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