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2003 Seminars

Presenter Affiliation Topic
Jim Albrecht Georgetown University Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications
John Ameriks TIAA-CREF Retirement Consumption: Insights from a New Survey
Laurence Ball Johns Hopkins University Does Inflation Targetting Matter?
Robert Barsky University of Michigan Do Flexible Durable Goods Prices Undermine Sticky Price Models?
Geert Bekaert Columbia University The Term Structure of Real Rates and Expected Inflation
Markus Brunnermeier Princeton University Optimal Expectations
Markus Brunnermeier Princeton University Bubbles and Crashes
Charles Calomiris Columbia University Product Tieing and Relationship Banking
Ren-Raw Chen Rutgers University Credit Risk Modelling: A General Framework
Federico Ciliberto North Carolina State Market Structure and Multiple Equilibria in Airline Markets
Tom Davidoff University of California at Berkeley Maintenance and the Home Equity of the Elderly
Erwin Diewert University of British Columbia Hedonic Regressions: A Review of Some Unresolved Issues
Andrea Eisfeldt Northwestern University Capital Reallocation and Liquidity
Rob Fairlie University of California at Santa Cruz Family Resources and Black-Owned Businesses: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Jonas Fisher Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Technology Shocks Matter
Jordi Gali Pompei-Fabreu University Understanding the Effects of Fiscal Policy on Consumption
Gautam Gowrisankaran Washington University of St. Louis The Welfare Consequences of ATM Surcharges: Evidence from a Structural Entry Model
David Griffiths United States Mint The Big Problem of Forecasting Small Change
Jinyong Hahn University of California at Los Angeles Bias Reduction for Dynamic Nonlinear Panel Models with Fixed Effects
Phillip Hartman ECB Bank Mergers, Competition and Liquidity
Kei Hirano University of Miami The Propensity Score With Continuous Treatments
Peter Howitt Brown University The Effect of Financial Development on Convergence: Theory and Evidence
George Jiang University of Arizona Model-Free Implied Volatility and Its Information Content
Debbie Lucas Northwestern University Valuing Federal Loans and Loan Guarantees: The Effect of Risk
Agustin Maravall Bank of Spain Tools for Editing Time Series Data: TERROR
Allan Meltzer Carnegie Mellon University History of the Federal Reserve
Matt Mitchell University of Iowa A Theory of Factor Allocation and Plant Size
Todd Milbourn Washington University in St. Louis Do Stock Prices Incorporate the Potential Dilution of Employee Stock Options?
John Muellbauer Oxford University Forecasting (And Explaining) U.S. Business Cycles
John Muellbauer Oxford University Consumer Credit Conditions in the U.K.
David Neumark Michigan State Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?
David Neumark Michigan State New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages
Maurice Obstfeld University of California at Berkeley The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap
Edward Offenbacher Bank of Israel Estimating a Central Bank Reaction Function During Gradual Disinflation
Francois Ortalo-Magne University of Wisconsin Homeownership: Low Household Mobility, Volatile Housing Prices, High Income Dispersion
Ariel Pakes Harvard University A Reconsideration of Hedonic Price Indices with an Application to PC�s
Monika Piazzesi University of Chicago What does the yield curve tell us about GDP growth?
Lucrezia Reichlin Universit� Libre de Bruxelles Dynamic Factor Analysis and the U.S. Economy
Mark Rosenzweig Harvard University Parental Wealth and Adult Children's Welfare in Marriage
Julio Rotemberg Harvard University The Benevolence of the Baker: Fair Pricing under the Threat of Customer Anger
John Rust University of Maryland Modeling Behavioral Responses to Changes in Social Security: A Life Cycle Framework
John Rust University of Maryland How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Proces?
Thomas Sargent New York University Robust Control of Forward-Looking Models
Frank Schorfheide University of Pennsylvania Bayesian Econometrics
Kevin Sheppard University of California at San Diego High-Frequency Dynamics of Subordinated Debt Spreads for Risk Monitoring
Rob Shimer University of Chicago Job Creation and Destruction over the Business Cycle: New Empirical Evidence
Shigenori Shiratsuka Bank of Japan Policy Commitment and Expectations Formation: Japan's Experience Under Zero Interest Rates
Joel Smith Congressional Budget Office Alternative Methods for Calculating Equity Returns: Implications for Evaluating Social Security Reform Proposals
Nick Souleles University of Pennsylvania The Response of Consumption Spending and Debt to Tax Cuts
James Stock Harvard University Combination Forecasts of Output Growth in a Seven-Country Data Set
Gianluca Violante New York University The Impact of Technological Change on the Labor Market
Gianluca Violante New York University The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the US
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Northwestern University Perspectives on Behavioral Finance: Does "Irrationality" Disappear with Wealth? Evidence from Expectations and Actions
Toni Whited University of Wisconsin Debt Dynamics
Noah Williams Princeton University Modeling Model Uncertainty
Daniel Wilson Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Importing Technology
Michael Woodford Princeton University The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy


