Macroeconomics Workshop, 2005/06 - 2011/12
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 |
To find the Archives for more recent years, go to the Events/Seminars page and scroll to the bottom, Past Events
2011/12 | |
Sep. 6 | Pete Klenow, Stanford University, "The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth" (with C. Hsieh, E. Hurst and C. Jones) [Paper] |
Sep. 13 | Francois Gourio, Boston University, "Credit Risk and Disaster Risk" [Paper] |
Sep. 20 | Erick Hurst, Princeton University, "Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics" (with V. Guerrieri and D. Hartley) [Paper] |
Sep. 27 | Greg Kaplan, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments" (with G. Violante) [Paper] |
Oct. 4 | Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University, "Maternal Health and Fertility: An International Perspective" [Paper] |
Oct. 11 | Bernardo Guimaraes, London School of Economics, "A Model of Equilibrium Institutions" (with Kevin D. Sheedy) [Paper] |
Oct. 18 | Aysegul Sahin, New York Federal Reserve, "Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market" (with Joseph Song, Giorgio Topa and Giovanni Violante) [Paper] |
Oct. 25 | Ricardo Reis, Columbia University, "When Should Policymakers Make Announcements? [Paper] |
Nov. 1 | Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota, "Demand Shocks as Productivity Shocks", (with Yan Bai, Kjetil Storesletten) [Paper] |
Nov. 8 | Yurij Gorodnichenko, University of California at Berkeley, "Information Rigidity and the Expectations Formation Process: A Simple Framework and News Facts" (with Olivier Coibion) [Paper] |
Nov. 15 | Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University, The I Theory of Mony" (with Yuliy Sannikov) [Paper] |
Nov. 29 | David Lagakos, Arizona State, The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries" (with Douglas Gollin and Michael Waugh) [Paper] |
Dec. 6 | Paul Beaudry, Univ. of British Columbia, "A Gains from TradePerspective on Macroeconomics Fluctuations" (with Franck Portierr) [Paper] |
Feb. 14 | Thomas Philippon, NYU Stern, "Has the U.S.Finance Industry Become Less Efficient?" |
Feb. 21 | Valerie Ramey, UCSD, "Government Spending and Private Activity" |
Feb. 28 | George Alessandria, Philadelphia Federal Reserve, "Trade Wedges, Inventories, and International Business Cycles" (with J. Kaboski, V. Midrigan) Joint with International Trade Workshop |
Mar. 20 | Manolis Galenianos, Penn State, "Hiring Through Referrals" [Paper] |
Mar. 27 | Lukas Drozd, Wharton School of Business, "Dynamic Poaching in Credit Card Lending" (with R. Serrano-Padial) [Paper] |
Apr. 3 | Jonathan Parker, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Business, "Valuation, Adverse Selection and Market Collapses" (with Michael Fisherman) [Paper] |
Apr. 10 | Gauti Eggertsson, NY Federal Reserve, "Deficits, Public Debt Dynamics, and Tax and Spending Multipliers" (with Matthew Denes and Sophia Gilbukh) [Paper] |
Apr. 17 | Mark Gertler, NYU, "A Framework for Analyzing Large Scale Asset Purchases as a Monetary Policy Tool" (with Peter Karadi) [Paper] |
Apr. 24 | Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State, "Talent, Labor Quality and Economic Development" (with B. Ravikumar and Gustavo Cubas) [Paper] |
2010/11 | |
Sep. 7 | Theodore Papageorgiou, Penn State, "Large Firms and Internal Labor Markets" [Paper] |
Sep. 14 | Boyan Jovanovic, NYU, "Middlemen in Limit-Order Markets" (with Albert J. Menkveld) [Paper] |
Sep. 21 | Xavier Gabaix, NYU, "The Great Diversification and its Undoing" (with Vasco M. Carvalho) [Paper] |
Sep. 28 | William Hawkins, University of Rochester, "Privately Efficient Bargaining between Workers and Large Firms" [Paper] |
Oct. 5 | Lee Ohanian, UC Los Angeles, "The International Great Depression" |
Oct. 12 | Benjamin Moll, Princeton, "Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can Self-Financing Undo Capital Misallocation?" [Paper] |
Oct. 19 | Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, "Trading Frenzies and Their Impact on Real Investment" (with Emre Ozdenoren and Kathy Yuan) [Paper] |
Oct. 26 | Guido Menzio, UPENN, "Equilibrium Price Dispersion and Rigidity: A New Monetarist Approach" (with A. Head, Lucy Qian Liu and Randall Wright) [Paper] |
