General Information

We meet every Tuesday, 5:45pm-7pm, in Eads Hall 209.

Participants: Professor James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Aarti Singh, Anastasia Zervou, Yibo Zhang, Yunjong Eo, Burak Uras, Francesco Carli, Jiaren Pang, Luiggi Donayre, Daniel Sanchez, Jacek Suda, and from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Riccardo DiCecio.

Schedule

Date Presenter Paper Comments
2/6 Burak Uras Adverse Selection and the Financial Accelerator
Christopher L. House (Journal of Monetary Economics 53(6), 2006)
2/13 Weather Snowstorm in St. Louis
2/20 Anastasia Zervou Limited Asset Market Participation and the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Journal of Political Economy, 2002)
Slides
2/27 Daniel Sanchez Money and Capital as Competing Media of Exchange
Ricardo Lagos and Guillaume Rocheteau (Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming)
3/6 no meeting
3/13 Yibo Zhang on dynamic optimal taxation
3/20 Francesco Carli When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin and Peter Howitt (working paper, 2006)
3/27 Luiggi Donayre Nonlinearity in the FED's Monetary Policy Rule
Dong Heon Kim, Denise Osborn and Marianne Sensier (Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005)
4/3 Yunjong Eo Understanding How Employment Responds to Productivity Shocks When Firms Hold Inventories
Yongsung Chang, Andreas Hornstein and Pierre-Daniel Sarte (working paper, 2006)
5:00pm-6:00pm
4/10 no meeting
4/17 Aarti Singh Human Capital Risk and Economic Growth
Tom Krebs (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003)
4/24 Riccardo DiCecio Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend
Mark Aguiar and Gita Gopinath (Journal of Political Economy, 2007)
1/5 Jacek Suda

 

 


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