Economics Lectures

Our seminars are held by world-famous scholars from around the globe

Are held monthly on Thursdays from 11:00 to 12:15, unless otherwise specified.

Term 1

16 October 2025
Presenter: Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Measuring the Effects of Aggregate Shocks on Cross-sectional Distributions: Functional vs. Panel Approach"

Term 2

15 January 2026
Presenter: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt
Title: "Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth: Evidence from Germany"
12 February 2026
Presenter: Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University
Title: "Self-Selection, Evaluation and Optimal Ordeals"
TUESDAY 10 March 2026
Presenter: Jan de Loecker, KU Leuven
Title: "Beyond the First Best: A Framework for Evaluating the Welfare Effects of Market Power. Evidence from the OPEC Cartel"

Term 3

Term 1

23 September 2024
Presenter: Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University)
Title: "A Technology-Gap Model of ‘Premature’ Deindustrialization"
17 October 2024
Paul Heidhues (DICE University of Dusseldorf)
Title: "Consumer Protection in Economies with Limited Attention"
14 November 2024
Alessandro Lizzeri (Princeton University)
Title: "Selective Disclosure of Evidence: An Experiment"

Term 2

16 January 2025
Sergio Rebelo (Kellogg School of Management)
Title: "Regulating Artificial Intelligence"
13 February 2025
Oliver Blanchard (MIT)
Title: "Fiscal policy as a stabilization tool"
13 March 2025
Vasiliki Skreta (UT Austin, UCL, CEPR)
Title: "Selling diversity"

Term 3

24 April 2025
Bo Honoré (Princeton University)
Title: "Recent Advances in Estimation of Nonlinear Panel Data Models"
22 May 2025
CANCELLED Leonardo Bursztyn (The University Of Chicago)

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