Agenda
Friday, October 12, 2012
Choosing the Variables to Estimate Singular DSGE Models 
Presenter: Fabio Canova, European University Institute and Center for Economic Policy Research
Coauthors: Filippo Ferroni, Banque de France, and Christian Matthes, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Discussant: Zhongjun Qu, Boston University
Perturbation Methods for Markov-Switching Models
Presenter: Andrew Foerster, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Coauthors: Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University; Dan Waggoner, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; and Tao Zha, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Emory University
Discussant: Leonardo Melosi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Uncertainty Shocks are Aggregate Demand Shocks
Presenter: Sylvain Leduc, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Coauthor: Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant: Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Rutgers University
From Time-Varying Macro-Dynamics to Time-Varying Estimates of DSGE Parameters
Presenter: Konstantinos Theodoridis, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Coauthors: Tony Yates, Bank of England; Liudas Giraitis, University of London; and George Kapetanios, University of London
Discussant: Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan
Posterior-Predictive Evidence on U.S. Inflation Using a New Keynesian Phillips Curve with Weak Identification, Regime Shifts, and Technological Change
Presenter: Herman van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Coauthors: Nalan Basturk, Pinar Ceyhan, and Cem Cakmakli of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Discussant: Frank Kleibergen, Brown University
Estimating Fiscal Limits: The Case of Greece
Presenter: Huixin Bi, Bank of Canada
Coauthor: Nora Traum, North Carolina State University
Discussant: Pablo Guerron-Quintana, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Saturday, October 13, 2012
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle
Presenter: Ricardo Reis, Columbia University and the National Bureau of Economic Research
Coauthor: Alisdair McKay, Boston University
Discussant: Karen Kopecky, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Solving the New Keynesian Model in Continuous Time
Presenter: Olaf Posch, Aarhus University
Coauthors: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University
Discussant: Rui Li, Purdue University
Rare Shocks, Great Recessions
Presenter: Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Coauthors: Vasco Curdia and Daniel Greenwald of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Discussant: Alejandro Justiniano, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago