2018 - 2019
Spring 2019
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SERGIO OCAMPO (Minnesota), "A Task-Based Theory of Occupations"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, Hanson 1-111
WEIJIE ZHONG (Columbia), "Optimal Dynamic Information Acquisition"
MONDAY, JANUARY 14
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, Hanson 1-111
POOYA MOLAVI (MIT),"Macroeconomics with Learning and Misspecification"
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, Hanson 1-111
JONATHAN PAYNE (NYU), "Disruption of Long-Term Bank Credit"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, Hanson 1-111
JOACHIM HUBMER (Yale), "The Race Between Preferences and Technology"
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22
Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute, 9:30-5:30, CSOM 2-260T
Practical Issues in Public Pension Design Conference - multiple speakers.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
YUJUNG HWANG (Yale), "Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
ELISABETH KEMPF (Chicago), TBA
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
RICHARD AKRESH (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia"
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
CHARLES HODGSON (Stanford), "Information Externalities, Free Riding, and Optimal Exploration in the UK Oil Industry"
MONDAY, JANUARY 28
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
DAVID REDISH (Minnesota), "The new field of neuroeconomics: What neuroscience means for economics and how using an economic toolbox can help make breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychiatry"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
CARRIE HENNING-SMITH and KATY KOZHIMANNIL (Minnesota), "University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center: Findings From Birth to Old Age"
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30
Finance Department Seminars, 12:00, TBA
ADOLFO DE MOTTA (McGill), TBA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
ADRIENNE LUCAS (University of Delaware), "When What You Want is Not What You Need: Information and School Choice," with Kehinde Ajayi and Willa Friedman
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JOHANNES WIELAND (University of California San Diego), "The Interest Rate Elasticity of Durable Demand: Measurement and Implications"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
JESSE BERMAN (Minnesota), "Air Pollution Exposure and the Increased Risk of Violent Behavior: Evidence From 14 Years of U.S. Crime Data"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JUAN SANCHEZ (St. Louis Fed), "Sovereign Debt Restructurings"
MILI Lecture Series, 4:30, CSOM 2-260R
THAD DAVIS (Health Care US Investment Banking), "Health Merger and Acquisition Trends"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
PAUL CHRISTIAN (World Bank), "Targeting Regimes for Productive Public Goods"
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
ADRIEN VERDELHAN (MIT), TBA
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
KASPAR BURGER (Minnesota), "Social Disparities in Educational Achievement Across European Populations—and Their Relationship With Structural Characteristics of the Education System"
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PABLO OTTONELLO (NYU), "Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crises"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
JONATHAN ZINMAN (Dartmouth), TBA
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
JAMES STOCK (Harvard), "The Price of Biodiesel Rins and Economic Fundamentals," with Scott Irwin and Kristen McCormack
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
TED MOUW (UNC - Chapel Hill), "Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence on Ethnic Succession in High-Immigration Industries Using Firm Level Data From the LEHD"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ERIC LOUALICHE (Minnesota - CSOM), "Efficient Bubbles?"
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JUAN CARLOS HATCHONDO (Indiana University), "Constrained Efficient Borrowing with Sovereign Default Risk"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
VICTORIA IVASHINA (Harvard), TBA
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
YANG SONG (Colgate), "College Matching Mechanisms and Matching Quality: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MORITZ KUHN (University of Bonn), "Which Ladder to Climb? Evidence on Wages of Workers, Jobs, and Plants"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
JONAS HELGERTZ, ROB WARREN, and EVAN ROBERTS (Minnesota), "The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence From a Representative Sample of American Twins, Siblings, and Neighbors"
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KYLE HERKENHOFF (Minnesota), "Labor Market Power"
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
COSTAS ARKOLAKIS (Yale), "European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier in the 19th Century"
FRIDAY, MARCH 1
Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series, 9:00 - 4:30, 50 Willey Hall
ELIZABETH BOYLE (University of Minnesota), "Individual-Level Analyses With Series of Cross-Sectional Data"
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
ANDRES LIBERMAN (NYU), "Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets," with Christopher Neilson, Luis Opazo, and Seth Zimmerman
MONDAY, MARCH 4
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KATARINA BOROVICKA (Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute and NYU), "Risk Premia and Unemployment Fluctuations"
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
