Money & Banking Workshop

Fall 2006

This workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Shirley Ogrodowski
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September 26
John Cochrane (University of Chicago)
 "Identification and Price Determination with Taylor Rules: A Critical Review"
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/inconsistency.pdf

October 3
No meeting - Schultz Lecture

October 10
Monika Piazzesi (University of Chicago)
"Inflation and the Price of Real Assets" joint with Martin Schneider.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ms1927/inflationAP.pdf

October 17
Thomas Chaney (University of Chicago)
"How Do Firms React to Balance Sheet Shocks? Evidence from Land Holdings" joint with David Sraer and David Thesmar
http://home.uchicago.edu/~tchaney/research/Collateral.pdf

October 24
Boyan Jovanovic (New York University)
"Investment Options and the Business Cycle"
 http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/jovanovi/seed2.pdf 

October 31
Robert Barro (Harvard University)
"On the Welfare Costs of Consumption Uncertainty"

November 7
Robert Townsend (University of Chicago)
"Welfare Gains from Financial Liberalization" joint with Kenichi Ueda

November 14
Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago) 
"Financial Innovation and the Transactions Demand for Cash" joint with Francesco Lippi
http://home.uchicago.edu/~falvare/workingp.html

November 21
James Heckman (University of Chicago)
"The Evolution of Labor Earnings Risk in the U.S. Economy" joint with Flavio Cunha
http://jenni.uchicago.edu/papers/evo-earn-minfed_all_2006-10-25c_mms.pdf

November 28
Pierre-Olivier Weill (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?" joint with Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
   www.econ.ucla.edu/poweill/houseprice.pdf

December 5
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