Macroeconomic Seminars Spring 2006
MACROECONOMICS SPRING SEMINARS 2006
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER
All Seminars are held in ROOM 24, Third Floor
via Sarfatti, 25 at 12.45 unless otherwise indicated
| March |
Thursday, March 2nd
Gianluca Benigno (LSE)
"Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy for a Small Open Economy" joint with Bianca De Paoli
Thursday, March 9th
Franceso Giavazzi (Università Bocconi, CEPR, NBER)
"Waiting for Reforms that Never Come: Saving and Work in Germany"
joint with Michael McMahon
Thursday, March 16th
Gal Hochman (Israel Institute of Technology)
"The Corruption of Transition" joint work with David Zilberman
Thursday, March 23rd
Zvi Hercowitz (Tel Aviv University)
"The Role of Collaterized Household Debt in Macroeconomics Stablization"
joint work with Jeffrey R. Campbell
Friday, March 24th OCCASSIONAL SEMINAR Aula D
Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
"Learning, Multiplicity and the Timing of Attacks in a Dynamic Global Game of Regime Change" Joint with George-Marios Angeletos and Christian Hellwig
| April |
Thursday, April 6th
Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)
"Incomplete Wage Posting" joint work with Javier Suarez
Thursday, April 20th
Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Down or Out: Assessing The Welfare Costs of Household Investment Mistakes" joint work with Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell
Thursday, April 27th
Paolo Manasse (Università di Bologna)
Procyclical Fiscal Policy: Shocks, Rules, and InstitutionsA View From MARS
| May |
Thursday, May 4th
Michele Boldrin (University of Minnesota)
"A Model of Growth and Cycles" joint with Jesus Fernandez Villaverde
Thursday, May 11th
Nicola Gennaioli (IIES Stockholm)
"Bankruptcy Litigation and Debt Contracts" (joint with Stefano Rossi)
Monday, May 15th ROOM: 33
Signe Krogstrup (The Graduate of Institute of International Studies - Geneva)
"A Common Pool Theory of Deficit Bias Correction" joint with Charles Wyplosz
Thursday, May 25th
Andrea Vindigni (Princeton)
"Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States" joint work con Daron Acemoglu and Davide Ticchi
| June |
Monday, June 12th ROOM: 23
Richard Dennis (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
"The Frequency of Price Adjustment and New Keynesian Business Cycle Dynamics"