Macroeconomics Seminars Autumn 2005

MACROECONOMIC AUTUMN 2005 SEMINARS ON THURSDAYS
sponsored by IEP and IGIER

All seminars are held in Room 24, Second floor,
Via Sarfatti, 25
, at 12:45 pm, unless otherwise indicated.

 September

Thursday, September 22 
David Lopez-Salido (Bank of Spain and CEPR)
"Borrowing Limits, Housing Prices, and Multiple Equilibria"   Figures

Thursday, September 29 
Nicoletta Batini (IMF)
"Model Uncertainty and the Gains from Coordinating Monetary Rules" joint with A. Justiniano, P. Levine and J. Pearlman       

 October

Thursday, October 6
Thomas Philippon (New York University, Stern)
"Concentrated Ownership and Labour Relations" joint with Holger Mueller                

Thursday, October 13
Matteo Iacoviello (Boston College) 
"Household Debt and Income Inequality: 1963-2003"              

Thursday, October 20  
Francesco Busato (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
"Skills, Sunspots and Cycles" joint with Enrico Marchetti             

Thursday, October 27
David Andolfatto (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)
"Moral Hazard and Equilibrium Bank Runs" joint with Ed Nosal

 November

Thursday, November 10
Francesco Caselli (London School of Economics)
"Dynastic Management"  (joint with Nicola Gennaioli)         

Thursday, November 17
Eric Swanson (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
"Does Inflation Targeting Anchor Long-Run Inflation Expectations? Evidence from Long-Term Bond Yields in the U.S., U.K. and Sweden" joint with Refet Gurkaynak and Andrew Levin           

Thursday, November 24
Guido Ascari (Università di Pavia)
"Trend Inflation, Taylor Principle and Indeterminacy" joint with Tiziano Ropele 

Tuesday, November 29            Frontiers in Labour Economics   - ROOM 22
Joint seminar with the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

Juan Francisco Jimeno
"The Private and Fiscal Returns to Schooling: A General Framework and Some Results for EU countries" joint with Angel de la Fuente         

 December

Thursday, December 1
Gilles Saint-Paul (University of Toulouse)
"Making Sense of Bolkestein-bashing: trade liberalization under segmented labor markets"            

 Thursday, December 15
George-Marios Angeletos (MIT) 
"Efficiency and Welfare with Complementarities and Asymmetric Information"         

Monday, December 19     OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Stefania Albanesi (Columbia University)
"Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information"