Schedule:
 

Week of Presenter Topic Remarks
1/22 Costas Azariadis
(Washington University)		 on debt constraints and dynamic complementarities:
Monetary Policy as Equilibrium Selection (Antinolfi, Azariadis, Bullard, 2006)
1/29 Gaetano Antinolfi
(Washington University)		 on banks and financial intermediation:
Moneary Stability and Liquidity Crises: The Role of the Lender of Last Resort (Antinolfi, Huybens, Keister, 2000)
1/29 Todd Keister
(Fed of New York)		 on banks runs and herd behavior:
Outline, Slides (updated 2/6)
2/12 Jim Bullard
(Fed of St. Louis)		 on learning in macroeconomics
Liquidity Traps, Learning and Stagnation (Evans, Guse, Honkapohja, 2006), Slides
Monetary Policy, Judgment and Near-Rational Exuberance (Bullard, Evans, Honkapohja, 2007), Slides, Slides (no multiple slide version)
2/19 Jim Bullard on learning in macroeconomics
Learning and the Great Moderation (Bullard and Singh, 2007), Slides, Slides (no multiple slide version)
The Market Price of Risk and the Equity Premium: A Legacy of the Great Depression? (Cogley and Sargent, 2005), Slides, Slides (no multiple slide version)
2/26 Leo Kaas
(University of Konstanz)		 on growth with credit constraints
Outline
3/7 and 3/8 Leo Kaas on growth with credit constraints
3/5 and 3/7 Mikhail Golosov
(MIT)		 on the political economy of mechanisms and the structure of taxation
Slides for "Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms" (Acemoglu, Golosov and Tsyvinski, 2007)
3/19 Ravi Ravikumar
(University of Iowa)		 on economic development
Slides 		See forum
3/26 Bryan Ellickson
(UCLA)		 on linking economics and continuous-time finance
Outline, Slides
4/2 Bruce Preston
(Columbia University)		 on learning dynamics
Syllabus (.doc)(.pdf), Slides for Lecture 1, Lecture 2
4/9 Staff TBA
4/16 Anne Villamil
(Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)		 on financial intermediation and default
Notes , Are Entrepreneurs Different? (Herranz, Krasa, Villamil, 2007)
4/23 Patric Pintus
(University of Aix-Marseille) 		on international macroeconomics:
Outline , Paper and Slides