STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Macroeconomics Seminar Fall 2009

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

Organizers: Nir Jaimovich, Monika Piazzesi

Date	Name	Title/Links
Sept. 21	Carlos Carvalho FRB New York	“Sectoral Price Facts in a Sticky-Price Model”
Sept. 28	Sydney Ludvigson New York University	“The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium”
Oct. 5	Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania	“How Do Households Respond to Income Shocks?”
Oct. 12	Yaniv Yedid-Levi Stanford Graduate Student	“Sectoral Employment Comovement”
Oct. 19	Josie Smith Stanford Graduate Student	“The Term Structure of Money Market Spreads during the Financial Crisis”
Oct. 26	Nancy Stokey University of Chicago	“Catching Up and Falling Behind”
Nov. 2	Chris Sims Princeton	“Rational Inattention and Monetary Economics” (also see background paper 2)
Nov. 9	Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago GSB	“Fear of Fire Sales and the Credit Freeze” (joint paper with Douglas Diamond)
Nov. 16	Laura Veldkamp New York University	“Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle” (joint paper with Marcin Kacperczyk and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh)
Nov. 23	No seminar	Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov. 30	Paul S. Willen Federal Reserve Bank of Boston	“Why Don’t Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures and Securitization” (joint paper with Manuel Adelino and Kristopher Gerardi)
Dec. 7	Mark Bils University of Rochester