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PREVIOUS SEMINARS AT THE MINNEAPOLIS FED
2011
Applied Theory Workshop
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Robert E. Hall
Stanford University
Title: "The Long Slump"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Zheng Song
Fudan University and Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: "Financial Frictions on Capital Allocation: A Transmission Mechanism of TFP Fluctuations"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Matthias Kredler
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Title: "Altruistically-Motivated Transfers Under Uncertainty"
Applied Theory Workshop
Friday, February 4, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Viral Acharya
NYU, Stern School of Business
Title: "A Pyrrhic Victory? Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson
Columbia University
Title: "Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from U.S. Regions"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Ralph Koijen
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Title: "On the Timing and Pricing of Dividends"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Chryssi Giannitsarou
University of Cambridge
Title: "Social Structure and Human Capital Dynamics"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Chao Gu and Randall Wright
University of Missouri and University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: "Endogenous Credit Cycles"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Gauti Eggertsson
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Title: "Debt, Deleveraging, and the Liquidity Trap: A Fisher-Minsky-Koo Approach"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Lifetime Labor Supply and Human Capital Investment"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Saki Bigio
New York University
Title: "Endogenous Liquidity and the Business Cycle"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Francisco Buera
UCLA
Title: "Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch"
Applied Theory Workshop
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Antoine Martin
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Title: "Repo Runs"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Cynthia Kinnan
Northwestern University
Title: "Distinguishing Barriers to Insurance in Thai Villages"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Sekyu Choi
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Title: "Life-Cycle Consumption: Can Single Agent Models Get it Right?"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Yongsung Chang
University of Rochester
Title: "Labor-Market Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and the Lucas Critique"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Paul Klein
University of Southampton
Title: "Consumption Risk Sharing: Confronting Models with Data"
Applied Theory Workshop
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
David Autor
MIT
Title: "The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the U.S."
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, May 2, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Mirko Wiederholt
Northwestern University
Title: "Exogenous Information, Endogenous Information and Optimal Monetary Policy"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Juan Rubio-Ramirez
Duke University
Title: "Volatility Shocks, Demand for Liquidity, and Asset Pricing"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Tobias Broer
Institute for International Economic Studies
Title: "The Wrong Shape of Insurance? Stationary Equilibrium Distributions with Limited Enforcement of Contracts"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Xavier Ragot
Banque de France
Title: "Default and Credit Constraints in General Equilibrium"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Marco Del Negro
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Title: "The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed's Non-Standard Policies"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Adam Szeidl
University of California, Berkeley
Title: "A Model of Focusing in Economic Choice"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Justin Pierce
U.S. Census Bureau
Title: "The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment"
Applied Theory Workshop
Friday, May 20, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
John Campbell
Harvard University
Title: "A Model of Mortgage Default"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Jim Schmitz
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Title: "Do Monopolists Produce Efficiently? Evidence from the U.S. Cement Industry"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Jing Zhang
University of Michigan
Title: "Portfolio Rebalancing in General Equilibrium"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Karel Mertens
Cornell University
Title: "Fiscal Policy in an Expectations Driven Liquidity Trap"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Juan Pablo Nicolini
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Title: "Optimal Devaluations"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Dirk Krueger
University of Pennsylvania
Title: "How do Households Respond to Income Shocks"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Andy Atkeson
UCLA
Title: "Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Loukas Karabarbounis
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Title: "Labor Wedges and Open Economy Puzzles"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Patrick Kline
University of Califormia, Berkeley
Title: "Equilibrium Wage and Employment Dynamics in the Oil and Gas Field Services Industry"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Andy Atkeson
UCLA
Title: "Aggregate Implications on Innovation Policy"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Peter Ireland
Boston College
Title: "The Macroeconomic Effects of Interest of Reserves"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Ellen McGrattan
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Title: "Capital Taxation During the U.S. Great Depression"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Tim Kehoe
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "Gambling for Redemption and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Enrique Mendoza
University of Maryland
Title: "Overborrowing, Financial Crises and Macro-prudential Policy"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Josep Pijoan-Mas
CEMFI
Title: "Inequality, Hours and Labor Market Participation"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Raphael Bergoeing
Universidad de Chile
Title: "The Complementary Impact of Micro Distortions"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Alexander Bick
University of Frankfurt
Title: "Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Females: A Cross-Country Analysis"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Anastasios (Tasso) Adamopoulos
York University
