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CREI Seminar


Coordinator: Fernando Broner
Day: Mondays 13:00-14:30
Venue: Conference Room (23.S05), Wellington Building


Schedule October 2008 - June 2009

September 22
Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto)
"Improved Acces to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity ... for Some Plants" (with A. Lileeva)

September 29
Refet Gürkaynak (Bilkent University)
"The Convergence and Anchoring of Yield Curves in the Euro Area" (with M. Ehrmann, M. Fratzscher and E. Swanson)

October 6
Ana Fernandes (University of Bern)
"Finance and Competition" (with H. Dellas)

October 13
Ethan Kaplan (IIES Stockholm)
"Industrial Policy: Information and Coordination" (with F. Zilibotti)

October 20
Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)
"Corporate Fraud, Governance and Auditing" (joint with G. Immordino)

October 27
Ellen McGrattan
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
"Technology Capital and the US Current Account" (joint with E. Prescott)

November 3
Hélène Rey (LBS)
"Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope" (joint with H. Hau)

November 10
Daniel Sturm (LSE)
"Political Competition Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the United States" (joint with T. Besley and T. Persson)

November 17
Giancarlo Corsetti (EUI)
"The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy" (joint with L. Dedola and S. Leduc)
Room: 23.404 (Wellington Building, fourth floor)

November 24
Cristina Arellano
(University of Minnesota)
"Firm Dynamics and Financial Development" (joint with Y. Bai and J. Zhang)

December 1
Kiminori Matsuyama
(Northwestern University)
"Endogenous Investment Technologies and Patterns of International Capital Flows"

December 15
Matthias Doepke (UCLA)
"The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis" (joint with M. Hazan and Y. Maoz)


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January 12
Ricardo Reis (Columbia University)
"Relative Goods' Prices, Pure Inflation, and the Phillips Correlation" (joint with Mark Watson)

March 2
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University)
"Liquidity, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy" (joint with J. Moore)

March 9
Toni Braun (The University of Tokyo)
"The Quantitative Effects of Monetary Aggregate Targeting in a Zero Interest Rate Environment: Results from Japan" (joint with T. Oda)

March 16
Dirk Niepelt (Study Center Gerzensee)
"Debt Maturity without Commitment"

March 23
Giuseppe Bertola (Università di Torino)
"Reforms, Finance, and Current Accounts" (joint with A. Lo Prete)

March 30
Orazio Attanasio (UCL)
"Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Creidt Constraints" (joint with K. Kaufmann)

Wednesday, April 1-Special CREI Seminar-
Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard)
"Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-through" (joint with G. Gopinath and R. Rigobon)
Time: 13.00
Room: 23.404 (CREI seminar room, fourth floor)


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April 20
Mark Aguiar (University of Rochester)
"Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation" (joint with M. Amador)

April 27
Juan Carlos Conesa (UAB)
"Generational Policy and the Macroeconomic Measurement of Tax Incidence" (joint with C. Garriga)

May 4
Iván Werning (MIT)
"The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation" (joint with E. Farhi)

May 18
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
"Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks" (joint with P. Guerrón-Quintana, J. F. Rubio-Ramírez and M. Uribe)

May 25
Pol Antràs (Harvard)
"Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective" (joint with R. Caballero)

June 8
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
"When is the Government Spending Multiplier Large?" (joint with L. Christiano and S. Rebelo)

Tuesday, June 9-Special CREI Seminar-
Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU)
"Accounting for Plant-level Misallocation"
Time: 13.00
Room: 23.404 (CREI Seminar Room, fourth floor)

June 15
Mark Wright (UCLA)
"Recovery Before Redemption: A Theory of Delays in Sovereign Debt Renegotiations" (joint with D. Benjamin)

 



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