Activities - CREi-DEE Seminar

September 28 

Per Krusell (Princeton University and IIES)

"A Research Project on the Global Climate and the Global Economy: Overview and Some Results"

 

October 5

Georges-Marios Angeletos (MIT)

"Noisy Business Cycles" (with J. La'O)

 

October 19

Silvana Tenreyro (LSE)

"Hot and Cold Seasons in the Housing Markets" (joint with L. R. Ngai)

 

October 26

Susanto Basu (Boston College)

"Sector-Specific Technical Change" (with J. Fernald, J. Fisher and M. Kimball)

 

November 2

Mark Bils (University of Rochester)

"Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks" (with P. Klenow and B. Malin)

 

November 10 (Tuesday), same room and time

Xavier Gabaix (NYU)

"Disasterization: A Simple Way to Fix the Asset Pricing Properties of Macroeconmic Models"

 

November 16

Guido Sandleris (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

"The Cost of Emerging Market Financial Crises: Output, Productivity and Welfare" (with M. Wright)

 

November 23

John Fernald (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

"Measuring the Miracle: Market Imperfections and Asia's Growth Experience" (with B. Neiman)

 

November 30

Peter Kondor (CEU)

"The Delegated Lucas-tree" (joint with R. Kaniel)

 

December 14

John Sutton (LSE)

"Capabilities, Wealth and the Export Mix" (with D. Trefler)

 

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March 8

Ariel Burstein (UCLA)

"Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium" (with J. Vogel)

 

March 10 (Wednesday)
Marc Giannoni (Columbia University)
"Optimal Target Criteria for Stabilization Policy" (with M. Woodford)
Room: 23.404 (Mercè Rodoreda Building)

 

March 15

Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia)

"How Much is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation" (with D. Green and B. Sand)

 

March 22

Bartosz Mackowiak (ECB)

"Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention" (with M. Wiederholt)

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April 12

Francesco Caselli (LSE)

"Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil" (with G. Michaels)

 

April 19
Julian Di Giovanni (IMF)
"International Trade and Aggregate Fluctuations in Granular Economies" (with A. Levchenko)

 

April 26

Michael Woodford (Columbia University)

"The Central-Bank Balance Sheet as an Instrument of Monetary Policy" (with V. Cúrdia)

 

May 3

Omar Licandro (IAE-CSIC)
"Trade, Firm Selection, and Innovation: The Competition Channel" (with G. Impullitti) 

 

May 10

Mirko Wiederholt (Northwestern University)

"Imperfect Information and Optimal Monetary Policy" (with L. Paciello)

 

May 17

Tim Cogley (NYU)
"Optimal Disinflation Under Learning" (with C. Matthes and A. M. Sbordone)

 

May 31

Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)

"Financial Frictions, Aggregation, and the Lucas Critique" (with Y. Chang and S. Kim)

 

June 7

Carlos Thomas (Banco de España)

"Employment Fluctuations in a Dual Labor Market" (with J. Costain and J. F. Jimeno)

 

June 14

Francisco Buera (UCLA)
Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reform (with Y. Shin)