STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Macro/International Seminar Spring 2008

 

Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00, Landau Economics, Room 351

Organizers: Nick Bloom, Doireann Fitzgerald

(For appointments with a visiting speaker on the day of the seminar, email cpace at hoover dot Stanford dot edu)

 

Date

Name

Title/Links

April 2

Ivan Werning

MIT

The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation (joint paper with Emmanuel Farhi)

April 9

Janice Eberly

Northwestern

Investment and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark (joint paper with Sergio Rebelo and Nicolas Vincent)

April 16

Jesus Fernández-Villaverde

University of Pennsylvania

Working with Epstein-Zin Preferences: Computation and Likelihood and Estimation of DSGE Models with Recursive Preferences (joint paper with van Binsbergen, Koijen, and Rubio-Ramírez)

April 23

Matthew Shapiro

University of Michigan

Stepping off the Escalator: A Theory of the Equilibrium Employment Rate (joint paper with Michael Elsby)

April 30

Stefania Albanesi

Columbia University

Intertemporal Distortions in the Second Best (joint paper with Roc Armenter)

May 7

Mordecai Kurz

Stanford Economics

Diverse Beliefs and the Time Variability of Risk Premia (joint paper with Maurizio Motolese)

May 14

Peter Henry

Stanford GSB

Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity (joint paper with Diego Sasson)

May 21

John Williams

SF Federal Reserve Board

Stanford GSB

Learning and the Role of Macroeconomic Factors in the Term Structure of Interest Rates (joint paper with Thomas Laubach and Robert Tetlow)

May 28

Hanno Lustig

UCLA

Cancelled.

June 4

Robert Barro

Harvard

Macroeconomic Crises Since 1870 (joint paper with José Ursúa)

 

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