Joint Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Northwestern University Workshop in Macroeconomics
The workshop normally meets on Monday afternoon from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Economics Department Lecture Room (Andersen 3245). Workshop organizers: Francisco Buera and Giorgio Primiceri, f-buera@northwestern.edu and g-primiceri@northwestern.edu, phone 847-491-8233 and 847-491-5395
March 31
John Taylor (Stanford University)
"Suan Bies Lecture"
April 7
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Kerkeley)
"Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle" with Olivier Jeanne (IMF)
April 14
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn)
"Working with Epstein-Zin Preferences: Computation and Likelihood Estimation of DSGE Models with Recursive Preferences"
April 21
Chang-Tai Hsieh (GSB-Chicago)
"Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India" with Pete Klenow (Stanford)
April 28
Fernando Alvarez (Chicago)
"Financial Innovation and the Transactions Demand for Cash" with Francesco Lippi
May 5
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard)
"The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation" with Ivan Werning
May 12
Bruce Preston (Columbia)
"Business Cycle Fluctuations and Adaptive Learning"
May 19
Gita Gopinath (Harvard)
"TBA"
May 29 (Deparment Wide Seminar)
Robert Townsend (Chicago)
"Evaluating the Financial Systems of Emerging Market Economies: Applied General Equilibrium Development Economics"
May 30 (joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar)
Robert Townsend (Chicago)
"Enterprise Dynamics and Finance: Distinguishing Mechanism Design from Exogenously Incomplete Markets Models"
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