UC Riverside Department of Economics

Economic Theory Spring 2006

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet (marcelle.chauvet@ucr.edu).

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

April 5	Fabio Milani (Economics Department/UC Irvine)	Expectations, Learning and Macroeconomic Persistence
April 12	Kajal Lahiri (Economics Department/SUNY, Albany) joint with Econometrics	Limits to Forcasting: How fast do we adapt to news? How far ahead can we forecast? Papers: 1 \| 2 \| 3
April 19	Michael J Ryan (Centre for Economic Policy Hull/University Business School)	Simple Characterizations of Contraction Consistency and Inconsistency Conditions
April 26	James Stock (Economics Department, Harvard Univeristy) joint with Econometrics	Title: TBA
April 28 Friday	Allan Timmermann (Economics Department/UCSD) joint with Econometrics	Predictability of stock returns and asset allocation under structural breaks
May 3	Nicolas L. Dromel (Economics Department/University of Aix-Marseille)	Are Progressive Fiscal Rules Stabilizing?
May 10	Robert J. Gordon (Economics Department/Northwestern University)	Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Europe Chasing the American Frontier
May 12 Friday	Rosa Metzkin (Economics Department/Northwestern University) joint with Econometrics	Title: TBA
May 17	Ayse Imrohoroglu (Marshall School of Business/USC)	Secular Movements in U.S. Saving and Consumption
May 24	Hanno Lustig (Economics Department/UCLA)	The Irrelevance of Idiosyncratic Income Risk for Risk Premia in Incomplete Market Models
May 31	Joao Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics) joint with Econometrics	Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function