22ND ANNUAL MEETING of the CANADIAN MACROECONOMICS STUDY GROUP |
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Summary of All Sessions |
| # | Date/Time | Location | Title | Papers |
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| 1 | November 7, 2008 8:30-10:00 | N/A | Monetary Theory | 2 |
| 2 | November 7, 2008 10:15-11:45 | N/A | Housing and Investment | 2 |
| 3 | November 7, 2008 13:30-14:15 | N/A | CMSG Keynote Address - Money and Capital: A Quantitative Analysis, Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania) | 0 |
| 4 | November 7, 2008 14:30-16:00 | N/A | Contracts and Default | 2 |
| 5 | November 7, 2008 16:15-17:45 | N/A | Contracts and Welfare | 2 |
| 6 | November 8, 2008 9:00-10:30 | N/A | Macro Labor I | 2 |
| 7 | November 8, 2008 10:45-12:15 | N/A | Bank of Canada Session: International Macro | 2 |
| 8 | November 8, 2008 14:00-15:30 | N/A | Macro Labor II | 2 |
| 9 | November 8, 2008 15:45-17:15 | N/A | Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Forecasting | 2 |
9 sessions, 16 papers |
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22ND ANNUAL MEETING of the CANADIAN MACROECONOMICS STUDY GROUP |
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Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: Monetary Theory |
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| Session Chair: Miquel Faig, University of Toronto |
| Date: November 7, 2008 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:00 |
| Price Dispersion with Directed Search |
| By Gabriele Camera, University of Iowa Cemil Selcuk, DePaul University |
| Presented by: Gabriele Camera, University of Iowa |
| Discussant: Miguel Molico, Bank of Canada |
| Precautionary Demand for Money in a Monetary-Search Business Cycle Model |
| By Irina A. Telyukova, UC San Diego Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University |
| Presented by: Irina Telyukova, University of California San Diego |
| Discussant: Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada |
Session 2: Housing and Investment |
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| Session Chair: Damba Lkhagvasuren, Concordia University |
| Date: November 7, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 11:45 |
| Holdups and Overinvestment in Physical Capital Markets |
| By André Kurmann (UQAM) |
| Presented by: Andre Kurmann, UQAM |
| Discussant: Hongfei Sun, Queen's University |
| Housing Premia, Illiqudity and the Labour Market |
| By Allen Head, Queen's University Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Queen's University |
| Presented by: Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Queens University |
| Discussant: Ahmet Akyol, York University |
Session 3: CMSG Keynote Address - Money and Capital: A Quantitative Analysis, Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania) |
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| Session Chair: Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto |
| Date: November 7, 2008 |
| Time: 13:30 - 14:15 |
Session 4: Contracts and Default |
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| Session Chair: Alok Johri, McMaster University |
| Date: November 7, 2008 |
| Time: 14:30 - 16:00 |
| Long-duration Bonds and Sovereign Defaults |
| By Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Leonardo Martinez, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| Presented by: Leonardo Martinez, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| Discussant: Yan Bai, Arizona State University |
| The Poor, the Rich and the Enforcer: Institutional Choice and Growth |
| By Thorsten Koeppl Queen's University Cyril Monnet FRB Philadelphia Erwan Quintin FRB Dallas |
| Presented by: Thorsten Koeppl, Queen's University |
| Discussant: Paul Klein, University of Western Ontario |
Session 5: Contracts and Welfare |
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| Session Chair: Nils-Petter Lagerlöf, York University |
| Date: November 7, 2008 |
| Time: 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit |
| By Igor Livshits, University of Western Ontario James MacGee, University of Western Ontario Michele Tertilt, Stanford University |
| Presented by: Igor Livshits, University of Western Ontario |
| Discussant: Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University |
| The Impact of Medical and Nursing Home Expense Risk and Social Insurance Policies on Savings and Inequality |
| By Karen Kopecky, The University of Western Ontario Tatyana Koreshkova, Concordia University |
| Presented by: Karen Kopecky, The University of Western Ontario |
| Discussant: Rui Castro, University of Montreal |
Session 6: Macro Labor I |
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| Session Chair: Claustre Bajona, Ryerson University |
| Date: November 8, 2008 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Establishments Dynamics and Matching Frictions in Classical Competitive Equilibrium |
| By Marcelo Veracierto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) |
| Presented by: Marcelo Veracierto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| Discussant: Marco Cozzi, Queen's University |
| Spill-overs from Good Jobs |
| By Paul Beaudry, UBC, David Green, UBC, Ben Sand, UBC |
| Presented by: Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia |
| Discussant: Stephen Jones, McMaster |
Session 7: Bank of Canada Session: International Macro |
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| Session Chair: Hashmat Khan, Carleton University |
| Date: November 8, 2008 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:15 |
| Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale |
| By Viktoria Hnatkovska, UBC Amartya Lahiri, UBC Carlos Vegh, University of Maryland |
| Presented by: Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia |
| Discussant: Francisco Ruge-Murcia, University of Montreal |
| Do Central Banks Respond to Exchange Rate Movements? Some New Evidence from Structural Estimation |
| By Wei Dong International Department Bank of Canada |
| Presented by: Wei Dong, Bank of Canada |
| Discussant: Steven Ambler, UQAM |
Session 8: Macro Labor II |
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| Session Chair: Jordi Mondria, University of Toronto |
| Date: November 8, 2008 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| The Price of Experience |
| By Hyeok Jeong, Vanderbilt University Yong Kim, University of Southern California Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania |
| Presented by: Yong Kim, University of Southern California |
| Discussant: Shintaro Yamaguchi, McMaster University |
| The Household Revolution: Child-care, House-work,and Female Labor Force Participation |
| By Emanuela Cardia, Universite de Montreal and CIREQ Paul Gomme, Concordia University and CIREQ |
| Presented by: Paul Gomme, Concordia University |
| Discussant: Vincenzo Caponi, Ryerson University |
Session 9: Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Forecasting |
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| Session Chair: John Floyd, |
| Date: November 8, 2008 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Sector-specific Markup Fluctuations and the Business Cycle |
| By Alain Gabler, Université de Toulouse 1 / Université Laval |
| Presented by: Alain Gabler, European University Institute |
| Discussant: Tasso Adamopoulos, York University |
| The Curse of Irving Fisher (Professional Forecasters' Version) |
| By Gregor W. Smith (Queen's University) James Yetman (BIS) |
| Presented by: Gregor Smith, Queen's University |
| Discussant: Angelo Melino, University of Toronto |
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