Macro Seminar

Coordinators: German Cubas and Radek Paluszynski

Date: Mondays 4:00-5:15pm

Venue: TU 211


Spring 2024


January 22

Fernando Parro (Penn State)

"Learning and Expectations in Dynamic Spatial Economies"


January 29

Victor Valcarcel (UT Dallas)

"A Tale of Two Tightenings"


February 12

Xiaoqing Zhou (Dallas Fed)


"Financial Technology and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: The Role of Social Networks”


February 19

Shihan Shen (Rice)

"Customer Acquisition, Rising Concentration and US Productivity Dynamics"


February 26

Roberto Fattal-Jaef (World Bank)

"Constrained-Efficiency and the Welfare Effects of Misallocation"


March 4

Carolina Villegas-Sanchez (ESADE)

“Climate Change, Firms, and the Aggregate Productivity”


March 18

George Alessandria (Rochester)

"U.S.-China Trade and Trade Policy: From the Cold War to the Trade War and Beyond"


March 25

Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern Kellogg)

“Intangible Capital, Non-Rivalry, and Growth”


April 1

Alex Richter (Dallas Fed)

“Estimating Macroeconomic News and Surprise Shocks”


April 11

Raquel Fernandez (NYU)

TBA


April 15

Andres Drenik (UT Austin)

TBA


April 22

Markus Poschke (McGill)

TBA


April 29

Juliana Salomao (UMN Carlson)

TBA

Department of Economics

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