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MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR SCHEDULE (FALL 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
Sept 16


Francisco Buera
(UCLA)
  "Learning the Wealth of Nations"
Sept 23 Iourii Manovskii
(University of Pennsylvania)
   "The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies with Worker Heterogeneity''
Sept 30 Shouyong Shi
(University of Toronto)
   "Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle"
Oct 16* THURSDAY 3:30-5pm Pete Klenow
(Stanford University)		   "Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks"
Oct 21 Roberto Rigobon
(MIT/Sloan)
   "Equilibrium Portfolios and External Adjustment
under Incomplete Markets"
Oct 28

Leonid Kogan
(MIT/Sloan)

   "The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns"
Nov 4 Jianjun Miao
(Boston University)		   "Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk"
Nov 18 Lu Zhang
(University of Michigan/Ross)
   "Investment-Based Expected Stock Returns"
Nov 25 Robert Shimer
(University of Chicago)
   "Unions and Unemployment"
Dec 2 Amir Yaron
(University of Pennsylvania/Wharton) 		  "Risks For the Long Run: Estimation and
Inference"
 
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Dec 1 2008