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Fall 2008
Session 1:  Information and Pricing Behavior 

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (Discussion led by Daniel Hernaiz)

PDF file  Woodford, Michael.  2008.  "Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing."  Columbia University Working Paper.




Session 2:  Capital Taxation and Redistribution

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Discussion led by Pablo D'Erasmo)

PDF file  Conesa, Juan Carlos, Sigiri Kitao, and Dirk Krueger.  2008.  "Taxing Capital Income?  Not a Bad Idea After All!"  American Economic Review, forthcoming.



Session 3:  Time-Varying Volatility

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (Discussion led by Ana Luisa Abras)

PDF file  Justiniano, Alejandro and Giorgio E. Primiceri.  2008.  "The Time-Varying Volatility of Macroeconomic Fluctiations."  American Economic Review, Vol. 98, p. 604-641.



Session 4:  Convergence in Macroeconomics

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 (Discussion led by Didem Tuzeman and Cesar Sosa Padilla Araujo)

PDF file  Shimer, Robert.   2008.  "Convergence in Macroeconomics:  The Labor Wedge."  AEJ: Macroeconomics, forthcoming.

PDF file  Woodford, Michael.  2008.  "Convergence in Macroeconomics:  Elements of the New Synthesis."  AEJ: Macroeconomics, forthcoming.


 

Session 5:  In the News

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (Discussion led by David McArthur)

PDF file  Schmitt-Grohe, Stephanie and Martin Uribe.  2008.  "What's News in Business Cycle."  NBER Working Paper 14215.



Session 6:  New Keynesian Models and Policy

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 (Discussion led by Enes Sunel)

PDF file  Chari, V.V., Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan.  2008.  "New Keynesian Models:  Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis."  AEJ:  Macroeconomics, forthcoming.