UNC Department of Economics
Macro-Money Seminar and Student-Paper Workshop

Fall 2007--Spring 2008

As of April 22, 2008

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please contact Michael Salemi (Michael_Salemi@unc.edu). As the authors provide papers, they will be linked to the titles in the schedule.


Date Time  Room Speaker Topic
Monday
Sept
10
4:00 Ga211 Lutz Hendricks
 Iowa State
Educational Attainment in U.S. Cities
Friday Sept
21
3:30
Ga210
 
Oksana Leukhina
UNC-CH
Information Asymmetries and an Endogenous Productivity Reversion Mechanism
Thursday
Oct
4
4:30
Ga 211
Ted Temzelides
Univ. of Pittsburgh
A Dynamic Model of the Payment System
Friday
Oct
5
3:30
Ga 211
Sergiy Peridriy
UNC
Endogenous Credit Market Incompleteness: RBC Approach to Emerging Market Crises
Friday
Oct
12
4:30
Note Change
Ga 211
Simon Peter Anderson
UVA
Shouting To Be Heard in Advertising
Friday
Oct
26
3:30
Ga 211
Mark Jensen
UNC
Inflation Target Uncertainty and Tests of the Expectations Hypothesis of Long Term Interest Rates
Friday
Nov
2
3:00
Note time change
Ga 211
Tatevik Sekhpoysan
paper joint with Barbara Rossi
UNC
Has models' forecasting performance of future output growth changed over time, and why?
To obtain a copy of this paper please contact tatevik@email.unc.edu
Thursday
Nov
8
3:30
Ga 309
Robert Lucas
Univ. of Chicago
Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
Friday
Nov
9
3:30
Ga 211
Noah Williams
Princeton
The Conquest of South American Inflation (joint with Tom Sargent and Tao Zha)
Friday
Nov
16
3:30
Ga 211
Zubeyir Kilinc
UNC
Staggered Wage Contracts with Nash Bargaining
Postponed until the Spring
Friday
Dec
5
3:30
Ga 211
Iourii Manovskii
Penn
Accounting for the Changing Life-Cycle Profiles of Earnings
Note change in date.
Wednesday
Dec
5
4:00
Ga 211
Rody Manuelli
Univ. of Wisconsin
Postponed until the Spring
Spring
Semester







Friday
Postponed
Feb

8
3:30
Ga 211
Kevin Hoover
Duke
TBA
Friday
Feb
15
3:30
Ga 211
Julio Rotemberg
Harvard
Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
Friday
Feb
22
3:30
Ga308
Kevin Hoover
Duke
Empirical Identification of the Vector Autoregression: The Causes and Effects of U.S. M2
Friday
Feb
29
3:30
Ga 211
Zubeyir Kilinc
UNC
Staggered Wage Contracts with Nash Bargaining
Figures for paper
Friday
Mar
7




Spring Break Begins
Friday
Mar
14




Spring Break
Friday
Mar
21




Good Friday Holiday
Friday
Postponed
Mar
28
3:30
Ga 211
Neville Francis
UNC
The Impact of Learning on the Propogation of Macroeconomic Shocks
Friday
Apr
4
3:30
Ga 211
Frank Warnock
UVA
Cross-Border Returns Differentials
Joint with International Seminar
Friday
Apr
11





Friday
Apr
18
3:30
Ga 211
James Kahn
Fed NY and
NYU
Housing Prices, Productivity Growth and Learning
Friday
Cancelled due to illness
Apr
25
3:00
Ga 211
Matt Canzoneri
Georetown
Monetary Aggregates and Liquidity in a Neo-Wisksellian Framework