Macro/Growth/International
Reading Group
Spring
2009
Wednesdays, Noon (SHARP) - 1pm in Evans 506 (bring your own lunch if
you want)
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Speaker
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02/04/09
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Organizational
meeting
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02/11/09
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Lorenz
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Heathcote, Storesletten & Violante (2006)
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02/18/09
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Nick
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Gopinath
& Itskhoki (2008)
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02/25/09
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Pedro
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Woodford
(2008)
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03/04/09
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Salif
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Barsky &
Sims (2008)
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03/11/09
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Urmila
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Petrin & Levinsohn
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03/18/09
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Gee Hee
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Jaimovich, Eichenbaum, & Rebelo
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03/25/09
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Spring break
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04/01/09
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Eva
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Bloom (2008)
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04/08/09
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Josh
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Buera,
Kaboski, & Shin
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04/15/09
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Lorenz/Salif
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Work-in-progress
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04/22/09
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Pedro/Rick
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Work-in-progress
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04/29/09
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Urmila/Pascal
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Work-in-progress
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05/06/09
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GeeHee/Josh
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Work-in-progress
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05/13/09
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Gewei/Nick
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Work-in-progress
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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.
- Jaimovich, Eichenbaum, Rebelo (2008) Reference
Prices and Nominal Rigidities
- Bloom (2008), The Impact
of Uncertainty Shocks
- Angeletos & La’o (2008) Dispersed
Information over the Business Cycle Optimal Fiscal
and Monetary Policy
- Guimaraes,
Sheedy (2008) Sales and Monetary
Policy
- Rudebusch,
& Swanson, (2009) The Bond Premium
in a DSGE Model with Long-Run Real and Nominal Risks
- Buera,
Kaboski, & Shin (2008) Finance
and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors
- Barsky
& Sims (2008), Information,
Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence
- Fernández-Villaverde
(2009), The Econometrics of
DSGE Models
- Kryvtsov
& Midrigan (2008), Inventories, Markups, and Real
Rigidities in Menu Cost Models
- Brunnermeier
& Pedersen (2008), Market
Liquidity and Funding Liquidity
- Atkeson
& Kehoe (2008), On the
Need for a New Approach to Analyzing Monetary Policy
- Burstein
& Jaimovich (2008), Understanding
Movements in Aggregate and Product-Level Real-Exchange Rates
- Chari,
Kehoe, McGrattan (2008), New
Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis
- Woodford
(2008), Information-Constrained
State-Dependent Pricing
- Gopinath
& Itskhoki (2008), Frequency
of Price Adjustment and Pass-through
- Erosa,
Koreshkova and Restuccia (2006), On the
Aggregate and Distributional Implications of Productivity Differences
Across Countries
- Krueger
and Lustig (2006), The
Irrelevance of Market Incompleteness for the Price of Aggregate Risk
- Farhi
and Werning (2006), Capital
Taxation: Quantitative Explorations of the Inverse Euler Equation
- Heathcote,
Storesletten and Violante (2006), Consumption
and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework
- Hornstein,
Krusell and Violante (2006), Frictional
Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment
- Preston
and Roca (2007), Incompete
Markets, Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Dynamics
- Goldberg
and Hellerstein (2007), A
Framework for Identifying the Sources of Local Currency Price Stability
with an Empirical Application
- Arellano & Ramanarayanan, Default and
Maturity Structure in Foreign Bonds
- Drozd & Nosal, Understanding
International Prices: Customers as Capital
- Lustig, Roussanov,
Verdelhan, Common
Risk Factors in Currency Markets
- Rodríguez-Clare, Ramondo, The
Gains from Openness: Trade, Multinational Production, and Diffusion
- McGrattan & Prescott, Technology
Capital and the U.S. Current Account
- Guerrieri & Kondor, Fund
Managers and Defaultable Debt
- Hugo Hopenhayn & Werning, Equilibrium Default
- Petrin & Levinsohn, Measuring
Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant Level Data
- Azzimonti, Battaglini, & Coate, On the Case for a
Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- Midrigan & Kehoe, Sticky Prices and Real
Exchange Rates in the Cross-Section
- Midrigan, Menu Costs,
Multi-Product Firms and Aggregate Fluctuations.