Macro/Growth/International Reading Group
Spring 2008
Fridays, Noon-1pm in Evans 639 (bring your own lunch)
| Date |
Speaker |
Paper |
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02/08/08 |
Organizational meeting |
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| 02/15/08 |
Pierre-Olivier |
Corsetti, Martin and Pesenti (2007), Varieties and the Transfer Problem
Notes here |
02/22/08 |
Nick |
Aguiar and Hurst (2006), Measuring Trends in Leisure
Notes here |
02/29/08 |
Urmila |
Kerr (2007), Ethnicities and International Technology Diffusion |
03/07/08 |
Gisela |
di Giovanni and Levchenko (2008), Putting the Parts Together: Trade, Vertical Linkages, and Business Cycle Comovement |
03/14/08 |
Gewei |
Collard, Dellas, Diba and Stockman (2007), Goods Trade and International Equity Portfolios |
03/21/08 |
Rachita |
Gopinath and Rigobon (2007), Sticky Borders |
03/28/08 |
Spring Break |
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04/04/08 |
Lorenz |
Steinsson (2008), The Dynamic Behavior of the Real Exchange Rate in Sticky Price Models |
04/11/08 |
Yuriy |
"What can survey forecasts tell us about informational rigidities?" (joint with Olivier Coibion) |
04/18/08 |
Nick |
"Non-Homotheticity and the Love of Variety" |
04/25/08 |
Guillermo |
"Intermediate Goods and Bilateral Trade in Value Added" (joint with Rob Johnson) |
05/02/08 |
Carlos |
"Home Bias and Market Power: the European Car Market" |
05/09/08 |
Gewei |
"Heterogeneous Beliefs and International Portfolio Non-diversification" |
05/16/08 |
Dean |
"Commodity prices and monetary policy shocks" |
Please send an email to pog@berkeley.edu if you would like to receive announcements or would like to lead one of the discussions.
Suggestions
Here is a list of potentially interesting papers. Feel free to suggest others.
- Bernheim (1989), Intergenerational Altruism, Dynastic Equilibria and Social Welfare
- Atkeson and Lucas (1992), On Efficient Distribution with Private Information
- Urban Jermann (2006), The Equity Premium Implied by production
- Ricardo Reis (2005), A Cost-of-Living Dynamic Price Index, with an Application to Indexing Retirement Accounts,
- Heathcote, Storesletten and Violante (2006), Insurance and Opportunities: The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion
- Besley and Burgess (2004), Can Labor Regulations Hinder Economic Performance, Evidence from India
- Benabou (2004), Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract
- Acemoglu, Aghion, Griffith and Zilibotti (2004), vertical integration and technology: theory and evidence
- Antras (2003), firms, contracts and trade structure
- Erosa, Koreshkova and Restuccia (2006), On the Aggregate and Distributional Implications of Productivity Differences Across Countries
- Krueger and Lustig (2006), The Irrelevance of Market Incompleteness for the Price of Aggregate Risk
- Farhi and Werning (2006), Capital Taxation: Quantitative Explorations of the Inverse Euler Equation
- Heathcote, Storesletten and Violante (2006), Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework
- Hornstein, Krusell and Violante (2006), Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment
- Burnside, Eichenbaum, Rebelo and Kleshchelski (2006), The Returns to Currency Speculation
- Preston and Roca (2007), Incompete Markets, Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Dynamics
- Klette and Kortum (2004), Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation
- Marimon and Quadrini (2007), Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Enforcement
- Cooley, Marimont and Quadrini (2004), Aggregate Consequences if Limited Enforceability
- Rogerson, Shimer and Wright (2007), Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market - A Survey
- Goldberg and Hellerstein (2007), A Framework for Identifying the Sources of Local Currency Price Stability with an Empirical Application
- Cunat and Melitz (2007), Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage
- Rotemberg (2008), Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
- Eggertsson (2006), Was the New Deal Contractionary?
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