Econ 310: Macroeconomics


Organized by: Amador, Hall, Jaimovich, Klenow, Kurz, Staiger, Taylor, Tertilt*

Winter 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
December 31 Bruce Preston, Columbia University Expectations, Learning and Business Cycle Fluctuatios
Download prestonSept24.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Rajan Raghuram, University of Chicago GSB Fear of Fire Sales and the Credit Freeze
Download Raghuram11_9.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Josie Smith, Stanford University The Term Structure of Money Market Spreads during the Financial Crisis 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Mark Bils, University of Rochester TBA 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago Catching Up and Falling Behind
Download stokey10_26.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Hanno Lustig, UCLA IT, Corporate Payouts, and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation
Download LustigOct22.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Carlos Carvalho, FRB New York Sectoral Price Facts in a Sticky-Price Model 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Juan Carlos Hallack, Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires Productivity, Quality and Exporting Behavior Under Minimum quality Requirements
Download HallakjDec3.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Marina Azzimonti, University of Texas Analyzing the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Download AzzimontiNov18.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Why Don't Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures and Securitization
Download Willen11_30.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Anamaria Pieschacon, Stanford University Oil Booms and Their Impact Through Fiscal Policy 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Yaniv Yedid-Levi, Stanford University Sectoral Employment Comovement 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Chris Sims, Princeton University Rational Inattention and Monetary Economics
Download Sims11_2.pdf
Download Sims11_2_paper2.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Doireann Fitzgerald, Stanford University Exchange Rates and Producer Prices: Evidence From Micro-Data 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Michele Tertilt, Stanford Unversity Women's Liberation: What's In It for Men?
Download TeriltOct29b.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Laura Veldkamp, New York University Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania How Do Households Respond to Income Shocks?
Download Krueger10_5.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 No Seminar (Thanksgiving Week) 4:00 pm
December 31 Sydney Ludvigson, NYU The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium
Download Ludvigson9_28.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 4:00 pm

Spring 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
December 31 No Seminar 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Irina Telyukova, UCSD Precautionary Demand for Money in a Monetary Business Cycle Model
Download Telyukova3_18.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Daron Acemoglo, MIT When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation? Strongly Labor Saving Technological Progress
Diversity and Technological Progress

Download Acemoglu3_4.pdf
Download AcemogluPaper2Mar4.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 4:00 pm

Summer 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
December 31 Philippe Aghion, Harvard University Environment and Directed Technical Change
Download Aghion4_22NEWagain.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Gita Gopinath, Harvard University Estimating the Border Effect: Some New Evidence
Download Gopinath5_27.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks
Download Rubio-Ramirez4_29newpaper.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Mark Gertler A Model of Unconventional Monetary Policy
Download Gertler5_13.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia Risk Allocation, Debt Fuelled Expansion and Financial Crisis
Download Beaudry6_3_09final.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University Learning the Wealth of Nations
Download Primiceri5_6.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland Private Equity and Employment
Download Haltiwanger4_1.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Mike Woodford Credit Frictions and Optimal Monetary Polcy
Download Woodford4_15.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Thomas Philippon The Evolution of the US Financial Industry from 1860 to 2007: Theory and Evidence
Download Philippon5_20.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 4:00 pm

2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place