ECON 269
INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS
Winter 2007

Professor: Fabio Milani, fmilani@uci.edu
Office Hours: SSPA 3145, Thursday 15.00-16.30

Time and Location: SSPB 3266, Tu-Th 9.30-10.50.
Course Webpage: http://eee.uci.edu/07w/62655/

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COURSE MATERIAL

 Syllabus

In-Class Presentations

When	Who	What
1/16	Yong Kyun Kim	Rogoff, Kenneth (1996): "The Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle"
1/18	Gabriela Best	Ventura J., "Towards a Theory of Current Accounts"
1/23	Esther Lee
1/25	John Treadwell	Backus, Kehoe, and Kydland

 REFEREE REPORT
Guidelines, RIE hints for referees, CJE's advice
Write a referee report on one of the following papers:

1) Papell and Molodtsova, Out-of-Sample Exchange Rate Predictability with Taylor Rule Fundamentals
2) Imbs, Mumtaz, Ravn, and Rey, PPP Strikes Back: Aggregation and the Real Exchange Rate
3) Evans and Lyons, A New Micro Model of Exchange Rate Dynamics
4) Aguiar and Gopinath, Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle is the Trend
5) Dedola, Corsetti, and Leduc, DSGE models with high exchange rate volatility and low pass-through
6) Devereux, Lane, Xu, Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies
7) Bergin and Glick, Endogenous Tradability and Macroeconomic Implications
8) Pavlova and Rigobon, Asset Prices and Exchange Rates
9) Blanchard, Giavazzi, Sa, The U.S. Current Account and the Dollar
10) Duarte and Stockman, Rational speculation and exchange rates
11) De Paoli, Monetary Policy and Welfare in a Small Open Economy
12) Benigno, Optimal monetary policy in a currency area
13) Campa and Goldberg, Pass through of exchange rates to consumption prices: What has changed and why?

 Useful Links: Department of Economics