Economic Theory Seminars 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.
| DATE | NAME | TITLE OF PRESENTATION |
|---|---|---|
| 4/5/2006 | Fabio Milani (Economics Department/UC Irvine) | Expectations, Learning and Macroeconomic Persistence |
| 4/12/2006 | 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 |
| 4/19/2006 | Michael J Ryan (Centre for Economic Policy Hull/University Business School) | Simple Characterizations of Contraction Consistency and Inconsistency Conditions |
| 4/26/2006 | James Stock (Economics Department, Harvard Univeristy) joint with Econometrics | TBA |
| 4/28/2006* | Allan Timmermann (Economics Department/UCSD) joint with Econometrics
*NOTE: Friday |
Predictability of stock returns and asset allocation under structural breaks |
| 5/3/2006 | Nicolas L. Dromel (Economics Department/University of Aix-Marseille) | Are Progressive Fiscal Rules Stabilizing? |
| 5/10/2006 | Robert J. Gordon (Economics Department/Northwestern University) | Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Europe Chasing the American Frontier M |
| 5/12/2006* | Rosa Metzkin (Economics Department/Northwestern University) joint with Econometrics
*NOTE: Friday |
TBA |
| 5/17/2006 | Ayse Imrohoroglu (Marshall School of Business/USC) | Secular Movements in U.S. Saving and Consumption |
| 5/24/2006 | Hanno Lustig (Economics Department/UCLA) | The Irrelevance of Idiosyncratic Income Risk for Risk Premia in Incomplete Market Models |
| 5/31/2006* | Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics)
*NOTE: joint with Econometrics |
Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function |