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University of California, Berkeley

Department of Economics
549 Evans Hall # 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880

(510) 642-0822

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Last modified:4/22/03

ECONOMICS 237: Macroeconomics Seminar
Spring Semester 2003
Coordinator: Roger Craine
Seminar: Friday, 2-4 608-7 Evans

January 24 Organizational Meeting
January 31 Joint with Department Seminar
February 7 TBA
February 14 Bas ter Weel
Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, Maastricht University
The diffusion of computers and the distribution of wages
February 21 Joint with Department Seminar
February 28 Joint with Department Seminar
March 3 Chris Hennessey, UCB
"The Optimal Mix of Bank and Bond Market Debt: An Asset Pricing Approach" (coauthors Hayne Leland and Dirk Hackbarth)
Joint with Public Finance
NOTE DATE & TIME CHANGE
March 14 Joint with Department Seminar
March 21 Roger Craine, UCB, with Vance Martin, University of Melbourne
Monetary Policy Shocks and Security Market Responses
March 28 Holiday
April 4 Patrizo Pagano, Bank of Italy
"Endogenous Growth with Intertemporally Dependent Preferences"
April 14 Ivan Werning, MIT
"Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Unobservable Savings Joint with Public Finance
NOTE DATE & TIME CHANGE
April 18 John Leahy, NYU
The Absent Minded Consumer
April 25 Joint with the Department
May 2 John Williams (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) and Athanasios Orphanides (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Inflation Scares and Forecast-Based Monetary Policy
May 9 Carlos Arteta, Federal Reserve Bank
Are Highly Dollarized Countries More Prone to Costly Crises?