Macro Finance Seminar

Fall 2004

Tuesdays 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, 211 SHDH

September 21 Naryana Kocherlakota, Stanford "Asset Pricing Implications of Pareto Optimality with Private Information"
     
September 28 Chao Wei, George Washington "Unexpected Inflation, Firm Characteristics, and Equity Returns
in a New-Keynesian Model
" (abstract)
     
October 5 Guido Lorenzoni, MIT "Imperfect Information, Consumers’ Expectations and Business Cycles"
     
October 12 Julia Thomas, Minnesota "Idiosyncratic shocks and the role of nonconvexities in plant and aggregate investment dynamics"
     
October 19 Lars Svensson, Princeton "Time Consistency of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A Solution"
     
October 26 Zvi Hercowitz, Rochester "The Role of Households’ Collateralized Debt in Macroeconomic Stabilization"
     
November 2 Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford "Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle"
     
November 9 Chris Phelan, Minneapolis Fed "Tax Riots"
     
November 16 Adriano Rampini, Northwestern "New or Used? Investment with Credit Constraints"
     
November 23 Omer Brav, job market talk "How Does Access to the Public Capital Market Affect Firms’ Capital Structure?"
     
November 30 John Leahy, NYU "A Phillips Curve with an Ss Foundation"
     
December 7 John Campbell, Harvard "In Search of Distress Risk"



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