Wednesday, February 18, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Adrian Peralta-Alva, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Numerical Simulation of Nonoptimal Dynamic Equilibrium Models"
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 — 4:00 PM
V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
"Sophisticated Monetary Policies"
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 — 4:00 PM
João Gomes, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns"
Monday, March 16, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Valentina Corradi, University of Warwick
"International Market Links and Volatility Transmission" with Walter Distaso and Marcelo Fernandes
Host: Luciana Juvenal
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Gianluca Violante, New York University
"Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search
Models: A Quantitative Assessment"
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Adriano Rampini, Duke/Fuqua
"Collateral, Financial Intermediation and the Distribution of Debt Capacity"
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 — 4:00 PM
B. Ravikumar, University of Iowa
"On the Cross-Country Distribution of Welfare Gains from Trade"
Thursday, April 9, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Mark E. Wohar, University of Nebraska-Omaha
"A New Look At The Taylor Curve and The Great Moderation: A Look at Dynamic Conditional Correlations"
Host: Dave Wheelock
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Martin Schneider, Stanford University
"Asset Trading and Valuation with Uncertain Exposure"
Friday, April 17, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Currency Misalignments and Optimal
Monetary Policy: A Reexamination"
Host: Luciana Juvenal
Friday, April 24, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Wayne Roy-Gayle, University of Virginia
"Noisy Addicts? Estimation of Optimal Consumption Choice with Habit Formation and Measurement Error"
Host: Michael Owyang
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Ellen McGrattan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
"Transition to FDI Openness"
Thursday, April 30, 2009 — 2:00 PM
William Evans, University of Notre Dame
"Liquidity, Activity, Mortality"
Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Manuel Santos, University of Miami
"Long-Term Asset Price Volatility and Macroeconomic Fluctuations"
Host: Adrian Peralta-Alva
Thursday, May 7, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Kala Krishna, Penn State University
"Trade Policy with Endogenous Entry Revisited"
Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Eric Young, Virginia University
"Information Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy"
Host: Carlos Garriga
Thursday, May 21, 2009 — 10:00 AM
Gordon Dahl, University of California-San Diego
"Family Violence and Football: Testing Rational Choice Models of Violent Crime"
Host: Rubén Hernández-Murillo
