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2008 Seminars

Seminar speakers visit for one day to make a presentation.

Presenter Affiliation Topic
Jose-Luis Alcado European Central Bank Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What Do Twenty-Three Million Bank Loans Say about the Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk?
George Alessandria with Joe Kaboski and Virgiliu Midrigan Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations
H. Franklin Allen The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Interbank Market Liquidity and Central Bank Intervention
Antje Berndt Carnegie Mellon University Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in the Originate-to-Distribute Model of Bank Credit
Truman Bewley Yale University An Ongoing Study of Pricing
Michael Bordo Rutgers University Bretton Woods and the Great Inflation
Markus K. Brunnermeier The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Deciphering the 2007-08 Liquidity and Credit Crunch
Charles Calomiris Columbia Business School, Columbia University The Foreclosure-House Price Nexus: Lessons from the 2007-2008 Housing Turmoil
Markus K. Chang Rutgers University On the Sources of Aggregate Fluctuations in Emerging Economies
Jens Christensen Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Affine Arbitrage-Free Class of Nelson-Siegel Term Structure Models
John Cochrane Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Identification with Taylor Rules: A Critical Review
Arnaud Costinot University of California, San Diego What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions
Julian DiGiovanni International Monetary Fund Putting the Parts Together: Trade, Vertical Linkages, and Business Cycle Comovement
Greg Duffee Johns Hopkins University Information in (and not in) the Term Structure
Fabio Ghironi Boston College Monopoly Power and Endogenous Variety in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium: Distortions and Remedies
Domenico Giannone European Central Bank Large Bayesian VARs
Gita Gopinath Harvard University Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-Through
Yuiry Gorodnichenko University of California, Berkley Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion and Productivity Response in Russia
Gary Gorton The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns
James Hamilton University of California, San Diego The Oil Shock of 2008
Peter Hanson Stanford University Multivariate Realised Kernels: Consistent Positive Semi-Definite Estimators of the Covariation of Equity Prices with Noise and Non-Synchronous Trading. Realised Kernels in Practice: Trades and Quotes
Peter Hanson Stanford University Model Confidence Sets, In-sample Fit and Out-of-Sample Fit: Their Joint Distribution and its Implications for Model Selection.
Jarrad Harford University of Washington Shareholder Cross-Holdings and Their Effect on Acquisition Decisions
David Hendry University of Oxford Applications of New Developments in Econometrics
Edie Hotchkiss Boston College Dealer Behavior and the Trading of Newly Issued Corporate Bonds
Christopher L. House University of Michigan Fixed Costs and Long-Lived Investments
Scott Joslin Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pricing and Hedging Volatilty Risk in Fixed Income Markets
Patrick Kehoe Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Sophisticated Monetary Policies with Andy Atkeson and V.V. Chari
Benjamin J. Keys University of Michigan Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screen? Evidence from Subprime Loans
Lutz Kilian with Paul Edelstein University of Michigan Retail Energy Prices and Consumer Expenditures
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Princeton University Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy
Michael Klein The Fletcher School, Tufts University Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era
Anil Kumar Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution: New Evidence from 401(k) Participation
Andre Kurmann University of Quebec at Montreal The Business Cycle Implications of Reciprocity in Labor Relations
Jonathon Levin Stanford University Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
Ross Levine Brown University Big Bad Banks: The Impact of U.S. Branch Deregulation on Income Distribution
Adam Levitin Georgetown University Law Center Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy
Guido Lorenzoni Massachusetts Institute of Technology News, Noise, and Fluctuations
Sydney Ludvigson New York University Macro Factors in Bond Risk Premia
Joseph Mason Drexel University How Much of a Haircut? Options-Based Structural Modeling of Defaulted Bond Recovery Rates
Virgil Midrigan with Oleksiy Kryvtsov New York University Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models
Taylor Nadauld Ohio State University The Role of the Securitization Process in the Expansion of Subprime Credit
Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson Columbia University Lost in Transit: Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market
Jonathon Parker Northwestern University Preliminary Estimates of t he Response of Household Spending to the Receipt of the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
Lasse Pederson Stern School of Business, New York University Liquidity Risk and the Structure of Financial Crises
Giorgio Primiceri Northwestern University Learning the Wealth of Nations
Valorie Ramsey University of California, San Diego Identifying Government Shocks: It’s All in the Timing
Rafael Repullo Center for Monetary and Financial Studies Does Competition Reduce the Risk of Bank Failure?
Richard Rogearson Arizona State University Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model with Taxes
Frank Schorfeide University of Pennsylvania DSGE Model-Based Forecasting of Non-Modelled Variables
Tara Sinclair George Washington University Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach
Georgios Skoulakis Smith School of Business, University of Maryland Do Subjective Expectations Explain Asset Pricing Puzzles?
Gary Solon Michigan State University Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?
Demetry Stolyarov University of Michigan Using the Life Cycle Model to Link Fertility and Labor Force Participation Decisions
Phil Strahan Boston College Informed and Uninformed Investment in Housing: The Downside of Diversification
Amir Sufi University of Chicago The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the 2007 Mortgage Default Crisis
Allan Timmermann University of California, San Diego Is the Distribution of Stock Returns Predictable?
Daniel Trefler University of Toronto Much Ado about Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Greg Udell Indiana University Why Do Firms Switch Banks? and, Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan
Harald Uhlig Homboldt University How Far Are We from the Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited (joint with Mathias Trabandt)
Otto Van Hemert Stern School of Business, New York University Understanding the Subprime Crisis
Pietro Veronesi University of Chicago Asymmetric Information Monetary Policy and Bond Returns
Toni Whited University of Wisconsin-Madison What Gives? A Study of Firms' Reaction to Cash Shortfalls, Securitization and Financial Stability
Jon Willis Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Leaning about New Exporters
Alexander Wolman Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Inflation and Real Activity with Firm-Level Productivity Shocks
Stanley Zin Carnegie Mellon University Term Premium Dynamics and the Taylor Rule

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