CREI Seminar

Schedule October 1999 - June 2000

October 13
Gabriel Sánchez (UPF)
"Occupational Choice, Lobby Formation, and the Pattern of Protection"

October 27
Monique Ebell (UPF)
"Why Are Recessions More Volatile than Expansions? An Explanation and a Foundation for GARCH Forecasting"

November 3
Xavier Freixas (UPF)
"Money and Corporate Finance"

November 10
Lluïsa Fuster (UPF)
"Social Security in a Model with Altruistic Bequests and Differential Lifespan Uncertainty and Ability" (joint with A. Imrohoroglu and S. Imrohoroglu)

November 17
Frank Smets (European Central Bank)
"What Horizon for Price Stability"

November 24
Teresa Garcia-Milà (UPF)
"Fiscal Decentralization Policies and Sub-National Government Debt in Evolving Federations"

December 1
Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia)
"A Simple Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Trade off between Fixed Floating Exchange Rates"

March 22
Gary Hansen (UCLA)
"Malthus to Solow"

March 29
Claudio Michelachi (CEMFI)
"Business Creation and the Stock Market" (joint with J. Suárez)

April 5
Thierry Verdier (CERAS, DELTA and CEPR)
"Monopolies Life Cycle, Bureaucratization and Schumpeterian Growth" (joint with D. Martimort)

April 12
Michel Juliard (CEPREMAP)
"A Higher-Order Taylor Expansion Approach to Simulation of Stochastic Forward-Looking Models with an Application to a Nonlinear Phillips Cuver Model" (joint with F. Collard)

April 26
José Campa (Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU and CEMFI)
"An Options-Based Analysis of Emerging Market Exchange Rate Expectations: Brazil's Real Plan, 1994-1999" (joint with K. Chang and J. Refalo)

May 3
Pedro Teles (Banco de Portugal and Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
"Gaps and Triangles"

June 7
Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
"Twin Peaks or Lake Wobegon? Testing Hypotheses on the Dynamics of World Income Distribution" (joint with A. Onatski and James Stock)

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