Fall 2007
ECONOMICS 281
International Trade and Finance Seminar

(Supported by the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy & the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley)


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


Instructor: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
E-mail:
Seminar Room: 639 Evans Hall
Schedule: Tuesday 3:00pm - 5:00pm
28 August No Meeting
4 September Ken Kasa, Simon Fraser University
Visiting University of California, Berkeley
"ASSET PRICES IN A TIME SERIES MODEL WITH PERPETUALLY DISPARATELY INFORMED, COMPETITIVE TRADERS"
(with Todd B. Walker and Charles H. Whitman)
12 September* Joint w/ Department
(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"
18 September Fabrizio Perri , University of Minnesota
"The international diversification puzzle is not as bad as you think"
(with Jonathan Heathcote)
26 September* Joint w/ Department
(Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans)

Peter Klenow
, Stanford University
"Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India"
2 October Paolo Mauro, International Monetary Fund
"Pooling Risk Among Countries"
(with Jean Imbs)
10 October* Joint w/ Department
(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?"
(with Robert Dekle and Jonathan Eaton)
16 October Veronica Rappoport , Columbia University
"The Role of Multinational Production in Cross-Country Risk Sharing"
(with Natalia Ramondo)
23 October Rob Johnson, University of California, Berkeley
"Trade and Prices in the Melitz Model"
30 October Nicolas Coeurdacier , London Business School
"International Portfolios with Supply, Demand and Redistributive Shocks"
(with Philippe Martin and Robert Kollmann)
6 November Raul Razo-Garcia , University of California, Berkeley
"On the Exchange Rate Regime and Capital Account Liberalization"
13 November Yuriy Gorodnichenko , University of California, Berkeley
"The Finnish depression: From Russia with love"
20 November Michele Cavallo, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
"Capital-goods imports, investment-specific technological change and U.S. growth"
(with Anthony Landry)
27 November Si-Yeon Lee , University of California, Berkeley
"The Mystery of the Missing Premium: On the Determinants of the Control Premium in South Korea"
4 December Peter Henry , Stanford University, GSB
"Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity"
(with Diego Sasson)

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