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Macro/International Macro Seminar 
Fall 2011
 
Mondays: 2:55-4:25 p.m.
Location: 200 Fisher Hall
Visitor Office: B14
 
September 12 Jesús Fernández Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania
  Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity
   
September 19 John H. Cochrane, The University of Chicago
  Determinacy and Identification with Taylor Rules
   
September 26 Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
  A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal
Stimulus Payments*
 
   
October 3 Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  “Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach”
   
October 10 Raj Chetty, Harvard University
  Joint with IRS/Labor Economics Seminar
   "Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions:
A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply"
  *Seminar will be at 4:30pm in 200 Fisher Hall
   
October 17  Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
   Financial Markets and Unemployment
   
October 26 Department Wide Seminar
   
October 31 Fall Break
   
November 7 Karel Mertens, Cornell University
  The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States*
   
November 14 Satyajit Chatterjee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  A Quantitative Analysis of the US Housing and Mortgage Markets and the Foreclosure Crisis
   
November 21 Gianluca Violante, New York University
  Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market*
   
November 24 Thanksgiving
   
December 5 Ricardo Lagos, New York University
   "Trade Dynamics in the Market for Federal Funds"
   
December 12 Kjetil Storesletten, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  "Chinese Growth in the Face of a Demographic Transition"
   
  For Faculty: Please sign-up for a meeting with seminar guest here
   
  If you have questions please contact: Elizabeth Smolinski   
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