Macro Club

From GES

This year's Penn Macro Club meetings will take place on Thursdays, 12:00pm-1pm, in the Conference Room

• Purpose: Student & Faculty workshop to generate and discuss research

ideas and their execution in macroeconomics.

• Target Group: All third and plus year students interested in

macroeconomics (broadly understood).

• Logistics: Thursdays, 12:00 to 1:00, starting September 6, 2007.

Room: Department conference room, first floor McNeil Building.

• Rules: Participation is voluntary, but once you decide to come, you

are expected to come every week. After the first 3 weeks this rule will be "enforced".

• Content: Students & Faculty will present their research, research in

progress, or research ideas (which at the beginning can be a coherent summary of existing papers by others). You are expected to present once a semester and actively participate in the discussion.

• Contact: Pr. Dirk Krueger (dkrueger@ssc.upenn.edu)

          Serdar Ozkan (ozkan@econ.upenn.edu)
          Cristina Fuentes-Albero (fuentesa@sas.upenn.edu)

If you are giving a talk, you might want to read the instructions for uploading your presentation.

• First date: Hong Chong Cho, " Health Correlation Between Husband and Wife"

• Sept 20: Se Kyu Choi

• Oct 4 : Cristina Fuentes-Albero: "Technology Shocks, Statistical Models, and The Great Moderation"

• Oct 11: Dario Caldara "Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in an Estimated DSGE model for the United States".

• Oct 18: John Knowles

• Oct 25: Kei Muraki

• Nov 1: Alessandro Mennuni

• Dec 6: Alexander Bick

• Jan 17: Janet Lee

• Jan 24: Serdar Ozkan

• Feb 21: Daniel Harenberg, "A Computational Model of Consumer Bankruptcy and Credit Scoring"

• Feb 28: Leonardo Melosi, "Imperfect common knowledge and allocation of attention"

• March 6: Kei Muraki, "Housing tenure decision and portfolio choice"

• April: Hans Holter