CATIE HAUSMAN (University of Michigan), "Equity and the Environment: The Role of Imperfect Information"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
MOHAMED SALEH (Toulouse School of Economics), "Fertility and Child Mortality Before the Demographic Transition: Evidence From Nineteenth-Century Egypt"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 1-103
JIANGTAO LI (Singapore Management University), "Strategically Simple Mechanisms"
THURSDAY, MARCH 7
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-168
KURT SEE (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 10:30, HMH 4-168
SERDAR BIRINCI (Minnesota), TBA
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-143
POL ANTRAS (Harvard), "Global Sourcing and Assembly with Scale Economies"
FRIDAY, MARCH 8
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
ANTHONY DEFUSCO (Northwestern), "Regulation Household Leverage," with Stephanie Johnson and John Mondragon
The Willard Cochrane Lecture in Public Policy, 10:30, 105 Cargill
DAVID ZILBERMAN (UC-Berkeley), "Innovation and Supply Chains"
MONDAY, MARCH 11
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
NIKLAS ENGBOM (Minneapolis Fed), "Firm and Worker Dynamics in an Aging Labor Market"
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
STEVE POLASKY and JUSTIN JOHNSON (Minnesota), "Connecting Economic Models to Ecosystem Service Models: New Approaches in Multi-Scale Integrated Assessment Modeling"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
KELLY RALEY (UT-Austin), "Estimating Children’s Household Instability Between Birth and Age 18 Using Longitudinal Household Roster Data"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13
Micro-Macro Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-149
LUIGI PISTAFERRI (Stanford), “Disability Insurance and Gender Differences: Evidence from Merged Survey-Administrative Data,” with H. Low
THURSDAY, MARCH 14
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JAROSLAV BOROVICKA (Minneapolis Fed and NYU), "Survey Data and Subjective Beliefs in Business Cycle Models"
FRIDAY, MARCH 15
Trade and Development Seminar, 11:00, 119 Ruttan
DAVE DONALDSON (MIT), "The Bigger the Better? Using Lotteries to Identify the Allocative Efficiency Effects of Firm Size," with Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz, and Monica Singhal
MONDAY, MARCH 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DAVID ARGENTE (Minneapolis Fed and Penn State), "Consumer Surplus of Alternative Payment Methods: Paying Uber with Cash"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
SETH SPIELMAN (University of Colorado Boulder), TBA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
JOE BALAGTAS (Purdue), TBA
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM 1-136
ANTON KOTOTILIN (UNSW Business School), "Persuasion Meets Delegation"
THURSDAY, MARCH 28
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-143
NICK BLOOM (Stanford), "The Finance Uncertainty Multiplier"
FRIDAY, MARCH 29
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JULIETH SANTAMARIA (Minnesota), "Venezuelan Exodus: The Effect of Mass Migration on Labor Market Outcomes"
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
NICK BLOOM (Stanford), "What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?" with Scott R. Baker, Steve Davis and Marco Sammon
MONDAY, APRIL 1
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
AMRESH HANCHATE (Boston University), "Differences in Emergency Department Destination of Emergency Medical Services Transport of Co-Located Patients by Race/Ethnicity and Geography"
TUESDAY, APRIL 2
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DMITRY MUKHIN (Yale), "Mussa Puzzle Redux"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GABRIEL ULYSSEA (Oxford), "Formal and Informal Firm Dynamics"
FRIDAY, APRIL 5
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
CAROLIN PFLEUGER (UBC), "Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks, with John Y. Campbell and Luis M. Viceira
MONDAY, APRIL 8
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ARIEL ZETLIN-JONES (CMU-Tepper), “The Maturity Structure of Inside Money”
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
STEVE RUGGLES and DIANA MAGNUSON (Minnesota), "Census Technology, Politics, and Institutional Change, 1790-2020"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM L114
PATRICK BEISSNER (ANU), "Robust Dynamic Utility in Continuous Time"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10
Micro-Macro Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-149
NATHANIEL HENDREN (Harvard), “The Welfare Impact of Government Policies”
THURSDAY, APRIL 11
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KJETIL STORESLETTEN (University of Oslo),“Business Cycles during Structural Change: Arthur Lewis’ Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective”
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-143
JOHANNES HORNER (Yale), CANCELED
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
PAUL GLEWWE and RICARDO MONTERO (Minnesota), "The Effect of Teacher Training on Pedagogical Skill"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARTIN BERAJA (MIT), “Skill-biased Technological Transitions”
MONDAY, APRIL 15
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FELIX TINTELNOT (Chicago), "The Production Relocation and Price Effects of U.S. Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
GLENN SANDSTROM (Umea University), "The Joint Influence of Male and Female Socioeconomic Status on the Risk of Divorce, Sweden 1900-1960"
TUESDAY, APRIL 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LIMOR GOLAN (WUSTL), “What Explains the Racial Gaps in Task Assignment and Pay Over the Life-Cycle?”
