Schedule: Spring 2015 |
Date |
Location |
Topic |
Speaker |
4/10 |
PLC 410 |
Aspirations, Health, and the Cost of Inequality |
Shankha Chakraborty
University of Oregon |
4/17 |
PLC 410 |
Expectation Shocks and Learning as Drivers of the Business Cycle |
Michael Jerman
University of Oregon |
4/24 |
PLC 410 |
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk |
Ben Brennan
University of Oregon |
5/1 |
PLC 410 |
Object Oriented Programming and OLS |
Chad Fulton
University of Oregon |
5/8 |
PLC 410 |
Sentiments and Aggregate Demand Fluctuations / Synchronization and Bias in a Simple Macroeconomic Model |
Bruce McGough
University of Oregon |
5/15 |
PLC 410 |
Are Negative Supply Shocks Expansionary at the Zero Lower Bound? |
Nigel McClung
University of Oregon |
5/22 |
PLC 410 |
Targeting Prices or Nominal GDP: Forward Guidance and Expectation Dynamics |
Seppo Honkapohja
Bank of Finland |
5/29 |
PLC 410 |
Disentangling the Channels of the 2007-09 Recession |
Sacha Gelfer
University of Oregon |
6/5 |
PLC 410 |
Getting It Right: Joint Distribution Tests of Posterior Simulators |
Adam Check
University of Oregon |