2016 - 2017
Spring 2017
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-213
CHIARA MARGARIA (Yale), "Queueing to Learn"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-215
MEREDITH STARTZ (Yale), "The Value of Face-to-Face: Search and Contracting Problems in Nigerian Trade"
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-213
CORMAC O'DEA (UCL), "Private Pensions and Public Pension Design"
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
KEGON TAN (Wisconsin-Madison), "Bequest Motives and the Social Security Notch"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-215
MIGUEL FARIA-E-CASTRO (NYU), "Fiscal Multipliers and Financial Crises"
MONDAY, JANUARY 30
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
CHRIS FOWLER (Penn State), "Segregation and Diversity as Multiscalar Phenomena: Why We Need Multiscale Measures to Understand Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Effects"
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
KARL SHURTER (Chicago), "Identification and Inference in First-Price Auctions with Collusion"
FRIDAY,FEBRUARY 3
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JENNY AKER (Tufts), TBA
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-215
HANNES MALMBERG (Stockholm IIES), "Human Capital and Development Accounting Revisited"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-213
SIMON MONGEY (NYU), "Market Structure and Monetary Non-Neutrality"
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SARAH GOLLUST (Minnesota), "Understanding the Relationship Between Media and Use of the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
NICHOLAS BLOOM (Stanford), TBA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
METIN ÇAKIR (Minnesota), "Panel Price Indices for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables and Implications for Policy"
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
RANDY WRIGHT (Wisconsin-Madison), "The Effects of Monetary Policy and Other Announcements"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
ANA BABUS (Chicago Fed), "Strategic Fragmented Markets," with Cecilia Parlatore
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
RAGUI ASSAD (Minnesota), "The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MORTEN RAVN (UCL), "Macroeconomic Fluctuations with Hank & Sam: An Analytical Approach"
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
DAVID DUTWIN (SSRS), "The Past, Present, and Future of Traditional Survey Research"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PAVEL BRENDLER (Wisconsin-Madison), "Lifetime Earnings Inequality and Income Redistribution through Social Security"
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
STACIE BOSLEY (Hamline), "Judgment and Decision-Making in a Pyramid Scheme Experiment"
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ALIREZA TAHBAZ-SAHELHI (Columbia Business), "Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JENNY AKER (Tufts), "Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger," with Christopher Ksoll
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, 230 Ruttan
DANIEL PHANEUF (Wisconsin-Madison), "Effects of Local Regulation on Neighboring Jurisdictions: Evidence from Mining Ordinances," with Alexey Kalinin and Dominic Parker
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
EVAN ROBERTS and J. DAVID HACKER (Minnesota), "The Impact of Kin Availability, Parental Religiosity, and Nativity on Fertility Differentials in the Late 19th Century U.S."
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ETIENNE GAGNON (Board of Governors), "Understanding the New Normal: The Role of Demographics"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
MARIN BOZIC (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
MONICA GRANT (UW-Madison), "Divorce, Remarriage, and Fertility Change in Sub-Saharan Africa"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
JESSE TACK (Kansas), "Warming Temperatures Will Likely Induce Higher Premium Rates and Government Outlays for the US Crop Insurance Program"
FRIDAY, MARCH 3
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
PAUL GLEWWE (Minnesota), "What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 PISA Data, Preliminary Results"
MONDAY, MARCH 6
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, 230 Ruttan
IAN LUBY (Minnesota), "U.S. Urban Water Prices: Cheaper When Drier"
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SIRI SUH (Minnesota), "Troubling Abortion Metrics: Post-Abortion Care and the Global Politics of Reproductive Governance in Senegal"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TOMOHIRO HIRANO (University of Tokyo), "Asset Bubbles and Macro-Prudential Policy"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
CHRISTOPHER BARRETT (Cornell), "Revisiting the Effect of Food Aid on Conflict," with Paul Christian
Willard Cochrane Lecture, 2:00, 105 Cargill Building
CHRISTOPHER BARRETT (Cornell), "The Uneven Transformation of Rural Africa: Myths, Facts, and Pressing Needs" Please register.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
ANDY ATKESON (UCLA), "The Aggregate Implications of Innovative Investment in the Garcia-Macia, Hsieh, and Klenow Model," with Ariel Burstein
FRIDAY, MARCH 10
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
ANITA MUKHERJEE (Wisconsin-Madison), "The Perils of Pressure in Promoting Merit Goods: Evidence from a Sales Experiment In India," with Camille Boudot
