Current Macroeconomics Seminars (2021-2022)
Macroeconomics Seminars take place on Fridays, from 11:00 until 12:15, unless otherwise specified.
Term 1
24 September 2021
Presenter: Jesus Bueren, European University Institute
Title: Over-drilling: Local Externalities and the Social Cost of Electricity Subsidies in South India
01 October 2021
Presenter: Basile Grassi, Bocconi University
Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Markup Estimation
22 October 2021
Presenter: Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics & EUI
Title: Larger Transfers Financed with More Progressive Taxes? On the Optimal Design of Taxes and Transfers
29 October 2021
Presenter: Diego Comin, Dartmouth College
Title: “Technology Within Firms”
12 November 2021
Presenter: Steven Ongena, University of Zürich
Title: "Too-big-to-strand? Bond versus bank financing in the transition to a low-carbon economy"
26 November 2021
Presenter: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Title: "Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village"
10 December 2021
Presenter: Liangjie Wu, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Title: "Brand Reallocation and Market Concentration"
17 December 2021
Presenter: Federica Romei, Oxford University
Title: "Sovereign Default in the Monetary Union"
Term 2
11 February 2022
Presenter: Antonella Trigari, Bocconi University
Title: "Assessing the (De)stabilizing Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions"
4 March 2022
Presenter: Moritz Schularick, Sciences Po
Title: The Anatomy of the Global Savings Glut
25 March 2022
Presenter: Szofia Barany, Central European University
Title: Technological Changes and the Labor Market – A GE Model with Multidimensional Skills
Term 3
22 April 2022
Presenter: Karen Kopecky, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Title: The Downward Spiral
29 April 2022
Presenter: Liu Ernest, Princeton University
Title: Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy
20 May 2022
Presenter: Isaac Baley, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Title: The Macroeconomics of Partial Irreversibility
09 June 2022
Presenter: Aysegül Sahin, University of Texas at Austin
Title: TBC
10 June 2022
Presenter: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University
Title: TBC
Past Macroeconomics Seminars (2020-2021)
Term 1
23 October 2020 - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021
Presenter: Christian Haefke, New York University Abu Dhabi
30 October 2020- POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021
Presenter: Basile Grassi, Bocconi University
06 November 2020 - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021
Presenter: Burhan Kuruscu, University of Toronto
Title TBC
13 November 2020 - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021
Presenter: Cormac O’Dea, Yale University
Title TBC
27 November 2020
Presenter: Bart Taub, University of Glasgow
Does the Potential to Merge Reduce Competition? (with Dirk Hackbarth)
Term 2
12 February 2021
Presenter: Gonzalo Paz-Pardo, European Central Bank
Homeownership and Portfolio Choice over the Generations
26 March 2021
Presenter: Jeanne Commault, Sciences Po
Heterogeneity in Consumer's Behaviour Across Levels Permanent Income
26 March 2021 - POSTPONED
Presenter: Karen Kopecky, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Term 3
09 April 2021
Presenter: Burhan Kuruscu, University of Toronto
Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis
23 April 2021
Presenter: Xavier Ragot, Sciences Po
Should monetary policy care about redistribution? Optimal fiscal and monetary policy with heterogeneous agents
30 April 2021
Presenter: Christian Haefke, New York University Abu Dhabi
Long live the Vacancy
21 April 2021
Presenter: Sanjay R. Singh, University of California, Davis
The self-defeating demand for safety
04 June 2021
Presenter: Jeppe Druedahl, University of Copenhagen and CEBI
Labor-Market Hysteresis and Persistent Paradox-of-Thrift Recessions
11 June 2021
Presenter: José Vicente, Rodríguez Mora, University of Edinburgh
When Opportunity Moves to You: Oil Discoveries and Intergenerational Mobility