Title: "The Size Distribution of Firms and International Productivity Differences"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Pablo Kurlat
Stanford University
Title: "Deregulating Markets for Financial Information"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Pete Klenow
Stanford University
Title: "The Allocation of Talent and Economic Growth"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Ivan Werning
MIT
Title: "Managing a Liquidity Trap: Monetary and Fiscal Policy"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Kurt Mitman
University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Macroeconomic Effects of Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Policies"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Florian Scheuer
Stanford University
Title: "Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Aysegul Sahin
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Title: "Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Manuel Garcia-Santana
CEMFI
Title: "Size Distribution of Firms, Financial Frictions, and Foreign Ownership"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, September 26, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Wyatt Brooks
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "Trade Liberalization with Endogenous Borrowing Constraints"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Randy Wright
University of Wisconsin Business School
Title: "Marriage, Markets & Money: A Coasian Theory of Household Formation"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Roc Armenter
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Title: "The Macroeconomics of Firms' Savings"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Nir Jaimovich
Duke University
Title: "Technological Learning and Labor Market Dynamics"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Stavros Panageas
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Title: "Young, Old, Conservative, and Bold: The Implications of Heterogeneity and Finite Lives for Asset Pricing"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "Wealth and Volatility"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Flavio Cunha
University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Knowledge and Investments in Skills"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Michael Kumhof
IMF
Title: "Inequality, Leverage and Crises"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Francesco Bianchi
Duke University
Title: "Monetary/Fiscal Policy Mix and Agents' Beliefs"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Loren Brandt
University of Toronto
Title: "Factor Market Distortions Accross Time, Space and Sectors in China"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Hanno Lustig
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Title: "Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Hal Cole
University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Underwriting Ventures: Trust but Verify"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Satoshi Tanaka
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "Men's Rush to Marriage: Implications of Child Support Enforcement for Marriage, Fertility and Long-Term Inequality"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Amanda Michaud
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "A Quantitative Information Theory of Worker Flows and Wage Dispersion"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Christian Hellwig
The Toulouse School of Economics, University Toulouse 1 Capitole
Title: "A Theory of Asset Prices based on Heterogeneous Information"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Princeton University
Title: "Financial Crises, Bank Risk Exposure and Government Financial Policy"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Sewon Hur
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "The Lost Generation of the Great Recession"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 10:00 AM (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
Illenin Kondo
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "Trade Reforms, Foreign Competition, and Labor Market Adjustments in the U.S."
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Jan Grobovsek
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Title: "The Occupational Organization of Firms and Aggregate Productivity"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Guillermo Ordonez
Yale University
Title: "Collateral Crises"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Hui He
University of Hawaii
Title: "Why Do Americans Spend So Much More on Health Care Than Europeans?"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Massimilliano Pisani
Bank of Italy
Title: TBA
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Nancy Stokey
University of Chicago
Title: TBA
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Treb Allen
Yale University
Title: "Information Frictions in Trade"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Ezra Oberfield
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Title: "Business Networks, Production Chains, and Productivity: A Theory of Input-Output Architecture"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Philip Bond
University of Minnesota
Title: "Wall Street Occupations: An Equilibrium Theory of Overpaid Jobs"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Nancy Stokey
University of Chicago
Title: "Policy Uncertainty and Delayed Investment"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Hengjie Ai
Duke University
Title: "Moral Hazard, Investment, and Firm Dynamics"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Title: "External Financing and the Role of Financial Frictions over the Business Cycle: Measurement and Theory"
Applied Theory Workshop
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Fernando Alvarez
University of Chicago
Title: "Price Setting with Menu Cost for Multi-Product Firms"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Marios Karabarbounis
University of Rochester
Title: "Heterogeneity in Labor Supply Elasticity and Optimal Taxation"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Massimiliano Pisani
Bank of Italy
Title: "Fiscal Policy in Open Economy: Estimates for the Euro Area"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Marcelo Veracierto
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Title: "The Role of Housing in Labor Reallocation"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Friday, December 16, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Jacek Rothert
University of Texas at Austin
Title: "Productivity or Demand? Identifying Sources of Fluctuations in Small Open Economies"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Bo Zhao
University of Oslo
Title: "Too Poor to Retire? House Prices and Retirement"
Bag Lunch Seminar
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 12:00 NOON
Oksana Leukhina
University of Washington
Title: "The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout Risk"
