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
Sept 18 Ned Prescott
(Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
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
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"
Fall 2007 schedule and papers
Spring 2007 schedule and papers

Fall 2006 schedule and papers
Spring 2006 schedule and papers