| 2011 |
Tuesday, 2:20 -
3:50 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 |
| February 8 |
Ernesto Pasten, University of Toulouse,
"Time Consistent Bailout Plan" |
| February 15 |
Junichi Fujimoto, University of Tokyo,
"Life-Cycle Labor Search with Stochastic Match
Quality" (with Julen Esteban-Pretel) |
| February 22 |
Sam Kortum, University of Chicago, "Trade And The Global Recession" (with J. Eaton, B.
Neiman and J. Romalis) |
| March 1 |
Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester,
"Optimal Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained
Economies" (with Manue Amador) |
| March 22 |
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford
University,"Credit Within Firms" |
| March 29 |
Craig Burnside, Duke University " Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets"
(joint with M. Eichenbaum and S. Reblo) |
| April 5 |
Yan Bai, Arizona State University, "Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty" |
| April 12 |
Gilles Saint Paul, University of Toulouse
"Ideological Bias and the Production of
Macroeconomics Theories" |
| April 19 |
Andy Atkeson, UCLA, "On the Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy"
(with Ariel Burstein) |
| April 26 |
Oded Galor, Brown University, "The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic
Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development" (with Quamrul Ashraf) |
| May 3 |
Fabio Canova, U Pompeu Fabra, "Bridging Cyclical DSGE Models and the Raw Data" |
| September 6 |
Pete Klenow, Stanford University, "The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth"
(with C. Hsieh, E.Hurst and C. Jones) |
| September 13 |
Francois Gourio, Boston University, "Credit Risk and Disaster Risk" |
| September 20 |
Erick Hurst, Princeton University, "Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics"
(with V. Guerrieri and D. Hartley) |
| September 27 |
Greg Kaplan, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus
Payments" (with G. Violante) |
| October 4 |
Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University,
"Maternal Health and Fertility: An International
Perspective" |
| October 11 |
Bernardo Guimaraes, London School of
Economics, "A Model of Equilibrium Institutions" |
| October 18 |
Aysegul Sahin, New York Federal Reserve,
"Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market"
(with J. Song, G. Topa and G. Violante) |
| October 25 |
Ricardo Reis, Columbia
University, "When Should Policymakers Make Announcements? |
| November 1 |
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of
Minnesota, "Demand Shocks as Productivity Shocks",
(with Yan Bai, Kjetil Storesletten) |
| November 8 |
Yurij Gorodnichenko, University of
California at Berkeley, "Information
Rigidity and the Expectations Formation Process: A Simple Framework and News Facts"
(with Olivier Coibion) |
| November 15 |
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University, The I Theory of Mony" (with Yuliy Sannikov) |
| November 29 |
David Lagakos, Arizona State, The
Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries" (with D. Gollin & M.
