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Coordinator: Antonio Ciccone
Day: Mondays at 13:10
Venue: Room 20.237 (Jaume I building)


Schedule September 2003 - June 2004

September 29
Ramon Caminal (IAE)
"A Walrasian Theory of Employment Protection in the Presence of Experimentation Rents"

October 6
Joan M. Esteban (IAE)
"The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments" (joint with M. Cervellati and L. Kranich)

October 13
David L. Laibson (Harvard)
"Instantaneous Gratification" (joint with C. Harris)
Room: 20.055

October 20
Olivier Blanchard (MIT)
"The Decline of Rents, and the Rise and Fall of European Unemployment" (joint with T. Philippon)
Room: 20.055

October 27
Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
"The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence and Theory"
Room: 20.055

November 3
Diego Puga (University of Toronto)
"Knowledge Creation and Control in Organizations"
(joint with D. Trefler)

November 10
Mathias Thoening (Delta, CERAS)
"From Flexibility to Insecurity: How vertical Separation Amplifies Firm Level Uncertainty" (joint with D. Thesmar)

November 17
Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF)
"Economic Growth with Bubbles"

November 24
Ramon Marimon (UPF)
"Nominal Debt as a Burden on Monetary Policy" (joint with J. Díaz-Giménez, G. Giovannetti and P. Teles)

December 1
José de Gregorio (Banco Central de Chile)
"Growth and Adjustment in East Asia and Latin America" (joint with J. Lee)

12th January
Francesco Caselli (Harvard)
"On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict" (joint with W. J. Coleman II)
Room: 20.055

February-March 2004 there will be irregular meetings of the CREI seminar due to the Job Market

February 2
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (LSE)
"A Model of Job and Worker Flows" (joint with R. Lagos)

March 8
Toni Braun (University of Tokio)
"Saving and Interest Rates in Japan: Whay they Have Fallen and Why Will they Remain Low" (joint with D. Ikeda and D. Jones)

March 15
Jesus Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
"Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium Approach" (joint with C. Alonso and J. Galdón)

April 19
Michael Burda (Humboldt University)
"Preferences for Rigid versus Individualized Wage Setting in Search Economies with Frictions" (joint with T. Boeri)

April 26
Fabrizio Zilibotti (IIES, Stockholm University)
"On the Role of Commitment for Tax Dynamics" (joint with J. Hassler, P. Krusell and K. Storesletten)
Room: 20.051

May 3
Narayana Kocherlakota (Stanford University)
"Zero Expected Wealth Taxes: A Mirrlees Approach to Dynamic Optimal Taxation"
Room: 20.051

May 10
Antonio Fatas (INSEAD)
"The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Rules in the US States" (joint with I. Mihov)
Room: 20.017

May 17
Mark Gertler (NYU)
"Medium Term Business Cycles" (joint with D. Comin)
Room: 20.051

June 7
Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF)
"Technology Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations: How Well Does the RBC Model Fit Postwar U.S. Data?" (joint with P. Rabanal)
Room: 20.017

June 14
Adriana Kugler (UPF)
"Coca, Conflict and Rural Income: Evidence from Colombia" (joint with J. Angrist)
Room: 20.017

June 21
Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
"Non-Balanced Endogenous Growth" (joint with V. Guerrieri)
Room: 20.023



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