Nov. 2 | Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA, "Optimal Patent Policy with Recurrent Innovators" (with Matthew Mitchell) [Paper] |
Nov. 9 | Leena Rudanko, Boston University, "Customer Capital" (with Francois Gourio) [Paper] |
Nov. 16 | Pablo Kurlat, Stanford, "Lemons, Markets Shutdowns and Learning" [Paper] |
Nov. 30 | Jaromir Nosal, Columbia, "Competing for Customers: A Search Model of the Market for Unsecured Credit" |
Feb. 8 | Ernesto Pasten, University of Toulouse, "Time Consistent Bailout Plan" |
Feb. 15 | Junichi Fujimoto, University of Tokyo, "Life-Cycle Labor Search with Stochastic Match Quality" (with Julen Esteban-Pretel) [Paper] |
Feb. 22 | Sam Kortum, University of Chicago, "Trade and the Global Recession" (with Jonathan Eaton, Brent Neiman and John Romalis) [Paper] |
Mar. 1 | Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester, "Optimal Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies" (with Manue Amador) [Paper] |
Mar. 22 | Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University,"Credit Within Firms" |
Mar. 29 | Craig Burnside, Duke University " Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets" (with Martub Eichenbaum and Sergio Reblo) [Paper] |
Apr. 5 | Yan Bai, Arizona State University, "Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty" (with Cristina Arellano) [Paper] |
Apr. 12 | Gilles Saint-Paul, University of Toulouse "Ideological Bias and the Production of Macroeconomics Theories" [Paper] |
Apr. 19 | Andy Atkeson, UCLA, "On the Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy" (with Ariel Burstein) [Paper] |
Apr. 26 | Oded Galor, Brown University, "The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development" (with Quamrul Ashraf) [Paper] |
May 3 | Fabio Canova, U Pompeu Fabra, "Bridging Cyclical DSGE Models and the Raw Data" [Paper] |
2009/10 | |
Sep. 1 | Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota, "Taxation of Human Capital and Cross-Country Trends in Wage Inequality" (with Burhan Kuruscu and Serdar Ozkan) [Paper] |
Sep. 8 | Julia Thomas, Ohio State University, "Collateral Constraints, Capital Specificity and the Distribution of production: The Role of Real and Financial Frictions in Aggregate Fluctuations" (with Aubhik Khan) [Paper] |
Sep. 15 | Mark Bils, University of Rochester, "Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks" (with Pete Klenow and Ben Malin) [Paper] |
Sep. 22 | Kjetil Storesletten, Minneapolis Federal Reserve, "Growing Like China" (with Zheng Song and Fabrizio Zilibotti) [Paper] |
Sep. 29 | Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern University, "Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention" (with Bartosz Mackowiak) [Paper] |
Oct. 6 | Larry Jones, University of Minnesota, "Risk Sharing, Inequality, and Fertility" (with Roozbeh Hosseini and Ali Shourideh) [Paper] |
Oct. 13 | Robert Shimer, University of Chicago, "Human Capital and Unemployment" (with Fernando Alvarez) [Paper] |
Oct. 20 | Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, "Really Uncertain Business Cycles" (with Max Floetotto and Nir Jaimovich) [Paper] |
Oct. 27 | Joseph Kaboski, Ohio State University, "Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors" (with Francisco Buera and Yongseok Shin) [Paper] |
Nov. 3 | Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University, "On the Optimality of a Unified Unit of Account" (with Martin Schneider) [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Nir Jaimovich, Stanford University, "Reference Prices, Costs and Nominal Rigidities" (with Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo) [Paper] |
Nov. 17 | Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania, "How Do Households Respond to Income Shocks?" (with Fabrizio Perri) [Paper] |
Dec. 8 | Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, "Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch and Systemic Bailouts" (with Jean Tirole) [Paper] |
Feb. 16 | V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Federal Reserve, "Bailouts, Time Inconsistency and Optimal Regulation" (with Patrick Kehoe) [Paper] |
Feb. 23 | Emi Nakamura, Columbia University, "Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters" (with Jón Steinsson, Robert Barro and José Ursúa) [Paper] |
