Econ 310: Macroeconomics


Organized by: Klenow, Piazzesi.

Winter 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
December 31 Ellen McGrattan, Minneapolis Fed Technology Capital Transfer
Download McGrattan11_7a.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Edison Yu, Stanford University TBA 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Zheng Michael Song, University of Chicago Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
Download SongNov26.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Ricardo Reis, Columbia University The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Wouter Den Haan, University of Amsterdam Interaction between Demand for Labor and Consumption over the Business Cycle 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Matthew Elliott, Stanford University Search with Multilateral Bargaining
Download Elliott11_15.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Johannes Stroebel, Stanford University The Impact of Asymmetric Information about Collateral Values in Mortgage Lending
Download Stroebel11_22.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Andy Atkeson, UCLA, visiting Hoover Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy
Download Atkeson10_24.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Eric Sims, Notre Dame Permanent and Transitory Technology Shocks and the Behavior of Hours: A Challenge for DSGE Models
Download Sims10_3.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Nir Jaimovich, Duke University The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries
Download Jaimovich12_3.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Vincenzo Quadrini, USC Financial Markets and Unemployment
Download Quadrini9_26.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Josie Smith, NYU Risk Premia in Repo Markets 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Jennifer La'O, University of Chicago Booth Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions
Download LaO10_31.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 No Seminar (Thanksgiving Recess) 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Alwyn Young, London School of Economics TBA 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Mordecai Kurz, Stanford University A New Keynesian Model with Diverse Beliefs
Download Kurz11_28.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Giacomo Rondina, UCSD Information Equilibria in Dynamic Economics
Download Rondina10_17.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Mark Wright, UCLA The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis
Download Wright11_14.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 4:00 pm

Spring 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
December 31 Valentin Haddad, Princeton University Concentrated Ownership and Equilibrium Asset Prices 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 No Seminar 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Jonathan Parker, Northwestern University Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
Download parker2_28.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Eduardo Engel, Yale University Aggregate Implications of Lumpy Investment: New Evidence and a DSGE Model
Download EENGEL2_25.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 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
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Jonathan Parker, Northwestern University Valuation, Adverse Selection and Market Collapses 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Michael Woodford, Columbia University Efficient Perceptual Coding and Reference-Dependent Valuations
Download Woodford3_11.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Andrew Caplin, NYU (1) A Graph Theoretic Approach to Markets for Indivisible Goods (2) Comparative Statics in Markets for Indivisible Goods 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Cancelled 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Susanto Basu, Boston University Sector-Specific Technical Change
Download Basu3_1.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 Veronica Guerrieri, Chicago Booth School of Business Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium
Download Guerrieri3_15.pdf
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 4:00 pm

Summer 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
December 31 Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets (Note Tuesday Meeting at Noon)
Download Rebelo5_24.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Francesco Bianchi, Duke University Dormant Shocks and Fiscal Virtue
Download Bianchi4_29.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 No Seminar- Memorial Day 4:00 pm
TBA
December 31 Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago Price setting with menu cost for multi-product firms (joint paper with Francesco Lippi)(Appendix: Synchronization of Price Changes)
Download Alvarez4_22.pdf
Download Alvarez4_22apendex.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Eric Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound On Medium-and Longer-Term Interest Rates
Download Williams4_8.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Janice Eberly, Northwestern University The Education Risk Premium 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 No Seminar (Holiday) 4:00 pm
TBA
December 31 Thomas Philippon, New York University Household Leverage and the Recession
Download Philippon5_9.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Carl Walsh, UC Santa Cruz Welfare-based optimal monetary policy with unemployment and sticky prices: A linear-quadratic framework 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA TBA 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Viral Acharya, New York University Counterparty Risk Externality: Centralized Versus Over-the-Counter Markets
Download Acharya4_11.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Mark Bils, University of Rochester How Sticky Wages in Existing Jobs and Affect Hiring
Download Bils5_20b.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Robert Shimer, University of Chicago Dynamic Adverse Selection 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Pablo Kurlat, Stanford University De-Regulating Markets for Financial Information
Download Kurlat5_16.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Gary Gorton, Yale Univesity Collateral Crises
Download Gorton3_28.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Ivan Werning, MIT Fiscal Unions
Download Werning5_6.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Mike Golosov, Princeton University Taxation, redistribution, and debt with aggregate
Download Golosov4_1.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University Is There A Trade-Off Between Inflation and Output Stabilization?
Download Primiceri4_25.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 Ross Levine, Brown University The Private Benefits of Controlling Complex Bank Holding Companies
Download Levine5_2.pdf
4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351
December 31 4:00 pm

2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
December 31 Someone Something, Stanford Very interesting 4:00 pm
Econ Bldg 351