MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR
Fall 2009
Seminars meet on Tuesdays (unless noted otherwise) at 3:30-5:00pm
in Mergenthaler 426. Copies of the paper are available the week prior to
the seminar in the departmental office (Mergenthaler 440). Those who are
off-campus can request a copy by emailing Karen Allen or by downloading them from this web site. Directions to the Department of Economics can be found here and click this for the campus map.
There will be a "preseminar" where a graduate leads a discussion of papers related to the recent financial crisis. The preseminar is scheduled at noon (12:00-12:55) in Megenthaler 426. There will be a professor supervising. Click here for the schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sep. 8 |
Enrique Sentana
CEMFI |
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| Sep. 15 |
Gauti Eggertsson
New York Fed |
What fiscal policy is effective at zero interest rates? [PDF] |
| Sep. 22 |
Anil Kashyap Chicago GSB |
Will The U.S. Bank Recapitalization Succeed? Eight Lessons from Japan [PDF] |
| Sep. 29 |
Olivier Jeanne JHU |
canceled |
| Oct. 6 |
Stefan Nagel Stanford |
Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking? [PDF] |
| Oct. 13 |
Federico Bandi JHU |
Nonparametric Stochastic Volatility [PDF] |
| Oct. 20 |
Anton Korinek Maryland |
Managing Asset and Credit Booms and Busts: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach |
| Oct. 27 |
Emanuel Moench New York Fed |
Financial Intermediation, Asset Prices, and Macroeconomic Dynamics |
| Nov. 3 |
Egon Zakrajsek Federal Reserve Board |
Credit Risk and the Macroeconomy:
Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model [PDF] |
Nov. 5 |
Jon Steinsson Columbia Univ. |
Iceland: The Meltdown
(joint seminar with the CFE)
|
| Nov. 10 |
Fatih Guvenen Minnesota |
canceled |
| Nov. 17 |
NO SEMINAR
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| Nov. 24 |
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Northwestern |
Consumer Credit: Learning your Customer's Default Risk from what (s)he Buys [PDF] |
| Dec. 1 |
Ruediger Bachmann Michigan |
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| Dec. 8 |
Abishek Gupta JHU |
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