News and Workshops

Money & Banking Workshop

Spring 2007

This workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Shirley Ogrodowski
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March 27
No Meeting

April 3
To be announced

April 10
Erik Hurst (University of Chicago)
"Conspicuous Consumption and Race", joint with Kerwin Charles and Nick Roussanov
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/erik.hurst/research/race_consumption_draft_april_8.pdf

April 17
Francois Velde (Chicago Federal Reserve)
"Chronicles of a Deflation Unforetold"
http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/workingpapers/wp2006_12.pdf

April 24
John Sutton (London School of Economics)
"Quality, Trade and the Moving Window: Competitiveness and the Globalization Process"

May 1
Fernando Alvarez and Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
"Search and Rest Unemployment"
http://robert.shimer.googlepages.com/search-rest-print.pdf

May 8
Virgiliu Midrigan (Minneapolis Federal Reserve)
"Sales and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy", joint with Patrick J. Kehoe
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/WP/WP652.pdf

May 15
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (Penn State)
"Trade, Diffusion, and the Gains from Openness"

May 22
Chad Jones (University of California, Berkeley)
"Intermediate Goods and Weak Links: A Theory of Economic Development"
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~chad/links150.pdf

May 29
To be announced