Macro/International
Reading Group
Fall
2009
Wednesdays, 12:10 (SHARP) - 1pm in Evans 597 (bring your own lunch if
you want)
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Date |
Speaker |
Paper |
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2-Sep-09 |
Organizational
meeting |
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9-Sep-09 |
Johannes |
Barro, Nakamura, Steinsson, Ursua |
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16-Sep-09 |
Josh |
Christiano, Eichenbaum, Rebelo |
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23-Sep-09 |
Gewei |
Angeletos and La’O |
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30-Sep-09 |
Gisela |
Storesletten, Song, and Zilibotti |
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7-Oct-09 |
Mark |
Acemoglu and
Dell |
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14-Oct-09 |
Pedro |
Ferrero, Gertler and Svensson |
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21-Oct-09 |
Nick |
Guimaraes and
Sheedy |
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28-Oct-09 |
Matteo |
Buera and Shin |
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4-Nov-09 |
Florian |
Student’s work |
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11-Nov-09 |
Holiday |
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18-Nov-09 |
Mu-Jeung |
Student’s work |
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25-Nov-09 |
Lorenz |
Student’s work |
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2-Dec-09 |
Pascal |
Student’s work |
Please send an email to ygorodni@econ.berkeley.edu if you would like to receive announcements or would like to lead one of the discussions.
Here is a list of potentially
interesting papers. Feel free to suggest others.
- Acemoglu
and Dell: Productivity
Differences Between and Within Countries
- Aguiar and Amador: Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation
- Angeletos and La’O: Noisy Business Cycles
- Ferrero, Gertler, and Svensson: Current Account Dynamics and Monetary Policy
- Baratierri,
Basu, and Gottschalk: Some Evidence
on the Importance of Sticky Wages
- Barro, Nakamura, Steinsson, Ursua: Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters
- Bils,
Klenow, and Malin: Reset
Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks
- Blanchard, L’Huillier, and Lorenzoni: News, Noise, and Fluctuations: An Empirical Exploration
- Bloom,
Floetotto, and Jaimovich: Really
Uncertain Business Cycles
- Blume and Easley: You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Belief Selection in Complete and Incomplete Markets
- Buera and Shin: Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms
- Chen and Song: Financial Frictions on Capital Allocation: A Transmission Mechanism of TFP
- Cogley and Sargent: Diverse Beliefs, Survival, and the Market Price of Risk
- Cogley and Sargent: The Market Price of Risk and the risk premium: Legacy of the great depression?
- Christiano, Eichenbaum, Rebelo: When is Government Spending Multiplier Large?
- Curdia and Reis: Correlated
Disturbances and U.S. Business Cycles
- Guimaraes and Sheedy: Sales and Monetary Policy
- Harrison and Kreps: Speculative Investor Behavior in a Stock Market with Heterogeneous Expectations” QJE, vol. 92(2), pp 323-336
- Johnson, Larson, Papageorgiou, and Subramanian: Is Newer Better? The Penn World Table Revisions and the Cross-Country Growth Literature
- Lagakos and Waugh: Specialization, Economic Development and Aggregate Productivity Differences
- Mackowiak,
Moench, Wiederholt: Sectoral
Price Data and Models of Price Setting
- Morris: "Speculative Investor Behavior and Learning", QJE, vol 111(4) pp 1111-1133.
- Nakamura and Steinsson: Lost in Transit: Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market
- Nekarda and Ramey: The Cyclical Behavior of the Price-Cost Markup
- Pearlman and Sargent: Knowing the Forecasts of Others
- Rudebusch and Swanson: The Bond Premium in a DSGE Model with Long-Run Real and Nominal Risks
- Schmid and Gomes: Equilibrium Credit Spreads and the Macroeconomy
- Slawski: The Dynamics of a Speculative Bubble under Learning
- Spolaore
and Wacziarg: “The
Diffusion of Development,” QJE 124(2): 469-529.
- Storesletten, Song, and Zilibotti: Growing Like China
- Townsend: "Forecasting the Forecasts of Others", JPE 91(4) pp 547-587.