Department of Economics / FAS and
C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics
Macroeconomics Seminar
Spring 2008 Schedule

 

Seminars are held Thursdays from 5:00-6:30pm in Room 517 of 19 W. 4th Street 

Coordinators:
 Prof. Virgiliu Midrigan @ virgiliu.midrigan@nyu.edu

 

Feb. 28th

Francois Velde (Chicago Fed)
“Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold”

 

 

Mar. 6th

Paco Buera (Northwestern)
"Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors"

 

 

Mar. 13th

Hal Cole (Upenn)

"Heterogeneous Trading Strategies in Incomplete Markets"

 

 

Mar. 20th

Spring break

 

 

Mar. 27th

Ricardo Caballero (MIT)
"Collective Risk Management in a Flight to Quality Episode"

 

 

Apr. 3rd

Yongsung Chang (Rochester)
"Can a Representitive Agent Model Represent a Heterogeneous Agent Economy?"

 

 

Apr. 10th

Kjetil Storesletten (Oslo)
"The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States"

 

 

Apr. 17th

Gadi Barlevy (Chicago Fed)
"A Leverage-Based  Model of Speculative Bubbles"

 

 

Apr. 24th

Aleh Tsyvinski (Harvard)
“Decentralized Trade with Private Information”

 

 

May 1st

George Evans (Oregon)
"Risk and Return: a Simple Model of Bubbles and Crashes"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact: 

anne.stubing@nyu.edu