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CREI Barcelona Lectures in Macroeconomics
   

Macroeconomics Workshop


Coordinator: Jordi Galí
Day: Tuesdays at 14:00
Venue: CREI Seminar Room (23.404)


Schedule September 2007- July 2008

 

September 18
José Antonio Dorich (UPF)
"The Welfare Losses of Price Rigidities"
Room: 40.213

September 25
Evi Pappa (UAB and CPER)
"To Target Inflation, or not to Target: A Conditional Analysis" (joint with L. Gambetti)

October 2
Pau Rabanal (La Caixa)
"Inflation Differentials in a Currency Union: A DSGE Perspective"

October 9
Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)
"The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: The US-EU Experience" (joint with C. Michelacci)

October 23
Joan Maria Esteban (IAE, CSIC)
"Redistributive Taxation and Public Expenditure" (joint with S. Bandypadhyay)

October 30
Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)
"Optimal Debt Contracts with Default Risk" (joint with I. Werning)

November 6
Bruce Preston (Columbia University)
"Stabilizing Expectations under Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination" (joint with S. Eusepi)

November 13
Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam)
"The Political Origin of Pension Funding" (joint with A. Schienbacher)

November 20
Thijs van Rens (CREI and UPF) and Almut Balleer (Bonn)
"Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change"

November 27
Marta Reynal (UPF)
"The Colonial Origins of Civil Wars" (joint with S. Djankov)

December 4
Fabio Canova (ICREA-UPF and CREI)
"Measurement with Some Theory: Using Sign Restrictions to Evaluate Business Cycle Models" (joint with M. Paustian)

December 11
Sergi Lanau (UPF)
"The Contractual Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring"

December 18
Mark Aguiar (University of Rochester)
"Deconstructing Life Cycle Expenditure" (joint with E. Hurst)

 

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January 15
Björn Brügemann (Yale University and CREI)
"Wage Renegotiation and Labor Mobility"
Room: 23.404

March 4
Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)
"Schumpeterian Technology Shocks" (joint with F. Canova and D. Lopez-Salido)

March 11-jointly organised with the DEE-Labour and Public Finance seminar-
Ted Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta" (with Ch. Hsieh, D. Ortega and F.Rodríguez)

March 25
Marc Giannoni (Columbia University)
"Macroeconomic Dynamics in the Euro Area" (joint with J. Boivin and B. Mojon)

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April 1
Robert Barro (Harvard)
"Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs"

April 8
Paula Bustos (CREI and UPF)
"Bilateral Trade Liberalization, Exports and Technology Upgrading: Evidence from the Impact of Mercosur on argentinean Firms"

April 15
José Vicente Rodríguez-Mora (University of Edimburgh)
"Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames" (joint with M. Güell and C. Telmer)

April 22
Harald Fadinger (UPF) and Pablo Fleiss (Inter American Development Bank)
"Trade and Sectoral Productivities"

April 29
Cancelled

May 6
Cancelled

May 13-Joint Macro-History Workshop
Alex Field (Santa Clara University)
"Procyclical TFP and the Cyclicality of Growth in Output per Hour, 1890-2004"

May 20
Cancelled (ESSIM Conference)

May 27
Cancelled (CREI Conference)

 

 



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