Macro/International Reading Group

Spring 2015
Thursdays, 12:30 (SHARP) – 1:30 pm in Evans 639 (bring your own lunch if you want)

Date	Presenter	Paper
29-Jan-15	Jeremie	Rational Inattention and Monetary Economics
5-Feb-15	Yusuf	Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention
12-Feb-15	Casper	Sparse Dynamic Programming and Aggregate Fluctuations
19-Feb-15	Leslie	Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing
26-Feb-15	Maria	Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy with Near-Rational Expectations
5-Mar-15	Mikhail	A Rational Theory of Mutual Funds' Attention Allocation
8-Mar-15 (1-2pm @ Evans 597)	John	Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model
19-Mar-15	Erik	Farther on down the road
26-Mar-15	Spring break
2-Apr-15	Simon	Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries
9-Apr-15	Sandile	The allocative efficiency of land in India
16-Apr-15	Veronica Rapopport	TBD
23-Apr-15	Dmitri	Uncertainty traps
1-May-15	GEMS

Please send an email to ygorodni@econ.berkeley.edu if you would like to receive announcements or would like to lead one of the discussions.