ECONOMICS 237

Seminar in Advanced Macroeconomics & Money
Spring 2008
Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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Schedule: Thursday, 2-4 p.m.
639 Evans

*Seminar date, time, and location may vary when held in conjunction with another seminar

Announcement: Seminar will begin on February 11th
*February 11 *Joint with Econ History Seminar, 2-3:30, 639 Evans
Lee Ohanian
, UCLA
"What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?"
February 21 Julio J. Rotemberg, Harvard University
"MINIMALLY ALTRUISTIC WAGES AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN A MATCHING MODEL"
February 28 Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley
"Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?"
(with Stefan Nagel)
(Joint with Psych & Econ Seminar)
March 6
Nick Bloom, Stanford University
"AMERICANS DO I.T. BETTER? US MULTINATIONALS AND THE PRODUCTIVITY MIRACLE"
(with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen)
March 13 Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
"Forming Priors for DSGE Models" (and How It Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)
(with Marco Del Negro)
*March 19
*Joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-6pm, 608-7 Evans
Colin Camerer
, California Institute of Technology
"Cognitive Hierarchy Models of Bounded Rationality in Lab and Field Games"
March 27 Spring Recess

*April 2 *Joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-6pm, 60 Evans
Stefano DellaVigna,
UC Berkeley
"The Impact of the Media: The Cases of Fox News and Violent Movies"
(with Gordon Dahl)
April 10 Janice Eberly, Northwestern University
"Investment and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark"
(with Sergio Rebelo and Nic Vincent)
*April 17 *Joint with Econometrics Seminar, 4-6pm, 608-7 Evans
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
, University of Pennsylvania
"Working with Epstein-Zin Preferences: Computation and Likelihood Estimation of DSGE Models with Recursive Preferences"
(with Jules H. van Binsbergen, Ralph S.J. Koijen, and Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez)
April 24 Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan
"Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: A Theory of the Equilibrium Employment Rate"
(with Michael W. L. Elsby)
*April 30 *Joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-6pm, 608-7 Evans
Ed Glaeser
, Harvard University
"Three Developments in the Growth of Cities"
May 8 Ariel Burstein, UCLA
"Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade"
(with Andrew Atkeson)