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SEBASTIAN DYRDA (University of Toronto), "Taxes, Private Equity, and Evolution of Income Inequality in the US"
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
ZOE PLAKIAS (Ohio State), "Tradeoffs in Farm to School Implementation: Larger Foodsheds and Longer Supply Chains Drive More Local Food Expenditures"
THURSDAY, APRIL 18
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-143
KURT MITMAN (IIES), “The Fiscal Multiplie,r” with Iourii Manovskii and Marcus Hagedorn
FRIDAY, APRIL 19
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
ADOLFO DE MOTTA (McGill), "Risk Taking and Coordination Failures," with Matthieu Bouvard
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
REBECCA DIZON-ROSS (University of Chicago-Booth), "Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KURT MITMAN (IIES), "Consumer Bankruptcy as Aggregate Demand Management"
TUESDAY, APRIL 23
Heller Hurwicz Economics Institute, 5:30, Cowles Auditorium
Building a Better Retirement System
MONDAY, APRIL 22
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
TAMMA CARLETON (University of Chicago), "Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
SONALDE DESAI (University of Maryland), "Beyond the End of Hypergamy: Increase in Educational Hypogamy in India"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
LAUREN CHENARIDES (ASU-Carey), "Consumer Preferences for Food Retailer Attributes"
THURSDAY, APRIL 25
Final Defense, 9:30, HMH 4-190
DAVID BRADLEY (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 10:30, HMH 4-190
EMILY MOSCHINI (Minnesota), TBA
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-143
ALEH TSYVINSKI (Yale), "Tax Mechanisms and Gradient Flows," with Stefan Steinerberger
Final Defense, 1:30, HMH 4-170
FAUSTO PATINO PENA (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 2:30, HMH 4-170
MARCOS DINERSTEIN MADENFROST (Minnesota), TBA
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 4-300D
JONATHAN BERK (Stanford), "Regulation of Charlatans in High Skill Professions," with Jules H. van Binsbergen
MONDAY, APRIL 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TODD KEISTER (Rutgers), “Bail-ins, Bailouts and Optimal Bank Regulation”
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
LOGAN SPECTOR (Minnesota), "Population-Based Cancer Registries in the U.S.: History and Application to Pediatric Cancer"
TUESDAY, APRIL 30
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CRISTINA ARELLANO (Minneapolis Fed), “Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Markets”
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TOBY BROER (IIES), "Heterogeneous Information Choice in General Equilibrium"
FRIDAY, MAY 3
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
ANUSHA NATH (Minneapolis Fed), "Effect of Constitutional Provisions on Education Policy and Outcomes"
Final Defense, 2:45, HMH 4-190
JUNGHYUN OH (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 4:00, HMH 4-190
RAFAEL ROOS GUTHMANN (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, MAY 6
Final Defense, 11:00, HMH 4-168
SERGIO OCAMPO (Minnesota), TBA
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, Willey 50
MARK HAYWARD (UT- Austin), Why is Childhood so Important in Understanding Why Dementia is Epidemic Among Black Americans?"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8
Micro-Macro Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-142
ELENA MANRESA (NYU), “Artificial Intelligence for Structural Estimation,” with Tetsuya Kaji and Guillaume Pouliot
THURSDAY, MAY 9
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
HECTOR CHADE (ASU), "Screening in Vertical Oligopolies"
FRIDAY, MAY 10
2019 Macro Asset Pricing Conference, HMH 1-103, May 10-11
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
SCOTT DALLMAN (Minnesota), "How Has the Opioid Crisis Affected U.S. Foster Care Systems?"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ILSE LINDENLAUB (Yale), "The Worker-Job Surplus"
MONDAY, MAY 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ROHAN KEKRE (Chicago-Booth), “Redistribution, Risk Premia, and the Macroeconomy”
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARIOS KARABARBOUNIS (Richmond Fed), “Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier”
THURSDAY, MAY 16
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-168
GUILLERMO CABRAL LASALLE (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, MAY 20
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
NICOLA GENNAIOLI (Universita Bocconi), "Real Credit Cycles"
TUESDAY, MAY 21
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-190
VEGARD NYGAARD (Minnesota), TBA
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DOMENICO FERRARO (ASU), "Search Frictions, Labor Supply and the Asymmetric Business Cycle"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
AMANDA AGAN (Rutgers), "Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study"
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-168
SERGIO SALGADO (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, MAY 23
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
EZRA OBERFIELD (Princeton), “Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production”
