STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Macroeconomics Seminar Spring 2013

 

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

Organizers: John Taylor, Manuel Amador

 

Date

Name

Title/Links

April 1

Mikhail Golosov

Princeton

Taxation, Redistribution, and Debt with Aggregate Shocks (joint with Tom Sargent)

April 8

John Williams
& Eric Swanson

San Francisco Fed

Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium- and Longer-Term Interest Rates

April 15

Robert Shimer

University of Chicago

Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality (joint paper with Veronica Guerrieri)

April 22

Fernando Alvarez

University of Chicago

Price setting with menu cost for multi-product firms (joint paper with Francesco Lippi) (Appendix: Synchronization of Price Changes)

April 29

Francesco Bianchi

Duke University

Dormant Shocks and Fiscal Virtue

joint work with Leonardo Melosi

May 6

Ivan Werning

MIT

Fiscal Unions (joint paper with Emmanuel Farhi)

May 13

Arrow Lecture 1 –

David Card

Berkeley

“Model-Based or Design-Based? Competing Approaches in Empirical Microeconomics”

   Lecture 3:30-5:00; Reception: 5-6:30

   M104, McClelland Building, Knight Management Center

May 14

Arrow Lecture 2 –

David Card

Berkeley

“The Growing (?) Importance of Firms in Labor Market Outcomes”

   3:30-5:00 pm, Landau Economics 351

  

May 20

Mark Bils

University of Rochester

How Sticky Wages in Existing Jobs Can Affect Hiring (joint paper with Yongsung Chang and Sun-Bin Kim)

May 27

Memorial Day

No Seminar

 

June 3

Pierre-Olivier Weill

UCLA