Department of Economics

Juli Plant Grainger Macroeconomics Workshop

Important note:

The Macroeconomics Seminar meets Thursdays at 4:00 pm in 7142 Social Science (Morton Room)
Faculty organizers: Carter Braxton and Dean Corbae

Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
3/12 Bryan Seegmiller Northwestern - Kellogg Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market
3/19 Kunal Sangani Northwestern Complete Pass-Through in Levels
3/26 George Nikolakoudis University of Chicago
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
9/11 David Berger Duke Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution with Konstantin Milbradt, Fabrice Tourre and Joseph Vavra
9/18 Pascal Noel Chicago Booth Liquid Wealth and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Labor Income Shocks
9/25 Andy Atkeson UCLA Reconciling Macroeconomics and Finance for the U.S. Corporate Sector: 1929 to Present
10/2 Gianluca Violante Princeton Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation
10/16 Michael Nattinger UW-Madison Firm Volatility, Layoffs, and Workers’ Permanent Earnings
10/23 Alex von Hafften UW-Madison Secondary-Market Capital Prices and Financial Frictions in Real Business Cycles
10/30 Mitchell Valdes Bobes UW-Madison Why Remote Work Stuck: A Structural Decomposition of the Post-Pandemic Equilibrium 
11/6 Anna Lukianova UW-Madison State Income Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Spatial Inequality in the U.S.
11/13 Yueran Ma Chicago Booth Superstar Firms through the Generations
11/20 Aysegul Sahin (CANCELLED) Princeton Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap
12/4 Xavier Gabaix Harvard A theory of complexity aversion
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
2/27 Jennifer La'O Columbia Optimal Monetary Policy with Redistribution
3/6 Ricardo Reis London School of Economics The Anatomy of a Peg
3/13 Satyajit Chatterjee FRB - Philadelphia Explaining Contract Heterogeneity in the Credit Card Market
3/20 Hamish Low Oxford Fertility and Family Labor Supply
4/3 Esteban Rossi-Hansberg University of Chicago Banks in Space
4/10 TBD TBD TBD
4/17 Jose-Victor Rios-Rull (Victor) UPenn Real Monetary Policy
4/24 Rowan Shi Toronto Metropolitan University Combinatorial Discrete Choice
5/1 CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
9/5 Boaz Abramson Columbia Business School Macroeconomics of Mental Health
9/12 Todd Schoellman FRB - Minneapolis Economic Development According to Chandler
9/19 Duong Dang UW-Madison Customer capital and firm innovation
9/26 Shannon Sledz UW-Madison Who to insure - firms or workers?
10/3 Philip Coyle UW-Madison Maturity Walls
10/10 Simon Mongey FRB Minneapolis Pricing Inequality
10/17 CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED
10/24 Katya Kazakova UW-Madison Firm’s Public Listing, Investment, and Financing in the Presence of Private Information
10/31 Tu Cao UW-Madison The Welfare Implications of Heterogeneous Wage Rigidities in a Simple New Keynesian Model
11/7 Zhen Huo Yale Inattentive Network: Evidence and Theory
11/14 NONE NONE NONE
11/21 Iourri Manovskii Penn Female Employment and Structural Transformation
12/5 Will Jungerman UNC Chapel Hill Learning on the Job
12/12 Chen Lian UC Berkeley Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
3/7 Florian Trouvain Princeton Technology Adoption, Innovation, and Inequality in a Global World
4/4 Bruno Pellegrino Columbia GSB Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: a Network Approach
4/11 Zi Yang Kang Harvard Optimal Indirect Regulation of Externalities
4/18 Edouard Schaal CREI Political Preferences and the Spatial Distribution of Infrastructure: Evidence from California's High-Speed Rail
4/25 Jeremy Greenwood Penn 'You Will:' A Macroeconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising
5/2 Mark Bils Rochester Monopsony and Comparative Advantage
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
9/07 Pete Klenow Stanford University Good Rents versus Bad Rents: R&D Misallocation and Growth
9/14 Conor Walsh Columbia Business School Are Inflationary Shock Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach
9/21 NONE - -
9/22 Emerging Scholars Conference Orchard View Room in Discovery Building Conference Schedule
9/28 Natalie Duncombe UW-Madison Missing Routine Work: Automation and the Life Cycle
10/05 April Meehl UW-Madison Bailouts, Bail-ins, and Banking Industry Dynamics
10/10 Wentao Zhou *Room 8417 Social Science UW-Madison The Firm Balance Sheet Channel of Uncertainty Shocks
10/12 Ellen McGrattan University of Minnesota On the Nature of Entrepreneurship
10/17 Veronica Guerrieri Chicago Booth Scaling up the American Dream: a Dynamic Analysis
10/19 Nisha Chikhale UW-Madison Parental Beliefs, Social Learning, and Intergenerational Mobility
10/26 Arnaud Costinot MIT Why is trade not free? A revealed preference approach
11/02 Joe Hazell London School of Economics Measuring the Natural Rate Using Natural Experiments
11/07 Fatih Guvenen *Room 8417 Social Science University of Minnesota Skewed Business Cycles
11/09 Julieta Caunedo University of Toronto Capital Embodied Structural Change
11/16 Alisdair McKay FRB Minneapolis Optimal Policy Rules in HANK
11/28 Ernest Liu Princeton Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World
12/07 Serdar Birinci FRB - STL Labor Market Shocks and Monetary Policy
12/14 Yueyuan Ma UCSB Specialization in a Knowledge Economy
