Courses and Workshops - Fall 2006

ECON 601 - Theory and Development Lecture Series

Title: "The Demand and Supply of Liquidity", Bengt Holmstrom,
and "Evaluation of Financial Systems in Developing Economies", Rob Townsend

Professor Bengt Holmstrom will be visiting the department this Fall quarter and has agreed to give a series of lectures Oct. 30-Nov. 27. To complement this, Professor Robert Townsend has agreed to give a series of lectures on Evaluation of Financial Systems in Developing Countries, Oct 2-23. Workshop meets Mondays 12:00 noon - 1:30pm in Rosenwald Hall Room 301

• October 2 - Prof. Robert M. Townsend, "The Evaluation of Financial Systems in Developing Economies: Growth, Inequality, Poverty and the Distribution of Gains in Thailand" (book preview; draft chapters available at http://cier.uchicago.edu/townsend_thaibook.html)

• October 9 - "Households as Corporate Firms," by Robert M. Townsend and Krislert Samphantharak (UCSD)

• October 16 - "Enterprise and the Wealth of Villages," by John Felkner (NORC) and Robert M. Townsend

• October 23 - "The Impact of Financial Intermediation Under Heterogeneous Agents," by Robert M. Townsend and Sergio Urzua

• October 30 - Prof. Bengt Holmstrom, "Credit rationing and the demand for liquidity"

• November 6 - Prof. Bengt Holmstrom, "The supply of liquidity"

• November 13 - Prof. Bengt Holmstrom, "Liquidity premia and asset pricing"

• November 20 - Prof. Bengt Holmstrom, "Local versus Global Liquidity" [Part 1]

• November 27 - Prof. Bengt Holmstrom, "Local versus Global Liquidity" [Part 2]