Mar. 2 | Francesco Lippi, University of Sassari, "Persistent Liquidity Effect and Long Run Money Demand" (with Fernando Alvarez) [Paper] |
Mar. 23 | Rudi Bachmann, University of Michigan, "Government Purchases Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Heterogeneity and Wealth Bias in Political Decision Making" (with Jinhui H. Bai) [Paper] |
Mar. 30 | Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University, "Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis" (with Amit Seru and Vikrant Vig) |
Apr. 6 | Virgiliu Midrigan, NYU, "Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models" (with Oleksiy Kryvtsov) [Paper] |
Apr. 13 | Nikolai Roussanov, Wharton, UPENN, "Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets" (with Hanno Lustig and Adrien Verdelhan) [Paper] |
Apr. 20 | Pricila Maziero, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, "Accounting for Private Information" (with Laurence Ales) [Paper] |
Apr. 27 | Ricardo Lagos, NYU, "Asset Prices, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy in an Exchange Economy" [Paper 1] [Paper 2] |
2008/09 | |
Sep. 9 | Manuel Amador, Stanford University, "Learning from Prices: Public Communication and Welfare" |
Sep. 16 | Darrell Duffie, Stanford University, "Capital Mobility and Asset Pricing" (with Bruno Strulovici) |
Sep. 26 | Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and U.S. Monetary Policy Experimentation" (with Timothy Cogley, Riccardo Colacito & Thomas J. Sargent) [Paper] |
Sep. 30 | Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, "The Political Economy of Non-Linear Capital Taxation" (with Iván Werning) [Paper] |
Oct. 7 | Gauti Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "Was the New Deal Contractionary?" [Paper] |
Oct. 14 | Hugo Hopenhayn, UC Los Angeles, "Equilibrium Default" (with Iván Werning) [Paper] |
Oct. 21 | V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Federal Reserve, "The Behavior of Small and Large Firms over the Business Cycle" (Larry Christiano & Patrick Kehoe) |
Oct. 28 | Robert Barro, Harvard University, "Macroeconomic Crises since 1870" (with José F. Ursúa) [Paper] |
Nov. 4 | Hal Cole, University of Pennsylvania, "A Multiplier Approach to Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance" (with YiLi Chien and Hanno Lustig) [Paper] |
Nov. 11 | Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University, "Labor Supply in a Frictional Labor Market" (with Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Aysegül Sahin) [Paper] |
Nov. 18 | Patrick Kehoe, University of Minnesota, "Time-Varying Risk, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates in General Equilibrium" (with Fernando Alvarez and Andrew Atkeson) [Paper] |
Dec. 2 | Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University Ph.D. student, "Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy" [Paper] |
Feb. 24 | Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA, "Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics" (with Bruno Biais) [Paper] |
Mar. 3 | Fernando Alvarez, Chicago, "Search, Rest Unemployment, and Unionization" (with Rob Shimer). [Paper 1] [Paper 2] |
Mar. 24 | Christian Hellwig, UCLA, "Inflation and Welfare with Nominal Rigidities" (with Ariel Burstein) [Paper] |
Mar. 31 | Marina Azzimonti, University of Texas at Austin, "Barriers to Investment in Polarized Societies" [Paper] |
Apr. 7 | Ariel Burstein, UCLA, "Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade" (with Andrew Atkeson) [Paper] |
Apr. 14 | Julien Prat, University of Vienna, visiting NYU, "Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity"(with Gabriel Felbermayr and Hans-Jörg Schmerer) [Paper] |
Apr. 21 | Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago, GSB, "Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium" (with Robert Shimer and Randall Wright) [Paper] |
Apr. 28 | Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern, visiting NYU, "Learning the Wealth of Nations" (with Francisco Buera and Alexander Monge-Naranjo) [Paper] |
2007/08 | |
Sep. 11 | Mike Golosov, MIT, "Decentralized Trading with Private Information" (with Guido Lorenzoni, Aleh Tsyvinski) |
