Zemon Macro Workshops Fall 2010
Thursdays at 3:45 p.m.
Room 7324 of the Sewell Social Science Building.
Coordinator: Steven Durlauf
- September 9, 2010
James Feyrer, Dartmouth College
"Distance, Trade, and Income -- The 1967 to 1975 Closing of the Suez Canal as a Natural Experiment" pdf. - September 16, 2010
Michele Boldrin, Washington University at St. Louis
"Monetary Policy and Assets Evaluation". - September 23, 2010
Marek Weretka, UW-Madison
"Financial Innovation" joint with Andres Carvajal and Marzena Rostek - September 30, 2010
Benjamin Lester, University of Western Ontario
"Trading Dynamics in Decentralized Markets with Adverse Selection." - October 14, 2010
Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee, UW-Madison
"Entrepreneurs, Managers and Inequality" pdf - November 4, 2010
Randall Wright, UW-Madison
"Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach." - November 11, 2010
François Velde, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"On the Origin of Coinage" - November 15, 2010
Joint with Labor
Rafael Lopes de Melo, University of Chicago
"Labor Market Rents Revisited" - December 2, 2010
Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago
"Optimal Price Setting with Observation and Menu Costs" with Francesco Lippi and Luigi Paciello pdf - December 9, 2010
Benjamin Moll, Princeton
"Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can Self-financing Undo Capital Misallocation?" pdf