Macroeconomics Workshops - Spring 2013

Sponsored by Rice University Department of Economics and University of Houston Department of Economics.

Workshops are held every Monday (unless otherwise indicated) from 3:30 PM -5:00 PM at Rice (Baker Hall Rm 116) or UH (Rm 212 McElhinney Hall). Topics will be announced.


Monday, February 18: Pablo D'Erasmo (University of Maryland) @Rice
"Capital Requirements in a Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics Mortgage Defaults"


Monday, March 11: Mohammad Jahan-Parvar (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
"Ambiguity Aversion and Asset Prices in Production Economies"


Monday, March 18: Gaetano Antinolfi (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systems) @Rice
"Costly Monitoring, Dynamic Incentives, and Default"


Monday, March 25: Ivan Kandilov (North Carolina State University)
"The Impact of Banking Deregulations on Inward Foreign Direct Investment: Transaction-level Evidence from the US"


Monday, April 1: Juan Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)  @Rice
                             "Mortgage Defaults" 

                              Remi Jedwab (George Washington University) @UH 


Monday, April 8: Russell Cooper (Pennsylvania State University) @Rice
"Deposit Insurance and Orderly Liquidation without Commitment: Can we Sleep Well?"


Monday, April 15: Cyril Monnet (University of Bern) @Rice 
                                "Rationally Opaque Intermediaries"

                                David Lagakos (Arizona State University) @UH 


Monday, April 29: Graham Elliot (University of California San Diego) @UH



If you have any questions, please email Borghan Narajabad  at Rice University, or Dietrich Vollrath at University of Houston.