Fall 2019
The Macroeconomics Seminar meets Thursdays at 3:45 pm in 7142 Social Sciences
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
Spring 2019
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”