Finance Department Seminar, 1:00, CSOM 2-213
DAVID YERMACK (NYU), "Ambiguity and the Trade Off Theory of Capital Structure"
MONDAY, MARCH 20
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
TETYANA SHIPPEE (Minnesota), "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Nursing Home Residents’ Quality of Life"
TUESDAY, MARCH 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
THEODORE PAPAGEORGIOU (McGill), "Geography, Search Frictions and Trade Costs"
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JASON KERWIN (Minnesota), "Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi"
MONDAY, MARCH 27
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GUIDO MENZIO (Minneapolis Fed), "Intermediation as Rent Extraction"
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
STEVE RUGGLES (Minnesota), "Building a National Longitudinal Research Infrastructure"
TUESDAY, MARCH 28
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
WENXIN DU (Federal Reserve Board), "Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LAWRENCE SCHMIDT (University of Chicago), "Technological Innovation and the Distribution of Labor Income Growth Rates"
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
LUIGI PISTAFERRI (Stanford), "Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth," with Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso, and David Malacrino
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH (NYU), "A Macroeconomic Model with Financially Constrained Producers and Intermediaries"
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
MARTIN VALDIVIA (GRADE-Peru), "Soap Operas and the Management of Seasonal Rural Finance: Evidence from Peruvian Agricultural Households," with Alberto Chong
MONDAY, APRIL 3
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
AMY ONG TSUI (Johns Hopkins), "Contraception, A Social Vaccine"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
YORAM HALEVY (UBC), “Behavioral Bargaining,” with Mike Peters
TUESDAY, APRIL 4
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SUSHANT ACHARYA (New York Fed), "The Side Effects of Safe Asset Creation"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ADAM SZEIDL (Central European University), "Media Capture through Favor Exchange "
New Department Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
LIMOR GOLAN (WUSTL), “What is the source of the intergenerational correlation in earnings”
THURSDAY, APRIL 6
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
JEAN-MARC ROBIN (Sciences Po), "Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production," with Marion Gousse and Nicolas Jacquemet
FRIDAY, APRIL 7
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
KIRA VILA (New Mexico), "Intergenerational Transmission of Mother to Child Health: Evidence from Cebu the Philippines"
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
BRENT NIEMAN (Chicago), "Unpacking Global Capital Flows: A Micro-Data Approach to Macro Facts"
MONDAY, APRIL 10
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
GEORGE WEHBY (Iowa), "Effect of the Minimum Wage on Infant and Child Health"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
BORYS GROCHULSKI (Richmond Fed), "Optimal Contracts with Reflection," with Yuzhe Zhang
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KAREN KOPECKY (Atlanta Fed), "Old, Frail, and Uninsured: Accounting for Puzzles in the U.S Long-term Care Insurance Market"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
THOMAS REARDON (Michigan State), "The Broad Penetration of Processed Foods in Rural and Urban Africa and Asia"
New Department Seminar, 3:30, HMH 1-107
HARALD UHLIG (Chicago), "Neoclassical growth with one-sided competitive risk sharing," with Dirk Krueger
THURSDAY, APRIL 13
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
CHRISTOPHER FLINN (NYU), "Actors in the Child Development Process," with Daniela Del Boca, Ewout Verriest, and Matthew Wiswal
FRIDAY, APRIL 14
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:10, Ruttan 119
HAMID MOHTADI (UW-Milwaukee), "Oil, Taxation and Transparency"
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
MANUEL ADELINO (Duke), "Are Lemons Sold First? Dynamic Signaling in the Mortgage Market"
MONDAY, APRIL 17
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, Ruttan 230
SUHYUN JUNG (University of Michigan), "Evidence on the Impacts of Forestry Concessions on Wealth in Liberia"
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
LINDSAY NOVACK and JASMINE TRANG HA (Minnesota), "Presentations from Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Student Recipients"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
LINDSAY NOVACK (Minnesota), "Buy Locally? Big-Box Stores and Time-Inconsistent Preferences"
New Department Seminar, 3:30, HMH 1-107
GEORGE-LEVI GAYLE (WUSTL), "Optimal Taxation, Marriage, Home Production,and Family Labour Supply," with Andrew Shephard
MONDAY, APRIL 24
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ALBERT MARCET (Barcelona GSE), TBA
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
GUY ABEL (Shanghai University), "Quantifying Global International Migration Flows"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
MARCIN PESKI (Toronto), "Value of Persistent Information," with Juuso Toikka
