
"Reference Prices, Costs and Nominal Rigidities"
(with Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo). |
| November 17 |
Dirk Krueger, University of
Pennsylvania, "How do households respond to income
shocks?" (with Fabrizio Perri). |
| November 24 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
| December 1 |
Lee Ohanian, UCLA, "What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?". |
| December 8 |
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, |
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