Juli Plant Grainger Macroeconomics Workshop

Important note:

The Fall 2021 Macroeconomics Seminar meets Thursdays at 3:45 pm in 7142 Social Sciences

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/9	Kaboski, Joseph	Notre Dame	Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
9/16	Pandalai Nayar, Nitya	UT-Austin	The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities
9/23	Wright, Randall	UW-Madison	Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation
9/30	Kaiser, Rosemary	UW-Madison	Alternative Work Arrangements: Business and Life Cycle Implications
10/7	Cheng, Yuteng	UW-Madison	Mandatory Retention Rules and Bank Risk
10/14	Dudareva, Yulia	UW-Madison	Human Capital Investment and College Sorting
10/21	Zhou, Anson	UW-Madison	Building Future Generations: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Family Policies
10/28	Rempel, Mark	UW-Madison	Innovation and Firm Dynamics with Patent Wars
11/4	Bick, Alexander	ASU	Hours and Wages
11/11 VIRTUAL 3:00-4:30 PM	Moll, Benjamin	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	Oberfield, Ezra	Princeton	Plants in Space

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/4	Alp Simsek	Chicago Booth	Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets with Ricardo J. Caballero
3/11	Hanno Lustig	Stanford GSB	Manufacturing Risk-free Government Debt
3/18	Adrien Bilal	Chicago/Harvard	Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output
3/25	Martin Beraja	MIT	Demand Composition and the Strength of Recoveries
4/1	Fernando Alvarez	Chicago	The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions
4/8	Maryam Farboodi	MIT Sloan	Rational Sentiments and Economic Cycles
4/15	Corina Boar	NYU	Markups and Inequality co-authored with Virgiliu Midrigan
4/22	Cosmin Ilut	Duke	Economic agents as imperfect problem solvers
4/29	David Baqaee	UCLA	Growth Accounting with Demand Instability and Income Effects

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
09/10 This seminar begin will begin at 11.30 am	Elisa Rubbo	Princeton	Networks, Phillips Curves, and Monetary Policy
09/15 (Tuesday) This seminar will begin at 11.30 am	Gianluca Violante	Princeton	The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S
10/1	Kohei Iwasaki	UW-Madison	Cryptocurrency Bubbles and Costly Mining
10/8	Eirik Brandsaas	UW-Madison	Illiquid Homeownership and the Bank of Mom and Dad
10/15	Francesco Celentano	UW-Madison	How Do Independent Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Structural Estimation
10/22	Yingtong Xie	UW-Madison	The Impact of Pension Plan Shift on Household Risk Exposure
10/29	Ivan Werning	MIT	Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness
11/5	Greg Kaplan	University of Chicago	Markups, Labor Market Inequality, and the Nature of Work
11/12	Alessandra Fogli	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities
11/19 This seminar will begin at 3 pm	Michael Peters	Yale	European Immigrants and the United States' Rise to the Technological Frontier”, joint with Costas Arkolakis and Sun Kyoung Lee
12/3	Stefanie Stantcheva	Harvard	Understanding Tax Policy: How do People reason?
12/10	Saki Bigio	UCLA	A Model of Intermediation, Money, Interest, and Prices
12/15 (Tuesday)	Emi Nakamura	UC-Berkeley	The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
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~~

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
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

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
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