Georgetown University
Macro Reading Group

Time: 12:00pm - 12:50pm, Tuesday or Friday (unless noted otherwise)

Place: 550 ICC (Intercultural Center) Bldg

 

 

SPRING 2009

Organizers: Jinhui Bai and Carlos Urrutia

January 16
 (Friday)

 Heterogeneity and Approximate Aggregation: (Presenter: Jinhui Bai)

 Krusell and Smith, 1998, Income and Wealth Heterogeneity in Macroeconomy, Journal of Political Economy, 106(5), 867-896.  slides

February 3
 (Tuesday)

 A perturbation Method to solve heterogeneous-agent economy: (Presenter: Yuki Ikeda)

 Preston, B. and M. Roca, 2007, Incomplete Markets, Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Dynamics, NBER Working Paper 13260  slides

February 10
 (Tuesday)

 A projection Method to solve heterogeneous-agent economy: (Presenter: David Amdur)

 Den Haan, Wouter and Pontus Rendahl, 2008, Solving Incomplete Markets Model with Aggregate  Uncertainty using Explicit Aggregation, Working paper   slides

February 24
 (Tuesday)

 Default in General Equilibrium: (Presenter: Masaki Higurashi)

Chatterjee, S. Corbae, D., M. Nakajima, V. Rios-Rull, 2007, A Quantitative Theory of Unsecured Consumer Credit with Risk of Default, Econometrica, Vol. 75, (2007), p. 1525-1589 slides

March 17
 (Tuesday)

 Time-Consistent Policy: (Presenter: Alejandro Badel)

Klein, Paul, Per Krusell and Victor Rios-Rull, 2008, Time-Consistent Public Policy, Review of Economic Studies, 75, 789-808.  slides

 March 31
 (Tuesday)

 Dynamic Political Economy: (Presenter: Natasha Che)

 Krusell, Per and Victor Rios-Rull, 1999, On the Size of U.S. Government: Political Economy in the Neoclassical Growth Model, American Economic Review, 1999, 1156-1181. slides