Workshop on methods and applications for dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models.

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The NBER's Workshop on Methods and Applications for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models took place at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on October 17-18, 2014. The workshop also serves as a mid-year meeting of the NBER EFSF Workgroup on Methods and Applications for DSGE Models. Alejandro Justiniano and Leonardo Melosi, both of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; NBER Research Associates Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Frank Schorfheide, both of University of Pennsylvania; and Giorgio Primiceri of Northwestern University organized this year's meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Thien Nguyen, Ohio State University, "Bank Capital Requirements: A Quantitative Analysis"

* Cosmin Ilut, Duke University and NBER; Matthias Kehrig, University of Texas, Austin; and Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER, "Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire: Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News"

* George-Marios Angeletos, MIT and NBER, and Fabrice Collard and Harris Dellas, University of Bern, "Quantifying Confidence"

* Jinill Kim, Korea University, and Francisco Ruge-Murcia, McGill University, "Extreme Events and the...