THE MACRO READING GROUP

UC San Diego
Spring 2009

Meeting time and location: Weds, 12:15 - 1:30 pm, Sequoyah Hall 244
Topic: Addressing the Current Crisis

Download the reading list here.

Presentation Schedule:
April 8         Aeimit Lakdawala Bernanke and Gertler, AER 1989
(Related JEP article here)
April 15 Will Peterman Own research, title TBA
April 22 Cynthia Wu "Do Macro Finance Models Outperform VAR:
A Specification Analysis of Term Structure Models of Interest Rates"
April 29 Jess Diamond Kiyotaki and Moore, 1997 JPE
May 6 Michael Bauer Own research, title TBA
May 13 Shalini Nageswaran       Kiyotaki and Moore, 2008
May 20 Frank Hespeler On solution algorithms of linear rational expectation models.
Partly based on this paper and correction .
May 27 Ben Kay Own research, title TBA

Upload your 5-minute presentation paper title: form here. Deadline is 11:45 am on each Wednesday before the meeting.