Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

MACRO JAMBOREE, 2000–2001

This is the year of the Macro Jamboree. With the generous support of the Cowles Foundation, and of John Geanakoplos in particular, several prominent macroeconomists will visit the Department, for one or two weeks. The lectures are on topics chosen by the speakers, reflecting their current research activity and interests.

For students who have Macro-related interests, or are entertaining the idea of venturing into Macroeconomics for your second year courses or your dissertation, this is a VERY rare opportunity to speak with such top researchers and discuss their or your own ideas. Also, the lectures should convey a methodological message and "show, live, how research is done."

SPRING 2001
Feb. 27–March 2 Per Krusell (University of Rochester)
One lecture, February 27
Macroeconomics Workshop, same day
March 29–30 Edward Prescott (University of Minnesota)
Cowles Seminar, "Taxes, Regulations, and Asset Prices," March 30
April 2–6 V.V. Chari (University of Minnesota)
"Financial Crises as Herds" (joint with Patrick Kehoe)
Two lectures, to be confirmed, on April 3 and 5
Macroeconomics Workshop, April 3
April 17–18 BOUNDED RATIONALITY AND MACROECONOMICS
Tuesday, April 17
Thomas Sargent (Stanford University)
"Wanting Robustness in Macroeconomics (with L.P. Hansen)
In–Koo Cho (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
"Escape Dynamics" (with T. Sargent and N. Williams)
Wednesday, April 18
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)
"Robustness and Pricing with Uncertain Growth (with M. Cagetti, T. Sargent and N. Williams)

FALL 2000
September 11–15 Steve Davis (Chicago Business School).
Two lectures, September 12 and 14
TOPIC: "Using Financial Assets to Hedge Uninsurable Income Risks"
WORKSHOP: Cowles Seminar, "On the Gains to International Trade in Risky Financial Assets" (joint with Jeremy Nalewaik and Paul Willen)
October 2–13 Narayana Kocherlakota (University of Minnesota).
Two lectures, October 3 and 5
TOPIC: "Money is Memory."
WORKSHOP: Macroeconomics, "Societal Benefits of Nominal Bonds," October 10
October 16–20 Chris Pissarides (London School of Economics).
Two lectures, October 17 and 19
TOPIC: "Search and Matching in Labor Markets"
WORKSHOP: Cowles Seminar, "Employment Protection," October 20
November 6–10 Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Two lectures, November 7 and 9
TOPPIC: "Local Interaction–Based Models and Econometrics".
WORKSHOP: Cowles Seminar, "Economic Growth and Reality" (with W. Brock), November 10
December 4–8 Nobu Kiyotaki (London School of Economics, visiting MIT)
Two lectures, December 5 and 7
TOPIC: His research with John Moore on Credit Cycles and the interaction between credit and goods markets
WORKSHOP: None scheduled at this time