Econ 310: Macroeconomics


Organized by: Klenow, Piazzesi.

Winter 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 No Seminar (Thanksgiving Recess) 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jennifer La'O, University of Chicago Booth Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions
Download LaO10_31.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Mordecai Kurz, Stanford University A New Keynesian Model with Diverse Beliefs
Download Kurz11_28.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Mark Wright, UCLA The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis
Download Wright11_14.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Giacomo Rondina, UCSD Information Equilibria in Dynamic Economics
Download Rondina10_17.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Yuriy Gorodnichenko, UC Berkeley Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Download Gorodnichenko9_20.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Vincenzo Quadrini, USC Financial Markets and Unemployment
Download Quadrini9_26.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Lee Ohanian, UCLA Cartelization Policies and the International Great Depression
Download Ohanian11_8.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Amir Sufi, Chicago University The Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from the 2009 'Cash for Clunkers" Program
Download Sufi10_18.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Wouter Den Haan, University of Amsterdam Interaction between Demand for Labor and Consumption over the Business Cycle 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jeremy Stein, Harvard University Monetary Policy as Financial-Stability Regulation
Download Stein10_11.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Johannes Stroebel, Stanford University The Impact of Asymmetric Information about Collateral Values in Mortgage Lending
Download Stroebel11_22.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Andy Atkeson, UCLA, visiting Hoover Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy
Download Atkeson10_24.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Matthew Elliott, Stanford University Search with Multilateral Bargaining
Download Elliott11_15.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Alessandra Voena, Stanford University Yours, Mine and Ours: Do Divorce Laws affect the intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples?
Download Voena9_27.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ellen McGrattan, Minneapolis Fed Technology Capital Transfer
Download McGrattan11_7a.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Eric Sims, Notre Dame Permanent and Transitory Technology Shocks and the Behavior of Hours: A Challenge for DSGE Models
Download Sims10_3.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Erik Hurst, Chicago University Measuring Small Business Income and Understanding the Importance of Non-Pecuniary Benefits to Small Business Formation
Download Hurstppr1_10_25.pdf
Download Hurstpp2_10_25.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Nick Bloom, Stanford University Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Download Bloom11_29.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

Spring 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 Jonathan Parker, Northwestern University Valuation, Adverse Selection and Market Collapses 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 NO SEMINAR (EXAM WEEK) 12:00 am
TBA
January 1 Michael McMahon, visiting Stanford University First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics
Download McMahon3_5.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector
Download Sannikov3_8.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Eduardo Engel, Yale University Aggregate Implications of Lumpy Investment: New Evidence and a DSGE Model
Download EENGEL2_25.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jonathan Parker, Northwestern University Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
Download parker2_28.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago Optimal Price setting with Observation and Menu Costs" and "Durable consumption and asset management with transaction and observation costs
Download alveraz2_22_2.pdf
Download alveraz2_22_3.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK) 12:00 am
TBA
January 1 Irina Telyukova, UCSD Precautionary Demand for Money in a Monetary Business Cycle Model
Download Telyukova3_18.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Andy Neumeyer, Universidad Di Tella From Hyperinflation to Stable Prices: Argentina's Evidence on Menu Cost Models
Download NeumeyerMarch12.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Andrew Caplin, NYU (1) A Graph Theoretic Approach to Markets for Indivisible Goods (2) Comparative Statics in Markets for Indivisible Goods 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 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
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Virgiliu Midrigan, NYU and Minneapolis Fed Competition, Markups, and the Gains from Trade
Download Midrigan2_27.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Susanto Basu, Boston University Sector-Specific Technical Change
Download Basu3_1.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Veronica Guerrieri, Chicago Booth School of Business Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium
Download Guerrieri3_15.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

Summer 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets (Note Tuesday Meeting at Noon)
Download Rebelo5_24.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Kjetil Storesletten, Minneapolis Fed Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ariel Burstein, UC Los Angeles International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium
Download Burstein5_21.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ali Shourideh, Wharton Adverse Selection, Reputation and Sudden Collapses in Secondary Loan Markets
Download Shourideh5_7.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Pete Klenow, Stanford University The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
Download Klenow4_9.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Janice Eberly, Northwestern University The Education Risk Premium 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar (Holiday) 12:00 am
TBA
January 1 Thomas Philippon, New York University Household Leverage and the Recession
Download Philippon5_9.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Carl Walsh, UC Santa Cruz Welfare-based optimal monetary policy with unemployment and sticky prices: A linear-quadratic framework 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 NO SEMINAR (Memorial Day) 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Viral Acharya, New York University Counterparty Risk Externality: Centralized Versus Over-the-Counter Markets
Download Acharya4_11.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Julia Thomas, Ohio State Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity
Download Thomas5_14.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Andrea Eisfeldt, UC Los Angeles The Joint Dynamics of Internal and External Finance
Download Eisfeldt4_16.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Pablo Kurlat, Stanford University De-Regulating Markets for Financial Information
Download Kurlat5_16.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Gary Gorton, Yale Univesity Collateral Crises
Download Gorton3_28.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Javier Bianchi, Wisconsin & NYU Efficient Bailouts?
Download Bianchi4_30.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion.
Download Vayanos April 2 macro.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University Is There A Trade-Off Between Inflation and Output Stabilization?
Download Primiceri4_25.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ross Levine, Brown University The Private Benefits of Controlling Complex Bank Holding Companies
Download Levine5_2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place