Course requirements

   Workshops take place Mondays, from 2:40 to 4:10 p.m. in 200 Fisher Hall

   Date    Speaker and Talk

   2/24   Olivier Jean Blanchard, MIT, "The Decline of Rents and the Rise and Fall of 
                European Unemployment"

   3/3    Michael Kremer, Harvard University, "Globalization and Inequality"

   3/10   Joint with Princeton economics department seminar on 3/12

   3/12   Princeton economics department seminar: Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University 
                (4:15 in 200 Fisher Hall)

   3/17   Spring Break

   3/24   Rafael Rob, University of Pennsylvania, "Vintage Capital, Distortions and Development"

   3/31   Hugo A. Hopenhayn, University of Rochester, "A Theory of Financing Constraints and
                Firm Dynamics"

   4/7    Gianluca Violante, New York University, "The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage
                Inequality in the US"

   4/14   Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University, "Structural Transformation and Cross-Country Income Differences

   4/21   Amir Yaron, University of Pennsylvania, "Risks for the Long Run: A Potential
                "Resolution of the Equity Premium Puzzle"

   4/28   Andrew Caplin and John Leahy, New York University, "The Absent Minded Consumer"
                and "Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan"

     Organizers: Guido Lorenzoni and Jonathan Parker

     Administrator: Jennifer Paslowski (609) 258-4006