Session 1 (March 24): Overview. Information frictions and business cycles. ** HOMEWORK 1 **
Papers: Angeletos et. al. (2015), Angeletos and La'O (2009, 2013), Benhabib et. al. (2015)
Related work: Venkateswaran (2015)
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Session 2: (March 31): Information frictions and long-run outcomes.
Paper: David et. al. (2015)
Related work: Jovanovic (2014)
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Session 3: (Apr 7) Information frictions in financial markets I (Lecture by Ali Shourideh)
Papers: Kyle (1985, 1989), Glosten and Milgrom (1985), Back and Baruch (2004),
Related work: Vives (2011), Copeland and Galai (1983), Babus and Kondor (2014), Kawakami (2014), Maurin (2015)
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Session 4: (Apr 14) Information frictions in financial markets II
Guerrieri et. al. (2009), Lester et. al. (2015)
Related work: Budish et. al. (2015)
Presentation: Dong Wei
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Session 5: (Apr 21) Methods I (Lecture by Zhen Huo)
Paper: TBA
Presentation: Milena Almagro-Gracia
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Session 6: (Apr 28) Methods II (Lecture by Michael Dickstein)
Papers: Dickstein and Morales (2015)
Presentation: Arnav Sood
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Session 7: (May 5) TBD
Related work:
Presentation: Hargungeet Singh