F2023 - F2024 ME Seminar Schedule

Spring 2024

Friday, January 19

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Jaroslav Borovicka (NYU) "Robust bounds on optimal tax progressivity"

Friday, February 2

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota) “Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment” 

Friday, February 16

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Chao Fu (UW Madison) "Information Friction and the Labor Market for Public School Teachers" 

Thursday, February 22

2024 Goldstein Memorial Lecture

Costas Arkolakis (Yale University) "Clean Growth"

Friday, March 1

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Nathan Zorzi (Darthmouth), "Durables and Size-Dependence in the Marginal Propensity to Spend" (joint with Martin Beraja at MIT)

Friday, March 15

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Bernardo Ribeiro (Yale) "Embracing the Future or Building on the Past? Growth with New and Old Technologies"

Friday, March 22

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Tommaso Denti (NYU) "Solving Rational Inattention Problems"

Friday, April 5

4:00 PM, Hanson Hall Room 1-108

Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University), Minnesota Lecture

"From cooperation to price-taking. equilibrium in economies with clubs, with monopolists of information, and with local public goods; an elementary approach"

Brief abstract: This presentation will use mathematical techniques accessible to first year graduate students in economics but Illustrates that, unless small groups are effective for the realization of all or almost all games to coalition formation, economies with many players are not competitive.

Reception to follow in third floor library

Friday, April 12

12:00 PM

Espen Moen (Norwegian Businss School) "Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation” With Jesper Bagger and Rune Vejlin.

Thursday, April 18

12:00 PM

Matt Jackson (Stanford University) "Determinants of Social Capital and Implications for Economic Mobility and Productivity'' Note: Thursday 

Wednesday, April 24

5:00 PM

Sandor Poster Conference (3rd year students)

Friday, April 26

12:00 PM

Agostina Brinatti (University of Michigan) "Third-Country Effects of U.S. Immigration Policy"

Monday, April 29

12:00 PM

Tommaso Porzio (Columbia University) "Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany"

Friday, May 3

12:00 PM

Lukas Nord (Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota) "The Gender Turnover Gap Across Countries“ (joint with Annika Bacher, Kevin Donovan, Philipp Grübener, and Todd Schoellman)

Tuesday, May 7

5:00 PM

Eric Posner (University of Chicago)

5:00 PM

HHEI Undergraduate Poster Conference

Fall 2024 

Friday, September 6

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Ansgar Walther (Imperial College London)

Friday, September 13

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Aleksei Oskolkov (University of Chicago)

Friday, September 20

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Ludwig Straub (Harvard University)

Friday, September 27

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Sadhika Bagga (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday, October 11

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Martin B Holm (University of Oslo)

Friday, October 18

Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota's Macroeconomic Policy Perspective Conference

Fabrizio Perri (Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota)

Friday, October 25

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

Fall 2023

Friday, September 8

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

HAMISH LOW (Oxford University), "Fertility and Family Labor Supply"

Friday, September 15

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

DIANE ALEXANDER (Wharton)

Friday, September 22

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

ORAZIO ATTANASIO (Yale)

Friday, September 29

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

CHARLES GOTTLIEB (St. Gallen University)

Friday, October 13

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

VICTORIA MARONE (UTexas Austin), "Allocating Primary Care Without Prices"

Friday, October 20

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

MIKE KEANE (Johns Hopkins University) "Health Shocks, Health Insurance, Human Capital, and the Dynamics of Earnings and Health*"

Friday, November 3

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

CONOR WALSH (Columbia/Mpls Fed)

Friday, November 17

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

MATTHEW ROGNLIE (Northwestern University)

Friday, December 8

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Lawrence Schmidt (MIT)