macroeconomics seminar schedule
spring 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
Feb 22
*Thu, 3:30-5pm
at CAS B12

Larry Kotlikoff
(Boston University)
"On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language"
*joint with Jerry Green
Mar 06 Christina Arellano
(Minnesota)
"Capital Structure and Contract Enforcement"
*joint with Yan Bai and Jing Zhang
Mar 13 Spring Break
Mar 20 Randy Wright
(Pennsylvania)
"Money and Capital"
Mar 27 François Gourio
(Boston University)
"The Marginal Worker and the Aggregate Elasticity of Labor Supply"
Apr 03 Jan Eberly
(Northwestern)
"Investment and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark"
*joint with Sergio Rebelo and Nicolas Vincent
Apr 10 Ivan Werning
(MIT)
"Capital Taxation Quantitative Explorations of the Inverse Euler Equation"
*joint with Emmanuel Farhi
Apr 17 Adrien Verdelhan (Boston University) "The Wealth-Consumption Ratio: A Litmus Test for Consumption-based Asset Pricing Models"
Apr 24 Ananth Seshadri
(Wisconsin)
"Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations"
May 01 John Campbell
(Harvard)
"Fight Or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors"
May 03
*Thursday
Sergio Rebelo
(Northwestern)
"Can News About the Future Drive the Business Cycle?"
Fall 2007 schedule and papers
Spring 2007 schedule and papers

Fall 2006 schedule and papers
Spring 2006 schedule and papers