Winter 2019 Schedule

Schedule: Winter 2019
DATE TOPIC SPEAKER(S)
Jan. 18  Stochastic Continuous-Time Models Chandler Lester
Jan.  25  Canceled 
Feb. 1  Alex Li
Feb. 8  Social Learning  Bruce McGough
Feb. 15
Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach
By: Sendhil Mullainathan and Jann Spiess
John Morehouse
Feb. 22
The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics
By: Susan Athey
 Chandler Lester
March 1
Regularized Regression 
The Elements of Statistical Learning pg. 57-79
 Youssef Ait Benasser
March 8 Tree Methods  Alex Li
March 15  Boosting Jeremy Piger

Spring 2018 Schedule

 

Schedule: Spring 2018
DATE TOPIC SPEAKER(S)
April 6

Canceled

April 13

Canceled

April 20 Using price-level targeting to escape the zero bound on nominal interest rates Seppo Honkapohja
April 27 Canceled
May 4

 E-stability and various learning themes in
forward-looking linear models

Nigel McClung
May 11

Chapters 6 & 7 of Evans and Honkapohja’s Expectations and Learning in Macroeconomics

(Stochastic Recursive Algorithms)

May 18 Infinite-horizon learning  Erin Hunt
May 25 Select papers on learning and monetary policy  TBA
June 1 Taking learning models to the data TBA
June 8 Experimental and behavioral macro TBA

 

Fall 2017 Schedule

 

Schedule: Fall 2017
DATE TOPIC SPEAKER(S)
October 6

“Life-cycle Horizon Learning, Social Security Reform, and Uncertainty”

“Performance of Simple Interest Rate Rules Subject to Fiscal Policy”

Erin Hunt

 

Nigel McClung

October 13

“Present Bias, Preference Heterogeneity, and Wealth Inequality over the Life-Cycle”

Tristan Nighswander
October 20 “Cyclicality of U.S. Discretionary Fiscal Policy” Jean Falconer
October 27 Canceled
November 3

“Performance of Simple Interest Rate Rules Subject to Fiscal Policy”

Nigel McClung
November 10 “Life-cycle Horizon Learning, Social Security Reform, and Uncertainty” Erin Hunt
November 17 “Present Bias, Preference Heterogeneity, and Wealth Inequality over the Life-Cycle” Tristan Nighswander
November 24 Thanksgiving
December 1 “Cyclicality of U.S. Discretionary Fiscal Policy” Jean Falconer

 

Fall 2016 Schedule

 

Schedule: Fall 2016
Date Location Topic Speaker
10/7/16 PLC 410 Myopia and SMarT plans, joint work with Scott Findley Erin Hunt
University of Oregon
10/14/16 PLC 410  Learning vs News: What Drives Business Cycles? Brian Dombeck
University of Oregon
10/21/16 PLC 410 Interest Rate Pegs in New Keynesian Models  George Evans
University of Oregon
10/28/16 PLC 410 Revisiting the Great Moderation: Empirical Evidence Jeremy Piger
University of Oregon
11/4/16 PLC 410 Nigel McClung
University of Oregon
11/11/16 PLC 410 Bruce McGough
University of Oregon
11/18/16 PLC 410 Ben Brennan
University of Oregon
11/25/16 PLC 410 Happy Thanksgiving Holiday
12/2/16 PLC 410   Learning vs News: What Drives Business Cycles? Brian Dombeck
University of Oregon

 

Spring 2016 Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, the UO Macro Group meets every Friday from 10:30am-12pm in PLC 410. Please see the schedule below for a list of recent and upcoming presentations. Schedules from past quarters are available here.

Schedule: Spring 2016
Date Location Topic Speaker
4/08 PLC 410 Life and Growth Ryan Walch
University of Oregon
4/15 PLC 410
4/22 PLC 410 Comparing approaches for the estimation of dynamic factor models Chad Fulton
University of Oregon
4/29 PLC 410 Fiscal Foresight Jean Falconer
University of Oregon
5/06 PLC 410 TBA Bruce McGough
University of Oregon
5/13 PLC 410 TBA Isabelle Salle
University of Oregon
5/20 PLC 410 TBA David Evans
University of Oregon
5/27 PLC 410 Income and Wealth Heterogeneity Tristan Nighswander
University of Oregon
6/03 PLC 410 What’s News in Business Cycles Brian Dombeck
University of Oregon

While macro group is comprised primarily of UO faculty and graduate students, we welcome faculty and students from other institutions. Please contact Bruce McGough at bmcgough “at” uoregon “dot” edu for more about scheduling.

Fall 2015

 

Schedule: Spring 2015
Date Location Topic Speaker
10/2 PLC 410

Optimal Prices in a Multi-Sector Model Under Rational Inattention

Financial Crises and Labor Market Dynamics: Evidence from a Data-Rich DSGE Model

Chad Fulton
University of Oregon

Sacha Gelfer University of Oregon

10/9 PLC 410

Interest Rate Rules in Practice – the Taylor Rule or a Tailor-Made Rule?

“Unfunded liabilities” and uncertain fiscal financing

Adam Check
University of Oregon
Erin Hunt  University of Oregon
10/16 PLC 410 Fiscal Policy and Debt Management with Incomplete Markets David Evans
University of Oregon
10/23 PLC 410 Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch: The Importance of Heterogeneity Ben Brennan
University of Oregon
10/30 PLC 410 Adaptive Learning and Business Cycles Brian Dombeck
University of Oregon
11/6 PLC 410 Interest Rate Rules in Practice: the Taylor Rule or a Tailor-Made Rule? Adam Check
University of Oregon
11/13 PLC 410 (Not) Dancing Together: Monetary Policy Stance and the Government Spending Multiplier Jean Falconer
University of Oregon
11/20 PLC 410 Financial Crises and Labor Market Dynamics: Evidence from a Data-Rich DSGE Model Sacha Gelfer
University of Oregon
12/4 PLC 410 Optimal Prices in a Multi-Sector Model Under Rational Inattention Chad Fulton
University of Oregon

While macro group is comprised primarily of UO faculty and graduate students, we welcome faculty and students from other institutions. Please contact Bruce McGough at bmcgough “at” uoregon “dot” edu for more about scheduling.

Winter 2016

Schedule: Winter 2016
Date Location Topic Speaker
1/15 PLC 410 Cancelled
1/22 PLC 410 Learning to Optimize Bruce McGough
University of Oregon
1/29 PLC 410 Gender, Development and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Christian Imboden
University of Oregon
2/5 PLC 410 Uncertainty in a Two-Period OLG Model with Government Debt and Social Security Erin Hunt
University of Oregon
2/12 PLC 410 Desirability of Nominal GDP Targeting Under Adaptive Learning Ben Brennan
University of Oregon
2/19 PLC 410 Credit Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy George Evans
University of Oregon
2/26 PLC 410 TBA David Evans
University of Oregon
3/4 PLC 410 Learning and Expectational Stability in a Model of Pigouvian Cycles Brian Dombeck
University of Oregon
3/11 PLC 410 Determinacy and E-Stability in a Markov-Switching Rational Expectations Models with Lagged Endogenous Variables Nigel McClung
University of Oregon

While macro group is comprised primarily of UO faculty and graduate students, we welcome faculty and students from other institutions. Please contact Bruce McGough at bmcgough “at” uoregon “dot” edu for more about scheduling.

Spring 2015

 

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