DISCUSSIONS

• "Rational Sunspots and Drifting Parameters", by Guido Ascari and Paolo Bonomolo, XX Intern. Tor Vergata Conf. on Money, Banking and Finance, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, 5-7, 2011

• "A Defence of the FOMC", by Martin Ellison and Thomas J. Sargent, 3rd Monetary Policy & Business Cycle Workshop, Università Bicocca, Milan, October 29, 2010.

• "Trusting the bankers - A new look at the credit channel of monetary policy", by Ciccarelli, Maddaloni, and Peydró, 5th PIERO MONCASCA workshop, Bocconi University, October 15, 2010.
  

• "Oil and US GDP: A Real-Time Out-of-Sample Examination", by Francesco Ravazzolo and Philip Rothman, Empirical business cycle modelling and policy in the aftermath of the financial crisis, Oslo, Sept. 3-4, 2010.

• "Regime Switches, Agents' Beliefs, and Post-World II U.S. Macroeconomic Dynamics", by Francesco Bianchi, 2nd International Conference in Memory of Carlo Giannini, Bank of Italy, January 20, 2010.
  

• "Expectation shocks and learning as drivers of the business cycle", by Fabio Milani, Macroeconomic Dynamics: Theory and Applications (Pavia), December 21, 2009.
  

• "Multiple Filtering Devices for the Estimation of Cyclical DSGE Models", by Fabio Canova and Filippo Ferroni, University of Padua Seminar Series, November 10, 2009.
  

• "Inflation models, optimal monetary policy and uncertain unemployment dynamics: Evidence from the US and the euro area", by Carlo Altavilla and Matteo Ciccarelli, PIERO MONCASCA Workshop on Money-Macro, EIEF - Rome, September 19, 2008.
  

• "Procyclical fiscal policy: Shocks, rules, and institutions - A view from MARS", by Paolo Manasse, Bocconi University, March 30-31, 2007.
  

• "What are the effects of fiscal policy shocks? A VAR-based comparative analysis", by Dario Caldara and Christophe Kamps, University of Padua, February 6, 2007.

• "Monetary and fiscal policy in a monetary union: Does fiscal policy coordination matter?", by Chiara Forlati, Lunch Seminar, University of Padua, January 9, 2007.

• "Nelson-Plosser revisited: the ACF approach", by Karim M. Abadir, Giovanni Caggiano, e Gabriel Talmain, Lunch Seminar, University of Padua, November 21, 2006.

• "Learning, Monetary Policy and asset prices", by Marco Airaudo, Salvatore Nisticò, and Luis-Felipe Zanna, Lunch Seminar, University of Padua, October 17, 2006.

• "Productivity Shocks and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Unionized Labor Market Economy", by Fabrizio Mattesini and Lorenza Rossi, Workshop on Unionized Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Policies, Bicocca University, September 6-7, 2006.

• "A Feasible and Objective Concept of Optimality: The Quadratic Loss Function and U.S. Monetary Policy in the 1960s", by Pedro Garcia Duarte, IX AISPE Conference, University of Padua, June  16, 2006.

• "Trend inflation, Taylor Principle and Indeterminacy", by Guido Ascari and Tiziano Ropele, Lunch Seminar, University of Padua, April 6, 2006.

• "An estimated dsge model for Sweden with a monetary regime change", by Vasco Curdia and Daria Finocchiaro, IV Workshop on Macroeconomic Dynamics: Theory and Applications, University of Bologna, December 20, 2005.

• "Technological shocks and the reaction of hours worked: Time-varying dynamics matter", by Luca Gambetti, Lunch Seminar, University of Padua, December 2005.

• "Testing Block Recursive Economic Theories by Looking for Structural Breaks", by John W. Keating, North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia, January 7-9, 2005.

• "Sectors, long-run restrictions, and the identification of technological shocks" by Antonio Acconcia and Saverio Simonelli, Lunch Seminar, University of Padua, November 22, 2004.

• "Monetary transmission in simple backward-looking models: The IS puzzle", by Charles Goodhart and Boris Hofmann, CESifo Venice Summer Institute, July 19-20, 2004.

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