Waugh) |
| December 6 |
Paul Beaudry, Univ. of British Columbia,
"A Gains from TradePerspective on Macroeconomics
Fluctuations" (with Franck Portierr) |
| 2010 |
|
| February 16 |
V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and
Minneapolis Federal Reserve, "Bailouts, Time
Inconsistency and Optimal Regulation" (with Patrick Kehoe) |
| February 23 |
Emi Nakamura, Columbia University, "Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of
Consumption Disasters" |
| March 2 |
Francesco Lippi, University of Sassari,
"Persistent Liquidity Effect and Long Run Money
Demand" (with Fernando Alvarez) |
| March 23 |
Rudi Bachmann, University of Michigan,
"Government Purchases Over the Business
Cycle: the Role of Heterogeneity and Wealth Bias in Political Decision Making"
(with Jinhui H. Bai) |
| March 30 |
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University,
"Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime
Mortgage Crisis" (with Amit Seru and Vikrant Vig) |
| April 6 |
Virgiliu Midrigan, NYU, "Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu
Cost Models" (with Oleksiy Kryvtsov) |
| April 13 |
Nikolai Roussanov, Wharton, UPENN, "Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets" (with
Hanno N. Lustig and Adrien Verdelhan) |
| April 20 |
Pricila Maziero, University of
Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, "Accounting for
Private Information" (with Laurence Ales) |
| April 27 |
Ricardo Lagos, NYU, "Asset Prices,
Liquidity, and Monetary Policy in an Exchange Economy" [Paper 1 and Paper
2] |
| September 7 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, Penn State, "Large Firms and Internal Labor Markets" |
| September 14 |
Boyan Jovanovic, NYU, "Middlemen in Limit-Order Markets" (with Albert
J. Menkveld) |
| September 21 |
Xavier Gabaix, NYU, "The Great Diversification and its Undoing" (with
Vasco M. Carvalho) |
| September 28 |
William Hawkins, University of Rochester,
"Privately Efficient Bargaining between Workers
and Large Firms" |
| October 5 |
Lee Ohanian, UCLA, "The International
Great Depression" |
| October 12 |
Benjamin Moll, Princeton, "Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can
Self-Financing Undo Capital Misallocation?" |
| October 19 |
Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, "Trading Frenzies and Their Impact on Real Investment"
(with E. Ozdenoren and Kathy Yuan) |
| October 26 |
Guido Menzio, UPENN, "Equilibrium Price Dispersion and Rigidity: A New Monetarist
Approach" (with A. Head, L.Q. Liu and Randall Wright) |
| November 2 |
Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA, "Optimal Patent
Policy with Recurrent Innovators" (with Matthew Mitchell |
| November 9 |
Leena Rudanko, Boston University,
"Customer Capital" (with F. Gourio) |
| November 16 |
Pablo Kurlat, Stanford, "Lemons, Markets Shutdowns and Learning" |
| November 30 |
Jaromir Nosal, Columbia, "Competing
for Customers: A Search Model of the Market for Unsecured Credit" |
| 2009 |
|
| February 24 |
Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA, "Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics"
(with Bruno Biais) |
| March 3 |
Fernando Alvarez, Chicago, "Search,
Rest Unemployment, and Unionization" (with Rob Shimer). | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | |
| March 24 |
Christian Hellwig, UCLA, "Inflation and Welfare with Nominal
Rigidities" (with Ariel Burstein) |
| March 31 |
Marina Azzimonti, University of Texas at
Austin, "Barriers to Investment
in Polarized Societies" |
| April 7 |
Ariel Burstein, UCLA, "Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and
International Trade" (with Andrew Atkeson) |
| April 14 |
Julien Prat, University of Vienna, visiting
NYU, "Globalization and Labor Market
Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity"(with
Gabriel Felbermayr and Hans-Jörg Schmerer) |
| April 21 |
Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago,
GSB, "Adverse Selection in Competitive Search
Equilibrium" (with Robert Shimer and Randall Wright) |
| April 28 |
Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern (visiting
NYU), "Learning the Wealth of
Nations" (with Francisco Buera and Alexander Monge-Naranjo) |
| 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) |
| December 1 |
Lee Ohanian, UCLA, "What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?".
