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Schedule September 2002 - June 2003

September 30
Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF and MIT)
"Bubbles and Capital Flows"

October 9
Alberto Alesina (Harvard)
"Endogenous Political Institutions" (joint with P. Aghion and F. Trebbi)

October 14
Roberto Rigobon (MIT)
"Capital Controls and Contagion in Latin America" (joint with S. Edwards)

October 21
Skander van de Heuvel (Wharton School)
"The Bank Capital Channel of Monetary Policy"

October 28
Juan Carlos Conesa (Universitat de Barcelona)
"On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax Code" (joint with D. Krueger)

November 11
Carl Johan Dalgradd (University of Copenhagen)
"Why Does Technology Sometimes Regress?" (joint with S. Aiyar)

November 18
Alan Taylor (UC, Davis)
"Sovereign Risk, Credibility and the Gold Standard: 1870-1913 versus 1925-31" (joint with M. Obstfeld)

November 25
Brad DeLong (UC, Berkeley)
"Productivity Growth in the 2000's"

December 2
Laurence J. Kotlikoff (Boston University and NBER)
"Finding a Way out of America's Demographic Dilemma" (joint with K. Smetters)

December 16
Ramon Marimon (UPF & CREI)
"Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability" (joint with T. Cooley and V. Quadrini)
Room: 20.017

March 31
Edward Glaeser (Harvard)
"The Rise of the Regulatory State" (joint with A. Shleifer)

April 7
William Easterly (NYU)
"National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal"

April 28
Jeremy Greenwood (Rochester)
"The Baby Boom and Baby Bust: Some Macroeconomics for Population Economics" (joint with A. Seshadri and G. Vandenbroucke)
Room: 20.175

May 5
Michael Woodford (Princeton)
"Optimal Targeting Rules for Monetary and Fiscal Policy" (joint with P. Benigno)
Room: 20.107

May 12
Christian Haefke (UPF)
"Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes" (joint with M. Ebell)
Room: 20.107

May 19
Roberto Chang (Rutgers University and Banco de España)
"Electoral Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows"
Room: 20.107

May 26
Peter Temin (MIT)
"Mediterranean Trade in Biblical Times"
Room: 20.107

June 2
Diego Puga (University of Toronto)
"Sprawl: A Portrait from Space"
Room: 20.107

June 10 -Tuesday- (jointly organised with the Business, Finance and Management Seminar)
Larry Epstein (Rochester)
"Learning under Ambiguity" (joint with M. Schneider)
Room: 20.021
Time: 09:30

June 16
Susantu Basu (Harvard University)
"Investment Planning Costs and the Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy" (joint with M. Kimball)
Room: 20.107

June 18 -Wednesday- (jointly organised with the Labor and Public Finance Seminar)
John Rust (University of Maryland)
"How Large Are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?" (joint with H. Benítez-Silva and M. Buchinsky)
Room: 20.107
Time: 17:00


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