Seminars 2008

The Riksbank’s Research Division holds a series of seminars where international researchers present their research. These seminars are usually held once a week and are approximately one hour long, including questions and comments from the participants.

 

If you have any questions please contact Virginia Queijo von Heideken

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Vintage Capital and Expectations Driven Business Cycles
Martin Flodén, Stockholm School of Economics
Tuesday 15 January 2008

Paper

 

Safe Haven Currencies

Paul Söderlind, University of St. Gallen
Tuesday 22 January 2008

Paper

 

 

The World Distribution of Income: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps World

Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard, Stockholms University, IIES

Tuesday 29 January 2008
Paper

 

Central bank policy rate guidance and financial market
Functioning
Richhild Moessner, BIS

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Tuesday 5 February 2008

Paper

 

Does Debtor Protection Really Protect Debtors? Evidence from the Small Business Credit Market

Geraldo Cerqueiro, Sveriges Riksbank and Tilburg University

Tuesday 19 February 2008

Paper

 

 

House Price Dynamics with Heterogeneous Expectations

Giovanni Favara, HEC, University of Lausanne

Tuesday 26 February 2008

Paper

 

 

Financial Integration, Productivity and Capital Accumulation

Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Institute for Economic Analysis, Barcelona

Tuesday 4 March 2008

Paper

 

 

The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle

Wouter den haan, University of Amsterdam

Tuesday 18 March 2008
Paper

 

 

Weak and Strong System Fragility

Casper de Vries, Erasmus University

Tuesday 1 April 2008
Paper

 

Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention
Bartosz Mackowiak, ECB
Tuesday 8 April 2008

Paper

 

 

Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors

Paolo Sodini, Stockholm School of Economics, Finance Dep.

Tuesday 15 April 2008

Paper

 

 

Optimal Monetary Policy in an Operational Medium-Sized DSGE Model

Lars E.O. Svensson, Sveriges Riksbank

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Paper

 

 

Taylor Rules Cause Fiscal Policy Ineffectiveness

Guido Ascari, University of Pavia

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Paper

 

 

Monetary Policy and the Great Moderation
Klaus Adam, ECB, DG-R
Tuesday 6 May 2008

Paper

 

Inflation forecasts at the Riksbank

Michael Lundholm, Stockholm University, Economics

Tuesday 13 May 2008

 

The Welfare Cost of Bank Capital Requirements
Skander Van den Heuvel, Wharton University
Tuesday 20 May 2008

Paper

 

 

Introducing Financial Frictions and Unemployment into a Small Open Economy Model

Mathias Trabandt, Sveriges riksbank

Tuesday 27 May 2008

Paper

 

 

Information, heterogeneity and market incompleteness in the stochastic growth model

Liam Graham, University College London

Tuesday 3 June 2008

 

 

Do Sticky Prices Make Sense?

Nils Gottfries, Uppsala University

Tuesday 10 June 2008

Paper


 

Fractional Integration and Applied Macroeconomics

Antonio Moreno, University of Navarra

Tuesday 17 June 2008

Paper

 

 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Iftekar Hasan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tuesday 19 August 2008

Paper

 

 

Deciphering the 2007-08 Liquidity and Credit Crunch
Markus Brunnemeier, Princeton University
Tuesday 26 August 2008 

Paper

 

 

The Psyschoanalysis of Common People's Forecast Errors. Evidence from European Consumer Surveys

Maurizio Bovi, Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses

Tuesday 2 September 2008

 

 

Optimal Prediction Pools

John Geweke, University of Iowa
Monday 8 September 2008

Paper

 

 

Fiscal Foresight: Analysis and Econometrics
Eric Leeper, Indiana University
Tuesday 9 September 2008

Paper

 

 

Price Level Targeting in a Small Open Economy with
Financial Frictions: Welfare Analysis

Caterina Mendicino, Bank of Canada
Tuesday 16 September 2008

Paper

 

 

Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment?

Julian Messina, Universitat de Girona
Tuesday 23 September 2008

Paper

 

 

Why Do Politicians Implement Central bank Independence Reforms?

Sven-Olof Daunfeldt, Handelns utredningsinstitut och Högskolan i Gävle

Tuesday 30 September 2008

Paper

 

The Great Inflation Drift

Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University

Tuesday 1 October 2008

Paper

 

Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in the EMU:
Evidence from an Estimated Model

Ulf Söderström, Sveriges riksbank

Tuesday 7 October 2008

Paper

 

Consumer Choice and Merchant Acceptance of Payment Media

Wilko Bolt, De Nederlandsche Bank

Thursday 9 October 2008

Paper

 

The US Financial Crisis so Far: Causes, Consequences, and
Responses

Bob Hunt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadephia 

Tuesday 14 October 2008

 

 

Estimating the Cross-sectional Distribution of Price Stickiness from Aggregate Data
Niels Arne Dam, Danmarks Nationalbank

Tuesday 21 October 2008

Paper

 

Fundacion Getulio Vargas, Imperfectly Credible Disinflation under Endogenous Time-Dependent Pricing
Marco Bonomo, Fundacion Getulio Vargas
Tuesday 28 October 2008

Paper

 

Could transparent pricing increase payment efficiency and competition at point of sale?

Harry Leinonen, Central Bank of Finland

Tuesday 4 November 2008

Paper

 

The Rigidity of Choice.
Lifecycle savings with information-processing limits

Antonella Tutino, Board of Governors
Tuesday 11 November 2008

Paper

 

 

Forecasting Macroeconomic time series with locally adaptive signal extraction

Paolo Giordani and Mattias Villani, Sveriges riksbank

Tuesday 18 November 2008
Paper

 

Financial Contracting under Imperfect Enforcement

Tore Ellingsen, Stockholm School of Economics

Tuesday 25 November 2008

Paper

 

 

Credit Market Shocks and Economics Fluctuations: Evidence from Corporate Bond and Stock Markets
Simon Gilchrist, Boston University
Thursday 4 December 2008

Paper


 

Optimal Monetary Policy Rules in an Estimated Sticky-Information Model

Ricardo Reis, Columbia University

Wednesday 10 December 2008

Paper

 

 

How should monetary policy committees make decisions?

Carl Andreas Claussen, Norges Bank

Tuesday 16 December 2008

Paper

 

 

Monetary Policy Trade-Offs in an Estimated Open-Economy DSGE Model
Jesper Lindé, Board of Governors
Thursday 18 December 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 



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