STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Macroeconomics Seminar Winter/Spring 2012

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

Organizers: Martin Schneider, Pablo Kurlat

Date	Name	Title/Links
Feb. 27	Virgiliu Midrigan NYU	Competition, Markups, and the Gains from Trade
Mar. 5	Michael McMahon Stanford Visiting Professor	First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics (joint paper with Stephen Hansen)
Mar. 12	Andy Neumeyer Universidad Di Tella	From Hyperinflation to Stable Prices: Argentina's Evidence on Menu Cost Models
Apr. 2	Dimitri Vayanos LSE	Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion
Apr. 9	Pete Klenow Stanford	The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
Apr. 16	Andrea Eisfeldt UCLA	The Joint Dynamics of Internal and External Finance
Apr. 23	Kjetil Storesletten FRB Minneapolis	Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework
Apr. 30	Javier Bianchi NYU	Efficient Bailouts?
May 7	Ali Shourideh Wharton	Adverse Selection, Reputation and Sudden Collapses in Secondary Loan Markets (joint paper with V. V. Chari and Ariel Zetlin-Jones)
May 14	Julia Thomas Ohio State	Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity (joint paper with Aubhik Khan)
May 21	Ariel Burstein UCLA	International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium (joint paper with Jonathan Vogel)