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SOPHIE OSOTIMEHIN (University of Virginia), "Misallocation and Intersectoral Linkages"
TUESDAY, JUNE 4
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GIULIA BRANCACCIO (Cornell), “Learning by Trading: The Case of the US Market for Municipal Bonds”
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LOUKAS KARABARBOUNIS (Minnesota), "The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression"
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GAJENDRAN RAVEENDRANATHAN (McMaster), “Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry”
FRIDAY, JUNE 14
Final Defense, 9:00, HMH 4-168
DOMINIC SMITH (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, JUNE 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FRANCESCO LIPPI (EIEF), "Unequal Growth"
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
Final Defense, 11:00, HMH 4-190
ELENA FALCETTONI (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-168
T. J. CANANN (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
Final Defense, 9:30, HMH 4-168
JAROSLAW STRZALKOWSKI (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 10:30, HMH 4-168
SORA LEE (Minnesota), TBA
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FANG YANG (Louisiana State University), "Demographic Aging, Industrial Policy, and Chinese Economic Growth"
TUESDAY, JULY 2
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
Manuel Amador & Juan Pablo Nicolini will discuss their presentations from the SED
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
Todd Schoellman, Anmol Bhandari, Fabrizio Perri will discuss their presentations from the SED
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-190
KEYVAN ESLAMI (Minnesota), TBA
TUESDAY, JULY 16
Final Defense, 11:00, HMH 4-168
JORGE MONDRAGON (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, JULY 22
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LANCE LOCHNER (University of Western Ontario), “Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill”
TUESDAY, JULY 23
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MOTOHIRO YOGO (Princeton), "Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in a Global Demand System"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PEDRO TELES (Católica-Lisbon SBE), “What is the Optimal Immigration Policy? Migration, Jobs and Welfare”
THURSDAY, JULY 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ELIZABETH CAUCUTT (University of Western Ontario), “Is Marriage for White People? Incarceration, Unemployment, and the Racial Marriage Divide”
MONDAY, JULY 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CARLOS ESQUIVEL (Minnesota), "Sovereign Risk and Interest Rate Shocks: Renegotiation Matters"
TUESDAY, JULY 30
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG (Princeton), "Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 - FRIDAY, AUGUST 2
Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory, HMH 1-102
MONDAY, AUGUST 12
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MATTHIAS MEIER (University of Mannheim), "Monetary Policy, Markup Dispersion, and Aggregate TFP"
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TREVON LOGAN (OSU), "Physician Bias and Racial Disparities in Health: Evidence from Veterans’ Pensions"
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CLAUDIA MACALUSO (Richmond Fed), “Monopsony and Concentration in the Labor Market: Evidence from Vacancy and Employment Data”
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-168
KELER MARKU (Minnesota), TBA
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FABIAN ECKERT (Yale), "Growing Apart: Tradable Services and the Fragmentation of the U.S. Economy"
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22
Heller Hurwicz Economics Institute, 5 PM, Ted Mann Concert Hall
The Four Horseman of the Economic Revolution
MONDAY, AUGUST 26
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ANASTASIOS KARANTOUNIAS (Atlanta Fed), "Greed versus Fear: Optimal Time-Consistent Taxation with Default"
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TREB ALLEN (Dartmouth), "The Geography of Path Dependence"
Fall 2018
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
IVAN WERNING (MIT), “Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
EMIL VERNER (MIT), "Household Debt Revaluation and the Real Economy: Evidence from a Foreign Currency Debt Crisis," with Gyozo Gyongyosi
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ABIGAIL WOZNIAK (Notre Dame), "Making Big Changes: The Impact of Moves on Marriage among U.S. Army Personnel"
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TOM KREBS (Universitat Mannheim), "Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk"
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
STEPHEN POLASKY (Minnesota), "Gross Ecosystem Product for Sustainable Development"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SARA CURRAN (University of Washington), "Demographic Dynamics and Population Responses to Varying Natural Hazard Exposures Across the U.S., 1970-2014"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Micro-Macro Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-233
