Fall 2001 Macro

MACRO SEMINARS ON TUESDAY
Fall 2001 Seminars

September

Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Hans Peter Gruner (University of Manheim)
"Redistribution as a Selection Device"

Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Paolo Surico (Università Bocconi)
"Does the FED act cautiously? Evaluating Monetary policy from central banks preferences" (joint with Efrem Castelnuovo) (PDF file, 857Kb)

October

Tuesday, October 2, 2001
Carlo Favero (Università Bocconi and IGIER)
"Does macroeconomics help to explain the term structure of interst rates?"

Thursday, October 9, 2001
Vincenzo Galasso (Carlos III and IGIER)
"Political Sustainability of Italian Pension Reform" (joint with Marcello DAmato) (PDF file, 301K)

Tuesday, October 16, 2001
Massimo Guidolin (Università Bocconi)
"Asset prices on a bayesian learning path" (joint with A. Timmerman) (PDF file, 544K)

Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Pedro Teles (Bank of Portugal)
"Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Equivalence Results" (joint with Isabel Correia and Juan-Pablo Nicolini) (PDF file, 186K)

Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Tommaso Monacelli (Boston College and IGIER)
"Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy" (joint with Jordi Gali)

November

Tuesday, November 6, 2001
Thomas Cooley (New York U., Stern School of Business)
"The New Economy: Some Macroeconomic Implications of the Information Age" (PDF file, 335K)

Tuesday, November 13, 2001
Ellen R. McGrattan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
"The Stock Market Crash of 1929: Irving Fisher Was Right!" (joint with Edward C. Prescott) (PDF file, 415K)

Tuesday, November 20, 2001
Gani Aldashev (Universita Bocconi)
"Endogenous Financial Crises"

Tuesday, November 27, 200
Nacho Conde-Ruiz (EUI and FRDB)
"The Macroeconomics of Early Retirement" (joint with Vincenzo Galasso)