MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR
Spring 2008
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 Julia Ross.
Directions to the Department of Economics can be found here.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Feb. 19 |
Laurence Ball
JHU |
"Intergenerational Risk Sharing" |
| Feb. 26 |
Dan Sichel
Board of Governors |
"Intangible Capital and Economic Growth" |
| Mar. 4 |
Rebecca Zarutskie
Duke |
"Specialization in Credit Markets" |
| Mar. 11 |
Charles Weise
Gettysburg College |
"Political Constraints on Monetary Policy During the U.S. Great Inflation" |
| Mar. 25 |
John Duca
Dallas Fed |
"Risk and the Use of Collateralized Open Market Paper During the Great Depression" |
| Apr. 1 |
Eswar Prasad
Cornell |
"Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?" |
| Apr. 8 |
James Kahn
NY Fed |
"Housing Prices and Growth" |
| Apr. 22 |
Joe Gruber
Board of Governors |
"Import Penetration and Exchange Rate Pass-Through" |
| Apr. 29 |
Carlos Carvalho
NY Fed |
"Aggregation in a Multi-Sector Sticky Price Model" |
| May. 6 |
Ricardo Reis
Princeton |
"Cost-of-Living Dynamic Price Index" |
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