Cyril Monnet, European Central Bank (currently visiting FRB New York)
    "Monetary Policy in a Channel System" (download)
    Thursday, January 19, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Menzie Chinn, University of Wisconsin 
    "Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions:
           Assaying the World 'Savings Glut' " (download)
    Friday, February 3, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Arilton Teixeira, Foundation Institute Capixaba of Research in 
           Accounting, Economics and Finance (FUCAPE)
    "The Threat of Competition and Productivity" (download)
    Monday, February 6, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine
    "Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics During the Great Depression
           Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Federal Reserve District Border 
           in Mississippi, 1929 to 1933" (download)
    Thursday, February 9, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Benoit Mojon, European Central Bank
     "Global Inflation" (download)
     Wednesday, February 15, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Adrian Peralta, University of Miami
     "The Macroeconomics of Obesity in the United States" (download)
     Friday, February 17, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Ariel Burstein, UCLA
     "Trade Costs, Pricing-to-Market, and International Relative Prices"  (download)
     Friday, February 24, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin
     "Design Limits and Dynamic Policy Analysis"  (download)
     Monday, February 27, 2006/12:00 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Luca Sala, Universita Bocconi
    "Back to square one: identification issues in DSGE models" (download)
    Friday, March 10, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Giorgio Primiceri, Visiting at New York University
    "The Time Varying Volatility of Macroeconomic Fluctuations" (download)
    Tuesday, March 14, 2006/12:00 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Kirstin Hubrich, European Central Bank
    "Forecasting Economic Aggregates by Disaggregates" (download)
    Thursday, March 30, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Neville Francis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    "A Flexible Finite-Horizon Identification of Technology Shocks" (download) and
    "Measures of Per Capita Hours and Their Implications for the Technology-Hours Debate" (download)
    Thursday, April 6, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Victor Rios Rull, University of Pennsylvania
     "Redistributive Shocks and Productivity Shocks" (download)
    Wednesday, April 12, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Duke University
    "Optimal Inflation Stabilization in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model" (download)
    Friday, April 14, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Karsten Jeske, FRB Atlanta
    "Energy Price Shocks and the Macroeconomy: The Role of Consumer Durables" (download)
    Wednesday, April 19, 2006/12:15 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Mikhail Golosov, MIT
    "Markets Versus Governments:  Political Economy of Mechanisms" (download)
    Thursday, April 20, 2006/12:15 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University
   "A Framework for Independent Monetary Policy in China" (download)
    Friday, April 28, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Ayse Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California
    "The Japanese Saving Rate" (download)
    "The Japanese Saving Rate between 1960-2000: Productivity,
           Policy Changes, and Demographics" (download)
    Wednesday, May 10, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Yi Wen, FRB St. Louis
    "Volatility, Growth, and Large Welfare Gains from Stabilization Policies" (download)
    Monday, May 15, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Raffaella Giacomini, UCLA
    "Non-nested model selection in unstable environments" (download)
    Monday, May 22, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Gianluca Violante, NYU
    "Frictional Wage Dispersion:  A Puzzle?" (download)
    Tuesday, May 30, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Jim Nason, FRB Atlanta (download)
     "Instability in U.S. Inflation:  1967 - 2005"
     Tuesday, June 6/12:00 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Daniela Puzzelo, University of Kentucky
     "Anonymous Markets and Monetary Trading" (download)
     Thursday, June 8/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Bill Branch, University of California, Irvine
    "Monetary Policy, Endogenous Inattention, and the Volatility Trade-off" (download)
    Monday, June 12, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Jose de Anchorena, Carnegie Mellon
    "Capital Accumulation, Sectoral Productivity and Real Exchange Rate" (download)
    Thursday, June 15, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Marco Del Negro, FRB Atlanta
    preliminary work on the signal extraction problem for PCE disaggregated data
    Friday, June 16/12:00 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Noah Williams, Princeton
     "Bayesian and Adaptive Optimal Policy under Model Uncertainty" (download)
     Wednesday, June 28/12:15 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Kenji Wada, Keio University
    "Consumption Behavior, Asset Returns, and Risk Aversion:  Evidence
    from the Japanese Household Survey" (download)
    Monday, July 17, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Donna Ginther, University of Kansas
    "Work Activities as Firm-Specific Human Capital: Estimates of the Effects on Wages"  (download)
    Wednesday, July 19, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