TUESDAY, APRIL 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ROC ARMENTER (Philadelphia Fed), "Everything all the Time? Entry and Exit in U.S. Imports"
Final Defense, 3:00, HMH 4-190
ZHIFENG CAI (Minnesota), TBA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26
Math Econ Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-190
ALOISO ARAUJO (EPGE/FGV and Instituto Nacional de Matemàtica Pura e Aplicada), "Dynamic General Equilibrium with Risk Lovers''
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
CHRISTOPHE GOUEL (NRA-AgroParistech Joint Research Unit in Public Economics), "Bayesian Estimation of the Storage Model using Information on Quantities"
THURSDAY, APRIL 27
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
ERIC FRENCH (UCL), "The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Labor Supply: a Dynamic Analysis"
FRIDAY, APRIL 28
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, TBA
STEFANO GIGLIO (Chicago), "Inference on Risk Premia in the Presence of Omitted Factors," with Dacheng Xiu
MONDAY, MAY 1
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, Ruttan 230
MATT REIMER (University of Alaska-Anchorage), TBA
MPC Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
ROBERT HUMMER (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Leveling the Playing Field? Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality Among Low Risk Women in the United States"
TUESDAY, MAY 2
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MATTHEW ROGNLIE (Northwestern), "Inequality and Aggregate Demand"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CHRISTIAN MOSER (Columbia Business), "Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies"
New Department Seminar, 3:30, HMH 1-107 --CANCELED--
JENNIFER LA'O (Columbia), "Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions"
THURSDAY, MAY 4
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
JUUSO TOIKKA (MIT), "Robust Incentives for Teams," with Tianjiao Dai
FRIDAY, MAY 5
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
LORENZO GARLAPPI (UBC), "The Carry Trade and Uncovered Interest Parity when Markets are Incomplete," with Jack Favilukis
Final Defense, 1:00, HMH 4-190
MATTHEW GREENBLATT (Minnesota), TBA
TUESDAY, MAY 8
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
OLEG ITSKHOKI (Princeton), "Exchange Rate Disconnect in General Equilibrium"
TUESDAY, MAY 9
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JESSE SCHREGER (Harvard Business School), "Unpacking Global Capital Flows"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-170
GAJENDRAN RAVEENDRANATHAN (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 3:00, HMH 4-170
RICHARD CONDOR (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 4:00, HMH 4-170
GEORGE STEFANIDIS (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 5:00, HMH 4-170
CANHUI HONG (Minnesota), TBA
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
NIR JAIMOVICH (USC-Marshall), "Trading Down and the Business Cycle"
THURSDAY, MAY 11
FINAL DEFENSE, 10:00, HMH 4-190
ROCIO MADERA HOLGADO ( Minnesota), TBA
Applied Micro, 12:15, HMH 1-105
KEVIN WILLIAMS (Yale SOM), "Zone Pricing in Retail Oligopoly," with Brian Adams
FRIDAY, MAY 12
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KEVIN WILLIAMS (Yale SOM), “Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity, and the Value of Online Retail”
FRIDAY, MAY 12 - SATURDAY, MAY 13
2017 Macro Asset Pricing Conference
MONDAY, MAY 15
Environmental and Resource Seminar, 9:30, 119 Ruttan
JAY COGGINS (Minnesota), "Is There a Climate Policy Dilemma? Rethinking Abatement Cost for IAMs"
TUESDAY, MAY 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FELIPE SAFFIE (Maryland), TBA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PAOLO CAVALLINO (IMF), "The Expansionary Lower Bound: a Theory of Contractionary Monetary Easing"
TUESDAY, MAY 30
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PABLO SEBASTIAN FANELLI (MIT), "Optimal Monetary Policy and Portfolio Choice"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ANASTASIOS KARANTUNIAS (Atlanta Fed), "Optimal Fiscal Policy with Recursive Preferences"
TUESDAY, JUNE 6
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARK GERTLER (NYU), "A Macroeconomic Model with Financial Panics"
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JESUS FERNANDEZ-VILLAVERDE (University of Pennsylvania), "Political Distribution Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations"
TUESDAY, JUNE 13
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-190
KAI DING (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 5:00, HMH 4-190
ALEXANDER GARIVALTIS (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, JUNE 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FRANCESCO LIPPI (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance), "Price Plans and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy"
TUESDAY, JUNE 20
Minnesota Population Center Seminar, 12:00, 50 Willey Hall
JULIE WELLMAN (Minnesota), "Parents and Careers: Exploring Breadwinner Identity"
THURSDAY, JUNE 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MOTOHIRO YOGO (Princeton), "The Fragility of Market Risk Insurance"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-170
SIMONE CIVALE (Minnesota), TBA
TUESDAY, JULY 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
VENKY VENKATESWARAN (NYU-Stern), "Capital Misallocation: Frictions or Distortions?"
