| 2011 |
Thursday, 12:00 -
1:00 pm, 28 Hillhouse, Room 106 |
| February 10 |
Ray Fair, Yale University, "A World
Macro Saving Fact and an Explanation" |
| February 17 |
Greg Phelan, Yale University, "Tax
Benefits for Health Insurance and Employer Coverage Decisions: Consequences of the 2010
Health Insurance Reform" |
| February 24 |
Florian Jung, Universitat St. Gallen,
"Lipset Reconsidered: Inequality, Development, and the Stability of Democracy"
(with Uwe Sunde) |
| March 3 |
Sebastian Findeisen, University of Zurich |
| March 24 |
David Berger, Yale University,
"Countercyclical Restructuring" |
| March 31 |
Guillermo Ordonez Yale University,
“Collateral Crises” (with Gary Gorton)" |
| April 7 |
David Rappoport" Can Borrowers Benefit
from Taxes on Borrowing?" |
| April 14 |
Joe Vavra, Yale University, "Durable
as Insurance" |
| April 21 |
Kieran Walsh, Yale University, "The
Wealth Distribution, Asset Prices, and Downturns" |
| April 28 |
Maximiliano Dvorkin |
| May 5 |
Marianne Bruins, Yale University,
"Information Acquisition and Dissemination by Ratings Agencies" |
| May 12 |
Melanie Morten, Yale University,
"Migration and Limited Commitment in Village Economies" |
| September 15 |
Joe Vavra, "Inflation and Time-Varying
Uncertrainty: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation" |
| September 22 |
Kieran Walsh, "Endogenous Leverage in
a Production Economy with Heterogeneous Agents" |
| September 29 |
Eduardo Engel, "Missing Agregate
Dynamics: on the Slow Convergence of Lumpy Adjustment Models" coauthored David Berger
and Ricardo Caballero |
| October 6 |
Melanie Morten, "Migration and risk
sharing in village economies" |
| October 13 |
Nicolas Werquin, "Dynamic Optimal
Taxation along the Extensive Margin" |
| October 20 |
David Rappoport, "Productivity
Differences and Endogenous Default in General Equilibrium" |
| October 27 |
David Berger, "Countercyclical
Restructuring" |
| November 3 |
Claire Brennecke, "Information and
Counterparty Risk" |
| November 10 |
Greg Phelan, "Regulating Bank Leverage
in a Crisis" |
| November 17 |
Xavier Gabaix, "A Theory of boundedly
rational dynamic programming" |
| December 1 |
Max Dvorkin, "Regional Shocks,
Incomplete Markets and Migration" |
| December 8 |
Lint Barrage, "Carbon Taxes in a
Dynamic Second-Best Fiscal Setting" |
| 2010 |
|
| February 18 |
Costas Arkolakis, Yale, "New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?" (with Arnaud
Costinot and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare) |
| March 25 |
Rudi Bachmann, University of Michigan,
"Uncertainty and Economic Activity: Evidence from
Business Survey Data" (with Steffen Elstner and Eric Sims) |
| April 8 |
Guillermo Ordonez, Yale, “Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns”
(with Andy Atkeson and Christian Hellwig) |
| April 15 |
David Rappoport, Yale, "Inefficient
Leverage Cycles?" |
| April 22 |
Christoph Trebesch, Yale, "Inexcusable
Sovereign Default" |
| April 29 |
Joe Vavra, Yale, "Monetary Policy is
Less Effective in Uncertain Times: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation" |
| May 6 |
David Berger, Yale, "The Declining
Procyclicality of Labor Productivity and Selective Firing" |
| September 9 |
Ray Fair, Yale, "Analyzing Macroeconomic Forecastability" |
| September 16 |
Boyan Jovanovic, NYU, Learning and
Discovery" |
| September 23 |
Xavier Gabaix, NYU, "A Sparsity-Based
Model of Bounded Rationality" |
| September 30 |
David Berger, Yale, "Productivity,
Employment and Firm Dynamics over the Business Cycle" |
| October 7 |
Joe Vavra, Yale, "Inflation Dynamics
and Time-Varying Uncertainty: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation" |
| October 14 |
Thomasz Piskorski, Columbia, "Mortgage
Modification and Strategic Default: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with
Countrywide" |
| October 21 |
Marnix Amand, Yale, "The Wealth
Distribution: New Facts and a New Model" |
| October 28 |
Per Krusell, IIES, "Asset Trading and
Valuation with Uncertain Exposure" (with Juan Carlos and Martin Schneider) |
| November 4 |
Pierre Yared, Columbia University, "A
Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars" (with Daron Acemoglu, Mikhail Golosov and Aleh
Tsyvinski) |
| November 11 |
Kieran Walsh, Yale, "Welfare Improving
Default" |
| November 18 |
David Rappoport, Yale, "Inefficient
Leverage Cycles" |
| December 2 |
Maximiliano, Dvorkin, Yale, "Fiscal
Federalism and Optimal Taxation" |
| December 11 |
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale, "Business
Cycles and Endogenous Uncertainty" (with Rudi Bachmann) |
| 2009 |
|
| March 26 |
Gerald Jaynes, Yale University, "The
Macrodistribution of Income and Longrun Movements in U.S. Poverty: 1960-2001" |
| April 2 |
Pierre Yared, Columbia Business School,
"Optimal Debt Management and
Redistribution" |
| April 9 |
Philip Shaw, Fairfield University, "Educational Corruption and Economic Growth" |
| April 30 |
Chris Fiore, TBA and David Berger, TBA |
| May 7 |
Adrian De La Garza. CANCELLED |
| May 14 |
Joe Vavra, TBA |
| September 10 |
Aubhik Khan, Ohio State University,
visiting Cowles, "Inflation and interest rates
with endogenous market segmentation". |
| September 24 |
Joe Vavra, Yale, "The Price Duration
Distribution and Monetary Non-Neutrality" |
| October 15 |
Herakles Polemarchakis, University of
Warwick, "Perils of Quantitative Easing" [Paper
1 Paper 2] |
| October 22 |
Juan Eberhard, Yale University,
"Assessing The Impact of Immigration in the U.S. Wage Distribution" |
| October 29 |
*Adrian de la Garza, Yale University,
"Domestic and Global Factors in Emerging Market Bond Spreads" |
| November 5 |
Guillermo Ordonez, Yale, "Larger Crises, Slower Recoveries: The Asymmetric
Effects of Financial Frictions" |
| November 12 |
David Berger, Yale, "Managerial
Frictions and Employment Fluctuations" |
| November 19 |
Marnix Amand, Yale, "The
Macroeconomics of Taxing Wealth" |
| December 3 |
David Rappoport, Yale, "Limited
Borrowing, Government Policy and Asset Prices" |
| December 10 |
Pierre Yared, Columbia University, visiting
Yale, "The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961" (joint with
Xin Meng and Nancy Qian) |
| 2008 |
|
| March 27 |
Joe Vavra, Yale University,
"Firm-Specific Consumer Attachment and Sticky Prices" |
| April 10 |
Carolina Silva, Yale University, "The
Interaction of Minimum Wage and Severance Payments in a Search Model" |
| April 17 |
Kyle Hood, Yale University, TBA |
| April 24 |
Rafael Melo, Yale University,
"Assortative Matching in the Brazilian Labor Market" |
| May 1 |
Juan Eberhard, Yale University,
"Dynamics of the U.S. Wage Distribution" |
| May 8 |
Evrim Aydin, Yale University,
"Convergence in Labor Productivity across Turkish Provinces" |
| May 15 |
Mark Klee, Yale University,
"Estimating the Effect of Occupational Tenure on Mobility" |
| September 25 |
Thérèse Rebière, UnIversity of Le Havre,
visiting Yale, "Minimum Wage, On-the-Job Search and Employment: On the Partial
and General Equilibrium of the Mandatory Minimum Wage" |
| October 9 |
Joe Vavra, Yale, "Customer Attachment,
Menu Costs, and Lumpy Price Adjustment" |
| October 16* |
Kyle Hood, Yale, "Equilibrium Labor
and Capital Flows across Local Economies: A Structural Empirical Approach" |
| October 23 |
Carolina Silva, Yale, "The Interaction
of Minimum Wage and Severance Payments in a Frictional Labor Market: Theory and
Estimation" |
| October 30 |
Rafael Melo, Yale University, "Sorting
in the Labor Market: Theory and Measurement" |
| November 6 |
Chris Fiore, Yale, "Stock Market
Volatility and the Business Cycle" and
Marnix Amand, Yale, "Asymmetric Information in Equilibrium Search Models" |
| November 13 |
Ray Fair, Yale, "Real Implications of
the Financial Crisis," Open Discussion |
| November 20 |
David Berger, Yale, "Heterogeneous
Inflation Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy" and Mark Klee, Yale, "Exploring the
Polarization of the US Labor Market" |
| December 4 |
Juan Eberhard, Yale, "Immigration and
Wage Dynamics" |
| 2007 |
|
| February 22 |
Eduardo Engel, Yale, "Price
Stickiness in Ss Models: New Interpretations of Old Results" (with Ricardo
J. Caballero) |
| March 1 |
Justine Hastings, Yale, "Gasoline
Prices and Grocery Purchases: Revisiting the Income Effect" |
| March 8 |