ERIK HURST (Chicago-Booth), "New Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data," with John Grigsby and Ahu Yildirmaz
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
COSTAS ARKOLAKIS (YALE), "The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements," with Treb Allen
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
SHERIDAN TITMAN (UT), "Urban Vibrancy and Firm Value Creation," with Casey Douhal and Christopher A. Parsons
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
BENJAMIN HEBERT (Stanford GSB), "Optimal Corporate Taxation Under Financial Frictions"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
PAUL GLEWWE (Minnesota), "What Explains Vietnam's Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 and 2015 PISA Data"
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ADRIEN AUCLERT (Stanford), "The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PETE KLENOW (Stanford), "A Global View of Creative Destruction"
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
ALESSANDRO BONANNO (Colorado State), "Simulating the Effect of the Nutrition Fact Label Revision: Added Sugar and the Demand for Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereals"
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Heller Hurwicz Prescott Conference, TBA, HMH 1-104
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
ANDREA EISFELDT (UCLA), "Human Capitalists," with Antonio Falato and Mindy Xiaolan
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
NAT SPRINGER (Minnesota), "India Has Profitable Alternatives to Crop Burning That Can Help Farmers and Reduce Air Pollution"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
YINGLING FAN (Minnesota), "Smartphone-Based Behavior and Experience Data Collection: The Daynamica App"TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FRANCOIS GOURIO (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), “Accounting for Macro-Finance Trends: Market Power, Intangibles, and Risk Premia”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Micro-Macro Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-233
ROBERT SHIMER (Chicago), "The Emergence of Market Structure," with Maryam Farboodi and Gregor Jarosch
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
JON STEINSSON (UC-Berkeley), "Women, Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries," with Masao Fukui and Emi Nakamura
Institute for Advanced Studies, 3:30, 240 Northrop
STEPHEN POLASKY (Minnesota), "Making Nature Count: Rewriting Economic and Political Rules so Nature Matters"
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
LEONID KOGAN (MIT), "Technological Innovation and the Distribution of Labor Income Growth," with Lawrence D. W. Schmidt and Jae Song
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
ADRIANA LLERA-MUNEY (UCLA), "The Long Run Effects of Tying Cash Transfers to Marital Status on Family Well-Being"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
VICTORIA VANASCO (Stanford GSB), "Strategic Complexity"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
DAVID PANNELL (University of Western Australia), "The Design of Effective Agri-Environment Schemes"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
VLADIMIR ASRIYAN (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "Collateral Booms and Information Depletion"
Job Talk, 5:30, HMH 4-190
GUILLERMO CABRAL (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
JEREMY FOX (Rice), "Geographic Expansion Mergers and FCC Spectrum Policy: Estimating a Matching Game with Externalities" (No Paper Available)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
ANANT NYSHADHAM (Boston College), "Relational Contracting Inside the Firm"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
COLLEEN MANCHESTER (Minnesota), "The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SEBASTIAN HEISE (New York Fed), “Firm-to-Firm Relationships and the Pass-Through of Shocks”
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10
Micro-Macro Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 2-233
ULRIKE MALMENDIER (UC-Berkeley), "Scarred Consumption," with Leslie Sheng She
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
CONNER MULLALLY (University of Florida), "Chickens, Household Welfare, and Child Health: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Guatemala"
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS (MIT), "Myopia and Anchoring"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
LOREN BRANDT (University of Toronto), "Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
STEVE MILLER (Minnesota), "Effects of Heat Waves on Economic Growth," with Kenn Chua, Jay Coggins, Hamid Mohtadi
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
JONAS HELGERTZ (Minnesota), "Educational Outcomes of Children of Divorce and in Step-families: Scandinavia, 1985-2015"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM L126
JOHN YIRAN ZHU (Wharton), "Better Monitoring...Worse Productivity?"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ILLENIN KONDO (Federal Reserve Board), "Political Distortions and Infrastructure Networks in China: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Analysis"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ERIC FRENCH (UCL), "The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings and Social Security of Older Americans"