CANCELLED |
| December 8 |
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, "Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch and Systemic
Bailouts" (with Jean Tirole) |
| 2008 |
|
| February 26 |
George-Marios Angeletos, MIT, "Policy with Dispersed Information" |
| March 4 |
Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester,
"Can A Representative Agent Model
Represent a Heterogeneous Agent Economy?"" (with Sungbae An and Sun-Bin Kim) |
| March 25 |
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of
Pennsylvania, "Likelihood
Estimation of DSGE Models with Epstein-Zin Preferences" |
| April 1 |
Cristina Arellano, University of Minnesota,
"Default and the Maturity
Structure in Sovereign Bonds" (with Ananth Ramanarayanan) |
| April 8 |
Laura Veldkamp, NYU Stern, "Information Acquisition and
Under-Diversification" (with Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh) |
| April 22 |
Fabrizio Perri, University of Minnesota,
"The International Diversification
Puzzle Is Not as Bad as You Think" (with Jonathan Heathcote) |
| April 29 |
Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln, Harvard University,
"Explaining the Low Labor
Productivity in East Germany — A Spatial Analysis" |
| 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) |
| September 26 |
Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and U.S. Monetary Policy
Experimentation" (with Timothy Cogley, Riccardo Colacito & Thomas J. Sargent) |
| September 30 |
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, "The Political Economy of Non-Linear Capital
Taxation" (with Iván Werning) |
| October 7 |
Gauti Eggertsson, NY Federal Reserve Bank,
"Was the New Deal
Contractionary?" |
| October 14 |
Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA, "Equilibrium Default" (with
Iván Werning) |
| October 21 |
V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and
Minneapolis Federal Reserve, "The Behavior of Small and Large Firms over the Business
Cycle" (Larry Christiano & Patrick Kehoe) |
| October 28 |
Robert Barro, Harvard University, "Macroeconomic Crises since 1870"
(with José F. Ursúa) |
| November 4 |
Hal Cole, University of Pennsylvania,
"A Multiplier Approach to
Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance" (with YiLi Chien and
Hanno Lustig) |
| November 11 |
Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University,
"Labor Supply in a Frictional
Labor Market" (with Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Aysegül Sahin) |
| November 18 |
Patrick Kehoe, University of Minnesota,
"Time-Varying Risk, Interest Rates,
and Exchange Rates in General Equilibrium" (with Fernando Alvarez and Andrew
Atkeson) |
| December 2 |
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University PhD
student, "Optimal Redistribution
in an Open Economy" |
| 2007 |
|
| February 27 |
Mark Huggett, Georgetown University, "Sources of Lifetime Inequality"
(with Gustavo Ventura and Amir Yaron) |
| March 6 |
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol,
"A Feasible Equilibrium Search
Model of Individual Wage Dynamics with Experience Accumulation" (with Jesper
Bagger, Francois Fontaine and Jean-March Robin) |
| March 27 |
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton
University, "Spin-offs and
the Market for Ideas" (with Satyajit Chatterjee) |
| April 3 |
Francisco Buera, Northwestern University, "Financial Frictions and the
Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration" (with Yongseok Shin) |
| April 10 |
Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania, "Inflation and
Unemployment: Lagos-Wright meets Mortensen-Pissarides" |
| April 17 |
Michael Reiter, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Endogenous Labor Market Participation
and the Business Cycle" (with Christian Haefke) |
| April 24 |
Narayana Kocherlakota, University of
Minnesota, "Household
Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates" |
| May 1 |
Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto,
"How Important is Human
Capital? A Quantitative Theory Assessment of World Income Inequality" (with
Andrés Erosa, Tatyana Koreshkova) |
| September 11 |
Mike Golosov, MIT, "Decentralized
Trading with Private Information" (with Guido Lorenzoni, Aleh Tsyvinski) |
| September 18 |
Simon Gilchrist, Boston University, "Investment and the Cost of Capital: New
Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market" |
| September 25 |
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "The Timing of Labor Market
Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis" |
| October 2 |
Pieter Gautier, Tinbergen Institute and
Georgetown University, "Structural
Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?" (with
Jose Luis Moraga Gonzales, Ronald Wolthoff) |
| October 9 |
Boyan Jovanovic, NYU, "U.S. Investment 1901-2005:
Incumbents, Entrants, and Q" (with Peter L. Rousseau) |
| October 16 |
