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BESS seminars: January - June 2010
January 13
Adam Szeidl (University of Berkeley)
Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences
February 3
Arturo Ormeno (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Disciplining Expectations: Using Survey Data in Learning Models
February 8
Roman Sysuyev (University of Rochester)
Ambiguity in a Two-Country World
February 11
Cosimo Pancaro (European University Institute)
The Balassa-Samuelson and the Penn effect: are
they really the same?
February 15 CANCELLED
Jeta Menkulasi (University of Maryland)
Rational Inattention and Changes in Macroeconomic Volatility
February 18
Ctirad Slavic (University of Minnesota)
Asset Prices and Business Cycles with
Financial Frictions
February 26
Zoltán Pozsár (NY FED)
Shadow Banking
March 3
Bernd Wilfling (Münster School of Business and Economics, Germany)
Identification of speculative bubbles using state-space models with Markov-switching
March 10
Michael Reiter (IHS, Vienna)
Approximate and Almost-Exact Aggregation in Dynamic Stochastic Heterogeneous-Agent Models
March 17
Lucio Sarno (City University London)
Spot and Forward Volatility in Foreign Exchange
March 18. Thursday
Robert P. Lieli (University of Texas at Austin)
The Construction of Empirical Credit Scoring Rules Based on Maximization Principles
March 31
Matteo Iacoviello (Boston College, USA)
Financial Business Cycles
April 21 CANCELLED
Regis Barnichon (Federal Reserve Board)
What drives movements in the unemployment rate?
May 5
Gert Peersman (Ghent University)
Time Variation in U.S. Wage Dynamics
May 12 MNB- Széchenyi Room
Regis Barnichon (Federal Reserve Board)
What drives movements in the unemployment rate?
May 19
Guglielmo-Maria Caporale (Brunel University, London)
Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in the Euro Area
May 27 Thursday,13:30-15:00, Szechenyi Room (A/401)
Elod Takats (BIS)
Aging and asset prices
June 2
Richild Moessner (BIS)
Central bank co-operation and international liquidity in the financial crisis of 2008-9
June 16
Mikhail Golosov (Yale University)
Optimal Dynamic Taxes
June 24 Thursday
John Boyd (Carlson School of Management)
Banking Crises and Crisis Dating: Theory and Evidence
Fall 2010
September 15
Kristoffer P. Nimark (CREI, Barcelona)
Speculatice dynamics in the term structure of interest rates
October 13
Salvador Ortigueira (EUI, Florence)
How important is intra-household risk sharing for savings and labor supply?
October 27
Ugo Panizza (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneve and United Nations)
The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Sovereign Default
November 11 (Thursday)
Dirk Niepelt (Study Center Gerzensee; University of Bern; IIES, Stockholm University)
Debt Maturity without Commitment
November 19 (Friday)
Thomas Lubik (FED Richmond)
On-the-job search and the cyclical dynamics of the labor market (changed)
December 1
Gernot Mueller (University of Bonn)
Debt consolidation, spending reversals, and the transmission of fiscal policy
Last update: September 8, 2010