Schedule:
 

Week of Presenter Topic Remarks
9/10 Costas Azariadis
(Washington University)		 on poverty traps:
The Economics of Poverty Traps Part One: Complete Markets (Azariadis, 1996, Journal of Economics Growth)
Poverty Traps (Azariadis, Stachursky, 2005)
9/17 Costas Azariadis
(Washington University)		 on poverty traps
9/24 George-Marios Angeletos
(MIT)		 on global games and heterogenous information in macroeconomics:
Reading List, Slides:Part 1, Part 2
Papers:Rethinking Multiple Equilibria in Macroeconomics, (Morris, Shin, 2001, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000)
Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity and Volatility, (Angeletos, Werning, 2006, AER)
Social Value of Public Information, (Morris, Shin, 2002, AER),
Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A Delicate Interaction (Angeletos, Lorenzoni, Pavan, 2007),
Imperfect Common Knowledge and the Effects of Monetary Policy, (Woodford, 2003, in Knowledge, Information and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: in Honor of Edmund S. Phelps)
10/1 Douglass North
(Washington University)		 on institutions and economic growth
A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, (North, Wallis, Weingast, 2006, NBER), (Abstract)
10/8 Steven Durlauf
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)		 on social interactions: theory and econometrics
10/18 and 10/19 Edward Prescott
(Arizona State University)		 Thursday: Technology Capital, Openness and Development, (McGrattan, Prescott, 2007),
Friday: Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Accounts, (McGrattan, Prescott, 2007), (Slides)
10/22 Costas Azariadis on poverty traps (cntd)
Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, (Rosenstein-Rodan, 1943, Economic Journal)
Industrialization and the Big Push, (Murphy, Shleifer, Vishny, 1989, JPE)
10/29 Costas Azariadis
on poverty traps (cntd)
10/31 Norman Schofield
(Washington University)		 on modelling politics
Modelling Politics, (Schofield, 2007),
back-up: The Mean Voter Theorem: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Convergent Equilibrium, (Schofield, 2007, REStud).
11/7 Costas Azariadis on poverty traps (cntd)
11/12 Patrick Pintus
(Fed of St. Louis) 		on topics in international macroeconomics
Syllabus, Slides,
Growth and External Debt Under Risk of Debt Repudiation, (Cohen, Sachs, 1986, European Economic Review),
Capital Mobility in Neoclassical Models of Growth, (Barro, Mankiw, Sala-I-Martin, 1995, AER),
Debt with Potential Repudiation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, (Eaton, Gersovitz, 1981, REStud).
11/19 no classes
11/26 Jim Bullard
(Fed of St. Louis)		 The Optimal Inflation Target in an Economy with Limited Enforcement, (Antinolfi, Azariadis, Bullard , 2007)
Generalizing the Taylor Principle, (Davig, Leeper, 2007, AER)
12/3 Jim Bullard
(Fed of St. Louis)		 A Leisurely Reading of the Life Cycle Consumption Data, (Bullard, Feigenbaum, JME forthcoming)
Inflation Determination with Taylor Rules: A Critical Review , (Cochrane, 2007)

Provisional schedule for Spring 2008