Bruce Preston, Columbia University, "Stabilizing Expectations under Monetary
and Fiscal Policy Coordination" (with Stefano Eusepi) |
| October 23 |
Roberto Perotti, University of Bocconi, "In Search of the Transmission
Mechanism of Fiscal Policy" |
| October 30 |
Christian Broda, University of Chicago,
GSB, "Product Creation and
Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications" (with David E. Weinstein) |
| November 6 |
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago, GSB, "Decomposing Lifecycle
Expenditure" (with Mark Aguiar) |
| November 13 |
Ricardo Reis, Princeton University, "Relative Goods' Prices and Pure
Inflation" (with Mark W. Watson) |
| November 27 |
Michael Woodford, Columbia University, "Information-Constrained
State-Dependent Pricing" |
| December 4 |
Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto, "Accounting for the Changing
Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings" (with Iourii Manovskii) |
| 2006 |
|
| February 21 |
Éva Nagypál, Northwestern, "On the Extent of Job-to-Job Transitions" |
| February 28 |
Aleh Tsyvinski, Harvard, "Markets
Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms" (with Daron Acemoglu and
Michael Golosov) |
| March 21 |
Ricardo Caballero, MIT, "An
Equilibrium Model of Global Imbalances and Low Interest Rates" |
| March 28 |
Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and
Radcliffe Institute, "Home Production, Market
Production, and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations" (with Stefania
Albanesi) |
| April 4 |
Diego Comin, New York University, "A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the
Firm and Aggregate Level" (with Sunil Mulani) |
| April 11 |
Robert King, Boston University, "Aggregate Dynamics of Inflation and Real
Activity with Firm-level Productivity Shocks" (with Michael Dotsey and Alexander
L. Wolman) |
| April 18 |
Matthias Doepke, UCLA, "Patience Capital, Occupational Choice, and
the Spirit of Capitalism" (with Fabrizio Zilibotti) |
| April 25 |
Adriano Rampini, Northwestern University,
"New or Used? Investment with
Credit Constraints" |
| September 12 |
Kenneth Burdett, UPENN, "Wage-Tenure Contracts with Heterogeneous
Firms" (with Melvyn Coles) |
| September 19 |
Michael Woodford, Columbia, "Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy with
Near-Rational Expectations" |
| September 26 |
Mark Gertler, NYU, "Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered
Nash Wage Bargaining" (with Antonella Trigari) |
| October 10 |
Nick Bloom, LSE and Stanford, "The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks: Firm
Level Estimation and a 9/11 Simulation" |
| October 17 |
Jordi Gali, U Pompeu Fabra, "A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment"
(with O. Blanchard) |
| October 24 |
Daron Acemoglu, MIT, visiting Yale, "Political Economy and the Structure of
Taxation" (with Mike Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski) |
| November 7 |
Thomas Philippon, NYU Stern, "The y-Theory of Investment" |
| November 14 |
Fatih Guvenen, University of Texas Austin,
"Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased
Technical Change: A Theoretical Analysis of Rising Inequality" (with
Burhanettin Kuruscu) |
| November 28 |
Iourii Manovskii, UPENN, "Occupational Mobility and Wage
Inequality" (with Gueorgui Kambourov) |
| December 5 |
Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto, "Directed Search for Equilibrium Wage-Tenure
Contracts" |
| 2005 |
|
| February 15 |
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University,
"A Unified Bayesian Theory of Equity 'Puzzles'" |
| February 22 |
Cédric Tille, Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, "Financial Integration and the
Wealth Effect of Exchange Rate Fluctuations" |
| March 1 |
Luigi Guiso, visiting University of
Chicago, "Cultural Biases in
Economic Exchange" (with Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales) |
| March 22 |
Harald Uhlig, Humboldt University, "Macroeconomics and Asset Markets: Some
Mutual Implications" |
| March 29 |
Graciela Kaminksy, George Washington
University, "When It Rains, It
Pours: Procyclical Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Policies" (with Carmen
M. Reinhart and Carlos A. Vegh) |
| April 5 |
Helene Rey, Princeton University, "International Financial Adjustment"
(with Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas) |
| April 12 |
Martin Schneider, NYU, "Real Effects of Inflation through the
Redistribution of Nominal Wealth" (with Matthias Doepke) |
| April 19 |
Robert J. Shiller, Yale University, "The Life-Cycle Personal Accounts Proposal for Social
Security: An Evaluation" |
| April 26 |
Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland, "Sudden Stops in a Business Cycle Model with Credit
Constraints: A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin's Q" |
| May 3 |
Jonathan Parker, Princeton University,
"Optimal Expectations" (with Markus K.