Sep. 18 | Simon Gilchrist, Boston University, "Investment and the Cost of Capital: New Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market" (with Egon Zakrajsek) [Paper] |
Sep. 25 | Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "The Timing of Labor Market Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis" (with Fabien Postel-Vinay) [Paper] |
Oct. 2 | Pieter Gautier, Tinbergen Institute and Georgetown University, "Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?" (with Jose Luis Moraga Gonzales, Ronald Wolthoff) [Paper] |
Oct. 9 | Boyan Jovanovic, NYU, "U.S. Investment 1901-2005: Incumbents, Entrants, and Q" (with Peter L. Rousseau) [Paper] |
Oct. 16 | Bruce Preston, Columbia University, "Stabilizing Expectations under Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination" (with Stefano Eusepi) [Paper] |
Oct. 23 | Roberto Perotti, University of Bocconi, "In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy" [Paper] |
Oct. 30 | Christian Broda, University of Chicago, GSB, "Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications" (with David E. Weinstein) [Paper] |
Nov. 6 | Erik Hurst, University of Chicago, GSB, "Decomposing Lifecycle Expenditure" (with Mark Aguiar) [Paper] |
Nov. 13 | Ricardo Reis, Princeton University, "Relative Goods' Prices and Pure Inflation" (with Mark W. Watson) [Paper] |
Nov. 27 | Michael Woodford, Columbia University, "Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing" [Paper] |
Dec. 4 | Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto, "Accounting for the Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings" (with Iourii Manovskii) [Paper] |
Feb. 26 | George-Marios Angeletos, MIT, "Policy with Dispersed Information" (with Alessandro Pavan) [Paper] |
Mar. 4 | Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester, "Can A Representative Agent Model Represent a Heterogeneous Agent Economy?" (with Sungbae An and Sun-Bin Kim) [Paper] |
Mar. 25 | Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania, "Likelihood Estimation of DSGE Models with Epstein-Zin Preferences" (with Jules H. van Binsbergen, Ralph S.J. Koijen and Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez) [Paper] |
Apr. 1 | Cristina Arellano, University of Minnesota, "Default and the Maturity Structure in Sovereign Bonds" (with Ananth Ramanarayanan) [Paper] |
Apr. 8 | Laura Veldkamp, NYU Stern, "Information Acquisition and Under-Diversification" (with Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh) [Paper] |
Apr. 22 | Fabrizio Perri, University of Minnesota, "The International Diversification Puzzle Is Not as Bad as You Think" (with Jonathan Heathcote) [Paper] |
Apr. 29 | Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln, Harvard University, "Explaining the Low Labor Productivity in East Germany — A Spatial Analysis" (with Rima Izem) [Paper] |
2006/07 | |
Sep. 12 | Kenneth Burdett, UPENN, "Wage-Tenure Contracts with Heterogeneous Firms" (with Melvyn Coles) [Paper] |
Sep. 19 | Michael Woodford, Columbia, "Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy with Near-Rational Expectations" [Paper] |
Sep. 26 | Mark Gertler, NYU, "Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining" (with Antonella Trigari) [Paper] |
Oct. 10 | Nick Bloom, LSE and Stanford, "The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks: Firm Level Estimation and a 9/11 Simulation" [Paper] |
Oct. 17 | Jordi Gali, U Pompeu Fabra, "A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment" (with Olivier Blanchard) [Paper] |
Oct. 24 | Daron Acemoglu, MIT, visiting Yale, "Political Economy and the Structure of Taxation" (with Mike Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski) [Paper] |
Nov. 7 | Thomas Philippon, NYU Stern, "The y-Theory of Investment" [Paper] |
Nov. 14 | Fatih Guvenen, University of Texas Austin, "Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change: A Theoretical Analysis of Rising Inequality" (with Burhanettin Kuruscu) [Paper] |
Nov. 28 | Iourii Manovskii, UPENN, "Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality" (with Gueorgui Kambourov) [Paper] |
Dec. 5 | Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto, "Directed Search for Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contracts" [Paper] |
