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Macroeconomics Workshop

Program Organizer: Karl Shell


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

September 10 - Karel Mertens (Cornell University) (joint w/International)
Measuring the Impact of Fiscal Policy in the Face of Anticipation: A Structural VAR Approach (joint w/Morten Ravn)

September 17 - Felicia Ionescu (Colgate University) (joint w/International)
Insuring College Failure Risk (joint w/Satyajit Chatterjee)

September 26 & 27 - Cornell/Penn State Workshop on Financial Fragility

October 1 - No Workshop - Departmental Reception to Introduce Artist painting wall

October 8 - Kristoffer Nimark (CREI & Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (joint w/International)
Non-Nested Information Sets and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

October 15 - Joe Kaboski (Ohio State University) (joint w/International)
Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors (joint w/Francisco Buera & Yongseok Shin)

October 22 - Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton University) (joint w/International)
Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy

October 29 - Nir Jaimovich (Stanford University) - POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING

November 5 - Jonas Fisher (Chicago Fed) (joint w/International)
Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration (joint w/Morris Davis & Toni Whited)

November 12 - Robert Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)
Are the Responses of the U.S. Economy Asymmetric in Energy Price Increases and Decreases? (joint w/Lutz Killian)

November 13 - (Fri., 4:00 p.m., STL 265) - Department Wide Seminar - Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India (joint w/Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak & Jeanne Lafortune)

November 26 - Thanksgiving Break

December 4 - (Fri., 4:00 p.m.,     ) - Frank Knight Lecture- Roger Myerson - (University of Chicago)
Understanding the Foundations of Institutions: Moral Hazard in High Office