General Information
We meet every Monday, 5:30pm-7pm, in Eads Hall 208.
Participants: Professor James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Aarti Singh, Anastasia Zervou, Yibo Zhang, Yu Zheng, Yunjong Eo, Burak Uras, Francesco Carli, Luiggi Donayre, Daniel Sanches, Chia-Ming Yu and Jacek Suda.
Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper | Comments |
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| 9/17 | Aarti Singh | Human Capital Risk in Life-Cycle Economies Aarti Singh (working paper, 2007) |
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| 10/8 | Daniel Sanches | Money is Memory Narayana R. Kocherlakota (Journal of Economic Theory 81, 1998) |
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| 10/15 | Burak Uras | Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability Thomas Cooley, Ramon Marimon, and Vincenzo Quadrini (Journal of Political Economy 112(4), 2004) |
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| 10/22 | Yu Zheng | An Aggregate Economy with Different Size Houses Jose-Victor Rios-Rull and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos (working paper, 2006) |
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| 10/29 | Anastasia Zervou | Limited Market Participation and Volatility of Asset Prices Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale (American Economic Review 84(4), 1994) |
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| 11/5 | Yunjong Eo | Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models: Lessons from Second-Order Approximations Sungbae An (working paper, 2007) |
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| 11/12 | Jacek Suda | When Can Changes in Expectations Cause Business Cycle Fluctuations in Neo-Classical Settings? Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier (Journal of Economic Theory 135, 2007 ) |
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| 11/19 | Francesco Carli | Entrepreneurship, Frictions, and Wealth Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi (working paper, 2003) Background on wealth concentration: Wealth Inequality: Data and Models by Cagetti and De Nardi (working paper, 2005) |
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| 11/26 | Yibo Zhang | Human Capital - An Excursion Neoclassical Miracles by Manuelli and Seshadri (working paper, 2007) |
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| 12/3 | Luiggi Donayre | Modeling nonlinearities in U.S. unemployment |
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| 12/10 | Chia-Ming Yu | Political Economy of Mechanisms Daron Acemoglu, Michael Golosov, and Aleh Tsyvinski (working paper, 2007) |