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MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR SCHEDULE (FALL 2009)

Seminars are on selected Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:00 in room 315 at 270 Bay State Road. For more information, contact Professor Leena Rudanko at rudanko@bu.edu.

DATE SPEAKER   TOPIC
September 10 Susanto Basu (Boston College)   "Sector-Specific Technical Change"
joint work with John Fernald, Jonas Fisher, and Miles Kimball
September 17 Jose Fillat (FRB Boston)   "Housing as a Measure for Long-run Risks"
Spetember 24 Ali Ozdagli
(Federal Reserve Bank Boston)		   "Financial Leverage, Corporate Investment and Stock Returns"
October 1
 Berardino Palazzo (Boston University)   "Firms' Cash Holdings and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns"
October 8 Adriano Rampini
(Duke University/Fuqua)		   "Collateral and capital structure"
(with S. Viswanathan)
October 15 John Leahy (New York University)  

"Modeling House Values: Extremal Equilibria in Allocation Markets with Non-Transferable Utility" with Andrew Caplin
October 22 Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
(Princeton University)		   TBA
October 29
CANCELLED		 David Lagakos
(Arizona State University)		   "Specialization, Economic Development and Aggregate Productivity Differences" joint with Mike Waugh, NYU
November 5 Jaromir Nosal (Columbia University)   "Understanding International Prices: Customers as Capital"
November 12 Yongseok Shin
(Washington University)		   "The Dynamics of Reforms"
paper 1, paper 2
November 17 David Lagakos
(Arizona State University)		   "Specialization, Economic Development and Aggregate Productivity Differences" joint with Mike Waugh, NYU
December 3 Leena Rudanko (Boston University)   TBA
December 10 Andrei Levchenko
(University of Michigan)		   TBA
 
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