Feb. 27 | Mark Huggett, Georgetown University, "Sources of Lifetime Inequality" (with Gustavo Ventura and Amir Yaron) [Paper] |
Mar. 6 | Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol, "A Feasible Equilibrium Search Model of Individual Wage Dynamics with Experience Accumulation" (with Jesper Bagger, Francois Fontaine and Jean-Mar. Robin) [Paper] |
Mar. 27 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University, "Spin-offs and the Market for Ideas" (with Satyajit Chatterjee) [Paper] |
Apr. 3 | Francisco Buera, Northwestern University, "Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration" (with Yongseok Shin) [Paper] |
Apr. 10 | Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania, "Inflation and Unemployment: Lagos-Wright meets Mortensen-Pissarides" (with Guido Menzio) [Paper] |
Apr. 17 | Michael Reiter, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle" (with Christian Haefke) [Paper] |
Apr. 24 | Narayana Kocherlakota, University of Minnesota, "Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates" (and Luigi Pistaferri) [Paper] |
May 1 | Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto, "How Important is Human Capital? A Quantitative Theory Assessment of World Income Inequality" (with Andrés Erosa, Tatyana Koreshkova) [Paper] |
2005/06 | |
Sep. 6 | George Hall, Yale University, "The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand" (with Adam Copeland) [Paper] |
Sep. 13 | Stephen Williamson, University of Iowa, "Monetary Policy and Distribution" [Paper] |
Sep. 20 | John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "Private Information, Wage Bargaining and Employment Fluctuations" [Paper] |
Sep. 27 | Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Identification of Search Models Using Record Statistics" [Paper] |
Oct. 4 | Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University, "Assessing Structural VAR's" (with Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson) [Slides] |
Oct. 11 | William Fuchs, Stanford University, "Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private Evaluations" [Paper] |
Oct. 18 | Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo, "The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States" (with Jonathan Heathcote and Giovanni L. Violante) [Paper] |
Oct. 25 | Giuseppe Moscarini and Bjoern Bruegemann, Yale University, "Asymmetric Information and Employment Fluctuations" [Paper] |
Nov. 1 | Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University, "Optimal Taxation of Risky Capital with Private Information" [Paper] |
Nov. 8 | Matteo Iacoviello, Boston College, "Household Debt and Income Inequality, 1963-2003" [Paper] |
Nov. 15 | Noah Williams, Princeton University, "Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution Forecast Targeting" (with Lars E.O. Svensson) [Paper] |
Nov. 29 | Ricardo Lagos, NYU, "Asset Prices and Liquidity in an Exchange Economy" [Paper] |
Dec. 6 | Mariacristina De Nardi, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth" (with Marco Cagetti) [Paper] |
Feb. 21 | Éva Nagypál, Northwestern, "On the Extent of Job-to-Job Transitions" [Paper] |
Feb. 28 | Aleh Tsyvinski, Harvard, "Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms" (with Daron Acemoglu and Michael Golosov) |
Mar. 21 | Ricardo Caballero, MIT, "An Equilibrium Model of Global Imbalances and Low Interest Rates" |
Mar. 28 | Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and Radcliffe Institute, "Home Production, Market Production, and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations" (with Stefania Albanesi) [Paper] |
Apr. 4 | Diego Comin, New York University, "A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Firm and Aggregate Level" (with Sunil Mulani) [Paper] |
Apr. 11 | Robert King, Boston University, "Aggregate Dynamics of Inflation and Real Activity with Firm-level Productivity Shocks" (with Michael Dotsey and Alexander L. Wolman) [Paper] |
Apr. 18 | Matthias Doepke, UCLA, "Patience Capital, Occupational Choice, and the Spirit of Capitalism" (with Fabrizio Zilibotti) [Paper] |
Apr. 25 | Adriano Rampini, Northwestern University, "New or Used? Investment with Credit Constraints" (with Andrea L. Eisfeldt) [Paper] |