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Boston College Macroeconomics and Financial Economics Seminar

Susanto Basu  Kit Baum  Fabio Ghironi
Matteo Iacoviello  Peter Ireland  Robert Murphy  Fabio Schiantarelli 

Fall 2007 Schedule

Organizers:
Susanto Basu and Peter Ireland

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All seminars are held on Thursdays, 3:30-5:00 P.M., 21 Campanella Way, Seminar Room 429 (unless otherwise noted).

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept. 13

Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

"A Defense of RBC: Understanding the Puzzling Effects of Technology Shocks" (w/P. Wang)

 

Sept. 21, Friday, Boston College - McGuinn 521

Green Line Macro Workshop

Program

 

Sept. 26, Wednesday, Gasson 309

Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin

"International Trade in Durable Goods: Understanding Volatility, Cyclicality, and Elasticities" (w/J. Wang)

 

Oct. 4

Michelle Alexopoulos, University of Toronto

"Measuring Our Ignorance, One Book at a Time: New Indicators of Technological Change, 1909-1949" (w/J. Cohen)

 

Oct. 11

Emanuela Cardia, University of Montreal

"Household Technology: Was it the Engine of Liberation?"

 

Oct. 18

Ricardo Caballero, MIT

"Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective" (w/P. Antras)

 

Nov. 1

Andrew Abel, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

"Optimal Capital Income Taxation"

 

Nov. 8

Gianluca Benigno, LSE, Visiting Federal Reserve Bank of New York

"Optimal Stabilization Policy in a Model with Endogenous Sudden Stops" (w/H. Chen, C. Otrok, A. Rebucci, E. Young)

Nov. 15

N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University

"The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution"" (w/M. Weinzierl)

Dec. 7, Friday, Boston University

Green Line Macro Workshop

Program TBA


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