22ND ANNUAL MEETING of the CANADIAN MACROECONOMICS STUDY GROUP

Summary of All Sessions

#Date/TimeLocationTitlePapers
1November 7, 2008
8:30-10:00
N/A Monetary Theory2
2November 7, 2008
10:15-11:45
N/A Housing and Investment2
3November 7, 2008
13:30-14:15
N/A CMSG Keynote Address - Money and Capital: A Quantitative Analysis, Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)0
4November 7, 2008
14:30-16:00
N/A Contracts and Default2
5November 7, 2008
16:15-17:45
N/A Contracts and Welfare2
6November 8, 2008
9:00-10:30
N/A Macro Labor I2
7November 8, 2008
10:45-12:15
N/A Bank of Canada Session: International Macro2
8November 8, 2008
14:00-15:30
N/A Macro Labor II2
9November 8, 2008
15:45-17:15
N/A Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Forecasting2
 

9 sessions, 16 papers


 

22ND ANNUAL MEETING of the CANADIAN MACROECONOMICS STUDY GROUP

Complete List of All Sessions


Session 1: Monetary Theory

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

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)

Session Chair: Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto
Date: November 7, 2008
Time: 13:30 - 14:15

Session 4: Contracts and Default

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

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

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

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

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

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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