Macroeconomics Workshop
| Coordinator:
|
Albert Marcet |
| Day: |
Tuesdays at 14.00 |
| Venue: |
Room 40.113 (Roger de Llúria building) |
Schedule September 2005- July 2006
September 20
Melvyn Coles (UAB)
"Optimal Unemployment Insurance in
a Matching Equilibrium: The Role of Congestion and Thick Market Externalities"
Room: 40.213
September 27
Luca Gambetti (UPF)
"Technology Shocks and the Time-Varying
Dynamics of Hours Worked"
October 4
Nicoletta Batini (IMF)
"Model Uncertainty and the Gains
from Coordinating Monetary Rules" (joint with A. Justiniano,
P. Levine and J. Pearlman)
October 11
Jaume Ventura (CREI and UPF)
"Anonymous Markets and Sovereign Risk" (joint with F. Broner)
October 18
Thijs van Rens (CREI and UPF)
"Income Risk and Consumption Inequality"
(joint with G. Primiceri)
October 25
Gino Gancia (CREI and UPF)
"On Globalization and the Growth
of Governments" (joint with P. Epifani)
November 15
Francesc Ortega (UPF)
"Labor Mobility and the Size of Governments" (joint with R. Armenter)
November 29
Alberto Martin (CREI and UPF)
"Markets & Contracts"
December 13
Joachim Voth (UPF and CREI)
"Betting on Hitler-The Value of Political
Connections in Nazi Germany" (joint with T. Ferguson)
December 20
Javier Díaz-Giménez (Univ. Carlos III)
"Flat Tax Reforms in the US: A Boon
for the Income Poor" (joint with J. Pijoan-Mas)
* * *
January-February 2006, Recruiting
season
January 31
Pedro Teles (Banco de Portugal)
"Monetary Policy with Single Instrument
Feedback Rules" (joint with B. Adao and I. Correia)
March 21
Fabio Canova (ICREA-UPF and CREI)
"On the Robust Effect of Technology
Shocks on Hours Worked and Output" (joint with D. López
Salido and C. Michelacci)
March 28
Albert Marcet (IAE, UPF and CREI)
"Polarization in an Equilibrium Model with Incomplete Markets"
April 4
Jordi Caballé (UAB)
"Consumption References and Altruism"
April 18
Jaume Ventura (CREI and UPF)
"Bubbles, Investment and Productivity Growth"
April 25
Niko Wolf (FU Berlin and UPF)
"Multiple Equilibria in Industrial
Location: Evidence from German Airports" (joint with S. Redding
and D. Sturn)
May 2
Rosemarie Nagel (UPF)
"It is Hobbes, not Rousseau: An Experiment
on Social Insurance" (joint with A. Cabrales and J. V. Rodríguez-Mora)
May 9
Alessandra Bonfiglioli (CREI and UPF)
"Financial Integration, Productivity and Capital Accumulation"
May 15 (Monday)
Marcelo Soto (IAE)
"The Causal Effect of Education on
Aggregate Income"
Room: 20.173
Time: 13.10
May 16
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Berkeley)
"International Financial
Adjustment" (joint with H. Rey)
May 23 -cancelled-
Thijs van Rens (CREI and UPF)
"Wage Rigidity and Job Creation"
May 30
Valerie Ramey (UC San Diego)
"A Century of Work and Leisure"
(joint with N. Francis)
June 6
Michael Reiter (UPF)
"Sharing Demographyc Risk"
June 13
Timothy Cogley (UC Davis)
"The Market Price of Risk and the
Equity Premium: A Legacy of the Great Depression?" (joint with
T. J. Sargent)
June 20
Xavier Freixas (UPF)
"The Role of Interbank Markets
in Monetary Policy: A Model with Rationing" (joint with J. Peres
Jorge)
June 27
Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern)
"The Time Varying Volatility
of Macroeconomic Fluctuation" (joitn with A. Justiniano)
July 11
Philip Sauré (European University Institute)
"The 'Origin-Margin', the Rise of
Trade Volumes, and Per Capita Income"
Preliminary schedule
for 2006-2007
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