Date | Presenters | Paper |
20-Sep | Nathan Hipsman | Sachs, Tsyvinski and Werquin. 2016. “Nonlinear Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation in General Equilibrium” [Slides] |
27-Sep | May Bunsupha and Elisa Rubbo | Bordalo, Gennaioli and Shleifer. 2016. “Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles” and Winkler. 2016. ”The Role of Learning for Business Cycles and Asset Prices” [Slides] |
4-Oct | Ashley Craig and Hannah Shaffer | Ales, Bellofatto and Wang. 2016. “Taxing Atlas: Executive Compensation, Firm Size and Their Impact on Optimal Top Income Tax Rates" [Slides] |
11-Oct | No Meeting | |
18-Oct | Chris Clayton | Boccola and Dovis. 2016. “Self-fulfilling Debt Crises: A Quantitative Analysis” [Slides] |
25-Oct | Gianluca Rinaldi and Tiago Flórido | Davila and Goldstein. 2016. |
1-Nov | Eben Lazarus and Josh Abel | Midrigan and Phillippon, 2016. “Household Leverage and the Recession” [Slides] |
8-Nov | Sanjay Misra and Matteo Paradisi | Michaillat and Saez. 2015. “The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Macroeconomic Stabilization" |
15-Nov | Omar Barbiero and Tzachi Raz | Kehoe, Midrigan and Pastorino. 2016. “Debt Constraints and Employment” |
22-Nov | Andreas Schaab | Bhandari, et al. 2013. “Taxes, Debts, and Redistributions with Aggregate Shocks” |
29-Nov | Argyris Tsiaras | Berger , Dew-Becker, Milbrandt, Schmidt and Takahashi. 2016. “Layoff Risk, the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles and Monetary Policy” |