15th Workshop on Methods and Applications for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models.

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The 15th Workshop on Methods and Applications for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models took place October 12-13 in Chicago. Research Associates Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Frank Schorfheide, both of the University of Pennsylvania; Leonardo Melosi of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Research Associate Giorgio Primiceri of Northwestern University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Francesco Bianchi, Duke University and NBER, and Howard Kung and Mikhail Tirskikh, London Business School, "The Origins and Effects of Macroeconomic Uncertainty"

* Taeyoung Doh and Andrew L. Smith, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, "Reconciling VAR-based Forecasts with Survey Forecasts"

* Florin O. Bilbiie, Paris School of Economics, "A Catch-22 for HANK Models: No Puzzles, No Amplification"

* Pablo A. Guerron-Quintana, Boston College, and Grey Gordon, Indiana University, "A Quantitative Theory of Hard and Soft Sovereign Defaults"

* Michael D. Cai, Marco Del Negro, and Abhi Gupta, Federal Reserve...