BESS AT MNB LECTURES, JANUARY-DECEMBER 2009 BESS at MNB December 2, 2009: Christian Kascha „Combining Inflation Density Forecasts” (joint with Francesco Ravazzolo) BESS at MNB November 25, 2009: Ignazio Angeloni „A Tale of Two Policies: Prudential Regulation and Monetary Policy with Fragile Banks” (joint with Ester Faia) BESS at MNB November 11, 2009: Martin Ellison „A defence of the FOMC” (joint with Thomas J. Sargent) BESS at MNB October 28 2009 Daniel Levy: Price Points and Price Rigidity (with: Dongwon Lee, Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Robert J. Kauffman, Mark Bergen) BESS at MNB October 21, 2009. Kosuke Aoki: Central bank’s two-way communication with the public and inflation dynamics (joint with Takeshi Kimura) BESS at MNB September 30, 2009 Wouter den Haan: Inefficient employment decisions, entry costs, and the cost of fluctuations (joint with Petr Sedlacek) BESS at MNB July 15 2009 Adam Zawadowski: Entangled Financial Systems BESS at MNB July 7 2009 Christopher D. Carroll: A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves, Net Foreign Assets, or Sovereign Wealth Funds (with Olivier Jeanne) BESS at MNB June 24, 2009 Mark L. J. Wright: Recovery Before Redemption: A Theory of Delays in Sovereign Debt Renegotiations (with David Benjamin) BESS at MNB June 18, 2009 Andrea Colciago: Endogenous Market Structures and the Business Cycle (joint with Federico Etro) BESS at MNB May 28, 2009 Pedro Teles: Unique Monetary Equilibria with Interest Rate Rules (joint with Bernardino Adao and Isabel Correia) BESS at MNB May 27, 2009 Astrid A. Dick: Personal Bankruptcy and Credit Market Competition (joint with Andreas Lehnert) BESS at MNB May 20, 2009 Chiara Forlati: Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the EMU: Does Fiscal Policy Coordination Matter? BESS at MNB May 13, 2009 Philip R. Lane: The Long or Short of it: Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets (joint with Jay C. Shambaugh) BESS at MNB May 8, 2009 Igor Livshits: Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit (joint with James MacGee and Michele Tertilt) BESS at MNB May 6, 2009 Patrick Minford: Two orthogonal continents; testing a two-country DSGE model of the US and the EU using inrdirect inference (joint with Vo Phuong Mai Le, David Meenagh, and Michael Wickens) BESS at MNB April 29, 2009 Hans Dewachter: Bayesian Estimation of Extended Macro-Finance Models: The Role of Financial and Macroeconomic Shocks in Yield Curve Dynamics (joint with Leonardo Iania) BESS at MNB April 22, 2009 Mikael Carlsson: Evaluating Microfoundations for Aggregate Price Rigidities: Evidence from Matched Firm-Level Data on Product Prices and Unit Labor Cost.(joint with Oskar Nordström Skans) BESS at MNB April 8, 2009 Eric Bartelsman: Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data BESS at MNB April 1, 2009 Gabriel Perez Quiros: Introducing the Euro-Sting: Short-Term Indicator of Euro Area Growth (joint with Maximo Camacho) BESS at MNB March 25, 2009 Philippe Martin: How do different firms react to exchange rate changes? Prices, quantities, entry and exit (joint with Nicolas Berman, Thierry Mayer) BESS at MNB March 18, 2009 John Hassler: Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium BESS at MNB March 11, 2009 Raffaella Giacomini: Model selection and forecast evaluation in unstable environments, joint with Barbara Rossi BESS at MNB March 04, 2009 Péter Karádi: Inflation Asymmetry and Menu Costs – New Micro Data Evidence (joint with Ádám Reiff) BESS at MNB February 20, 2009 Vitaliy Strohush: Can Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks Lead to Global Imbalances? BESS at MNB February 12, 2009 Filippo Brutti: Legal Enforcement, Public Supply of Liquidity and Sovereign Risk BESS at MNB February 11, 2009 Sofia Bauducco: Seigniorage and distortionary taxation in a model with heterogeneous agents and idiosyncratic uncertainty BESS at MNB January 28, 2009 Lutz Weinke: Inflation and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited (joint with Tommy Sveen) BESS at MNB January 26, 2009 Filippo Ferroni: Trend agnostic one step estimation of DSGE models BESS at MNB January 21, 2009 Philip Sauré: On Subsidies in Trade Agreements BESS at MNB January 14, 2009 Casper de Vries: The Credit Crunch: Causes, consequences & policy