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Coordinator: Gino Gancia
Day: Mondays at 13:10
Venue: Room 20.061 (Jaume I building)
Starting January 2005: Room 20.057


Schedule September 2004 - June 2005

September 27
Julia Thomas (University of Minnesota)
"Inventories and the Business Cycle: An Equilibrium Analysis of (S,s) Policies"

October 4
Joseph Zeira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Money and the Size of Transactions"

October 11
Etsuro Shioji (Yokohama National University)
"Technology Shocks and Work Hours in US, Europe and Japan: Evidence from a New VAR Approach" (joint with R. A. Braun)

October 18
Jon Temple (Bristol University)
"Dual Labour Markets in Developing Countries" (joint with M. Satchi)

October 25 (jointly organized with the Economic and Business History Seminar)
Chris Meissner (Cambridge University)
"Globalization and Democracy, 1870-2000" (joint with J. E. López-Córdova)

November 8
David López-Salido (Bank of Spain)
"Optimal Monetary Policy with Endogenous Capital Accumulation"

November 15
Thomas Philippon (NYU)
"Government Deficits and Interest Rates: A No-Arbitrage Structural VAR Approach" (joint with Q. Dai)

November 22
Florin Bilbiie (Oxford)
"Limited Asset Markets Participation Inverts the Taylor Principle"
"The Great Inflation, Limited Asset Markets Participation and Aggregate Demand: FED Policy was better than ou Think"

November 29
Paul Bergin (UC, Davis)
"Tradability, Productivity, and Understanding International Economic Integration"

December 13
Ricardo Caballero (MIT)
"Insurance and Reserves Management in a Model of Sudden Stops" (joint with S. Panageas)

December 15 (Please note different day - Wednesday)
Kiminory Matsuyama (Northwestern University)
"The Good, The Bad. and the Ugly: An Inquiry into the Causes and Nature of Credit Cycles"
"Credit Traps and Credit Cycles"

January 17
Roberto Perotti (IGIER-Bocconi)
"Public Investment: Another (Different) Look"

 

February-March 2005, Job Market Seminars' Schedule

 

March 7
Raquel Fernández (NYU and LSE)
"Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility" (joint with A. Fogli)

March 14
Ramon Marimon (UPF-CREI)
"Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitments" (joint with V. Quadrini)

April 4
Marco Del Negro (FRB Atlanta)
"On the Fit and Forecasting Performance of New Keynesian Models" (joint with F. Schorfheide, F. Smets and R. Wouters)

April 11
Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
"Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary" (joint with M. Weidenmier)

April 18
Doireann Fitzgerald (UC, Santa Cruz)
"A Gravity View of Exchange Rate Disconnect"

April 25
Manuel Amador (Stanford)
"Commitment versus Flexibility" (joint with G. Angeletos and I. Werning)

May 2
Mark Bils (Rochester University)
"Deducing Price Markups for Stockout Behavior"

May 9
Hanno Lustig (UCLA)
"The Returns of Human Capital: Good News on Wall Street is Bad News on Main Street" (joint with S. van Nieuwerburgh)

May 23
Anne Sibert (Birbeck College)
"Is Central Bank Transparency Desirable?"

May 30
John Hassler (IIES, Stockholm University)
"The Dynamics of Government" (joint with P. Krusell, K. Storesletten and F. Zilibotti)

June 6
Juan Carlos Conesa (UPF)
"Taxing Capital Income: Not a Bad Idea After All" (joint with S. Kitao and D. Krueger)

June 13
Bernard Dumas (INSEAD)
"What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility?" (joint with A. Kurshev and R. Uppal)

June 20
Thomas Laubach (Federal Reserve Board and OECD)
"New Evidence on the Interest Rate Effects of Budget Deficits and Debt"



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