Economic Theory Spring 2006
Seminars & Colloquia
Economic Theory Spring 2006
Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206
Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet.
When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.
| April 5 |
Fabio Milani (Economics Department/UC Irvine) |
Expectations, Learning and Macroeconomic Persistence |
| April 12 | Kajal Lahiri (Economics Department/SUNY, Albany) joint with Econometrics | Limits to Forcasting: How fast do we adapt to news? How far ahead can we forecast? Papers: 1 | 2 | 3 |
| April 19 | Michael J Ryan (Centre for Economic Policy Hull/University Business School) | Simple Characterizations of Contraction Consistency and Inconsistency Conditions |
| April 26 | James Stock (Economics Department, Harvard Univeristy) joint with Econometrics | Title: TBA |
| April 28 Friday |
Allan Timmermann (Economics Department/UCSD) joint with Econometrics | Predictability of stock returns and asset allocation under structural breaks |
| May 3 | Nicolas L. Dromel (Economics Department/University of Aix-Marseille) | Are Progressive Fiscal Rules Stabilizing? |
| May 10 | Robert J. Gordon (Economics Department/Northwestern University) | Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Europe Chasing the American Frontier M |
| May 12 Friday | Friday Rosa Metzkin (Economics Department/Northwestern University) joint with Econometrics | Title: TBA |
| May 17 | Ayse Imrohoroglu (Marshall School of Business/USC) | Secular Movements in U.S. Saving and Consumption |
| May 24 | Hanno Lustig (Economics Department/UCLA) | The Irrelevance of Idiosyncratic Income Risk for Risk Premia in Incomplete Market Models |
| May 31 | oao Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics) joint with Econometrics | Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function |