Green Line Macro Meeting

Friday, September 19, 2008

12:00 pm

Lunch at the Fresh Food Company, 275 Babcock Street

(sign in with name, go through line and then go to private dining room)

Meetings in Room 110: School of Hospitality Administration

1:00 pm: Sisi Zhang , Boston College

How do wage shocks affect the labor supplies of married couples? Evidence from the Collective Model PDF

Discussant: Leena Rudanko, Boston University

2:00 pm: Valentina Michelangeli, Boston University

Does it pay to get a reverse mortgage? PDF

Discussant: Matteo Iacoviello and Georg Strasser, Boston College

3:00 pm: Coffee at Starbucks (874 Commonwealth Ave) and Poster Session

Pinar Uysal (with Lewis Gaul), "Audit Fees, Asymmetric Information, and
Default Risk: Evidence from Syndicated Loan Markets" PDF

Zhe Xu, "Asset Pricing with Commitment Consumption in Heterogenous
Agents Economy" PDF

Andrei Zlate (with Federico Mandelman), "Immigration and the
Macroeconomy: An International Real Business Cycle Model" PDF

4:00 pm: Fabio Moneta, Boston College

Macroeconomic Announcement and Risk Premia in the Treasury Bond Market PDF

Discussant: Robert King, Boston University

All sessions will have a 30 minute author presentation, a 20 minute discussant presentation, and a 10 minute general discussion

Sessions will be held at building 7 on the map below; the Economics Department is building 26. The closest T stop is St. Paul Street (MBTA description including photo).  Faculty parking at the Babcock Street lot (adjacent to building 2): arrangements must be made in advance.