HOUSE OVERSIGHT 019402 Geanakoplos, John, "The Leverage Cycle," forthcoming in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009, Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff, and Michael Woodford (eds), April 10, 2009. Bolton, Patrick, Tony Santos and Jose Scheinkman, "Inside and Outside Liquidity," mimeo, Princeton University, March 30, 2009, Diamond, Douglas and Raghuram Rajan, "Liquidity Shortages and Banking Crises," NBER working paper 10071, October 2003. Bolton, Patrick, and Mathias Dewatripont, Contract Theory, Cambridge: MIT Press. 2005, pp. 397-418. Gorton, Gary, "Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007," mimeo, Yale University, April 3, 2007. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per id=17513 XII. OIL AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY *Dvir, Eyal and Kenneth Rogoff, "The Three Epochs of Oil," mimeo, Harvard University, March 2009. XIII. MONEY, EXCHANGE RATES AND PRICES: SELECTED TOPICS, SEIGNIORAGE AND COMMODITY CURRENCIES Lecture notes on "Money, Inflation, and Exchange Rates." SECTION II: Paper Topics BACKGROUND READINGS 1. Should Sweden enter the euro system with four years? Reade, J.J. and U. Volz (2009a), Too Much to Lose, or More to Gain? Should Sweden Join the Euro?, Economics Series Working Papers 442, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford. Also see shorter Voxeu essay, Reade, J. James and Ulrich Volze, "Should Sweden join the eurozone?" http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3955 Grahn, Ralf (2009): 'Swedish opinion on euro turns', Grahnlaw Blogspot, 19 April