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ECON 281
Seminar in International
Trade & Finance

Spring 2008

(Supported by the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy & the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley)

Instructor: Maurice Obstfeld
E-mail:
Schedule: Tuesdays 2-4 pm
639 Evans Hall

*Seminar date, time, and location may vary when held in conjunction with another seminar

January 22 Organizational Meeting

*January 25 *Joint with Job Market Seminar, 3-4:30pm, 608-7 Evans
Ralph Ossa
, London School of Economics & Princeton University
"A 'New Trade' Theory of GATT/WTO Negotiations"
*February 1 *Joint with Job Market Seminar, 3-4:30pm, 608-7 Evans
Michael Waugh
, University of Iowa
"International Trade and Income Differences"
*February 5 *Joint with Haas Job Market Seminar, 9:30-11:00am, 320 Cheit
Brent Neiman
, Harvard University
"Multinationals, Intrafirm Trades, and International Macro Dynamics"
February 12 Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, UC Berkeley
"Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle"
(with Olivier Jeanne, IMF)
*February 20 Joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-6pm, 608-7
Robert Hall, Stanford University & NBER
"The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital"
(with Susan E. Woodward)
February 26 Gal Hochman, Steven Sexton, and David Zilberman , UC Berkeley
  "The Economics of Trade, Biofuel, and the Environment"
March 4 Gianluca Benigno, London School of Economics
"Optimal Stabilization Policy in a Model with Endogenous Sudden Stops"
(with Young, Otrok, Rebucci, and Chen)
March 11 No Meeting
 
*March 19 Joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-6pm, 608-7
Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology
"Cognitive Hierarchy Models of Bounded Rationality in Lab and Field Games"
March 25 Spring Recess
 
April 1 Carlos Vegh , University of Maryland
  "Optimal Monetary Policy under Asset Market Segmentation"
(with Amartya Lahiri and Rajesh Singh)

April 8 Thomas Chaney , University of Chicago & NBER
  "Technological Mismatch: A Model of Trade and Technology Diffusion"
*April 16 Joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-6pm, 608-7 Evans
George Akerlof, UC Berkeley
"Animal Spirits"
April 22 Roberto Rigobon, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.
"Equilibrium Portfolios and External Adjustment under Incomplete Markets"
(with Anna Pavlova)
*April 30 Joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-6pm, 608-7 Evans
Ed Glaeser, Harvard University
"Three Developments in the Growth of Cities"
May 6 George Alessandria, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  "INVENTORIES, LUMPY TRADE, AND LARGE DEVALUATIONS"
(with Joseph Kaboski and Virgiliu Midrigan)