Money & Banking Workshop

Spring 2008

This workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Shirley Ogrodowski
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April 1
Christian Broda (University of Chicago)
"Inequality and Prices: Does China Benefit the Poor in America?"
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/christian.broda/website/research/unrestricted/Research.htm

April 8
Aspen Gorry (University of Chicago)
"Labor Market Connections, Minimum Wages, and Youth Employment"

April 15
Ali Ozdagli (University of Chicago)
"Financial Frictions and Corporate Investment"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~ozdagli/ozdagli041508.pdf

April 22
Ivan Werning (MIT)
"The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation" joint with Emmanuel Farhi
The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation

April 29
Sergio Rebello (Northwestern University)
"Investment and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark"
 Joint with Janice Eberly and Nicolas Vincent
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/rebelo/htm/tobin.pdf

May 6
Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago)
"Fund Managers and Defaultable Debt" joint with Peter Kondor 

May 13
Ariel Burstein (UCLA)
"Prices and Market Shares in a Menu Cost Model" joint with Christian Hellwig
 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/arielb/menucost.pdf

May 20
Syndey Ludvigson (New York University)
"An  Estimation of Economic Models with Recursive Preferences"
Joint with Xiaohong Chen and Jack Favilukis
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/ludvigsons/rcp.pdf  

May 27
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
"Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates" joint with Xavier Gabaix
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/farhi/files/RareFX.pdf

June 3
Robert Lucas (University of Chicago)
To be announced


Economics Workshops and Seminars:
500 Economic Theory
512 Econometrics
516 Applied Dynamic Economics
530 Money & Banking
590 Applications of Economics
Rational Choice
592 Economics Policy and Public Finance