macroeconomics seminar schedule
spring 2008
 
Seminars are on selected Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2:00 in room 315 at 270 Bay State Road. For more information, contact Professor Leena Rudanko at rudanko@bu.edu.
     
date speaker   topic
Feb 28
*Thur 3:30-5pm

 Thomas Philippon
(NYU/Stern)
  "The Bond Market's q"
Mar 04 Erzo G.J. Luttmer
(University of Minnesota)
   "On the Mechanics of Firm Growth"
Mar 11 Spring Break    
Mar 18 Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
(University of Pennsylvania, NBER, CEPR, visiting BU 3/17-20)
   "Likelihood Estimation of DSGE Models with Epstein-Zin Preferences"
*joint with Jules H. van Binsbergen
Mar 25 Urban Jermann
(University of Pennsylvania/Wharton)
   "The Equity Premium Implied by Production"
Apr 01 John Cochrane
(University of Chicago/GSB)
   "Inflation Determination with Taylor Rules: A Critical Review"
and "Identification with Taylor Rules: A Critical Review"
Apr 08 Diego Comin
(Harvard University/HBS) 		  "News about Technology, Endogenous Diffusion, the Stock Market and Economic Fluctuations"
Apr 15 Giuseppe Moscarini
(Yale University)		   "The Timing of Labor Market Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis" and "Non-Stationary Search Equilibrium"
Apr 22 Thijs van Rens
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CREI)
   "Wage Rigidity and Job Creation"
Apr 29 Jiang Wang
(MIT/Sloan)		   "Market Liquidity, Asset Prices, and Welfare"
May 06 Lars P. Hansen
(University of Chicago, visiting BU 5/5-8)		   "Modeling the Long Run: Valuation in Dynamic Stochastic Economies"

fall 2007 schedule and papers
spring 2007 schedule and papers
fall 2006 schedule and papers
spring 2006 schedule and papers

     
Apr 30 2008