January 14
Casper G. de Vries (Erasmus School of Economics, Holland)
The Credit Crunch: Causes, consequences & policy
January 21
Philip Sauré (Swiss National Bank)
On Subsidies in Trade Agreements
January 26
Filippo Ferroni
Trend agnostic one step estimation of DSGE models
January 28
Lutz Weinke (Duke University, USA and IHS Vienna)
Inflation and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited
February 11
Sofia Bauducco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
February 12
Filippo Brutti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Legal Enforcement, Public Supply of Liquidity and
February 20
Vitaliy Strohush (Boston College)
Can Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks Lead to Global Imbalances?
March 4
Karádi Péter (New York University)
Inflation Asymmetry and Menu Costs – New Micro Data Evidence
March 11
Raffaella Giacomini (UCL, UK)
Model selection and forecast evaluation in unstable environments
March 18
John Hassler (IIES, Sweden)
Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium
March 25
Philippe Martin (Sciences-Po and CEPR)
How do different firms react to exchange rate changes?
Prices, quantities, entry and exit
April 1
Gabriel Perez Quiros (Banco de Espana, Spain)
Introducing the Euro-STING: Short-Term INdicator of
April 8
Eric Bartelsman (VU University, Amsterdam)
Forecasting aggregate productivity using
information from firm-level data
April 22
Mikael Carlsson (Sveriges Riksbank)
Evaluating Microfoundations for Aggregate Price
Rigidities: Evidence from Matched Firm-Level Data
on Product Prices and Unit Labor Cost.
April 29
Hans Dewachter (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Bayesian Estimation of Extended Macro-Finance Models:
The Role of Financial and Macroeconomic Shocks in
May 6
Patrick Minford (Cardiff University, UK)
May 8 (Friday, 14.30)
Igor Livshits(UWO, Canada)
Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit
May 13
Philip R. Lane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
The Long or Short of it: Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets
May 20
Chiara Forlati (EPFL, Lausanne)
Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the EMU: Does Fiscal Policy Coordination Matter?
May 27
Astrid Dick (INSEAD)
Personal Bankruptcy and Credit Market Competition
May 28 (Thursday)
Pedro Teles (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa and Banco de Portugal)
Unique Monetary Equilibria with Interest Rate Rules
June 18 (Thursday! 15.15)
Andrea Colciago
(University of Milano, Bicocca)
Endogenous Market Structures and the Business Cycle
June 24
Mark Wright (UCLA)
Recovery Before Redemption: A Theory of Delays in Sovereign Debt Renegotiations
July 713.30! MNB A/401 New date!
Chris Carroll (John Hopkins University)
A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves, Net Foreign Assets, or Sovereign Wealth Funds
July 15
Adam Zawadowski (Princeton University)
September 17
Giancarlo Corsetti (EUI)
Demand Imbalances, Exchange Rate Misalignment and Monetary Policy
September 30
Wouter den Haan (Amsterdam School of Economics)
Inefficient employment decisions, entry costs,
October 7
Botond Kőszegi (Berkeley, University of California)
Consumer Policy toward Savings and Credit
October 21
Kosuke Aoki (LSE, UK)
Central bank’s two-way communication with the public and inflation dynamics
October 28
Daniel Levy (Bar-Ilan University)
Price Points and Price Rigidity
November 11
Martin Ellison (University of Oxford)
November 25, MNB Széchenyi Room, at 15.00 pm.
Ignazio Angeloni (Adviser to the Executive Board, ECB)
A Tale of Two Policies: Prudential Regulation and Monetary Policy with Fragile Banks
December 2 CANCELLED
Christian Kascha (Norges Bank)