Macro Autumn Seminars 2004

MACRO AUTUMN SEMINARS 2004
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER

All seminars are held in ROOM 32, third floor
Via Sarfatti 25, unless otherwise indicated

 September 7            OCCASIONAL SEMINAR joint with IMQ   16:30   AULA TBA
 Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago, CEPR and NBER)
"Was There a NASDAQ Bubble in the Late 1990s?" joint with Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago, CEPR and NBER)

 September 23
 Fabiano Schivardi (Bank of Italy and Harvard)
"Disentangling Employment and Wage Rigidity" joint with Luigi Guiso (University of Sassari and Ente Einaudi) and Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)

 September 30
 Jean Imbs (London Business School and CEPR)
"Competition, Globalization and the Decline of Inflation" with Natalie Chen (Warwick, CEPR) and Andrew Scott (London Business School and CEPR)

 October 7
 Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
"The Cyclicality of New Hires and Separations"

 October 14
 Jeffery Amato (Bank of International Settlements)
"Imperfect Common Knowledge and the Information Value of Prices" joint with Hyun Shin (LSE)

 October 21
 Martin Ellison (University of Warwick and CEPR)
"Strong Contagion with Weak Spillovers" joint with Liam Graham (University of Warwick) and Jonko Vilmunen (Bank of Finland)

 October 28
 Dirk Krueger (University of Frankfurt)
"Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory" joint with Fabrizio Perri (New York Unversity, NBER and CEPR) 

 November 11
 David Stromberg (Institute of International Economic Studies)
"Media Markets' Impact on Politics" joint with James M. Snyder (MIT)

 November 18
 Klaus Adam (European Central Bank)
"Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions without Commitment" joint with Robert Billi (Centre for Financial Studies, Frankfurt)

 November 25
 Salvador Ortigueira (European University Institute)
"Markov-Perfect Optimal Taxation"

 December 2
 TBA

 December 16
 Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics)
"Structural Change in a Multi-sector Model of Growth" joint with Christopher Pissarides (London School of Economics)