MACROECONOMICS Workshop - Spring 2008

Program Organizer: Karl Shell
Seminar Convener: Viktor Tsyrennikov

All workshops are on Thursdays at 4:15 p.m. in Uris Hall 498 unless otherwise noted.

February 26 - (Tues., 4:00 p.m., 498 UH) - Karel Mertens (Cornell University) (joint w/Public Econ)
The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated U.S. Tax Policy Shocks: Theory and Empirical Evidence (joint w/Morten O. Ravn)

March 6 - Joseph Zeira (Hebrew University)
Technology and Labor Regulations (joint w/Alberto Alesina)

March 13 - No Seminar

March 20 - CU/PSU Conference in Penn State

March 27 - Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC Berkeley)
The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love

April 3 - Guido Lorenzoni (MIT, visiting Chicago FED)
Optimal Monetary Policy with Uncertain Fundamentals and Dispersed Information

April 10 - Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU)
Inventories, Lumpy Trade and Large Devaluations (joint w/George Alessandria & Joseph Kaboski)

April 17 - Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University)
Learning the Wealth of Nations (joint w/Francisco Buera & Alex Monge)

April 24 - Andrea Ferrero (NY Federal Reserve Bank)
Current Account Dynamics and Monetary Policy (joint w/Mark Gertler & Lars Svensson)

May 1 - Liam Graham (University of College London)
Information, Heterogeneity and Market Incompleteness (joint w/Stephen Wright)

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