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Seminars in Economics Antonella Trigari (Università Bocconi)

"Financial Markets and Unemployment" abstract We study the importance of financial markets for (un)employment fluctuations in a model with matching frictions where firms issue debt under limited enforcement. Higher debt allows employers to bargain lower wages which in turn increases the incentive to create jobs. The transmission mechanism of `credit shocks' is different from the typical…

Seminars in Economics Roman Inderst (Goethe University Frankfurt)

"Preserving Debt or Equity Capacity?" abstract In a dynamic model of optimal security design, we show when firms should preserve "equity capacity" through choosing high target leverage or "debt capacity" through choosing low target leverage. Thereby, firms reduce a problem of underinvestment or overinvestment when they must raise future financing under asymmetric information. Which problem…

Monday Lunch Seminars Valeria Miceli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

"Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Herd in Equity Markets?" abstract With $4.4 trillion of assets at end-2010, feared and courted by governments all over the world, characterized by low levels of transparency and often accused of hidden motivations, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are today among the most controversial players in global financial markets. SWFs are government…

Seminars in Statistics Antonio Colangelo (European Central Bank)

Banks' Balance Sheet Statistics and Financial Flows in the Euro Area The analysis of money and credit developments is core to the conduct of monetary policy. Those statistics are constructed in the euro area starting from the balance sheets of resident banks. By appropriately netting banks' cross-positions in the euro area, aggregated positions are identified…

Job Market Seminars Giuseppe Fiori (Universidade de São Paulo)

"The Macroeconomic Effects of Goods and Labor Markets Deregulation" abstract We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with endogenous producer entry and labor market frictions to study the macroeconomic effects of deregulating product and labor markets in Europe. Three results emerge. First, deregulation has positive welfare effects, but it can involve short-run costs, including…

Seminars in Economics Jakub Kastl (Stanford University)

"The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds" Abstract We study European banks’ demand for short-term funds (liquidity) during the summer 2007 subprime market crisis. We use bidding data from the European Central Bank’s auctions for one-week loans, their main channel of monetary policy implementation. Our analysis…

Monday Lunch Seminars Vincenzo Merella (Università di Cagliari)

"Sectoral Shocks and Asset Pricing: The Role of Consumer Confidence" (Note: the seminar is on Wednesday) Abstract This paper proposes a theory for the observed relationship between consumer confidence and consumption growth. The idea is thatindicators of confidence identify information on the structure of consumer spending that is not contained in other data. We construct amultisectoral…

Seminars in Economics Ugo Panizza (UN Conference on Trade and Development)

"Too Much Finance?" AbstractThis paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We develop a simple model in which the expectation of a bailout may lead to a financial sector which is too large with respect to the social optimum. We then use…