| 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 |
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| Mar 06 | Christina Arellano (Minnesota) |
"Capital Structure and Contract Enforcement" *joint with Yan Bai and Jing Zhang |
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| 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 |
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| Apr 10 | Ivan Werning (MIT) |
"Capital Taxation
Quantitative Explorations of the
Inverse Euler Equation" *joint with Emmanuel Farhi |
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| 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?" | |