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Macroeconomics Workshop


Coordinator: Jordi Galí
Day: Tuesdays at 14.00
Venue: Room 40.113 (Roger de Llúria building)


Schedule October 2006- July 2007

 

September 26 -jointly organised with the CREI Seminar-
Bruce Preston (Columbia University)
"Incomplete Markets, Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Dynamics" (joint with M. Roca)

October 3
Jordi Galí (CREI and UPF)
"New Keynesian Model with Unemployment" (joint with O. Blanchard)

October 10
Anton Nakov (UPF)
"Monetary Policy and the Price of Oil"

October 17
Ricardo Nunes (UPF)
"Loose Commiment" (joint with D. Debortoli)

October 24
Francesc Ortega (UPF)
"Credible Redistributive Policies with Mobile Workers; the Case of the US States" (joint with R. Armenter)

October 31
José Antonio Dorich (UPF)
"Resurrecting the Role of Real Money Balance Effects"

November 7
Pau Rabanal (La Caixa)
"Consumption, Hours, and Government Spending" (joint with D. López-Salido)

November 14
Fernando Broner (CREI and UPF)
"New Results on Sovereign Risk" (joint with A. Martin and J. Ventura)

November 21
Andrea Caggese (UPF)
"Entrepreneurial Risk, Investment and Innovation"

November 28
Gianni de Nicolò (IMF and Georgetown University)
"Economic Integration and Financial Stability: A European Perspective" (joint with A. Tieman)

December 5
Enriqueta Camps (UPF)
"Globalization and Wage Inequality in South and East Asia, and Latin America: A Gender Approach" (joint with M. Camou, S. Maubrigades and N. Mora-Sitja)

December 12
Begoña Domínguez (University of Auckland)
"The Time Consistency of Public Debt and Institutional Restrictions on the Level of Debt"

December 19
Matteo Iacoviello (Boston College)
"The Role of Housing Collateral in an Estimated Two-sector Model of the US Economy" (joint with S. Neri)

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February 13
Harald Fadinger (UPF)
"Development Accounting in a Heckscher-Ohlin World"

February 20
Diego Puga (UPF and CREI)
"Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa" (joint with N. Nunn)

March 6
Fabio Canova (ICREA, UPF and CREI)
"VARs and the Great Moderation"
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March 20
Nicola Gennaioli (IIES and CREI)
"Judicial Fact Discretion" (joint with A. Shleifer)

March 27
Laura Mayoral (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica)
"The Law of Conservation of Persistence: It may be neither Created nor Destroyed (through the Aggregation Process)"

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April 17
Luca Gambetti (UAB)
"On the Sources of the Great Moderation" (joint with J. Galí)

April 24
Victoria Reyes-García (ICREA, UAB and University of Brandeis)
"The Origins of Monetary Income Inequality: Patience, Human Capital, and Division of Labor" (with R. Godoy, T. Huanca, W. Leonard, T. McDade, S. Tanner and V. Vadez)

May 8
Albert Marcet (IAE)
"In Search of a Theory of Debt Management" (joint with E. Faraglia and A. Scott)

May 15
Davide Debortoli (UPF)
"Political Disagreement, Lack of Commitment and the Level of Debt" (joint with R. Nunes)

May 22
Eva Cárceles (SUNY at Stony Brook and IAE)
"Endogenous Trading Constraints with Incomplete Markets" (joint with A. Abraham)

May 29
Clàudia Canals (La Caixa)
"Trade Patterns, Trade Balances, and Idiosyncratic Shocks" (joint with X. Gabaix, J. M. Vilarrubia and D. Weinstein)

June 5
Alexis Anagnostopoulos (SUNY at Stony Brook)
"Firm Financial Policy" (joint with E. Cárceles-Poveda and A. Marcet)

June 12
Gal Hochman (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
"The Gradual Formation of International Trade Agreements" (with R. Smorodinsky)

June 19
Jordi Galí (CREI and UPF)
"The Macroeconomics Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Why are the 2000s so Different from the 1970s?" (joint with O. Blanchard)

June 26
Tommy Sveen (Norges Bank and CREI)
"Inflation and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited"


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