Macro/Growth Reading Group
Wednesdays, Noon - 1pm in
597 Evans
(Bring Your Own Lunch)
| February 2 |
Organizational Meeting |
Pick Papers |
| February 9 |
Brad Delong |
Melitz (2003) "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity" |
| February 16 |
Rob Johnson |
Eaton and Kortum (2002) "Technology,
Geography, and Trade" Econometrica |
| February 23 |
Dean Scrimgeour |
Alvarez and Lucas (2004) "General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade" |
| March 2 |
Chad Jones |
Grossman and Lai (2004) "International Protection of Intellectual Property" |
| March 9 |
Joe Rosenberg |
Antras, Garicano, and Rossi-Hansberg "Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy" |
| March 16 |
Chang Hsieh |
Manuelli and Seshadri "Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations" |
| March 23 |
Spring Break |
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| March 30 |
Danny Givon |
Klein and Ventura (2004) "Do
Migration Restrictions Matter?" |
| April 6 |
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas |
Angeletos and Werning: Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity and Volatility |
| April 13 |
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| April 20 |
Brad DeLong |
Baker, DeLong, and Krugman, "Asset Returns and Economic
Growth" |
| April 27 |
Danny Givon |
Parente and Prescott, "A Unified Theory of the Evolution of International Income Levels" |
| May 4 |
Rob Johnson |
Klenow and Hummels, "The Variety and Quality of a Nation's Exports" |
Please send an email to chad@econ if you would like to receive announcements or would like to lead one of the discussions.
Here are some possibilities for papers that we could read. Feel free to suggest others (Thanks to Pierre-Olivier):
Suggestions
Alvarez and Lucas (2004) "General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade"
Rigobon and Rodrik (2004) "Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income: Estimating the Interrelationships"
Golosov and Lucas (2003), "Menu Costs and Phillips curves",
Brunnermeier and Parker "Optimal Expectations"
Besley and Burgess (2004 Feb QJE) "Can Labor Regulations Hinder Economic Performance,
Evidence from India"
Benabou (2004) "Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract" (NBER WP 10371)
Basu and Fernald (2002) "Aggregate Productivity and Aggregate Technology" (EER)
Handbook of Economic Growth chapters:here.
Recent NBER Working Papers: here.
1. recent trade lit with heterogenous firms
4: heterogenous expectations, lack of common knowledge and macroeconomics
2. Bernard, Eaton, Kortum, "Plants and Productivity in International Trade"
(2003), AER February 03
3. antras and helpman "global sourcing", forthcoming JPE
2. recent work on bubbles;
1. Abreu and Brunnermeier (2003), "Bubbles and Crashes"
2. Santos and Woodford (1997) econometrica: rational asset pricing bubbles
3. optimal fiscal policy/the size of the government/political economy
0. Niepelt (2004 Feb, QJE) "The Fiscal Myth of the Price Level"
1. krusell and rios-rull (1997) "politico-economic equilibrium and economic
growth"
2. krusell, quadrini and rios-rull (1999), "on the size of the U.S.
government"
3. Hassler, Mora, Soresletten and Zilibotti (2003) "The survival of the
welfare state", AER 2003
4. Hassler, Mora, Soresletten and Zilibotti (2003) "dynamic political choice
in macroeconomics"
5. Chari and Kehoe (1990): sustainable plans
6. Klein Krusell and Rios-Rull (2003): time consistent public expenditures
7. Albanesi and Sleet, "Dynamic Optimal Taxation with Private Information",
June 2003
-allen, morris and shin: beauty contests and iterated expectations in asset markets
-morris and shin: social value of public information
-angeletos and hellwig: Information Dynamics and Equilibrium Multiplicity in Global Games of Regime Change, NBER WP 11017
- angeletos and werning: Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity and Volatility, NBER WP 11015
-hellwig, mukherji and tsyvinski: Coordination Failures and Asset Prices