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