Macro Seminar Series FALL 2003 2004

FALL 2003/2004 Macro Seminar Series
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER

All seminars are held in Room 203, via Sarfatti 25, from 12:45 pm to 2:30 pm, unless otherwise indicated.

 September

Thursday, September 11                  OCCASIONAL SEMINAR, joint  IMQ, IGIER-IEP, Centro Paolo Baffi   
Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago, CEPR and NBER)   TIME: 16:30   AULA N01
"Stock Prices and IPO Waves" joint with Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago, CEPR and NBER)

Thursday, September 18
No seminar scheduled

Thursday, September 25
Luca Dedola (European Central Bank)
"International Risk-sharing and the Transmission of Productivity Shocks" joint with Giancarlo Corsetti (European University Institute and CEPR) and Sylvain Leduc (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
 

 October

Thursday, October 2
Nobu Kiyotaki (London School of Economics)
"Liquidity, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy" joint with John Moore (Edinburgh University and LSE)

Thursday, October 9
Alex Wolman (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
"Monetary Discretion, Pricing Complementarity and Dynamic Multiple Equilibria" joint with Robert King (Boston University)

Thursday, October 16
David Laibson (Harvard University)
"Instantaneous Gratification" joint with Christopher Harris (Cambridge University)

Thursday, October 30
Lars Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)
"The European Employment Experience" joint with Thomas Sargent (New York University and Hoover Institution)
 

 November

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4         PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT DATE
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Duke University)
"Simple Optimal Implementable Monetary and Fiscal Rules" joint with Martin Uribe (Duke University)

Thursday, November 6          16:30
Elys Jouini (CEREMADE Universit Paris 9-Dauphine)         Joint with IMQ and Centro Paolo Baffi

"Consensus Consumer and Intertemporal Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Beliefs" joint with C.Napp (CEREMADE Universit Paris 9-Dauphine and CREST)

Thursday, November 20
Frank Smets (European Central Bank)
"Shocks and Frictions in U.S. Business Cycles: A Bayesian DSGE Approach" joint with Raf Wouters (National Bank of Belgium)

Thursday, November 27 
Ilian Mihov (INSEAD)
"The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Rules in the U.S. States" joint with Antonio Fatas (INSEAD)

Additional related paper: "The Case for Restricting Fiscal Policy Discretion"

 December

Thursday, December 4
Antonio Merlo (University of Pennsylvania)
"Do Citizens Vote Strategically (If They Vote at All)?" joint with Arianna Degan (University of Rochester and UQAM)

Thursday, December 11
Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin)
"International Investment Patterns" joint with Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (IMF and CEPR)

Thursday, December 18
Massimo Rostagno (European Central Bank)
"The Great Depression and the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis" joint with Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University) and Roberto Motto (ECB)