Department of Economics

Juli Plant Grainger Macroeconomics Workshop

Important note:

The Macroeconomics Seminar meets Thursdays at 3:45 pm in 7142 Social Sciences
Faculty organizer: Carter Braxton

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
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
4/13 Kjetil Storesletten Minnesota
4/20 David Deming Harvard
4/27 Hannes Malmberg Minnesota
5/04 Nir Jaimovich UC San Diego
5/9 Igor Livshits Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank
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 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