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August 30
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No Meeting
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September 6
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Yuriy Gorodnichenko,
University of California, Berkeley
Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale
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September 12*
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Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Raghuram Rajan,
University of Chicago
The Persistence of Underdevelopment: The Role of Constituencies and Competitive Rent Preservation
Joint with Departmental Seminar
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September 20
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Nico Voigtlaender,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Many Sectors Meet More Skills: Intersectoral Linkages and the Skill Bias of Technology
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September 26*
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Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Peter Klenow,
Stanford University
Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
Joint with Departmental Seminar
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October 4
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John Fernald,
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Sector-Specific Technical Change
(with Susanto Basu, Jonas Fisher, and Miles Kimball)
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October 10*
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Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Samuel Kortum,
University of Chicago
Global Rebalancing with Gravity: How Big is the Burden of Adjustment?
Paper: "Unbalanced Trade" (with Robert Dekle and Jonathan Eaton)
Joint with Departmental Seminar
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October 18
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Dean Scrimgeour,
University of California, Berkeley
Empirical Evidence on International Monetary Spillovers
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October 25
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No Meeting
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November 1
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Richard Rogerson,
Arizona State University
Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes
(with Johanna Wallenius)
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November 7*
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Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Nathan Nunn,
Harvard University
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
Joint with Departmental Seminar
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November 15
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Per Krusell,
Princeton University
Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment
(with Andreas Hornstein and Giovanni L. Violante)
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November 22
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Thanksgiving Holiday - No Meeting
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November 29
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Valerie Ramey,
University of California, San Diego
Identifying Government Spending Shocks
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December 5*
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Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Emmanuel Saez,
University of California, Berkeley
Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937
Joint with Departmental Seminar
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