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ECN 235A -- Monetary Theory
Winter 2009

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Paper
Presenter
Date
Fostel, Ana and John Geanakopolis, "Leverage Cycles and the Anxious
Economy"
Laney S. 11/25
Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro and John Moore, “Liquidity Business Cycles and Monetary Policy” Minsik K. 11/25
Barinci, Jean-Paul and Arnaud Cheron, "Sunspots and the Business Cycle in a Finance Constrained Economy" and M. Woodford, "Stationary Sunspot Equilibria in a Finance Constrained Economy" Mo. J. 11/30
Angeletos,George-Marios and Jennifer La’O, “Noisy Business Cycles” Phil L. 11/30
Rudebusch, G. and E. Swanson, “The Bond Premium in a DSGE model with Long Run Real and Nominal Risks” Yuan L. 12/2
Christiano, Lawrence, Roberto Motto and Massimo Rostagno, "Financial
Factors in Economic Fluctuations"
Yujung S 12/2
Readings
Week 1
Week 2
LeRoy (money shocks, endowment shocks), Salyer (15, 16, 21), Backus Gregory and Zin (20), 
Week 3
Xu (23), Rudebusch & Swanson (24&25, Backus, Routledge, and Zin (24), 
Week 4
Cooley and Hansen (27), Salyer (28)
Week of 5
Christiano, Eichenbaum, Evans (33), Jorda and Salyer (35), Evans and Marshall (36), Christiano, Eichenbaum, Evans (34)
Week 6 & 7
Carlstrom and Fuerst (39), Carlstrom and Fuerst (42), Dorofeenko, Lee, Salyer (40), Christiano, Motto, Rostagno (44), Christiano, Motto, Rostagno (45), Dorofeenko, Lee, Salyer (43), 
Week 7 & 8
To be posted.
Week 9 & 10
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