Macro Reading Group (Fall 2007)

Facilitators: Lukasz Drozd, Ananth Seshadri, Yongs Shin and Rody Manuelli

Tentative Topics (in no particular order)

bullet Price Rigidity.
bullet Paper: "A Search Theory of Rigid Prices," by  Guido Menzio. (pdf)
bullet Background papers: ""
bullet Price of Capital
bullet Paper: "Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity," by C. Hsieh and P. Klenow. (pdf)
bullet Innovation
bullet Paper: "Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation," by T. Klette and S. Kortum. (pdf)
bullet Household Finance
bullet Paper: "Macro Implications of Household Finance," by Y. Chien, H. Cole and H. Lustig. (pdf)
 
bullet Housing
bullet Paper: “Adjustment Costs and Consumption Behavior" by N. Stokey. (pdf)
bullet Debt Overhang
bullet Paper: “Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang," by M. Aguiar and M. Amador. (pdf)
bullet Sorting in Labor Markets
bullet Paper: “Occupational Sorting and Development," by J. Eeckhout and B. Jovanovic. (pdf)
bullet TFP
bullet Paper: "Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development," by R. Castro, G. Clementi and G. MacDonald. (pdf)
bullet TBD
bullet Paper:

 

Meeting Times

bullet Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 in the Morton Room
bullet Schedule of Presentations:
bullet 10/10: Organizational
bullet 10/17:
bullet 10/24:
bullet 10/31:
bullet 11/7:
bullet 11/14:
bullet 11/21:
bullet 11/28: