News and Workshops
Money & Banking Workshop
Spring 2005
This workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Shirley
Ogrodowski
March 29
Hal Cole (UCLA)
“A
Dynamic Theory of Optimal Capital Structure and Executive Compensation”
joint with Andrew Atkeson.
April 5
Samuel Kortum (University of Minnesota)
“Moore's
Law and the Semiconductor Industry: A Vintage Model” joint with
Ana Aizcorbe.
April 12
John Leahy (New York University)
"A Phillips
Curve with an Ss Foundation" joint with Mark Gertler.
April 19
Ivan Werning (MIT)
"Inequality
and Social Discounting" joint with Emmanuel Farhi.
April 26
Balazs Szentes (University of Chicago)
“Competition
for Default” joint with Natalia Kovrijnykh.
May 3
Espen Moen (Northwestern University)
“Incentives
in Competitive Search Equilibrium and Wage Rigidity”
May 10
Marcelo Veracierto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
"Firing
Costs and Business Cycle Fluctuation"
May 17
No meeting
May 24
Onsel Emre (University of Chicago)
"Designing Optimal Social Security" joint with thesis proposal.
May 31
Bin Li (University of Chicago)
"Measuring the Effects of Monetary Shocks with VARs" joint with
thesis proposal.
June 7
No meeting
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
