Important note:
All Spring 2021 seminars will be hosted on a virtual platform.
Zoom link for Macroeconomics Seminars: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93899945320? (Password to be entered on prompt)
The Macroeconomics Seminar meets Thursdays at 3:45 pm in 7142 Social Sciences
3/4/21
Speaker: Alp Simsek, Chicago Booth
Presentation Title: “Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets” with Ricardo J. Caballero
3/11/21
Speaker: Hanno Lustig, Stanford GSB
Presentation Title: “Manufacturing Risk-free Government Debt”
3/18/21
Speaker: Adrien Bilal, Chicago/Harvard
Presentation title: “Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output”
3/25/21
Speaker: Martin Beraja, MIT
Presentation title: “Demand Composition and the Strength of Recoveries”
4/1/21
Speaker: Fernando Alvarez, Chicago
Presentation Title: “The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions”
4/8/21
Speaker: Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan
Presentation Title: “Rational Sentiments and Economic Cycles”
4/15/21
Speaker: Corina Boar, NYU
Presentation Title: “Markups and Inequality” co-authored with Virgiliu Midrigan
4/22/2021
Speaker: Cosmin Ilut, Duke
Presentation Title: “Economic agents as imperfect problem solvers”
4/29/2021
Speaker: David Baqaee, UCLA
Presentation Title: “Growth Accounting with Demand Instability and Income Effects“
09/10: Elisa Rubbo, Princeton (Please Note: This seminar will start at 11.30 am)
Presentation Title: “Networks, Phillips Curves, and Monetary Policy”.
09/15 (Tuesday): Gianluca Violante, Princeton (Please Note: This seminar will start at 11.30 am)
Presentation Title: “The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S.”
10/01: Kohei Iwasaki, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Cryptocurrency Bubbles and Costly Mining“
10/08: Eirik Brandsaas, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Illiquid Homeownership and the Bank of Mom and Dad”
10/15: Francesco Celentano, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “How Do Independent Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Structural Estimation”
10/22: Yingtong Xie, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “The Impact of Pension Plan Shift on Household Risk Exposure”
10/29: Ivan Werning, MIT
Presentation Title: “Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness”
11/05: Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago
Presentation Title: “Markups, Labor Market Inequality, and the Nature of Work”
11/12: Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Presentation Title: “The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities”
11/19: Michael Peters, Yale (Please Note: This seminar will start at 3 pm)
Presentation Title: “European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier”, joint with Costas Arkolakis and Sun Kyoung Lee
12/03: Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard
Presentation Title: Understanding Tax Policy: How do People reason?
12/10: Saki Bigio, UCLA
Presentation Title: A Model of Intermediation, Money, Interest, and Prices
12/15 (Tuesday): Emi Nakamura, UC-Berkeley
Presentation Title: “The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States“
2/27: Rishabh Kirpalani, UW-Madison – “Rules without Commitment: Reputation and Incentives”
3/5: Michael Peters, Yale – “Market Size and Spatial Growth – Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Expulsions”
3/12: Alessandra Fogli, Minneapolis Fed – “The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities”
3/26: Ivan Werning, MIT
4/2: Julia Thomas, Ohio State
4/9: Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan School of Management
4/16: Martin Beraja, MIT
4/23: David Baqaee, UCLA
4/30: Joe Kaboski, Notre Dame – “The Stable Transformation Path”
9/12: James Hamilton, UCSD – “Measuring Labor-Force Participation and the Incidence and Duration of Unemployment”
9/19: Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard – “Redeemable Platform Currencies”
9/26: Joel David, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago- “Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation”
10/3: Zhigang Ge, UW-Madison – “Taxing Top Earners: The Role of Entrepreneurs”
10/10: Guillermo Ordonez, UPenn – Retirement in the Shadow (Banking)*
10/17: Chang Liu, UW-Madison – “Regional Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations”
10/24: Oksana Leukhina, FRB St. Louis – “Imperfect Information Transmission from Banks to Investors: Macroeconomic Implications”
10/31: Zehao Li, UW-Madison – “Financial Intermediary Leverage and Unemployment”
11/7: Christoph Boehm, UT Austin – “Convex Supply Curves”
11/14: Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania – “Coalition-Proof Risk Sharing Under Frictions”
11/21: Simon Mongey, University of Chicago – “Labor Market Power”
12/5: Hassan Afrouzi, Columbia – “Dynamic Rational Inattention and the Phillips Curve”
2/28: Dongho Song, Johns Hopkins University – “News Driven Uncertainty Fluctuations”
3/7: Gabriel Chodorow Reich, Harvard – “Cash and the Economy: Evidence from India’s Demonetization”
3/14: Ali Shourideh, Carnegie Mellon – “Inequality, Redistribution, and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach”
3/28: Anna Cieslak, Duke – “The Economics of the Fed Put”
4/4: Ludwig Straub, Harvard – “Micro Jumps, Macro Humps: monetary policy and business cycles in an estimated HANK model”
4/11: Ross Levine, UC-Berkeley, – “Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment”
4/18: Anil Kashyap, Chicago Booth – “Optimal Bank Regulation in the Presence of Credit and Run Risk”
5/2: Eric Sims, Notre Dame – “Evaluating Central Banks’ Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future”
5/9: Michele Tertilt, Mannheim – “Consumer Credit with Over-Optimistic Borrowers”