2002 Seminars

Presenter Affiliation Topic
Dan Aaronson Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Job Insecurity and Aggregate Wage Growth
Andrew Ang Columbia University, School of Business How to Discount Cash Flows with Time-Varying Expected Returns
Hasan Bakhshi Bank of England Model Misspecification and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Jean Boivin Columbia University School Has Monetary Policy Become Less Powerful?
Stephen Bond Oxford University Uncertainty, Investment, and Q: Some Empirical Evidence for US Companies
Moshe Buchinsky Brown University and UCLA Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the US
Atreya Chakraborty Charles River Associates Relationship Banking and Credit Limits
Amitabh Chandra Dartmouth College Is the Convergence in the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?
Yongsung Chang University of Pennsylvania From Individual to Aggregate Labor Supply
Mike Cliff Purdue University Investor Sentiment and Asset Prices
Andrew Coleman University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A Rational Expectations Model of the Gold Standard
Yongheng Deng USC Woodhead Behavior and the Pricing of Residential Mortgages
Amy Finkelstein Harvard University and NBER Health Policy and Technological Change: Evidence from the Vaccine Industry
Li Gan University of Texas, Austin A Simulation-Based Welfare Loss Calculation for Taxes on Labor Supply with Piecewise-Linear Budget Constraints
Richard K. Green University of Wisconsin Real Estate and Urban Land Economics
Peter Ireland Boston College The Real Balance Effect
Eilev S. Jansen University of Oslo and Central Bank of Norway Inflation Dynamics
Louise Keely University of Wisconsin Mobility and Fertility
Yuichi Kitamura University of Pennsylvania Econometrics
Adrian Masters University of Essex Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Matching Equilibrium
Nour Meddahi University of Montreal Analytical Evaluation of Volatility Forecasts
Andrew Metrick University of Pennsylvania Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Giuseppe Moscarini Yale University The Declining Mobility of the US Workforce
Marc Rysman Boston University Unobserved Product Differentiation in Discrete Choice Models: Estimating Price Elasticities and Welfare Effects
Argia Sbordone Rutgers University An Optimizing Model of U.S. Wage and Price Dynamics
Andrei Schevchenko Michigan State University A Simple Search Model of Money with Heterogeneous Agents and Partial Acceptability
Frank Smets European Central Bank Source of Business Cycle Fluctuations in the US: A Bayesian DSGE Approach
Jeffrey A. Smith University of Maryland and NBER How Robust is the Evidence on the Effects of College Quality? Evidence From Matching
John Straub Texas A&M University Fundraising and Government Crowd-out of Private Contributions to Public Radio: An Empirical Study
Chad Syverson University of Chicago Market Structure, Productivity, and Prices
George Tauchen Duke University Rational Pessimism and Exuberance
Peter Thompson Carnegie-Mellon Vintage-Specific Learning and the Age-Earnings Profile: An Exploration with the International Merchant Marine, 1861-1912
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen University of Chicago Why Must entrepreneurs Hold Large Ownership Shares? Optimal Contracting in Private and Newly Public Firms
Mark Watson Princeton University Job Insecurity and Aggregate Wage Growth
Raphael Wouters National Bank of Belgium An Estimated Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Euro Area
Rui Yao University of North Carolina Business School Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Choices with Risky Housing and Stochastic Labor Income

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