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 230 Ruttan
MIKE BOLAND (Minnesota), "Creating Data Sets for use on Agribusiness Economics Problems Using Public-Private Partnerships"
Applied Micro,3:30, CSOM 1-136
AVIV NEVO (Northwestern), "The Tragedy of the Last Mile: Economic Solutions to Congestion in Broadband Networks," with Jacob Malone and Jonathan Williams
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18
Job Talk, 2:00, Blegen 440
SERDAR BIRINCI (Minnesota), TBA
Job Talk, 3:00, Blegen 140
KURT SEE (Minnesota), TBA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
GILLES CHEMLA (Imperial College), "Equilibrium Counterfactuals," with Christopher A. Hennessy
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
PAUL GERTLER (UC-Berkeley), "Making Entrepreneurs: The Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills"
Job Market Talk, 2:00, HMH 4-168
T. J. CANANN (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22
Job Talk, 9:00, HMH 4-190
DAVID BRADLEY (Minnesota), TBA
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARTIN URIBE (Columbia), "The Neo-Fisher Effect: Econometric Evidence from SVAR and NK Models"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
TREVON LOGAN (Ohio State), "Is the Best Interest of the Child Best for Children? Educational Attainment and Child Custody Assignment"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM L126
JUNGHYUN OH (Minnesota), TBA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23
Job Talk, 3:15, Blegen 240
JAROSŁAW STRZAŁKOWSKI (Minnesota), TBA
Job Market Talk, 4:15, Blegen 240
JORGE MONDRAGON MINERO (Minnesota), TBA
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24
Micro-Macro Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
OWEN ZIDAR (Princeton), "Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century"
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
SIMANTI BANERJEE (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), "Role of Information and Communication in Conservation Auction Performance: An lab experiment on Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes"
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L126
VASILIKI SKRETA (UCL), "Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment: A Revelation Principle"
Job Market Talk, 2:00, Blegen 440
MARCOS DINERSTEIN (Minnesota), TBA
Job Market Talk, 3:00, Blegen 140
FAUSTO PATINO PENA(Minnesota), TBA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
JOSE CASCO GUERRA (Minnesota), "Conditional Cash Transfers, Bargaining Power and Household Time Allocation: The Human Development Bonus in Ecuador"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ANDY NEUMEYER (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), “Large Shocks in an Inflationary Economy: Argentina’s Evidence on Menu Cost Models”
Job Market Talk, 3:15, CSOM 2-228
VEGARD NYGAARD (Minnesota), TBA
Job Market Talk, 4:15, CSOM 2-228
SORA LEE (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI (Yale), "The Job Ladder: Inflation vs. Reallocation"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
DEBRA UMBERSON (UT-Austin), "Race and Life Course Exposure to Death of a Child: Consequences for Health and Mortality Risk"
Job Market Talk, 3:00, HMH 4-170
SERGIO OCAMPO (Minnesota), TBA
Math Econ Seminar, 2:30, Blegen 335
RAFAEL ROOS GUTHMANN (Minnesota), TBA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30
Job Market Talk, 12:00, HMH 4-190
DOMINIC SMITH (Minnesota), TBA
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SARA MOREIRA (Northwestern Kellogg), TBA
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
SEVERIN BORENSTEIN (UC-Berkeley), "Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
EVA-MARIE MEEMKEN (University of Goettingen), "Benefiting the Poor but not the Poorest of the Poor – Wage Effects of Fairtrade Standards"
Job Market Talk, 3:30, HMH 4-190
ELENA FALCETTONI (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Job Market Talk, 2:30, HMH 4-168
KEYVAN ESLAMI (Minnesota), TBA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
MARK WESTERFIELD (University of Washington), TBA
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
JESSICA ZHU (Minnesota), "Heterogeneous Farmers' Technology Adoption Decisions: Good on Average is not Good Enough"
Minnesota Lecture, 4:00, HMH 1-102
MIKHAIL GOLOSOV (Chicago), "Inequality, Business Cycles, and Monetary-Fiscal Policy," with Anmol Bhandari and David Evans
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
JEFFREY BLOEM (Minnesota), "Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd Frank Act and Conflict in Africa's Great Lakes Region"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
LAURA CLEVELAND (Minnesota), "Global Population Microdata from IPUMS International: Progress and Future Plans"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ANDRES DRENIK (Columbia), “Currency Choice in Contracts”
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
JOLEEN HADRICH (Minnesota), "Machinery Investment: Does it affect Minnesota farm business expansion over time?"
