Spring 2011
Antonio Mele (LSE)
Ambiguity, Information Acquisition and Price Swings in Asset Markets
February 1
Sergei Stepanchuk (University of Pennsylvania)
February 4
Mehmet Fatih Ekinci (University of Rochester)
Inattentive Consumers and Exchage Rate Volatility
February 7
Markus Kirchner (University of Amsterdam and Tinbergens Institute)
Expectations-Based Identification of Government Spending Schocks
February 9
Adam Gulan (Rutgers University)
Incomplete Markets, Optimal Portfolios, and International Consumptions Correlations
March 11 (Friday)
Bela Személy (Duke University)
Optimal Leverage and Investment under Uncertainty
Bartosz Maćkowiak (ECB)
Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention
Christian Matthes (UPF, Barcelona)
Optimal Disinflation under Learning
April 20
Simon Gilchrist (Boston University)
Credit Spreads and Business Cycle Fluctuations
April 27
Giovanni Calice (University of Southampton)
Liquidity Interactions in Credit Markets: An Analysis of The Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis
May 11
Gyuri Venter (London School of Economics)
Short-sale Constraints and Creditor runs
May18
Romain Ranciere (Paris School of Economics)
Financial Liberalization: Efficiency Gains and Black-Holes
June 1
Anton Nakov (ECB)
Precautionary price stickiness
Fall 2011
August 25
Zoltan Pozsar (IMF, visiting scholar)
Institutional Cash Pools and the Triffin Dilemma of the U.S. Banking System
September 27
Viral Acharya (??NYU Stern??)
Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector
October 5?
Boris Vujcic? (National Bank of Croatia)
Emerging Markets during the crisis: why this time was different?
October 26?
Giampiero Gallo? (?University of Florence?)
Common Dynamics in Volatility: a Composite vMEM Approach
??November 9?
?Andri Chassamboulli? (?University of Cyprus)?
"Give me your Tired, your Poor," so I can Prosper: Immigration in Search Equilibrium
November 16?
?Dirk Schoenmaker? (Duisenberg School of Finance)?
?Improving the Resolution of Cross-Border Banks?
November 30?
?Francesco Pappada? (?University of Lausanne)?
All you need is Loan
Credit market frictions and the exit of firms during recessions