| macroeconomics seminar schedule | |||
| fall 2007 | |||
| Seminars are on selected Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2:00 in room 315 at 270 Bay State Road. For more information, contact Professor Francois Gourio at fgourio@bu.edu. | |||
| date | speaker | topic | |
| Sept 11 |
TBA |
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| Sept 18 | Ned Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) |
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| Sept 25 | Gita Gopinath (Harvard) |
"Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-Through" | |
| Oct 02 | Ian Martin (Harvard) |
"Consumption-Based Asset Pricing with Higher Cumulants" | |
| Oct 09 | Robert King (Boston University) |
"Cancelled" | |
| Oct 16 | Xavier Gabaix (NYU Stern) |
"Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates: A Theory of the Forward Premium Puzzle" | |
| Oct 23 | Nick Bloom (Stanford) |
"The impact of uncertainty shocks" | |
| Oct 30 | Yann Algan (Paris School of Economics, visiting MIT) |
"Monetary Policy with Incomplete Markets and Heterogeneous Agents" *joint with Xavier Ragot |
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| Nov 06 | Jeremy Greenwood (U of Pennsylvania) |
"Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs" | |
| Nov 13 | Ernesto Pasten (Boston Univ) |
"Coordinating Expectations by the Informational Role of Taxation" | |
| Nov 20 |
Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
"Collateralized Borrowing And Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice" | |
| Nov 27 | Jun Pan (MIT Sloan) |
"Excess Volatility in the Corporate Bond Market" | |
| Dec 04 | Jianjun Miao (Boston Univ) |
"Ambiguity, Learning, and Asset Returns" | |
| Dec 11 | Lukas Schmid (Wharton&Lausanne) |
"Levered Returns" | |