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CREI Seminar


Coordinator: Fernando Broner
Day: Mondays 13:10-14:40
Venue: Conference Room (23.S05), Wellington Building


Schedule October 2007 - June 2008

October 1
Jean Imbs (HEC Lausanne)
"Aggregating Phillips Curves" (joint with E. Jondeau and F. Pelgrin)

October 8
Thomas Philippon (NYU)
"Financiers vs. Engineers: Should the Financial Sector be Taxed or Subsidized?"

October 16 (please note this is a Tuesday)
Philip Lane (IIIS-Trinity College, Dublin)
"Financial Exchange Rates and International Currency Exposures" (joint with J. Shambaugh)
Time: 14.00
Room: 40.113

October 22
Gianluca Clementi (NYU)
"Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development" (joint with R. Castro and G. MacDonald)

October 29
Pietro Reichlin
(Luiss Guido Carli, Rome)
"Infinite-Maturity Public Debt and the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level" (joint with G. Bloise)

November 5
Bernardo Guimaraes (LSE)
"Currency Crises Triggers: Sunspots or Thresholds?"

November 12
Wouter Den Haan (University of Amsterdam)
"The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle" (joint with F. Covas)

November 26
Rubén Segura Cayuela (Banco de España)
"Uncertainty and Entry into Export Markets" (joint with J. Vilarrubia)

December 3
Kiminori Matsuyama
(Northwestern University)
"Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections"

December 10
Julio Rotemberg
(Harvard Business School)
"Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model"

December 17
Guido Lorenzoni (MIT)
"Wall Street and Silicon Valley" (joint with J. M. Angeletos)

February 27-please note this is a Wednesday-
Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of California, Berkeley)
"Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India" (joint with P. J. Klenow)

March 10
Dimitri Vayanos (LSE)
"Bond Supply and Excess Bond Return" (joint with R. Greenwood)

March 31
Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
"A 'Chinese' Model of Economic Growth" (joint with Z. Song and K. Storesletten)

April 7
Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University)
"Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment" (joint with O. Itskhoki)

April 14
Albert Marcet (IAE-CSIC and CREI)
"Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes" (joint with K. Greulich)

April 21
Alwyn Young (LSE)
"In Sorrow to Bring Forth Children: Fertility amidst the Plague of HIV"

April 28
Antonella Trigari (Università Bocconi)
"An Estimated Monetary DSGE Model with Unemployment and Staggered Nominal Wage Bargaining" (joint with L. Sala and M. Gertler)

May 5
Marc Melitz (Princeton University)
"The Dynamics of Firm-Level Adjustment to Trade Liberalization" (joint with J. Costantini)

May 26-CREI Seminar Room, 23.404-
Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU)
"Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models" (joint with O. Kryvtsov)

June 2
Gianluca Violante (NYU)
"Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment" (joint with A. Hornstein and P. Krusell)

June 9-Room 20.059-
Fernando Álvarez (University of Chicago)
"Financial Innovation and the Transactions Demand for Cash" (joint with F. Lippi)



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