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2008 Workshops

Workshops are internal presentations made by Board staff.

Presenter Topic
Alan Kackmeister What Should Be Excluded to Create 'Core' Inflation? New Measures of Core PCE Inflation and a Comparison with Some Old Ones
Alessandro Barbarino (with Giovanni Mastrubuoni) The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
Ben Malin Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks
Ben Malin (with Dirk Krueger and Felix Kubler) Computing Stochastic Dynamic Economic Models with a Large Number of State Variables: A Description and Application of a Smolyak-Collocation Method
Ben Mandel Heterogeneous Firms and Import Quality: Evidence from Transaction-Level Prices
Betty Daniel Exchange Rate Crises and Fiscal Solvency
Bruce Fallick Employment and Wage Consequences of Job Separation
Christopher Kurz and Paul Lengermann Outsourcing and U.S. Economic Growth: The Role of Imported Intermediate Inputs
Cindy Bordelon Banks' Insurance Risks
Dan Li and Song Han Liquidity Crisis Runs and Security Design: Lessons from the Collapse of the Auction Rate Municipal Bond Market
David Arseneau Equilibrium Outsourcing with Labor Market Frictions
David Lopez-Salido (joint with Chris Gust) Monetary Policy and the Equity Premium
David Mills Default Risk and Collateral in the Absence of Commitment
Egon Zakrajsek Credit Market Shocks and Economic Fluctuations: Evidence from Corporate Asset Markets
Eric French (Chicago Fed) The Consumption Response to Minimum Wage Hikes
Ethan Ilzetzki (with Carlos Vegh) Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction
Etienne Gagnon Benjamin Malin Tack Yun State-Dependent or Time-Dependent Pricing: Does It Matter for Recent U.S. Inflation? (Klenow and Krytsov QJE August 2008) A Phillips Curve with an Ss Foundation (Gertler and Leahy JPE vol. 116 no. 3) and Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention (Mackowiak and Wiederholt forthcoming in the AER)
Fang Cai The Impact of Macroeconomic Announcements on Real Time Foreign Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets
Francesco Bianchi Good Beta Bad Beta and Rare Events
Francesco Bianchi The Great Moderation and the Good Luck-Good Policy Debate
Francesco Bianchi The Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Real Economy
Geng Li Lifecycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption
Geng Li (with Song Han) Household Borrowing after Personal Bankruptcy: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
Hui Shan The Effect of Capital Gains Taxation on Home Sales: Evidence from the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
Ivan Vidangos (with J. Altonji and A. Smith) Modeling Earnings Dynamics
Jae Sim Uncertainty Firm Dynamics and Business Cycle
Jae Sim (with Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajsek) Uncertainty Cost of Capital and Business Fluctuation
Jeff Stehm What Can Go Wrong with the Payment and Settlement Systems
Jinill Kim Gary Anderson and Tack Yun Analysis of Optimal Inflation under Discretion Using a Projection Method
John Driscoll (with Sumit Agarwal Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson) Learning in the Credit Card Market
Jonathan Wright Term Premiums and Inflation Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from an International Panel Dataset
Jose Berrospide (with Amiyatosh Purnanandam and Uday Rajan) Corporate Hedging Investment and Value
Karl Walentin Introducing Financial Frictions and Unemployment into a Small Open Economy Model
Katia Peneva Factor Intensity and Price Rigidity: Evidence and Theory
Lamont Black (with Richard Rosen) The Effect of Monetary Policy on the Availability of Credit: How the Credit Channel Works
Mark Carlson Tom King and Kurt Lewis Distress in the Financial Sector and Economic Activity
Martin Bodenstein Dale Henderson and Charles Thomas Cross Border Portfolio Holdings (Presentation given to Chairman Bernanke as part of a new series of literature conversations)
Michele Cavallo Measuring Oil-Price Shocks Using Market-Based Information
Michiel Depooter Predicting the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Incorporating Parameter Uncertainty Model Uncertainty and Macroeconomic Information
Min Wei (joint with Athanasios Orphanides) Evolving Macroeconomic Perceptions and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Pedro Silos Crude Substitution: The Cyclical Dynamics of Oil Prices and the College Premium
Peter Schott Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization
Pierangelo De Pace Currency Union Free-Trade Areas and Business Cycle Synchronization
Regis Barnichon Modeling the Ins and Outs of Unemployment
Robert Vigfusson Pitfalls in Estimating Asymmetric Effects of Energy Price Shocks
Rochelle Edge Michael Kiley and Jean-Philippe Laforte A Comparison of Forecast Performance between Federal Reserve Staff Forecasts Simple Reduced-Form Models and a DSGE Model and The Sources of Fluctuations in Residential Investment: A View from a Policy-Oriented DSGE Model of the U.S. Economy
Ruth Judson and Beth Klee Whither the Liquidity Effect: The Impact of Federal Reserve Open Market Operations in Recent Years
Seth Pruitt The Demand for Youth: Implications for the Hours Volatility Puzzle and the Great Moderation
Vasia Panousi (with Dimitris Papanikolaou) Investment Idiosyncratic Risk and Ownership
Viktors Stebunovs (joint with Fabio Ghironi) The Domestic and International Effects of Financial Deregulation
Yukako Ono (Chicago Fed with Daniel Sullivan) Manufacturing Plants' Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Micro Data

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