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)