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Coordinator: Gino Gancia
Day: Mondays at 13:10
Venue: Room: 20.173


Schedule September 2005 - June 2006

September 26
Diego Puga (University of Toronto, CREI and UPF)
"Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng: The Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage-Countries" (joint with D. Trefler)

October 3
Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez (Atlanta FED)
"A, B, C's (and D)'s for Understanding VARs" (joint with J. Fernández-Villaverde and T. Sargent)

October 10
Alessandra Bonfiglioli (CREI)
"Equities and Inequality"

October 17
Philippe Bacchetta
(Study Center Gerzensee and CREI)
"Rational Inattention: A Solution to the Forward Discount Puzzle"
(joint with E. van Wincoop)

October 24
Gianluca Benigno (LSE)
"Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy for a Small Open Economy" (joint with B. De Paoli)

November 14
Felix Kubler (University of Mannheim)
"Leverage, Incomplete Markets and Crises" (joint with J. Geanakoplos)

November 21
Marc Giannoni (Columbia GSB)
"DSGE Models in a Data-Rich Environment" (joint with J. Boivin)

November 28
Alejandro Cuñat (University of Essex)
"Labor Market Flexibility and Comparative Advantage" (joint with M. Melitz)

December 12
George-Marios Angeletos (MIT)
"Efficient Use of Information and Welfare Analysis in Economies with Complementarities and Asymetric Information" (joint with A. Pavan)

February 27
Martin Weitzman
(Harvard)
"Risk, Uncertainty, and Asset-Pricing 'Antipuzzles'"

March 13
Gilles Saint-Paul (University of Toulouse)
"Research Cycles" (joint with Y. Bramoullé)

March 20
Andrei Levchenko (IMF)
"Trade, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Institutions" (joint with Q. Do)

March 27
Volker Wieland (University of Frankfurt)
"Insurance Policies for Monetary Policy in the Euro Area" (joint with K. Küster)

April 3
Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bologna and LSE)
"Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Cost of Non-Europe" (joint with M. del Gatto and G. Mion)

April 24
Mark Wright (Minneapolis FED and Stanford University)
"Establishment Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy" (joint with E. Rossi-Hansberg)

May 8
Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
"Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts and the Pattern of Trade"

May 15
Marcelo Soto (IAE)
"The Causal Effect of Education on Aggregate Income"

May 16 (Tuesday)
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Berkeley)
"International Financial Adjustment" (joint with H. Rey)
Room: 40.113
Time: 14.00

May 22
Philippe Aghion (Harvard)
"Exploiting States' Mistakes to Identify the Causal Impact of Higher Education on Growth" (joint with L. Boustan, C. Hoxby and J. Vandenbussche)

May 29
Gregory Clark
(University of California, Davis)
"The Interest Rate in the Very Long Run: 2000 BC-2000 AD"

June 12
Christian Broda (University of Chicago)
"Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence" (joint with N. Limao and D. E. Weinstein)

June 19
Pol Antràs (Harvard)
"Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets" (joint with M. A. Desai and C. F. Foley)

 


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