Yale Department of Economics

Macro Reading Group

Organized by: Joe Vavra

Spring 2009 Thursday, 2:30-3:00, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room B1
Fall 2008 Thursday, 2:30-3:00, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room B1
September 18 Lee and Mukoyama, "Entry, Exit and Plant-level Dynamics over the Business Cycle" (2008)  Presenter: Giuseppe Moscarini
September 25 Ross-Hansberg and Wright, "Establishment Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy (AER 2007).  Presenter: Marnix Amand
October 2 Atkeson and Kehoe, "Modeling and Measuring Organization Capital" (JPE Forthcoming).  Presenter: Bjoern Bruegemann
October 9 Krueger and Fernandez-Villaverde, "Consumption and Saving over the Life Cycle: How Important are Consumer Durables" (2005).  Presenter: Juan Eberhard
October 16 CANCELLED
October 23 Leahy and Zeira, "The Timing of Purchases and Aggregate Fluctuations" (2005 ReStud).  Presenter:  David Rappoport
October 30 Khan and Thomas, "Inventories and the business cycle:  An equilibrium analysis of (S,s) policies".  Presenter:  Joe Vavra
November 6 Kryvtsov and Midrigan, "Inventories, Markups and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models" (2008).  Presenter:  Eduardo Engel
November 13 James Kahn, Durable Goods Inventories and the Great Moderation? (2008 Fed Report).  Presenter: Mark Klee
November 20 Gopinath and Itskhoki, "Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-Through" (2008).  Presenter: Chris Fiore
December 4 Atkeson and Burstein, "Pricing to Market, Trade Costs and International Relative Prices? (AER Forthcoming).  Presenter: David Berger

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Schedule maintained by Nancy King

Last updated: December 19, 2008