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Heller Hurwicz, 4:00, University Hall - McNamara Center
Honoring Distinguished Economist Anne Krueger
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ROMAIN RANCIERE (USC), "Market Frictions, Arbitrage, and the Capitalization of Amenities"
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
WAHED RAHMAN (Minnesota), "Can Targeted Recommendations Influence Fertilizer Management of Farmers? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
ADWAY DE (Minnesota), "Estimating Social Cost of Carbon""
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
JENNY TRINITAPOLI (Chicago), "Data Collection as Disruption: Panel Conditioning and Other Insights from a Longitudinal Study of Young Adulthood"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM L126
JARDA BOROVICKA (NYU), "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Existence and Uniqueness of Recursive Utilities"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
BEN CASNER (Ohio State), "Learning While Shopping: An Experimental Investigation into the Effect of Learning on Consumer Search"
Applied Micro, 3:30, CSOM 1-127
DANIEL WALDINGER (NYU), "Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation"
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L126
LAURA VELDKAMP (Columbia), "Taking Orders and Taking Notes: Dealer Information Sharing in Treasury Auctions," with Nina Boyarchenko and David Lucca
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
JACOB RICKER-GILBERT (Purdue), "Incomplete Information and Product Quality in Rural Markets: Evidence from an Experimental Auction for Maize in Senegal"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
JOSE CASCO GUERRA and JULIETH SANTAMARIA (Minnesota), "Pollution and Education: The Effect of Power Plant Closures on Student's Test Scores"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SHARON SASSLER (Cornell), "Where Have All The Women Gone? Occupational Choice Among Women Leaving Computer Science"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JAVIER BIANCHI (Minneapolis Fed), “Monetary Independence and Rollover Crises"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
RICARDO LAGOS (NYU), "On Money as a Medium of Exchange in Near-Cashless Credit Economies"
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
DAVID KEISER (Iowa State), "Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
KARTHNIK NATARAJAN (Minnesota), "Empirical Analysis of Stock-outs in Reproductive Health Supply Chains: Operational Drivers and Interventions for Improvement"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28
Agricultural and Applied Econ Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
MARTIN BOZIC (Minnesota), "Implications of Cumulative Prospect Theory for Design of Government-Subsidized Agricultural Insurance Programs"
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L126
MICHAEL PETERS (Yale), "Spatial Structural Change," with Fabian Eckert
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119
ELIZABETH DAVIS (Minnesota) and CAROLINE KRAFFT (St. Catherine's University), "Income Inequality in Egypt and Tunisia: Sources and Streams of Income"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ZACHARY STANGBYE (Notre Dame), "Geometric Rational Inattention"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARIACRISTINA DE NARDI (UCL and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Changing Opportunities and Outcomes of Non-College Educated Americans"
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 230
GABRIEL CHAN and ANDREW FANG (Minnesota), "Co-Benefits of Cap-and-Trade: How are local air pollution and health benefits distributed in California?"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
ARTHUR REYNOLDS (Minnesota), "Does an Evidence-based Early Childhood Program Reduce Adult Obesity? Findings from the Chicago Longitudinal Study"
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JUAN PABLO NICOLINI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "International Evidence in Long Run Money Demand"
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6
Jon Goldstein Memorial Lecture, 6:00, Cowles Auditorium
GRETCHEN DAILY (Stanford), "The Ecological Civilization: Opening Pathways to Green, Inclusive Growth"
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
ELISABETH KEMPF (Chicago-Booth), TBA
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LUDWIG STRAUB (MIT), “Consumption, Savings, and the Distribution of Permanent Income”
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
KATHARINE DONATO (Georgetown), TBA
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JOAQUIN BLAUM (Brown), "Global Firms in Large Devaluations"
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan Hall
DOMINIQUE ROLANDO (Minnesota), "How to Best Promote Healthy Food: Evaluating the Impact of Policy Mechanisms on Low Income Households"
Fed Bag Lunch, 11:00, Research Conference Room (Please note time change)
ABDOULAYE NDIAYE (Chicago Fed), “Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation”
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LARRY CHRISTIANO (Northwestern), “Discouraging Deviant Behavior in Monetary Economics”
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan Hall
NATALIA ORDAZ REYNOSO (Minnesota), "Indigenous Languages, Prejudice, and Learning in Peru"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SERDAR BIRINCI (Minnesota), "Spousal Labor Supply Response to Job Displacement and Implications for Optimal Transfers"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KEYVAN ESLAMI (Minnesota), "Health Spending: Necessity or Luxury? Health Expenditures, Health Capital and Production of Health in the United States"
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KURT SEE (Minnesota), "Medicare for All: The Macroeconomic and Welfare Consequences of Public Health Insurance Reform"