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
2/23 Alessandra Peter NYU Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation
3/02 Simone Lenzu NYU Stern Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers
3/09 Sasha Indarte Penn Wharton The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt
3/21 (Rm 8417) Chad Jones Stanford Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
3/23 Christina Patterson Chicago Booth Monetary Policy and the Labor Market: A Quasi-Experiment in Sweden
3/30 Jeanne Commault Science Po Paris How Do Persistent Earnings Affect the Response of Consumption to Transitory Shocks?
4/06 Lawrence Schmidt MIT Sloan Who Bears the Cost of Aggregate Fluctuations and Why?
4/13 Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota Serial Entrepreneurship in China
4/27 Hannes Malmberg University of Minnesota The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development
5/9 ROOM 8417 Igor Livshits Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank Building Credit Histories
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
9/15 Kristina Manysheva Princeton Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
9/29 Chris Tonetti Stanford Risky Insurance: Life-cycle Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets
10/06 Jason Choi UW-Madison Credit Lines and Bank Risk
10/13 Cody Kallen UW-Madison Profit Shifting and Multinational Investment
10/20 Wentao Zhou UW-Madison The Firm Balance Sheet Channel of Uncertainty Shocks
10/27 Nicolas Werquin FRB-Chicago A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work: Optimal Tax Design as Redistributional Arbitrage
11/03 Alessandro Dovis U-Penn Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle
12/01 Tommaso Porzio Columbia Self-Employment within the Firm (with Vittorio Bassi, Jung H. Lee , Alessandra Peter, Ritwika Senand Esau Tugume)
12/08 Marina Halac Yale A Theory of Fiscal Responsibility and Irresponsibility
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
3/10 Anmol Bhandari Minnesota Managing Public Portfolios (joint with David Evans, Mikhail Golosov and Thomas Sargent)
3/31 Emi Nakamura UC Berkeley Learning About the Long Run
4/7 Erik Hurst Chicago Booth The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage with Patrick Kehoe, Elena Pastorino, and Tom Winberry
4/21 Stefania Albanesi Pittsburg Accuracy and Fairness of Credit Scores
4/28 Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant Columbia Asset-Price Redistribution
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
9/9 Notre Dame Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
9/16 UT-Austin The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities
9/23 UW-Madison Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation
9/30 UW-Madison Alternative Work Arrangements: Business and Life Cycle Implications
10/7 UW-Madison Mandatory Retention Rules and Bank Risk
10/14 UW-Madison Human Capital Investment and College Sorting
10/21 UW-Madison Building Future Generations: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Family Policies
10/28 UW-Madison Innovation and Firm Dynamics with Patent Wars
11/4 ASU Hours and Wages
11/11 *VIRTUAL* *3:00-4:30 PM* London School of Economics Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy
11/16 Moser, Chris Columbia The Gender Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences
11/25 none
12/9 Princeton Plants in Space
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
3/4 Chicago Booth
3/11 Stanford GSB
3/18 Chicago/Harvard
3/25 MIT
4/1 Chicago
4/8 MIT Sloan
4/15 NYU
4/22 Duke
4/29 UCLA
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
09/10 This seminar begin will begin at 11.30 am Princeton
09/15 (Tuesday)
This seminar will begin at 11.30 am
 Princeton
10/1 UW-Madison
10/8 UW-Madison Illiquid Homeownership and the Bank of Mom and Dad
10/15 UW-Madison
How Do Independent Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Structural Estimation
10/22 UW-Madison The Impact of Pension Plan Shift on Household Risk Exposure
10/29 MIT Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness
11/5 University of Chicago
11/12
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
11/19
This seminar will begin at 3 pm
 Yale
12/3 Harvard
12/10 UCLA
12/15 (Tuesday) UC-Berkeley
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
2/27 UW-Madison
3/5 Yale
3/12 Minneapolis Fed
3/26 MIT
4/2 Ohio State
4/9 MIT Sloan School of Management
4/16 MIT
4/23
UCLA
4/30 Notre Dame
The Stable Transformation Path
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
9/12 UCSD
9/19 Harvard
9/26 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
10/3 UW-Madison Taxing Top Earners: The Role of Entrepreneurs
10/10 UPenn
10/17 Chang Liu UW-Madison
Regional Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations
10/24 Oksana Leukhina FRB St. Louis
10/31 Zehao Li UW-Madison Financial Intermediary Leverage and Unemployment
11/7 Christoph Boehm UT Austin
11/14 Harold Cole University of Pennsylvania Coalition-Proof Risk Sharing Under Frictions
11/21 Simon Mongey University of Chicago
12/5 Hassan Afrouzi Columbia
Date Speaker Institution Presentation Title
2/28 Johns Hopkins University
3/7 Harvard
3/14 Carnegie Mellon
Inequality, Redistribution, and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach
3/28 Duke
4/4 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 Chicago Booth
5/2 Notre Dame
5/9 Mannheim Consumer Credit with Over-Optimistic Borrowers