Green Line Macro Archive
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Spring 2017
Organizers: Fabio Schiantarelli and Simon Gilchrist (BC and BU)
April 21, 2017
Boston University
Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary's Street, Room 901
Program:
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Adam Guren: "Mortgage Design in an Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market"
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-11:20 Deeksha Kale: "Could Expansions in Directed Lending Hurt Small Businesses: Evidence from a Policy Change in India"
11:30-12:30 Vito Cormun and Pierre De Leo: "Revisiting the Exchange Rate Response to Monetary Policy Innovations: The Role of Spillovers of U.S. News Shocks"
12:30-1:30 Lunch
Fall 2017
Srping 2016
Organizers: Fabio Schiantarelli and Simon Gilchrist (BC and BU)
April 8, 2016
Boston University
Economics Dept. Room 315, 270 Bay State Road
Program:
9:45-10:15 Coffee/Breakfast
10:15-11:15 Ei Yang: The Persistence of Development Dynamics: Financial Frictions and Labor Market Distortions
11:30-12:30 Rosen Valchev: Information Choice and Portfolio Bias in a Dynamic World
12:30-2:00 Lunch at Hillel House
2:00-3:00 Daeha Cho: Investment Shocks, Uninsurable Labor Income and Comovement
3:00-4:00 Ana Lariau Bolentin: The Labor Wedge: A Search and Matching Perspective
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
Fall 2016
Organizers: Susanto Basu (BC) and Jianjun Miao (BU)
Friday, November 4, 2016
Boston College, McGuinn Hall 521 (5th floor)
Paid parking in the Commonwealth Garage on Campanella Way, Lower Campus.
Please consult this map for the location of McGuinn Hall and the Commonwealth Garage.
Program
8:30 a.m. Coffee and Bagels
9:00 a.m. Ryan Chahrour (BC), Information-Driven Business Cycles
Discussant: Jianjun Miao (BU)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Adam Guren (BU), Making the House a Home: the Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment
Discussant: Susanto Basu (BC)
11:30 a.m. Ana Lariau (BC), Underemployment and the Business Cycle
Discussant: Simon Gilchrist (BU)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Yue Jiang (BU), Fire Sales and Endogenous Volatility
Discussant: Jaromir Nosal (BC)
2:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. Matt Klepacz (BU), Price Setting and Volatility: Evidence from Oil Price Volatility Shocks
Discussant: Pablo Guerron (BC)
4:00 p.m. Tzuo-Hann Law (BC), Fearing the Fed: Good News can be Bad, and Bad News can be Worse
Discussant: Robert King (BU)
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
Spring 2015
Simon Gilchrist and Sanjay Chugh
Boston University Photonics Center, Room 901, 8 St. Mary's Street (Boston, MA), April 10, 2015
Program
PAPERS:
Ryan Chahrour (BC):
On the Nature and Stability of Sentiments
Ander Perez (UPF, BU):
Credit Constraints, Firms' Precautionary Investment, and the Business Cycle
Filippo DeMarco (U):
The Effect of Capital Requirements: Evidence from the UK
David Schenck (BC):
Using Survey Expectations to Measure the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Adam Zawadowski (BU):
Learning in Crowded Markets
Fall 2015
Organizers: Susanto Basu (BC) and Jianjun Miao (BU)
October 30, 2015
Boston College, McGuinn Hall Room 521 (5th floor)
Please consult this map for the location of McGuinn Hall.
Paid parking in the Commonwealth Garage on Campanella Way, Lower Campus.
Program
8:30 a.m. Coffee and bagels
9:00 a.m. Alisdair McKay (BU), “Time-Varying Idiosyncratic Risk and Aggregate Consumption Dynamics”
Discussant: Susanto Basu (BC)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Giacomo Candian (BC), “Information Frictions and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics”
Discussant: Jianjun Miao (BU)
11:30 a.m. Levent Altinoglu (BU), “The Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations in a Credit Network Economy”
Discussant: Fabio Schiantarelli (BC)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Ivan Petkov (BC), “Small Business Lending and the Bank-Branch Network”
Discussant: Andrea Caggese (UPF, visiting BU)
2:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. Tristan Potter (BC), “Learning and Job Search Dynamics During the Great Recession”
Discussant: Simon Gilchrist (BU)
4:00 p.m. Stephen Terry (BU), “Alternative Methods for Solving Heterogeneous Firm Models”
Discussant: Jaromir Nosal (BC)
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
Eyal Dvir and Susanto Basu
Boston College, Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, October 31, 2014
Please consult this map for the location of Corcoran Commons.
Program
PAPERS:
Georg Strasser (BC):
Just-in-Time Production and the Great Moderation: Inventories in German Manufacturing
Alejandro Rivera (BU):
Dynamic Moral Hazard, Risk-Shifting, and Optimal Capital Structure
Ali Ozdagli (Boston Fed):
Financial Frictions and the Reaction of Stock Prices to Monetary Policy Shocks
Marco Macchiavelli (BC):
The Role of Dispersed Information in Pricing Default: Evidence from the Great Recession
Giacomo Candian (BC):
Risk Aversion and the Financial Accelerator
Alisdair MCKay (BU):
The Power of Forward Guidance Revisited