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4th Annual Workshop in

MACROECONOMIC RESEARCH AT LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

 

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August 5 & 6, 2008

Drew University

Madison, NJ

 


WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Tuesday, August 5th

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Arrival and Registration (Foyer, Dorothy Young)
   
2:00 – 3:45 pm

Session 1

Monetary Economics (ARTS 106)

Chair:  Roisin O'Sullivan (rosulliv@email.smith.edu)

• Dean Scrimgeour, Colgate University (dscrim@econ.Berkeley.edu)
Empirical Evidence on Monetary Policy Spillovers

• • Discussant: Ellis Tallman, Oberlin College (ellistallman@yahoo.com)

 

• Shannon Mudd, Ursinus College (smudd@ursinus.edu)
Contestability in Banking Markets and Small Firm Use of Bank Financing: A Cross-Country Investigation

• • Discussant: Cynthia Bansak, St. Lawrence University (cbansak@stlawu.edu)

• Ellis Tallman, Oberlin College (ellistallman@yahoo.com)
Recent Evidence of a Philips Curve in United States Data: A Re-examination

• • Discussant: Roisin O'Sullivan, Smith College (rosulliv@mail.smith.edu)

   
3:45 – 4:00 pm Break (Foyer, Dorothy Young)
   
4:00 – 5:45 pm

Session 2

Open - Economy Macroeconomics (ARTS 106)

Chair: Nicole Simpson (nsimpson@mail.colgate.edu)

• Maria Colacelli, Barnard College (mcolacel@barnard.edu)
Export Responses to Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Development Status and Exported Good Effects

• • Discussant: Julian Diaz, Bowdoin College (jdiaz@bowdoin.edu)

• Michael Rolleigh, Williams College (mrolleig@williams.edu)
Plant Heterogeneity and Applied General Equilibrium Models of Trade: the CA-US Experience

• • Discussant: Ahmed Rahman, United States Naval Academy (rahman@usna.edu)

• Tomas Dvorak, Union College (dvorakt@union.edu)
A New Dataset of Foreign Portfolio Investment in the United States

• • Discussant: Mark Hopkins, Gettyburg College (mhopkins@gettysburg.edu)

 

6:30 pm Workshop Dinner (Mead Hall)

Followed by

Moderator:  Ann Owen, Hamilton College

Panelists

Sharon Harrison, Barnard College
Peter Matthews, Middlebury College
Ellis Tallman, Oberlin College

 

Wednesday, August 6th

8:30 – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (Foyer, Dorothy Young)
   
9:00 – 10:45 am Session 3
Consumption and Business Cycles (ARTS 106)

Chair: Robert Rebelein, Vassar College (rebelein@vassar.edu)
 

• Pao-Lin Tien, Wesleyan University (ptien@artsci.wustl.edu)
Reproducing Business Cycle Features: How Important are Nonlinear Dynamics versus Multivariate Information?

• • Discussant: Ed Gamber, Lafayette College (gambere@lafayette.edu)

• Paola Boel, Bowdoin College (pboel@bowdoin.edu)
Heterogeneity and the Welfare Costs of Inflation

• • Discussant: Felicia Ionescu, Colgate University (fionescu@mail.colgate.edu)

• Ryan Brady, United States Naval Academy (rbrady@usna.edu)
Understanding Credit Card Liquidity

• • Discussant: Ann Owen, Hamilton College (aowen@hamilton.edu)

10:45 – 11:00 am Break (Foyer, Dorothy Young)
   
11:00 – 11:45 pm Breakout Sessions by area of research interest  (location)

Topic  Facilitator Room
     
General Macro: Robert Rebelein Mead 102
Money and Banking: Roisin O'Sullivan Mead 103
International:  Nicole Simpson Mead 104
Growth: Ann Owen Mead 105
11:45 – 1:00 pm Lunch (Mead Hall, Founders Room)
   
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm Session 4
Macroeconomic Theory
(ARTS 106)

Chair: Mark Hopkins, Gettysburg College (mhopkins@gettysburg.edu)
 

• Malhar Nabar, Wellesley College (mnabar@wellesley.edu)
Job Creation, Job Destruction and External Financial Dependence: Theory and Evidence

• • Discussant: Philip Jefferson, Swarthmore College (pjeffer1@swarthmore.edu)

• Sharon Harrison, Barnard College (sh411@columbia.edu)
Indeterminacy with No-Income-Effect Preferences and Sector-Specific Externalities

• • Discussant: Robert Rebelein, Vassar College (rebelein@vassar.edu)

• Peter Matthews, Middlebury College (pmatthew@middlebury.edu)
Labor Discipline, Reputation and Underemployment Traps

• • Discussant: Lewis Davis, Union College (davisl@union.edu)



 

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