November 6 - December 4, 2012

The Becker Friedman Institute is pleased to sponsor a lecture series on applied macroeconomics for graduate students in Economics and Booth. Faculty are welcome.

Talks include:

• Links between microeconomic evidence and macroeconomic modeling;
• the impact of alternative shocks or mechanisms in modern empirical DSGE models; and
• how such mechanisms relate to more traditional RBC economies and impact on optimal policy.

Speakers

Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University) – November 6, 2012
• Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University) – November 13, 2012
• Gianluca Violante (New York University) – November 27, 2012
• Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) – December 4, 2012