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Macro Workshops

The Macro workshops are regular and very informal meetings where faculty and graduate students present research ideas, discuss interesting papers or get updates on methods. Everybody is welcome to attend or present. To sign up for a presentation, email Christian Zimmermann. Check the schedule regularly here as short term changes may occur.

All meetings are Wednesdays at 12:20pm, Monteith 339

Date

Presenter

Topic

March 4

Parag Waknis

Getting the Central Bank to Commit: An Experiment in the Search Theory of Money

March 11

Spring Break

March 18

Uluc Aysun

Financial Frictions and the Lending Channel: Cross-country Evidence

March 25

Paul Hsu

Some simple equilibrium models in asset pricing

April 1

Catalina Granda

Underground economy and the business cycle: Some stylized facts

April 8

Christopher Jeffords

Micropolitical Foundations of the Size of Government (A Brief Literature Review Based on the U.S.)

April 15

Matthiew Burnside

Unified growth theory: just how unified?

April 22

Catalina Granda

The Great Moderation

April 29

Sanglim Lee

Credit Risk Transfer and Credit Default Swap

Past workshops: Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008.