Brunnermeier) |
| September 6 |
George Hall, Yale University, "The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary
Changes in Demand" (with Adam Copeland) |
| September 13 |
Stephen Williamson, University of Iowa, "Monetary Policy and Distribution" |
| September 20 |
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin,
"Private Information, Wage Bargaining and
Employment Fluctuations" |
| September 27 |
Gadi Barlevy, Chicago Fed, "Identification of Search Models Using Record Statistics" |
| October 4 |
Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern
University, "Assessing VARs" (with
Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson) |
| October 11 |
William Fuchs, Stanford University, "Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private
Evaluations" |
| October 18 |
Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo,
"The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising
Wage Inequality in the United States" (with Jonathan Heathcote and Giovanni L.
Violante) |
| October 25 |
Giuseppe Moscarini and Bjoern Bruegemann,
Yale University, "Asymmetric
Information and Employment Fluctuations" |
| November 1 |
Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University,
"Optimal Taxation of Risky Capital with Private
Information" |
| November 8 |
Matteo Iacoviello, Boston College, "Household Debt and Income Inequality, 1963-2003" |
| November 15 |
Noah Williams, Princeton University, "Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution
Forecast Targeting" |
| November 29 |
Ricardo Lagos, NYU, "Asset Prices and Liquidity in an Exchange Economy" |
| December 6 |
Mariacristina De Nardi, University of
Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth" (with
Marco Cagetti) |
| 2004 |
|
| February 24 |
Fabio Ghironi, Boston College &
European University Institute, "International
Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms" (with Marc Melitz) |
| March 2 |
Andrew Postlewaite, University of
Pennsylvania, visiting Cowles, "Do Children Learn to Save from Their Parents?" (with John
Knowles) |
| March 23 |
Paul Bergin, UC Davis, "Endogenous Tradability and Macroeconomic
Implications" |
| March 30 |
Christian Hellwig, UCLA, "The Social Cost of Heterogeneous
Information" |
| April 6 |
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago,
"The Cyclical Behavior of
Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence and Theory" |
| April 13 |
Guido Lorenzoni, Princeton University,
"Imperfect Information, Consumers' Expectations and Business Cycles" |
| April 20 |
Amartya Lahiri, NY Fed, "Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal
Exchange Rate Regimes" (with Rajesh Singh and Carlos Vegh) |
| September 7 |
Ricardo Reis, Princeton University, "Inattentive Consumers" |
| September 14 |
Fatih Guvenen, University of Rochester,
"Learning Your Earning: Are
Labor Income Shocks Really Very Persistent?" |
| September 21 |
Mike Golosov, MIT, "Menu Costs and Phillips Curves"
(with Robert Lucas) |
| September 28 |
Mark Bils, University of Rochester, "Measuring Growth from Better and Better Goods" |
| October 5 |
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, UPENN, "A,B,C's (and D)'s for
Understanding VARs" (with Juan Rubio, Atlanta Fed, and Tom Sargent) |
| October 19 |
Allan Drazen, University of Maryland,
"Political Budget Cycles in New
versus Established Democracies" (with Adi Brender) and "Political Budget Cycles Without
Deficits: How to Play Favorites" (with Marcela Eslava) |
| October 26 |
Chris House, University of Michigan, "Temporary Investment Tax Incentives: Theory
with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation" (with Matthew Shapiro) |
| November 9 |
Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University,
"Structural Transformation and
the Deterioration of European Labor Market Outcomes" |
| November 16 |
Frank Schorfheide, UPENN, "On the Fit and Forecasting Performance
of New-Keynesian Models" (with Marco Del Negro, Frank Smets and Raf Wouters) |
| November 30 |
Xavier Gabaix, MIT, "Power Laws and the Mega-Idiosyncratic
Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations" |
| December 2 |
Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Queen's University, "Schumpeterian Restructuring"
(with Patrick Francois) Joint with Macro Lunch |
| December 7 |
Gian Luca Violante, NYU, "Optimal Welfare-to-Work Programs" |
2003 |
|
| February 25 |
John Leahy, NYU, "Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan" |
| March 4 |
Joseph Zeira, Hebrew Univ., visiting
Kennedy School). "Innovations, Patent Races and
Endogenous Growth" |
| March 25 |
Orazio Attanasio, UCL, "Empirical Implications of Limited
Commitment: Evidence from Mexican Villages" (with Pedro Albarran) |
| April 1 |
Francesco Caselli, Harvard, "Dynastic Management" (with Nicola Gennaioli) |
| April 8 |
Hyun Song Shin, LSE, "Beauty Contests, Bubbles and Iterated Expectations in Asset
Markets" (with Franklin Allen and Stephen Morris) Joint with Micro Theory Workshop |
| April 15 |
Andres Velasco, Kennedy School, "Tough Policies, Incredible Policies" |
| April 22 |
Jeff Frankel, Kennedy School, "A Proposed Monetary Regime for Small
Commodity-Exporters: Peg the Export Price ('PEP')" |
| April 24 |
Maurice Obstfeld, UC Berkeley, "The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap"
(with Alan J. Auerbach) |
| May 2 |
Ayse Imrohoroglu, University of Southern
California, "Entry Costs, Intermediation, and
Capital Flows" (with Krishna Kumar) |
| May 6 |
Scott Schuh, Boston Fed, "Inventory Investment and Output Volatility"
(with Owen Irvine) |
| September 9 |
Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "Adjustment is Much Slower than You Think" |
| September 16 |
Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan, "Asset Prices and Exchange Rates" (with Anna
Pavlova) |
| September 23 |
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "Competence Implies Credibility" |
| September 30 |
Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania,
"Search, Money and Capital: A Neoclassical
Dichotomy" (with S. Boragan Aruoba) |
| October 7 |
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania,
"Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption
Inequality? Evidence and Theory" |
| October 14 |
Monika Piazzesi, UCLA, "Housing, Consumption and Asset Pricing" |
| October 21 |
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago,
"Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency:
Selection on Productivity or Profitability?" |
| October 28 |
Andrew Abel, Wharton School at UPENN,
"Investment, Valuation, and Growth Options"
(with Janice Eberly) |
| November 4 |
Urban Jermann, Wharton School at UPENN,
"Using Asset Prices to Measure the Persistence of
the Marginal Utility of Wealth" (with Fernando Alvarez) |
| November 11 |
Julio Rotemberg, Harvard Business School,
"The Benevolence of the Baker: Fair
Pricing under the Threat of Customer Anger" |
| November 18 |
Ivan Werning, MIT, "Optimal Commitment" |
| December 2 |
Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago,
"On the Sluggish Response of Prices to Money in an
Inventory-Theoretic Model of Money Demand" (with Andrew Atkeson and Chris Edmond) |
| December 9 |
George Hall, Yale University, "Price
Discrimination in the Steel Market" (with Hiu Man Chan and John Rust) |
2002 |
|
| February 19 |
Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago
GSB, "Why Don't Prices Rise During Periods of
Peak Demand? Evidence from Scanner Data" |
| February 26 |
