| Spring 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" |
| 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" (joint
with Patrick Francois) Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |
