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University of Oregon Macro Group

Fall 2008

• Presenter: Andrea Giusto - " Pitfalls in Testing for Explosive Bubbles in Asset" - Evans
                                                 - "Periodically collapsing stock price bubbles: a robust test" - Taylor, Peel
                                                 - "Detecting Periodically Collapsing Bubbles: A Markov-Switching Unit Root Test" - Hall, Psaradakis, Sola
• Presenter: Sean Severe - "New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis" - Chari, Kehoe, McGrattan
• Presenter: Christina Steiger - "Escaping the Poverty Trap: The Effect of Least Squares Learning on Human Capital Accumulation" - Steiger
• Presenter: Eric Gaus - "Adaptive Expectations, underparameterization and the Lucas critique" - Evans, Ramey
• Presenter: Shankha Chakraborty - "Pacifying Monogamy: The Mystery Revisited" - Lagerlöf
• Presenter: Ania Aksan - "Geography, health, and the pace of demo-economic development" - Strulik
• Presenter: Peter Williams - "Vested interests and technology adoption" - Bridgman, Livshits, MacGee
• Presenter: Jeremy Piger - "Model Uncertainty in Cross-Country Growth Regresssions" - Fernandez, Lee, Steel

Spring 2008

• Presenter: John Kandrac - "A Black Swan in the Money Market" - Taylor, Williams
• Presenter: George Evans - "Learning about Risk and Return: A Simple Model of Bubbles and Crashes" - Branch, Evans
• Presenter: Sean Severe - "Structural Breaks and Regional Disparities in the Transmission of Monetary Policy" - Owyang, Wall
• Presenter: Andrea Giusto - "On the Welfare Consequences of the Increase in Inequality in the United States" - Krueger, Perri
• Presenter: Ania Aksan - "Will China Eat our Lunch or take us out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China" - Fehr, Jokisch, Kotlikoff
• Presenter: Mark Thoma - "Menu Costs and Phillips Curves" - Golosov, Lucas Jr.
                                              - "Monetary Non-Neutrality in a Multi-Sector Menu Cost Model" - Nakamura, Steinsson
• Presenter: Jeremy Piger - "Real-Time Measurment of Business Conditions" - Aruoba, Diebold, Scotti

Winter 2008

• Presenter: Mark Thoma - "Relative Goods' Prices and Pure Inflation" - Reis, Watson
• Presenter: Sean Severe - "Inflation Targeting Versus Price-Path Targeting: Looking for Improvements" - Cecchetti, Krause
• Presenter: Eric Gaus - "Learning and Time-Varing Macroeconomic Volatility" - Milani
• Presenter: Ania Aksan - "Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics" - Banerjee, Duflo
• Presenter: Andrea Giusto - "Rules of Thumb versus Dynamic Programming" - Lettau, Uhig
• Presenter: Christina Steiger - "Growth Collapses" - Hausmann, Rodríguez, Wagner
• Presenter: George Evans - "Why Inflation Rose and Fell: Policy Makers' Beliefs and U.S. Postwar Stabilization Policy" - Primiceri

Fall 2007

• Presenter: Andrea Giusto - "Income and Wealth Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy" - Krusell, Smith
• Presenter: Shankha Chakraborty - "Volitility and Growth: Credit Constraints and the Composition of Investment" - Aghion, Angeletos, Banerjee, Manova
• Presenter: Mark Thoma - "Structural Changes in the U.S. Economy: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?" - Canova, Gambetti
• Presenter: Jeremy Piger - "Sequential Monte Carlo Filtering: an Example" - Fernández-Villaverde, Rubio-Ramírez
• Presenter: George Evans - "Robust Learning with Operational Monetary Policy Rules" - Evans, Honkapohja
• Presenter: Christina Steiger - "Patterns of Economic Growth: Hills, Plateaus, Mountains, and Plains" - Pritchett
                                                      - "Empirics of Hills, Plateaus, Mountains, and Plains: A Markov-Switching Approach to Growth" - Jerzmanowski

Updated: December 5, 2008

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