C.
Jones
U.C. Berkeley, Department of
Economics
Spring Semester,
2007
Economics 237 -- Macroeconomics Workshop
Thursdays, 2:00-4:00pm in 639 Evans
February 1 Organizational Meeting 15 minutes to discuss semester February 8
NBER Economic Growth Conference Conference at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Let me
know by January 20 if you would like to attend. February 15
Department Seminar February 22
Department Seminar March 1 John Williams (FRB San Francisco) “Welfare-Maximizing Monetary
Policy Under Parameter Uncertainty” March 8 John Sutton (LSE) Quality,Trade and the "Moving Window" : The Globalisation Process March 13 -- Tuesday Ricardo Caballero (MIT) "Collective Risk
Management in a Flight to Quality Episode"
(with Arvind Krishnamurthy) – joint with international seminar. March 22 Department Seminar March 29 Spring Break April 5 Ellen McGrattan (FRB Minneapolis) "Technology Capital and the US Current Account" (with Ed
Prescott) April 12 No Meeting April 19 Department Seminar April 26 Paul Lau (University "Age-specific mortality, child and
elderly dependency, and capital accumulation" May 3 Nir Jaimovich (Stanford) "The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and
Macroeconomics Volatility"
of Hong Kong)
Requirements for Course Credit
Students wishing to receive credit for this workshop should read the papers in advance of the macro seminar and, at each meeting, hand in THREE typewritten questions related to the paper being discussed. No more than one macro seminar may be missed without prior permission. These requirements do not apply to Department Seminars, to seminar meetings that do not occur on Thursdays, or to the Growth conference at the SFFed.