General Information
We meet every Wednesday, 5:45pm-7:00pm, in Eads Hall 215.
Participants: Professor James Bullard (Federal Bank of St. Louis), Aarti Singh, Anastasia Zervou, Yibo Zhang, Yunjong Eo, Burak Uras, Jacek Suda.
Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/8 | Anastasia Zervou | The conquest of U.S. inflation: Learning and robustness to
model uncertainty. Tim Cogley and Tom Sargent, (Review of Economic Dynamic, 2005) |
Slides, part 1 |
| 2/15 | Natassa | The conquest of... continued | Slides, part 2 |
| 2/22 | Aarti Singh | Learning Asymmetries in Real Business Cycles. Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp, (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006) |
Slides |
| 3/1 | Yibo Zhang | Advances in Dynamic Optimal Taxation. Narayana R. Kocherlakota, (Working Paper, 2005) |
|
| 3/8 | Yunjong Eo | Real Business Cycles and Animal Spirits Hypothesis. Roger E. A. Farmer and Jang-Ting Guo, (Journal of Economic Theory, 1994) |
|
| 3/15 | Spring Break | ||
| 3/22 | Burak Uras | Junior Can't Borrow: A New Perspective on the
Equity Premium Puzzle George M. Constantinides, John B. Donaldson, and Rajnish Mehra, (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002) |
|
| 4/5 | Jacek Suda | Menu Costs and Phillips Curves Mikhail Golosov and Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (Working Paper, 2006) |
|
| 4/12 | Aarti Singh | The Cyclical Behavior of
Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Robert Shimer (American Economic Review, 2005) |
Slides |
| 4/19 | Anastasia Zervou | Schumpeterian Growth Theory and the Dynamics
of Income Inequality Philippe Aghion (Econometrica, 2002) |
Slides |
| 5/10 | Yibo Zhang | Public Education, Occupational Choice
and the Growth-Inequality Relationship Huw Lloyd-Ellis (International Economic Review, 2000) |
|
| 5/24 | Burak Uras | The Joint Design of Unemployment
Insurance and Employment Protection: A First Pass Olivier Blanchard and Jean Tirole (Working Paper, 2005) |
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| 5/31 | Yunjong Eo | Volatility and Growth: Credit constraints and
productivity-enhancing investment Philippe Aghion, George-Marios Angeletos, Abhijit Banerjee, and Kalina Manova (Working Paper, 2005) |
|
| 6/7 | Jacek Suda | Anticipated Utility and Rational Expectations as
Approximations of Bayesian Decision Making Timothy Cogley and Thomas J. Sargent (Working Paper, 2005) |