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rberg: the regensburg economics reading group

organized by Paul Gaggl and Jörg Lingens

purpose

In regular meetings (at least every 2 weeks) we want to review and discuss articles from recent economic literature. The group always meets on

Wednesday from 18:00 to 20:00 in RWS 227.

The articles to be discussed are organized in different series of 4-5 articles covering one broad common issue. Everyone interested is welcome to join the group either as listener, discussant or presenter. A mailing list with regular announcements is managed by Paul Gaggl. If you want to be added please write an email.

series 3: financial markets and asset pricing (list in progress)

Everybody who wants to present a paper on this topic or has suggestions on further possible papers, please write an email.

date	paper	author	presenter	place
20.07.06	Asset Pricing Theory: Consumption-Based Model and Overview	John Cochrane	Helke Simmchen	RWS227
09.08.06				RWS227

series 2: economic growth and inequality

Everybody who wants to present a paper on this topic or has suggestions on further possible papers, please write an email.

date	paper	author	presenter	place
05.04.06	'A First Course in Optimization Theory', Chapter 11 (and 12), Cambridge University Press, 1996	R. K. Sundaram	Andreas Hagemann	RWS227
03.05.06	Political Equilibrium, Income Distribution, and Growth, RES 1993	R. Perotti	Paul Gaggl	RWS227
31.05.06	Factor Shares and Savings in Endogenous Growth, AER, 1993	G. Bertola	Andrea Schrage	RWS227
28.06.06	Schumpeterian Enterpreneurs Meet Engel's Law: The Impact of Inequality on Innovation-Driven Growth, JEG, 2000	J. Zweimüller	Jörg Lingens	RWS227

series 1: search/matching models

The (by now) last paper in this series is not meant to be presented but it provides a nice survey of search theory from the 1970s to 2004. Everybody who wants to present one of the papers or has suggestions on further papers, please write an email.

date	paper	author	presenter	place
02.11.05	Economics of Information and Job Search ,QJE, 1970	J. McCall	Paul Gaggl	RWS227
23.11.05	Short-run Equilibrium Dynamics of Unemployment, Vacancies, and Real Wages , AER, 1985	C. Pissarides	Jörg Lingens	RWS227
11.01.06	Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment , RES, 1994	D. Mortensen, C. Pissarides	Helke Simmchen	RWS227
15.02.06	An Empirical Equilibrium Job Search Model With Search on the Job and Heterogeneous Workers and Firms , IER, 1999	Bontemps C., Robin J-M., Van den Berg G.	Barbara Richter	RWS227
---	Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market-A Survey, NBER, 2004	R. Rogerson, R. Shimer, R. Wright	---	---

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