Matthias Doepke, UCLA

Macro Reading Group

This is the home page for the Macro Reading Group at UCLA. We meet on Wednesdays from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. in Bunche 2249.

The highlighted papers are available online.

Program for Winter 2007

Topics: Game-theoretic approaches to macroeconomic policy

Date Paper Presenter
April 17 Yuliy Sannikov: "Games with Imperfectly Observable Actions in Continuous Time" Guillermo Ordonez
May 1 Chari and Kehoe: "Sustainable Plans," "Sustainable Plans and Mutual Default" David Lagakos
May 8 Athey, Atkeson, Kehoe: "On the Optimal Degree of Discretion in Monetary Policy" Tani Fukui
May 22 Cooley, Marimon, Quadrini: "Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability" David Lagakos
May 29 Battaglini and Coate: "A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation, and Debt" Simeon Alder
Jun 5 Marco Bassetto: "A Game Theoretic View of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level," "The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level"
Kocherlakota and Phelan: "Explaining the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level"
Federico de Francesco

Programs for Earlier Quarters


Matthias Doepke / UCLA / May 22, 2007
Send me mail: doepke@econ.ucla.edu.