Ettinger Fund Workshop in Macroeconomics

Schedule for Spring 2008

Seminars are held on Mondays from 11:40 - 12:55 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383, unless otherwise noted.

The workshop organizer is Mark Wright.

Apr 7 Stavros Panageas  (Wharton) :  "Optimal retirement benefit guarantees"
Apr 14 Martin Eichenbaum  (Northwestern) :  "Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities"
Apr 21 Gita Gopinath  (Harvard) :  "Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through"
Joint with Workshop in International and Development Economics
Apr 28 Sam Kortum  (Chicago) :  "Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment"
Wednesday,
May 7
Dan Trefler  (Toronto) :  "Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity ... for Some Plants"
Friday,
May 9
Warren Young  (Bar Ilan University (Israel)) :  "Kydland-Prescott, Long-Plosser, and King-Plosser: development and cross-fertilization, referees and revision "  -- Joint with USC Marshall School of Business Special time: 3:30 - 5:00
Note: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383
May 12 Emi Nakamura  (Columbia) :  "Accounting for Incomplete Pass-through"
Joint with Laub Foundation Workshop in Industrial Organization
May 19 Marco Bassetto  (Chicago Fed) :  "TBA"
Friday,
May 30
Steve Leroy  (UCSB) :  "Subprime Mortgages"
Jun 2 Esteban Rossi-Hansberg  (Princeton) :  "Organizing Growth"