The Macroeconomics Seminar meets Thursdays at 3:45 pm in 7142 Social Sciences
Important note:
All spring seminars featuring external guests for the remainder of the spring semester have been cancelled.
Seminars featuring presentation by UW-Madison students remain scheduled as planned.
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”