Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

News and Workshops

Money & Banking Workshop

Autumn 2009

This workshop meets Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Lenka Reznicek.

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Schedule

September 29
No meeting

October 6
Jonas Fisher
(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
"Using Stock Returns to Identify Government Spending Shocks" (joint with Ryan Peters)

October 13
Ben Moll
(University of Chicago)
"Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can Self-financing Undo Capital Misallocation?"

October 20
Marc Teignier-Baque (University of Chicago)
"The Role of Trade in Structural Transformation"

October 27
Nicholas Trachter
(University of Chicago)
"Chutes and Ladders in Post-Secondary Education: Academic 2-year Colleges as a Stepping Stone"

November 3
Martin Eichenbaum
(Northwestern University; Chicago Booth School visiting professor)
"When is the Government Spending Multiplier Large?" (joint with Lawrence Christiano and Sergio Rebelo)

November 10
Ulrich Doraszelski
(Harvard University)
"Learning-by-Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynamics" (joint with David Besanko, Yaroslav Kryukov, and Mark Satterthwaite)

November 17
Samuel Kortum
(University of Chicago)
"Trade and the Global Recession" (joint with Jonathan Eaton, Brent Neiman, and John Romalis)

November 24
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
(Princeton University)
"Spatial Development" (joint with Klaus Desmet)

December 1
Giorgio Primiceri
(Northwestern University)
"Learning the Wealth of Nations" (joint with Francisco J. Buera and Alexander Monge-Naranjo)


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