Economic Institute Events
2011 Conferences & Lectures
- Globalization and Monetary Policy: From Virtue to Vice?
A Lecture by Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
November 29, 2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- DSGE Models in Macroeconomics—Estimation, Evaluation, and New Developments
November 4–6, 2011
Dallas
2011 Seminars
- December 2: André Kurmann, Board of Governors
- October 21: Jianfeng Yu, University of Minnesota
- October 7: Nan Li, IMF
- September 30: Martin Boileau, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Microeconomic Aspects of the Globalization of Inflation
August 19–20, 2011
Zurich, Switzerland
- Global Asset Pricing
Karen Lewis, Wharton
August 11
- Best Prices
Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago
June 4
- The Intraday Effects of Central Bank Intervention on Exchange Rate Spreads
Rasmus Fatum, University of Alberta
May 27
- Purchasing Power Parity and the Taylor Rule
Masao Ogaki, Keio University, Japan
May 16
- The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis
Mark Wright, UCLA
May 13
- The Fiscal Multiplier Morass: A Bayesian Perspective
Nora Traum, North Carolina State University
April 15
- News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Chris Otork, University of Virginia
March 25
- Technology and Endowments as Determinants of Comparative Advantage: Evidence from Mexico
Daniel Chiquiar, Banco de México
March 21
- Asymmetric Shocks in a Currency Union with Monetary and Fiscal Handcuffs
Jesper Linde, Board of Governors
March 17
- Intergenerational Mobility and the Political Economy of Immigration
Armando Lopez-Velasco, Bucknell
March 9
- Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Business Cycle Comovement
Robert Johnson, Dartmouth
February 25
- Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance
Viral Acharya, NYU
February 18
- Entrepreneurship with Endogenous Volatility Under Financial Frictions
Hernan Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia
January 14
2010 Conferences
2010 Seminars
- Hedging Pressures, Speculation, and Commodity Risk Premia American University
Michel Robe, American University
December 14
- Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Role of Labor Market Frictions
Bora Durdu, Board of Governors
December 10
- Banks, Market Organization and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
Peter Howitt, Brown University
December 3
- Can International Macroeconomic Models Explain Low-Frequency Movements of Real Exchange Rates?
Pau Rabanal, IMF
November 19
- Kevin Huang, Vanderbilt University
November 12
- Fernanda Nechio, FRB San Francisco
November 8
- Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
Faith Guvenen, University of Minnesota
November 5
- Politics and the Fed
Alan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University
October 28
- Why Didn't Canada Have a Banking Crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or in 1907, or in 1893)?
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
October 27
- International Risk-Sharing and Commodity Prices
Martin Berka, Massy University
October 20
- Current Trends in the Analysis of Canadian Productivity Growth
Simon van Norden, HEC Montreal
September 2, 2010
- Sectoral Price Facts in a Sticky-Price Model
Carlos Carvalho, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
August 13, 2010
- The High Cross-Country Correlations of Prices and Interest Rates
Roman Sustek, University of Iowa
June 25, 2010
- The Demand for Youth: Implications for the Hours Volatility
Henry Siu, University of British Columbia
June 11, 2010
- The Collapse of International Trade During the 2008—2009 Crisis: In Search of the Smoking Gun
Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan
May 21, 2010
- International and Intranational Real Exchange Rates: Theory and Evidence
Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia
May 14, 2010
- Firm Risk and Leverage-Based Business Cycles
Sanjay Chugh, University of Maryland
May 5, 2010
2009 Conferences
2009 Seminars
- On the Dynamics of Leverage, Liquidity, and Risk
Eric van Wincoop, University of Virginia
Dec. 18, 2009
- Optimal Fiscal Policy Over the Business Cycle Revisted
Martin Gervais, University of Southampton, visiting UT Austin
Dec. 4, 2009
- Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
Alice Schoonbroodt. University of Southampton, visiting UT Austin
Dec. 3, 2009
- Capital Flows, International Financial Markets and Financial Crises
November 13—14, 2009
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models
Kalina Manova, Stanford University
October 23, 2009
- Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala
Alfredo Cuecuecha, CIDE
Nov. 2, 2009
- Financial Structure, Informality and Development
Pablo D'Erasmo, University of Maryland
Sept. 25, 2009
- Pitfalls in Estimating Asymmetric Effects of Energy Price Shocks
Rob Vigfusson, FR Board
Sept, 30, 2009
- PPP Strikes Out: The Effect of Common Factor Shocks on the Real Exchange Rate
Donggyu Sul, University of Texas, Dallas
Sept. 11, 2009
- Income Differences and Prices of Tradables
Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis
August 8, 2009
- What Do International Asset Returns Imply about Consumption Risk-Sharing
Karen Lewis, Wharton
August 7, 2009
- European Real Exchange Rates: Revisited
Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia
July 30, 2009
- International Capital Flows and Past Prospective Returns
Francis Warnock, University of Virginia
July 26, 2009
- Adriana Kugler, University of Houston
May 22, 2009
- Uncertainty, Credit Spreads, and Investment Dynamics
Simon Gilchrist, Boston University
May 8, 2009
- The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity
Margarida Duarte, University of Toronto
March 20, 2009
- Banking Globalization and Monetary Transmission
Linda Goldberg, FRB New York
April 17, 2009
- The Marginal Product of Capital, Capital Flows and Convergence
Kanda Naknoi, Purdue University
March 6, 2009
- Time-Varying Risk of Disaster, Time-Varying Risk Premia, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
François Gourio, Boston University (visiting Wharton)
February 13, 2009
- When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage
Jiandong Ju, University of Oklahoma
February 6, 2009
- EDI Spillovers and the Role of Local Financial Markets: Evidence from Mexico
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, University of Houston
January 30, 2009
- International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamic
Robert Kollmann, Université Libre de Bruxelles
January 8, 2009
2008 Conferences
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Murray S. Johnson Memorial Conference
Cosponsored with the University of Texas at Austin
April 4—5, 2008
Austin, Texas
2008 Seminars
- Trade Liberalization, Growth, and Productivity
Tim Kehoe from the University of Minnesota
November 4, 2008
- A Solution to the Default Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect
Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland
September 25, 2008
- Imports R Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for Developing-Country Imports
Van Pham, Baylor University
April 28, 2008
- Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in an Open Economy with Rare Disasters
Kai Guo, Harvard
March 25, 2008
- Accounting for Persistence and Volatilty of Good-Level Exchange Rates: The Role of Sticky Information
Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University
March 17, 2008
- Market Penetration Costs and Trade Dynamics
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University
March 7, 2008
- Neoclassical Miracles
Rodi Manuelli, University of Wisconsin—Madison
February 26, 2008
- Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets
Adrien Verdelhan, Boston University
February 1, 2008
- A Canonical Model of the FX Premium
Jens Søndergaard, Bank of England
January 22, 2008
- A Factor-Proportions Theory of Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity
Taiji Furusawa, Hitotsubashi University
January 8, 2008