Macroeconomics Seminar

Spring 2012

Seminars are on selected Thursdays in room 315 from 3:30-5:00 PM at 270 Bay State Road. For more information, contact Professor Stefania Garetto at garettos@bu.edu, or Alisdair McKay at amckay@bu.edu.

Date Speaker Topic
Mar. 1 Randy Wright (Wisconsin) Innovation and Growth with Financial, and other, Frictions
Mar. 22 Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA) Labor Market Frictions, Firm Growth, and International Trade
Mar. 29 Giorgio Topa (NY Fed) Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market
April 5 Shouyong Shi (U Toronto) Customer Relationship and Sales
April 12 Nicolas Coeurdacier (Sciences-Po, visiting MIT) Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy
April 19 Ignacio Presno (Boston Federal Reserve) Sovereign Default Risk and Uncertainty Premia” (joint work with Demian Pouzo)
April 26 Anton Korinek (U Maryland) Bailouts and Financial Innovation: Market Completion Versus Rent Extraction
May 3 Todd Walker (Indiana) Information Equilibria in Dynamic Economies with Dispersed Information

For BU School of Management Finance Seminar Schedule,  click here.