Carolina Silva, Yale, "An Empirical
Analysis of the Minimum Wage in Chile" |
| March 29 |
Rafael de Melo, Yale, "Firm-level
Separations and Wages in the Brazilian Economy" |
| April 5 |
Marnix Amand, Yale, "Retaining
Employees by Matching Outside Offers: Why Does (Almost) No One Do It?" |
| April 12 |
Amalavoyal Chari, Yale, "Productivity
Effects of Indian Reforms: A Structural Approach" |
| April 19 |
Kyle Hood, Yale, "An Island Model
Theory of Regional Evolutions" |
| April 26 |
Adrian de la Garza, Yale, "The
Evolution of Sovereign Bond Markets" and
Juan Eberhard, Yale, "Assessing the impact of Immigration" |
| May 3 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale, "Learning
Your Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Investigation" |
| October 11 |
Kyle Hood, "An Equilibrium Model of
Regional Evolutions" |
| October 18 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, "Learning Your
Comparative Advantage" |
| October 25 |
Venkata Chari, "De-Licensing Reform in
India: Theory and Evidence" |
| November 1 |
Amund Holmsen, Director, Monetary Policy
Department, Norges Bank, "Optimal Monetary Policy in Theory and Practice" |
| November 8 |
Rafael Melo, "The Allocation of
Workers to Firms: A Model of the Labor Market and Facts from a Brazilian Matched
Employer-Employee Dataset" |
| November 15 |
Irene Botusaru, "Competing Risks
Models: Motivation for a Semiparametric Estimation Technique" and
Mark Klee, "Skill Utilization and Occupation Mobility" |
| November 29 |
Adrian de la Garza, "Job Satisfaction
and Happiness: New Evidence from Japanese Union Workers" |
| December 6 |
Carolina Silva, "Modelling the
Interaction of Labor Market Policies" |
| 2006 |
|
| February 16 |
Bob Shiller, Yale University,
"Indexing Taxes to Inequality" (with Leonard Burman and Jeffrey Rohaly) |
| February 23 |
Ray Fair, Yale University, "On
Modeling the Effects of Inflation Shocks" |
| March 2 |
Rafael de Melo, Yale University,
"Estimation of a Search Model with Time Varying Match-Specific Heterogeneity" |
| March 23 |
Rudi Bachmann, Yale University, "Lumpy
Investment in Dynamic General Equilibrium" |
| March 30 |
Assaf Razin, visiting Yale University,
"Institutional Weakness and Stock Price Volatility (with Galina Hale and Hui Tong) |
| April 6 |
Irasema Alonso, Yale University,
"Ambiguity in a Two-country World" |
| April 13 |
Santosh Anagol, Yale University,
"Modeling Residential Investment" |
| April 20 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University,
"Learning, Unemployment and Mismatch" |
| April 27 |
Camila Campos and Carolina Silva, Yale
University, TBA. |
| October 5 |
Amalavoyal Chari, Yale University,
"Trade Liberalization and Productivity Change in India" |
| October 12* |
Rudi Bachmann, Yale University,
"Understanding Jobless Recoveries — A Tale of Two Margins" |
| October 19* |
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University,
"Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Insurance under Multiple Sources of
Income Risk" |
| November 2 |
Rafael L. de Melo, Yale University,
"Theories of Wage Determination and Wage Dynamics: An Empirical Assessment" |
| November 9 |
Kyle Hood, Yale University, "Spatial
Evolutions" |
| November 16 |
Adrian de la Garza, Yale University,
"Fluctuations in Unemployment and Vacancies: A Cross-Country Comparison" and
Marnix Amand, Yale University, "A Global Games Approach to 3rd Generation Financial
Crises" |
| November 30 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University,
"Learning your Comparative Advantage: Occupational Choice, Mismatch and
Unemployment" |
| December 7 |
Juan Eberhard, Yale University, TBA and
Matthew T. Johnson, Yale University, "Temptation and Credit Card Debt" |
| 2005 |
|
| February 17 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University,
"Currency Unions and FDI: The Case of the Euro" |
| February 24 |
Christian Bayer, European University
Institute, "Investment Dynamics with
Fixed Capital Adjustment Cost and Capital Market Imperfections" |
| March 3 |
Kevin Kallock, Yale University, "Risk
Aversion and Wage Rigidities in Search and Matching Models" |
| March 24 |