Peter Klenow, Federal Reserve Bank if
Minneapolis, "The Variety and Quality of a Nation's
Trade" (with David Hummels) |
| March 26 |
Christian Gollier, University of Toulouse, Time Horizon and the Discount Rate AND Transitory Shocks to GNP and the Consumption-Based Term
Structure of Interest Rates |
| April 1 |
Owen Lamont, University of Chicago, GSB, Evaluating Value Weighting: Corporate Events and Market
Timing |
| April 9 |
Olivier Jeanne, IMF, External Debt Crises
and the International Financial Architecture |
| September 10 |
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Princeton
University, "On the Benefits of Capital
Account Liberalization for Emerging Economies" |
| September 13 |
Sydney Ludvigson, NYU, "Expected Returns and Expected Dividend Growth"
Joint with Finance Workshop |
| September 17 |
Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University,
"When is it Optimal to Abandon a Fixed Exchange
Rate?" (with Carlos Vegh) |
| September 24 |
Oded Galor, Brown University, "Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth" |
| October 1 |
Olivier Jeanne, IMF, "Short-term
Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture" |
| October 8 |
Lee Ohanian, UCLA, "New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great
Depression" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| October 15 |
Tom Krebs, Brown, "Recursive Equilibrium in Endogenous Growth Models with
Incomplete Markets" |
| October 22 |
Aubhik Khan, Philadelphia Fed, "Inventories and the Business Cycle: An Equilibrium
Analysis of (S,s) Policies" |
| October 29 |
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "Aggregate Worker Reallocation and Occupational
Mobility in the US: 1971-2000" (with Francis Vella, European University
Institute). Joint with Labor and Population Workshop |
| November 5 |
Christopher Otrok, Virginia, "A Generalized Volatility Bound for Dynamic Economies" |
| November 15 |
Robert Hall, Stanford, "Dynamics of Corporate Earnings" Joint with Cowles Seminar |
| November 19 |
Laurent Calvet, Harvard, "Idiosyncratic Production Risk, Growth, and the Business
Cycle" |
| December 3 |
Carlos Vegh, UCLA, "On the Non-Monotonic Relation between Interest Rates and the
Exchange Rate" (with Amartya Lahiri) |
| 2001 |
|
| February 27 |
Per Krusell, Rochester, "Temptation
and Taxation" (with Burhanettin Kuruscu and Anthony Smith) |
| March 30 |
Edward Prescott, Minnesota, "Taxes,
Regulations, and Asset Prices" (with Ellen McGrattan) Joint with Cowles Seminar |
| April 3 |
V.V. Chari, Minnesota, "Financial
Crises as Herds" (with Patrick Kehoe) |
| April 10 |
N. Gregory Mankiv, Harvard, "The
Inexorable and Mysterious Tradeoff Between Inflation and Unemployment" |
| April 17 |
In-Koo Cho, Illinois, "Escape
Dynamics" (with Lars Hansen, Chicago and Thomas Sargent, Stanford) |
| April 18 |
Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago,
"Robustness and Pricing with Uncertain Growth" Joint with Cowles Seminar and Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
| September 18 |
Andres Velasco, Harvard JFK School of
Government, "Third Generation Models of Financial Crises" |
| September 25 |
David Laibson, Harvard University, "The 6D Bias and the Equity Premium Puzzle" |
| October 2 |
Nicholas Souleles, University of
Pennsylvania, Wharton School, "Consumer Credit" |
| October 9 |
Ricardo Lagos, New York University, "A
Model of TFP" |
| October 16 |
Mark Huggett, Georgetown University, "Precautionary Wealth Accumulation" |
| October 23 |
Guido Lorenzoni, Princeton, "The Real
Bills vs. Monetary Control" |
| October 30 |
Victor Rios-Rull, University of
Pennsylvania, "A Quantitative Theory of Unsecured Consumer Credit with Risk of
Default" |
| November 13 |
Mark Bils, University of Rochester,
"Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Prices" (with Pete Klenow) |
| November 27 |
Ennio Stacchetti, University of Michigan,
"Sequential Equilibrium in a
Ramsey Tax Model" (with Chris Phelan) |
| December 4 |
Luca Dedola, Bank of Italy,
"Macroeconomics of International Price Discrimination" (with Giancarlo Corsetti) |
| 2000 |
|
| February 8 |
Helene Rey, LSE/Berkeley, "Financial Super-Markets: Size Matters for
Asset Trade" |
| February 22 |
David Laibson, Harvard, "A Debt
Puzzle" |
| February 29 |
Richard Clarida, Columbia University, The
Empirics of Monetary Policy Rules in Open Economies |
| March 21 |
N. Kiyotaki, LSE, "Credit Chains"
(with John Moore) |
| April 4 |
Roland Benabou, Princeton University,
"Self-Confidence: Intrapersonal
Strategies" (with Jean Tirole) Joint with Microeconomic
Theory Workshop AND "Self-Confidenceand
Social Interactions" |
| April 11 |
Marco Bassetto, Northwestern University,
"Game-Theoretic Foundations of
the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level" |
| April 18 |
Eduardo Engel, Chile, "Lumpy
Adjustment and Aggregate Dynamics" |
| April 25 |
Matthew Shapiro, Michigan, "Displaced Capital: A Study of
Aerospace Plant Closings" (with Valerie E. Ramey) |
| May 2 |
Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago,
"Using Asset Prices to Measure
the Cost of Business Cycles" (with Urban Jermann) Figures & Tables |
| September 15 |
Steven Davis, University of Chicago,
"On the Gains to International Trade in Risky Financial Assets" (with Jeremy
Nalewaik and Paul Willen) |
| September 19 |
Pat Kehoe, University of Pennsylvania and
Minneapolis FED, "The Transition to a New Economy" (with Andrew Atkeson) |
| September 26 |
Luis Viceira, Harvard University, "A Multivariate Model of Strategic Asset
Allocation" (with John Y. Campbell and Y. Lewis Chan) Appendix |
| October 3 |
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University,
"Gross and Net Worker Reallocation: Evidence from the NLSY79" (with Francis
Vella) |
| October 10 |
Narayana Kocherlakota, University of
Minnesota, "Societal Benefits of Nominal Bonds" |
| November 1 |
Akihiko Matsui, Tokyo and Georgetown
University, "A Theory of Money with Market Places"' (with Takashi Shimizu) Joint
with Microeconomic Theory |
| November 10 |
Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin at
Madison, "Growth Economics and Reality" (with William Brock, University of
Wisconsin) |
| November 14 |
Thomas Cooley, New York University,
"Limited Enforceability, Heterogeneity and the Macroeconomy" |
1999 |
|
| September 14 |
Robert J. Shiller and Stefano Athanasoulis,
Yale University, "World Income
Components: Some New Results" |
| September 21 |
William Dupor, Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania, "Keynesian
Conundrum: Multiplicity and Time Consistent Stabilization" |
| October 12 |
Skander van den Heuvel, Yale University,
"The Bank Capital Channel of Monetary Policy" |
| October 19 |
Stephen Zeldes, Columbia GSB, "Do the
Rich Save More?" (with Karen Dynan and Jonathan Skinner) |
| October 26 |
Andrew Atkeson, University of Minnesota,
"Volatile Exchange Rates and the
Forward Premium Anomaly: A Segmented Asset Market View" |
| November 2 |
Carlos Végh, UCLA, "Delaying the Inevitable: Optimal Interest
Rate Policy and BOP Crises" (with Amartya Lahiri) |
| November 9 |
Charles Engel, University of Washington and
John H. Rogers, Board of Governors, "Deviations
from the Law of One Price: Sources and Welfare Costs" |
| November 30 |
Jonathan Parker, Princeton University,
"The Consumption Function Revisited" |
| December 7 |
Francesco Giavazzi, Bocconi University,
"The Transmission Mechanism of
Monetary Policy in Europe: Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheets" (with Carlo A.
Favero and Luca Flabbi) |
