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Macro and International Finance Seminar Series

Seminars are held at 2115 G St., NW in the Department of Economics John W. Kendrick Seminar Room (Monroe 321) from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Past Events

Thurs., 30 August 2007
Maral Kichian (Bank of Canada)
Title: TBA
Weds., 5 Sept 2007 Tara Sinclair (GWU)
"Asymmetry in the Business Cycles: A New Unobserved Components Model"
Weds., 19 Sept 2007 Ivan Jaccard (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton)
"Asset Pricing, Habit Memory, and the Labor Market "
Weds., 26 Sept 2007 Julia Bersch (University of Munich)
"When Countries Do Not Do What They Say: Systematic Discrepancies Between Exchange Rate Regime Announcments and De Facto Policies"
Weds., 10 Oct 2007 Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota)
"'The Great Moderation' and the U.S. External Imbalance"
Weds., 17 Oct 2007 Boragan Aruoba (Maryland)
"Insights from an Estimated Search-Based Monetary Model"
Weds., 24 Oct 2007
Gita Gopinath (Harvard)
"Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-Through"
Weds., 31 Oct 2007 Marika Santoro (Congressional Budget Office)
"A Stylized Tax Reform in Presence of Precautionary Saving"
Weds., 7 Nov 2007
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Pamela Labadie (GWU)
"Anonymity and Individual Risk"
Weds., 16 Jan 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Etienne Gagnon (Federal Reserve Board)
"Price Setting during Low and High Inflation: Evidence from Mexico"
Weds., 23 Jan 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Chao Wei (GWU)
"On the Importance of Progressivity in Dividend Taxation"
Weds., 6 Feb 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Enrica Detragiache (International Monetary Fund)
"Financial Reforms, Openness, and Corporate Borrowing: International Evidence"
Weds., 13 Feb 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Jinhui Bai (Georgetown)
"On the 'Faustian Dynamics' of Policy and Political Power"
Weds., 20 Feb 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Anton Korinek (Maryland)
"Dollar Borrowing in Emerging Markets"
Mon., 25 Feb 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Roberto Samaniego (GWU)
"Technology and Finance Dependence"
Weds., 27 Feb 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Martin Bodenstein (Federal Reserve Board)
"Oil Shocks and External Adjustment"
Weds., 12 March 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Carlos Vegh (Maryland)
"Optimal Monetary Policy Under Asset Market Segmentation"
Weds., 2 April 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Vivian Yue (NYU)
"A solution to the default risk-business cycle disconnect"
Mon., 7 April 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Chao Wei (GWU)
"Taxation and Asset Pricing in a Production Economy"
Weds., 9 April 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Stephen Brown (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
"Globalization, Oil Price Shocks and U.S. Economic Activity"
Weds., 16 April 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Varieties and the Transfer Problem: The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment"
Weds., 30 April 2008
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Roberto Chang (Rutgers University)
"Elections, Capital Flows, and Politico Economic Equilibria"

Last updated: Monday, 23 June 2008