General Information

We meet every Monday, 6:00pm-7:15pm, in Lopata House 23.

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
2/11 Jacek Suda Behavioral Theories of the Business Cycle,
Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo (Journal of European Economic Association, 2007)
Can News about the Future Drive the Business Cycle?
Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo (working paper, 2006)
2/18 Yunjong Eo Investment Shocks and Business Cycles,
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti (working paper, 2008)
2/25 Luiggi Donayre Is the Response of Output to Monetary Policy Asymmetric? Evidence from a Regime-Switching Coefficients Model
Ming Chien Lo and Jeremy Piger (Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2005)
3/3 Francesco Carli Default Risk and Income Fluctuations in Emerging Economies
Cristina Arellano (working paper, 2007)
3/10 Aarti Singh Taxes, Benefits, Careers, and Markets
Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent (working paper, 2007)
3/17 no meeting
3/24 Burak Uras Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogenous Plants
Diego Restuccia and Richard Rogerson (working paper, 2007)
3/31 Anastasia Zervou
4/7 Daniel Sanches
4/14 Yibo Zhang

 

 


Previous "Editions"

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Fall 2006

Spring 2006