Macroeconomics Autumn Seminars 2008

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

All seminars are held from 12.45 to 2.00 pm in ROOM 12, Via Sarfatti 25, unless
otherwise indicated.

Thursday September 18
Luca GUERRIERI (Federal Reserve Board)
"International Competition and Inflation: A New Keynesian Perspective" joint with
Christopher Gust, David Lopez-Salido

Thursday September 25
Daniel TREFLER (University of Toronto)
"Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity ... for Some Plants"
joint with Alla Lileeva, York University

Thursday October 2
Josep PIJOAN-MAS (CEMFI)
"The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: the US-EU Experience"
joint with Claudio Michelacci

Thursday October 9
Marc GIANNONI (Columbia University)
"Optimal Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment" joint with J. Boivin

Thursday October 16
Eric GIRARDIN (GREQAM)
"Does Intervention Alter Private Behavior?" joint with Richard K. Lyons

TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 - OCCASIONAL INTERNAL - ROOM N23, VELODROMO
Tito Boeri (Bocconi University)
"Beyond Eurosclerosis" joint with Pietro Garibaldi

Thursday October 23
Cdric TILLE (GIIS, Geneva)
"International Capital Flows Under Dispersed Information: Theory and Evidence" joint with Eric van Wincoop

Thursday October 30
Ellen MCGRATTAN (FED of Minneapolis)
"Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account" joint with Edward C. Prescott

Thursday November 6
Philippe BACCHETTA (Universit de Lausanne)
"On the Unstable Relationship between Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Fundamentals" joint with Eric van Wincoop

Thursday November 13
Anna LARSSON (Stockholm University)
"Democracy as a Middle Ground: A Unified Theory of Development and Political Regimes" joint with Stephen L. Parente

Thursday November 27
Cristina ARELLANO (University of Minnesota)
"Firm Dynamics and Financial Development" joint with Yan Bai and Jing Zhang

Thursday December 4
Mario FORNI (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
"The Dynamic Effects of Monetary Policy: A Structural Factor Model Approach" joint with Luca Gambetti

Thursday December 11
Adrien VERDELHAN (Boston University)
"Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets" joint with Hanno Lustig and Nick Roussanov

Thursday December 18
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm - ROOM N34, VELODROMO
Vincenzo QUADRINI (University of Southern California)
"Understanding the International Great Moderation" joint with Fabrizio Perri.