Santiago Bazdresch, Yale University,
"Investment and Financing with Non-Convex Costs" |
| March 31 |
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University,
"Uncertainty and Risk in Individual Income: Estimating Nonlinear Models of
Income Dynamics" (joint with Joseph Altonji and Tony Smith) |
| April 7 |
Jinhui Bai, Yale University,
"Stationary Monetary Equilibrium with Endogenously Segmented Asset Market" |
| April 14 |
Rudiger Bachmann, Yale University,
"Job Creation and Job Destruction in a DSGE Model with Endogenous Firm Size" |
| September 15 |
George Hall, Yale University, "The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary
Changes in Demand" (with Adam Copeland) |
| September 22 |
Ruediger Bachmann, Yale University,
"Job Turnover in a DSGE Model" |
| September 29 |
Jinhui Bai, Yale University,
"Stationary Monetary Equilibrium with Endogenously Segmented Asset Market" |
| October 6 |
Kevin Kallock, Yale University, "Risk
Aversion in a Search and Matching Model" |
| October 13 |
Santiago Bazdresch, Yale University,
"Optimal Firm Behavior with Financial Non-Convexities" |
| October 20 |
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University,
"Modeling Income Dynamics" (joint with Joe Altonji and Tony Smith) |
| October 27 |
Rafael Melo, Yale, "Estimation of a
Search Model with Learning using Panel Data" and Santosh Anagol, Yale, "Housing
Supply" |
| November 3 |
Yedan Zhang, Tulane University,
"R&D competition and modes of Foreign Entry with Country-Specific Spillover" |
| November 10 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University,
"Youth Unemployment and Mismatch" |
| November 17 |
Gianluca Violante, NYU, "Frictional
Wage Inequality: A Puzzle?" (with A. Hornstein and P. Krusell) |
| December 1 |
Camila Campos/Carolina Silva, Yale
University, TBA |
| 2004 |
|
| February 19 |
Galina Hale, Yale, "Courage to
Capital: The Effect of Rating Agencies on Sovereign Debt Rollover" |
| February 26 |
Marco Oviedo, Yale, "The Effects of
Oil Revenue on Fiscal Policy: The Case of Mexico" |
| March 4 |
Daniel Mulino, Yale, "The Impact of
Demographic Change on Capital Flows and Tax Rates in a Multi-country OLG Model" |
| March 25 |
Santiago Bazdresch, Yale, "Do Taxes
Explain Low Frequency Movements in Aggregate Leverage?" |
| April 1 |
Guillermo Mondino, IERAL de Fundación
Mediterránea, visiting Yale, "'Til Debt Do Us Apart. Restructuring
Debt. The case of Argentina" |
| April 8 |
Rudiger Bachmann, Yale, "Aggregate
Labor Adjustment in the US — Is There a Case for Manpower? |
| April 15 |
Kevin Kallock, Yale, "Wage Rigidities
in Search and Matching Models" |
| April 22 |
Jose Rossi, Yale, TBA |
| April 29 |
Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Yale, "Model
of Informed Specialist" |
| May 6 |
Borja Gracia, Yale, "Monetary and
Fiscal Policy Conflicts in the Context of a Fixed Exchange Rate" |
| September 9* |
Jose Rossi, Yale, "Foreign exposure,
corporate financial policies and the exchange rate regime in emerging markets:
Evidence from Brazil" |
| September 16 |
Santiago Bazdresch, Yale, "Adjustment
Costs in Capital Structure and Investment" |
| September 23 |
Daniel Mulino, Yale, "International
Capital Flows, Social Security and Demographics" |
| September 30 |
Macro reading group meeting |
| October 7* |
Borja Gracia, Yale, "Fixed Pegs and
Delayed Stabilizations or When the Central Bank Divorces the Treasury" |
| October 14 |
Marco Oviedo, Yale, "Beyond optimal
extraction: Oil-revenue policy lessons under the Mexican experience, 1986-2003" |
| October 21* |
Kevin Kallock, Yale, "Risk Sharing and
Nondecreasing Wages in a Search and Matching Model" |
| October 28 |
Ana Fostel, Yale, "A Supply
Story: Emerging Markets, High Yield and Market Closures" |
| November 4 |
Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Yale, "A
Dynamic Model of Optimal Trading and Price Setting for an Informed Specialist" |
| November 18 |
Macro reading group meeting |
| December 2 |
Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Queen's University, "Schumpeterian
Restructuring" (with Patrick Francois) Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |
