General Information
We meet every Tuesday, 6pm-7:15pm, in Eads Hall 208.
Participants: Professor James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Aarti Singh, Anastasia Zervou, Yibo Zhang, Yunjong Eo, Burak Uras, Francesco Carli, Jiaren Pang, Jacek Suda, and from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Riccardo DiCecio.
Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper | Comments |
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| 10/3 | Jiaren Pang | The Macroeconomics of Labor and Credit Market Imperfections Etienne Wasmer and Philippe Weil (American Economic Review 94(4), 2004) |
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| 10/10 | Yunjong Eo | Idiosyncratic Production Risk, Growth and the Business Cycle George-Marios Angeletos and Laurent-Emmanuel Calvet (Journal of Monetary Economics 53(6), 2006) |
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| 10/17 | Burak Uras | Investor Protection, Optimal Incentives and Economic Growth Rui Castro, Gian Luca Clementi and Glenn MacDonald (Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(3), 2004) |
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| 10/24 | Aarti Singh | Medium-Term Business Cycles Diego Comin and Mark Gertler (American Economic Review 96(3), 2006) |
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| 10/31 | Yibo Zhang | The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered Benjamin F. Jones (working paper, 2006) |
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| 11/7 | No meeting | |
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| 11/14 | Anastasia Zervou | Limited Asset Markets Participation, Monetary Policy and (Inverted) Keynesian Logic Florin O. Bilbiie (working paper, 2006) |
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| 11/21 | Francesco Carli | Mismatch Robert Shimer (working paper, 2006) |
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| 11/28 | Jacek Suda | Optimal Expectations Markus K. Brunnermeier and Jonathan A. Parker (American Economic Review 95(4), 2005 |
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| 12/5 | Riccardo DiCecio | Heterogeneous Firms, Productivity and Poverty Traps Levon Barseghyan and Riccardo DiCecio (working paper, 2006) |
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