Final Defense, 3:30, HMH 4-190
JOAO AYRES (Minnesota) TBA
Final Defense, 4:30, HMH 4-190
DANIELA COSTA (Minnesota) TBA
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26 - FRIDAY, JULY 28
Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
MONDAY, JULY 31
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JULIEN BENGUI (Universite de Montreal), "Capital Flows and Global Rebalancing in a Liquidity Trap"
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CHAD JONES (Stanford), "Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?"
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GITA GOPINATH (Harvard), "Dominant Currency Paradigm"
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CHARLES ENGEL (UW-Madison), "Debauchery and Original Sin: The Currency Composition of Sovereign Debt"
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG (Princeton), "Rethinking Detroit"
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DANIEL XU (Duke), "Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China"
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KLAUS ADAM (Mannheim), "Optimal Trend Inflation"
Fall 2016
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PETE KLENOW (Stanford), "College Pricing and Income Inequality"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
COSTAS MEGHIR (Yale), "Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia"
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SEWON HUR (Pitt), "Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth"
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MATTHEW NOTOWIDIGDO (Northwestern), "The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
GASTON ILLANES (MIT), "Switching Costs in Pension Plan Choice"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
MICHAEL DICKSTEIN (NYU Stern), "What do Exporters Know"
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
MIHAI MANEA (MIT), "Information Resale in Networks"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MATHIEU TASCHEREAU-DUMOUCHEL (Penn Wharton), "Aggregate Demand and the Dynamics of Unemployment "
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PEDRO TELES (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), "More on the Taxation of Capital"
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
SEBASTIAN DI TELLA (Stanford GSB), "Optimal asset management contracts with hidden savings"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12
Applied Micro Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
TONG LI (Vanderbilt), "A Partial Identification Subnetwork Approach to Discrete Games in Large Networks: An Application to Quantifying"
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
JOHANNES STROEBEL (NYU Stern), "Do Banks Pass through Credit Expansions to Consumers Who Want To Borrow? Evidence from Credit Cards"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TIM UY (Cambridge), "Self-Fulfilling Debt Restructuring "
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI (Universita Bocconi), "Is it the “How” or the “When” that Matters in Fiscal Adjustments?"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JOSEPH STEINBERG (Toronto), Brexit and the Macroeconomic Impact of Trade Policy Uncertainty
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
NOBU KIYOTAKI (Princeton), "Dynamics of Firms and Trade in General Equilibrium"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
NOBU KIYOTAKI (Princeton), "The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed’s Liquidity Facilities"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
ALEXANDER GARIVALTIS (Minnesota), "How to Trade Prophetically"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JONATHAN VOGEL (Columbia), TBA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
TOMASZ STRAZALECKI (Harvard), "Speed, Accuracy, and the Optimal Timing of Choices"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
YENENG SUN (National University of Singapore), "Dynamic Games with Almost Perfect Information"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DAVID PRICE (Stanford), "The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance"
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
REBECCA DIAMOND (Stanford), "Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
MANI ANKUR (National University of Singapore), "Experimentation via External Sales Networks"
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
The Minnesota Lecture, 4:00, HMH 1-104
ARTHUR ROLNICK (Minnesota), "Economists and Public Policy: The Heller Legacy"
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
ROBERT TOWN (Penn Wharton), "Externalities and Benefit Design in Health Insurance"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DEVESH RAVAL (FTC), "How Strong is Gravity? Using Hospital Choice to Separate Home Bias from Distance Costs"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
PETER KLIBANOFF (Northwestern Kellogg), "Incomplete Information Games with Ambiguity Averse Players"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LORENZO CALIENDO (Yale SOM), "Trade and Labor Market Dynamics"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Applied Micro Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
PIETRO TEBALDI (Chicago), "Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design under the ACA"
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
ROBERT TOWN (MIT), "Financial Centrality and Liquidity Provision"
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
BENJAMIN SCHOEFER (UC-Berkeley), "Employment Fluctuations Along the Aggregate Labor Supply Curve"
Applied Micro Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
WEN-TAI HSU (Singapore Management University), "The Political Economy of Land Supply: A Chinese Case"
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L122
JOSEPH VAVRA (Chicago Booth), "Regional heterogeneity and monetary policy"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ZHIFENG CAI (Minnesota), "Secular Stagnation, Land Prices, and Collateral Constraints"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
THOMAS WINBERRY (Chicago Booth), "Micro Heterogeneity and Aggregate Consumption Dynamics "
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DAVID FRANKEL (Iowa State), "Efficient Ex-Ante Stabilization of Firms"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
OKSANA LEUKHINA (Washington), "Imperfect Information Transmission from Banks to Investors: Macroeconomic Implications"