Fabiano Schivardi, Bank of Italy
     "Do Mergers Improve Information? Evidence from the Loan Market"
     Thursday, March 25/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Yakov Ben-Haim, Israel Institute of Technology
     "Info-gaps and Equity Premia"(download)
     Monday, March 29/10:30 a.m./Seminar Room

Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin
      "Elements of a Theory of Design Limits to Optimal Policy"
       "Local Robustness Analysis: Theory and Application" 
     Tuesday, April 13/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

David Macpherson, Florida State University
     Friday, April 16/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Govind Hariharan, Kennesaw State University
     Thursday, April 22/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Marco Cagetti, University of Virginia
     "Taxation, Entrepreneurship and Wealth"
     Tuesday, May 11/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Eric Leeper, Indiana University
     "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Switching"
     Thursday, May 13/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Adrian Pagan, Australian National University (visiting at Johns Hopkins University)
     Thursday, May 20/10:30 a.m./Seminar Room

Jennifer Platania, Elon University
     "Housing and Asset Holding In A Dyna.m.ic General Equilibrium Model"
     Tuesday, May 25/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Hisashi Nakamura, University of Chicago
     "Sequential Costly State Verifications under Two-State Markov Chains"
     Tuesday, June 1/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Kim Ruhl, University of Minnesota
     "Solving the Elasticity Puzzle in International Economics"
     Monday, June 7/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

David Bradford, Medical University of South Carolina
     "Estimating the Effect of Individual Time Preference on the Demand for 
       Preventive Health Care"
     Monday, July 12/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Jonathan Fisher, BLS
     "Is the Bankruptcy Flag Binding? Access to Credit Markets for 
        Post-Bankruptcy Households"
     Wednesday, July 14/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Thomas Lubik, Johns Hopkins University
     Tuesday, July 20/12:00 p.m. Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Thomas Lubik, Johns Hopkins University
     Thursday, July 29/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Juan Rubio-Ramirez, FRB Atlanta
     "Convergence Properties of the Likelihood of Computed Dynamic Models"
     Monday, August 23/12:00 - "Brown Bag"/Seminar Room

Andrea Raffo, UCLA
      "Gaps in the Household's Static Marginal Rate of Substitution: 
       International Evidence from OECD Countries, 1960-2002"
     Thursday, August 26/12:00 "Brown Bag"/Seminar Room

Andrea Raffo, UCLA
     Thursday, September 2/12:00 "Brown Bag"/Seminar Room

Pau Rabanal, IMF
     "Technology Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations:  How Well Does the RBC Model Fit Postwar U.S. Data?"   
    (download)
    Friday, September 17/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Mattias Villani, Riksbank
    "Bayesian Approaches to Cointegration" (download)
    Tuesday, September 21/10:30 a.m./ Seminar Room

Charles Noussair, Emory University
    "Futures Markets and Bubble Formation in Experimental Asset Markets" (download)
    Thursday, September 30/10:30 a.m./ Seminar Room

Ken West, University of Wisconsin
    "Exchange Rates and Fundamentals" (download)
    Tuesday, October 5/1:30 p.m./ Seminar Room

Jose Ricardo da Costa e Silva, Central Bank of Brazil
    "Brazilian Forecast Model"
    Wednesday, October 6/12:00 p.m. - "Brown Bag"/Seminar Room

Juan Rubio-Ramirez, FRB Atlanta
    Friday, October 8/12:00 - "Brown Bag"/Seminar Room

Rob Roy McGregor, University of North Carolina/Charlotte
    "Fed Chat:  FOMC Transcripts and the Politics of Monetary Policymaking" (download)
    Wednesday, October 13/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Giorgio Primiceri, Princeton University
    "Why Inflation Rose and Fell: Policymakers’ Beliefs and US Postwar Stabilization Policy" (download)
    Friday, October 29/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Chris Ruhm, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
    "Macroeconomic conditions and deaths from coronary heart disease" (download)
    Thursday, November 4/3:00 p.m./Seminar Room

Mike Golosov, MIT
    "Menu Costs and Phillips Curves" (download)
    Tuesday, November 9/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Shinichi Nishiyama, Congressional Budget Office
    "Analyzing an Aging Population—A Dynamic GeneralEquilibrium Approach" (download)
    Tuesday, November 16/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Charles Nelson, University of Washington
    "The Zero-Information-Limit Condition and Spurious Inference in Weakly Identified Models" (download)
    Thursday, November 18/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto
    "Liquidity, Interest Rates and Output" (download)
    Thursday, December 2/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Pierre-Olivier Weill, NYU
    "Leaning against the wind" (download)
    Thursday, December 9/1:30 p.m./Seminar Room

Satyajit Chatterjee, FRB Philadelphia (Rescheduled to January 14)
    Friday, December 10/10:30 a.m./Seminar Room