Macroeconomics Spring Seminars 2008

MACROECONOMICS SPRING SEMINARS 2008
Sponsored by the Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi" and IGIER

All seminars are held from 12.45 to 2.00 pm unless otherwise indicated.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12 AT 1:00 pm, ROOM 15, Via Sarfatti 25***OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Fabio CANOVA (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Do Expectations Matter? The Great Moderation Revisited" joint with L. Gambetti

Thursday March 6, Room "Zappa", Via Sarfatti 25
Stefano NERI (Banca d'Italia)
"Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Disconnect: An Empirical Investigation" joint with R. Cristadoro, A. Gerali and M. Pisani

Thursday March 13, Room "Zappa", Via Sarfatti 25
Omar LICANDRO (EUI)
"The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition" joint with D. de la Croix

Thursday March 20
NO SEMINAR

Thursday March 27
NO SEMINAR

Thursday April 3, Room "Zappa", Via Sarfatti 25
Gianni AMISANO (European Central Bank and U. of Brescia)
"A Nonlinear DSGE Model for the Term Structure" (joint with O. Tristani)

Thursday April 10, Room D, Via Sarfatti 25
Andrew SCOTT (London Business School)
"Learning and Price Volatility in Duopoly Models of Resource Depletion" joint with M. Ellison

Thursday April 17, Room C, Via Sarfatti 25
Sebnem KALEMLI-OZCAN (University of Houston)
"Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?"
During the seminar, results from this research paper will also be presented:
"Financial Integration within EU Countries: The Role of Institutions, Confidence and Trust" joint with M. F. Ekinci

Thursday April 24, Room C, Via Sarfatti 25
Michael KRAUSE (Deutsche Bundesbank)
"Aggregate Hours Adjustment with Frictional Labor Markets" joint with Thomas Lubik, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Thursday May 1
NO SEMINAR

Thursday May 8, Room N22, Velodromo, Piazza Sraffa
Marc MELITZ (Princeton University)
"The Dynamics of Firm-Level Adjustment to Trade Liberalization" joint with J. A. Costantini

Thursday May 15, Room E, Via Sarfatti 25
Mattias VILLANI (Sveriges Riksbank)
"Flexible Regression Density Estimation"

Thursday May 22, Room E, Via Sarfatti 25
Giovanni FAVARA (HEC - University of Lausanne)
"House Price Dynamics with Heterogeneous Expectations" joint with Zheng Song

MONDAY MAY 26 AT 12:45 PM, ROOM D, Via Sarfatti 25***OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Massimiliano CROCE (University of North Carolina)
"Long-Run Productivity Risk: A New Hope for Production Based Asset Pricing" Appendix

Thursday May 29, Room E, Via Sarfatti 25
Tommy SVEEN (Norges Bank)
"Lumpy Investment and State-Dependent Pricing in General Equilibrium", joint with M. Reiter and L. Weinke

Thursday June 5, Room C, Via Sarfatti 25
Gianluca VIOLANTE (NYU)
"Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment" joint with A. Hornstein and P. Krusell

MONDAY JUNE 9 AT 12:45 PM, ROOM C, Via Sarfatti 25***OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Giorgio PRIMICERI (Northwestern University)
"Learning the Wealth of Nations" joint with F. Buera and A. Monge

Thursday June 12, Room C, Via Sarfatti 25
Fernando ALVAREZ (University of Chicago)
"Rest Unemployment and Unionization" joint with R. Shimer