Macro Club

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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).
  • Time: Thursdays, 12:00 to 1:00, starting August 27, 2009.
  • Place: Econ conference room, 1st floor McNeil Building.
  • Rules: Participation is voluntary, but once you decide to come, you are expected to come every week. After the first week this rule will be "enforced". Every week a paper that is related to the presentation topic will be sent out. Everyone is expected to read the paper, and prepare a 30 second and 5 minute presentation. People will be called upon randomly, with replacement.
  • 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.

Prof. Dirk Krueger (dkrueger@ssc.upenn.edu)

Kurt Mitman (mitmanke@econ.upenn.edu)

Contents

[edit] Fall 2009 Tentative Schedule

September 3- Matt Hoelle

September 10- Jon Pogach - "Efficient Auditing and Enforcement in Dynamic Contracts"

September 17- Sergei Stetsenko

September 24- Cristina

October 1- Leonardo Melosi

October 8- Clement

October 15- Hikaru Saijo

October 22- Panos

October 29- Georgi

November 5- Cezar Santos

Nov 12- Chen Han

Nov 19- Alvaro

Nov 26 - Thanksgiving (no meeting)

December 3 - Serdar

December 10- Kurt

December 17 - Hans

[edit] Spring 2009 Tentative Schedule

  • Feb 19th: Stan Rabinovich, "Price Setting in Search Models of Money"
  • Feb 26th: Giulio Fella, "Severance payments: equilibrium welfare effects in a model with heterogeneous agents"
  • Mar 5th: Maxym Kryshko, "Simple Monetary DSGE Model: A Bayesian Dynamic Factor Analysis"
  • Mar 12th: Spring Break - No Meeting
  • Mar 19th: Dario Caldara and Wen Yao, "Computing Models with Epstein Zin Preferences"
  • Mar 26th: Janet Lee, "Accounting for changes in Female Labor Supply and Wages"
  • Apr 2nd: Hans Holter, "Accounting for Cross Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence"
  • Apr 9th: Soojin Kim, TBA
  • Apr 16th: Alvaro Aguirre, TBA
  • Apr 23rd: Ed Herbst, TBA
  • Apr 30th: Rescheduled
  • May 7th: Panos Stavrinides, TBA
  • May 14th: Rescheduled
  • May 21st: Sergiy Stetsenko, TBA
  • May 28th: Liang Wang, TBA
  • June 4th: Sergei Stepanchuk, TBA
  • June 11th: Serdar Ozkan, TBA
  • June 18th: Fatih Karahan, TBA
  • June 25th: Cristina Fuentes, TBA

[edit] Fall 2008 Schedule

  • Sept 11th: Organizational meeting (all 3rd plus year students are invited to come once without commitment)
  • Sept 18th: Sekyu Choi, "Life-Cycle Fertility: Means vs. Motives vs. Opportunities"
  • Sept 25th: Panos Stavrinides, "Computing Markov equilibria of economies with market imperfections"
  • Oct 2nd: Cristina Fuentes-Albero, "Financial Frictions and the Great Moderation"
  • Oct 9th: Sergey Stepanchuk- Asset Market Structure and International Portfolio Choice
  • Oct 16th: Janet Lee, "The Evolution of the Gender Pay Gap, 1940 to 2000: Selection or Bias? Theory and Evidence from a Macroeconomic Perspective"
  • Oct 23rd: Liang Wang, "The 'Hot Potato' Effect of Inflation"
  • Oct 30th: Jonathan Pogach, TBA
  • Nov 6th: Leonardo Melosi, "Rational Inattention, Menu Costs, and Microevidence on Price Changes"
  • Nov 13th: Serdar Ozkan, "Cross-country Differences in Growth and Inequality Trends:"
  • Nov 20th: Kei Muraki, "Housing bubbles? U.S. v.s. Japan"
  • Dec 4th: Clement Joubert, "Pension Coverage and the Rate of Mandatory Contributions in Chile"
  • Dec 11th: Cezar Santos, TBA
  • Dec 18th: Fatih Karahan, "Theory of Income Persistence"

[edit] Fall 2007- Spring 2008

  • First week: 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"
  • March 20: Alessandro Mennuni, "Aggregate Fluctuations Trough Idiosyncratic Shocks"
  • March 27: Sergey Stepanchuk, "International Portfolio Choice and Current Account Dynamics"
  • April 3: Hans Holter, "Accounting for Cross Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence"
  • April 10: Javier Gonzalez
  • April 17: Alexander Bick, "Female labor force participation, fertility and family
  • April 24: Sergiy Stetsenko, "The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies with Worker Heterogeneity"
  • July 3: Daniel Harenberg, "Solving a default model with continuous methods".
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