Boston University Department of Economics

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR SCHEDULE (SPRING 2009) *TENTATIVE*

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
March 3	Hui Chen (MIT)	“Generalized Transform Analysis of Affine Processes And Asset Pricing Applications”
March 24	Gianluca Violante (NYU)	“How Much Insurance in Bewley Models?”
March 26 SPECIAL 3:30-5pm	Fernando Alvarez (Chicago)	"Search and Rest Unemployment"
March 31	Mike Woodford (Columbia)	"Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing"
April 7	Filippo Taddei (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino)	"What if Ageing was the Only Investment? The Role of Credit Market Imperfections and the Age Profile of Earnings"
April 14	Stijn van Nieuwerburgh (NYU)	"The Cross-Section and Time-Series of Stock and Bond Returns"
April 21	Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA)	"Liquidity shocks and order book dynamics"
April 28	Jean-Olivier Hairault (Paris-l)	"Unemployment dynamics and the cost of business cycles"

Fall 2008 Schedule and Papers
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Fall 2007 Schedule and Papers
Spring 2007 Schedule and Papers
Fall 2006 Schedule and Papers
Spring 2006 Schedule and Papers
August 24, 2009