Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

News and Workshops

Money & Banking Workshop

Winter 2008

This workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Shirley Ogrodowski
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February 5
To be announced

February 12
Janet Eberly
(Northwestern University)
"Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transactions Costs" joint with Andrew B. Abel and Stavros Panageas
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/eberly/htm/Research/research.htm

February 19
Christopher Sims
(Princeton University)
"Rational Inattention as a Source of inertia and Discrete Jumps in Behavior"
http://sims.princeton.edu/yftp/RIplus/

February 26
Richard Kihlstrom
(Wharton)
"Risk Aversion and the Elasticity of Substitution in General Dynamic Portfolio Theory: Consistent Planning by Forward Looking, Expected Utility Maximizing Investors"

March 4
Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)
"Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run"
http://www.wwz.unibas.ch/witheo/aleks/BMWII/BMWII.html

March 11
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