John Rust, University of Maryland
     "Induced Entry Effects of a $1 for $2 Offset in SSDI Benefits" (download)
    Thursday, July 20, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Jose de Anchorena, Carnegie Mellon
    "Can We Replicate an Industrial Revolution?"
    Wednesday, July 26, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Jeff Campbell, FRB Chicago
      "The Role of Households' Collaterlized Debt in Macroeconomic Stabilization"
     Thursday, August 17, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Jurgen von Hagen, University of Bonn
      "Money Market Pressure and the Determinants of Banking Crises"  (download)
     Thursday, August 24, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Mark Wright, Stanford
     "Sovereign Debt, Defaults and Bailouts"  (download)
     Friday, September 22, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

John Geweke, University of Iowa
     "Computational Experiments and Reality"  (download)
      Tuesday, September 26, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Fatih Guvenen, University of Texas, Austin
     "Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change: 
       A Theoretical Analysis of Rising Inequality"  (download)
                                        and
     "Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change: 
       A Quantitative Analysis of Rising Inequality"  (download)
     Thursday, September 28, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Kirstin Hubrich, European Central Bank
    "Regional inflation dynamics within and across euro area countries
     and a comparison with the US"   (download)
    Monday, October 2, 2006/12:00 pm/Seminar Room

Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University
     "Which Sectors Make the Poor Countries so Unproductive?" (download)
     Wednesday, October 4, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Manuel Santos, Arizona State University
     "Differentiability of the Value Function without Interiority Assumptions"  (download)
     Friday, October 13, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Zheng Liu, Emory University
     "Temptation and Self-Control: Some Evidence and Applications" (download)
     Tuesday, October 24, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Jim Nason, FRB Atlanta
    "Making Exchange Rates Sparkle: Restricting Its Present-Value Model
     with Common Trends and Common Cycles" (download)
     Wednesday, October 25/12:00 pm Brown Bag/Seminar Room

Jennifer Platania, Elon University
     "The Macroeconomic Costs of Employer-Based Health Insurance"  (download)
     Monday, October 30, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Jushan Bai, New York University
     "Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects" (download)
     Thursday, November 2, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Alexander Wolman, FRB Richmond
     "Inflation and real activity with firm-level productivity shocks:
       a quantitative framework" (download)
     Monday, November 6, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Eva Carceles-Poveda, State University of New York at Stony Brook
     "Capital Ownership under Market Incompleteness: Does it matter?" (download)
     Friday, November 10/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Alexei Onatski, Columbia University
     "A formal statistical test for the number of factors in the approximate
      factor models"  (download)  and
     "The principal components estimation of large factor models when factors
      are weak" (download)
     Monday, November 13/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan
     "The Central Banker as a Risk Manager:  Estimating the
      Federal Reserve's Preferences under Greenspan"  (download)
     Thursday, November 16/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Dale Poirier, University of California, Irvine
     "A Lakatosian Perspective on the Development of Theories of Decision
       Making Under Risk" (download abstract)
     Monday, November 20, 2006/1:30 pm/Seminar Room

Erwan Quintin, FRB Dallas
      Friday, December 15/1:30 pm/Seminar Room (rescheduled for February 22, 2007)

More seminars to come... 

All outside guests must give notification through e-mail or a phone call -- if you plan to attend seminar. Parking may be arranged on-site -- if at least 24 hours of notice is given -- either by e-mailing valerie.crosby@atl.frb.org or by calling Valerie Crosby @ 404-498-8800. Please include in the e-mail make and color of car and arrival time to the Fed. All seminars will be held in the Conference Room on the 9th floor -- Room 9.432.