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Organizers: Larry Christiano, l-christiano@northwestern.edu, Giorgio Primiceri, g-primiceri@northwestern.edu, Mirko Wiederholt, m-wiederholt@northwestern.edu

September 28
Robert Gordon (Northwestern University)
The End of the Great Depression: VAR Insight on the Roles of Monetary and Fiscal Policy (joint with Robert Krenn)

October 5
Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University)
When is the Government Spending Multiplier Large? (joint with Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo)

October 12
Craig Burnside (Duke University)
Risk, Volatility, and the Global Cross-Section of Growth Rates (joint with Alexandra Tabova)

October 19
Gadi Barlevy (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
A Leverage-based Model of Speculative Bubbles

October 26
Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota)
Unequal We Stand: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006 (joint with Jonathan Heathcote and Giovanni L. Violante)

November 2
No Seminar

November 9
Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)
Financial Frictions, Aggregation, and the Lucas Critique (joint with Yongsung Chang and Sun-Bin Kim)

November 16
Don Kohn (Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)
title TBA

November 23
Roger Farmer (UCLA)
Fiscal Policy Can Reduce Unemployment: But There is a Better Alternative

November 30
Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota)
Labor Share and Technology Dynamics (joint with Sekyu Choi)

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