9 sessions, 16 papers

2009 Meeting of the Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group (CMSG)
Complete List of All Sessions

Session 1: Monetary Theory
Session Chair: Beverly Lapham, Queen's University
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Money and Capital as Competing Media of Exchange in a News Economy
Presented by: Fernando Martin, Simon Fraser University
Discussant: Alok Kumar, University of Victoria
Pairwise Trade, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy
Presented by: Ed Nosal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Discussant: Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada

Session 2: International Macro
Session Chair: Beverly Lapham, Queen's University
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
International and Intra-national Real Exchange Rates: Theory and Evidence
Presented by: Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Jim MacGee, University of Western Ontario
Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts
Presented by: Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester / Yonsei Univers
Discussant: Martin Boileau, University of Colorado

Session 3: Keynote Speaker Finn Kydland
Session Chair: Allen Head, Queen's University
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 13:15 - 14:30

Session 4: Business Cycles
Session Chair: Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Queen's University
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 14:45 - 16:15
Spot Wages over the Business Cycle?
Presented by: Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Carnegie Mellon University
Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle
Presented by: Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto
Discussant: Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University

Session 5: Contract Theory
Session Chair: Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Queen's University
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Optimal Auditing and Taxation in a Dynamic Model of Tax Compliance
Presented by: Yuzhe Zhang, University of Iowa
Discussant: Igor Livshits, University of Western Ontario
Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium
Presented by: Randall Wright, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Miquel Faig, University of Toronto

Session 6: Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Shocks
Session Chair: Marco Cozzi, Queen's University
Date: November 7, 2009
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Sectoral Price Rigidity and Aggregate Fluctuations
Presented by: Francisco Ruge-Murcia, University of Montreal
Discussant: Ali Dib, Bank of Canada
Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply
Presented by: Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Stephane Pallage, UQAM

Session 7: Wage Inequality
Session Chair: Marco Cozzi, Queen's University
Date: November 7, 2009
Time: 10:15 - 11:45
Rising Skill Premium and the Deunionization in the United States
Presented by: Baris Kaymak, Universite de Montreal
Discussant: Shintaro Yamaguchi, McMaster University
Taxation of Human Capital and Cross-country Inequality Trends
Presented by: Burhanettin Kuruscu, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto

Session 8: Financial Markets
Session Chair: Hongfei Sun, Queen's University
Date: November 7, 2009
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Risk Allocation, Debt Fuelled Expansion and Financial Crisis
Presented by: Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Jordi Mondria, University of Toronto
Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation: The Impact of Policy
Presented by: Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Henry Siu, University of British Columbia

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Session 9: Money and Credit
Session Chair: Hongfei Sun, Queen's University
Date: November 7, 2009
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Monetary Policy and the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle
Presented by: Christopher Telmer, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: Wei Dong, Bank of Canada
Credit Lines
Presented by: Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Martin Gervais, University of Southampton