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Spring 2008

Carl Walsh walshc@ucsc.edu

Federico Ravenna fravenna@ucsc.edu

Thomas Wu thomaswu@ucsc.edu

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Announcements | Presentations schedule | Data Sources and Links for Economists | Economic News

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Announcements  - updated 17th May 2008

• Wednesday June 4th: Cesar will present his research results

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Presentations schedule - Spring 2008

• 2 April: Organizational meeting
  
• 9 April: What - or who - started the great depression? by Lee Ohanian. An outline of the paper.
• 15-22 April: Sanchita and Bob: Financial factors in business cycles    Presentation slides 1  Presentation slides 2
  
• 29 April - 14 May: Cesar and Sergio : Introducing financial frictions and unemployment into a small open economy model
• 21 - 28 May: Conglin:  International trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogenous Firms
• 4 June: Cesar on Sticky  Information Pricing Models
  

Presentations schedule - Fall 2007

• 17 October: Federico Ravenna and Carl Walsh: Vacancies, Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve
• 24 October: Thomas Wu: Does Inflation Targeting Reduce Inflation? An analysis using OECD countries
• 31 October: Conglin Xu: Inflation Targeting, Asset Prices and Financial Imbalances
• 7 November: Cesar Carrera: Sticky Information versus Sticky Prices
  
• 14 November: Mahir Binici: Taylor Rule and Exchange Rate Dynamics
  
• 21 November: canceled
  
• 28 November: Fernanda Nechio: Can heterogeneity in price stickiness explain the PPP Puzzle?
• 5 December: Sergio Alves: The role of consumer's risk aversion on price rigidity

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Data Sources and Links for Economists

• The American Economic Association offers a repository of resources for economists on the Internet.
  
• Data and analysis about the current US economic situation: see the Beige Book, the Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, and National Economic Trends, all published by the Federal Reserve System. Here is the US Database from the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. A full dataset of worldwide macroeconomic data is available at the UCSC library (look for the International Statistical Yearbook). Online datasets (many from the US Government) are listed in the Resources for Economists webpage of the American Economic Association.

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