News and Workshops

Money & Banking Workshop

Spring 2006

This workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Shirley Ogrodowski
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March 28
No meeting

April 4
Luis Araujo (Michigan State)
"Endogenous Supply of Fiat Money" joint research with Braz Camargo

April 11
Marios Angeletos (MIT)
"Efficient Use of Information and Welfare Analysis
with Complementarities and Asymmetric Information"
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/download_pdf.php?id=1229

April 18
Xavier Gabaix (MIT)
"Why has CEO Pay Increased So Much?"
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/download_pdf.php?id=1293
and "Extreme Value Theory and Imperfect Competition"

April 25
Francisco Buera (Northwestern) and Joseph Kaboski (Ohio State)
"The Rise of the Service Economy"
http ://www.faculty.econ.northwestern.edu/faculty/buera/services.pdf

May 9
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (Chicago)
"A Test of Consumption Insurance with Heterogeneous Preferences" joint with Thesis Seminar
http ://home.uchicago.edu/~sschulh1/papers/SchulhoferWohlConsumptionInsurance.pdf

May 16
Iourii Manovskii (Penn and Chicago)
"Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality" joint with Gueorgui Kambourov

May 23
No meeting

May 30
Stefania Garetto (University of Chicago)
"The Economics of Input Sourcing" joint with Thesis Seminar
http://home.uchicago.edu/~garettos/Garetto_06.pdf