2021-2022

Spring 2022

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11 

Fed Virtual Bag Lunch, 12:00

SERGIO BARRERA (University of Minnesota), "Is College Worth It For Me? Beliefs, Access to Funding and Inequality in Higher Education"

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25

Department Recruiting Seminar, 10:00, Hanson 1-108

FEDERICO KOCHEN (New York University), TBA

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 - RESCHEDULED 02/15/2022

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00  

JAVIER BIANCHI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Prudential Use of Capital Controls and Foreign Currency Reserves" 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

Department Recruiting Seminar, 10:00, Hanson 1-107

BOAZ ABRAMSON (Stanford University), TBA

MONDAY, JANUARY 31

Department Recruiting Seminar, 10:00, Hanson 1-108  ZOOM

CECILIA DIAZ CAMPO (University of Western Ontario), "Dynamic Moral Hazard in Nonlinear Health Insurance Contracts"  

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

MOLLY BROWN (University of Maryland),    "Climate change and Food Security - Evidence that connects changes in temperature, rainfall and vegetation dynamics to nutrition and human health outcomes" 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

FEDERICO HUNEEUS (Central Bank of Chile), TBA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3

Department Recruiting Seminar, 10:00, CSOM 1-135

MARIA VORONINA (Harvard University),  “Endogenous Growth and Optimal Market Power” 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Department Recruiting Seminar, 10:00, Hanson 1-108

BEN VATTER  (Northwestern University), "Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage" 

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

TIM BRUCKNER (University of California, Irvine),  "Surveillance, Sampling, and Social Inequalities: Lessons Learned from Early in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic" 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

JONATHAN HEATHCOTE (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Great Resignation and Efficient Employment" 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

Department Recruiting Seminar, 11:30, CSOM 2-215

DANIEL CLARK  (MIT), "The Informed Principal with Agent Moral Hazard"

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

DAVID SAMUELS (University of Minnesota), "The Green Revolution Is Not Always Bloodless: Agricultural Modernization and Rural Conflict in Brazil"

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

JACLYN WONG (University of South Carolina), "Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions"

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 2:00, Zoom

STEPHEN POLASKY ( University of Minnesota),  "Reversing the Great Degradation of Nature" 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

JAVIER BIANCHI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Prudential Use of Capital Controls and Foreign Currency Reserves" 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

JIUCHEN DENG (University of Minnesota), "Die Tomorrow to Live Today: Impacts of E-Waste Dumping on Infant Health"

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

WEN FAN (Boston College),  "COVID-19 and the Uneven Stress of Social Change: Remote Work and Subjective Well-Being" 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 , Zoom

MARTA SANTAMARIA (Warwick), "Border Effects in Public Procurement: the Aggregate Effects of Governments’ Home Bias,”  with Manuel Garcia- Santana

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

MICHAEL WAUGH  (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Consumption and Welfare Effects of a Tariff Shock Evidence from the US-China Trade War"

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

C. FORD RUNGE (University of Minnesota), "Famine and free trade in the COVID age"

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, ZOOM

RAFAEL GUNTIN (New York University), "Firms' Rollover Risk and Macroeconomic Dynamics" 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, ZOOM

MAGGIE KOERTH (FiveThirtyEight),  TBA

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 2:00, Zoom

KEN BAGSTAD ( US Geological Survey), "Accounting for ecosystems using FAIR data and models" 

TUESDAY, MARCH 1

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

FABIAN TROTTNER (University of California-San Diego), TBA

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

OIGI Spring Welcome Conference

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

ERNST LIU  (Princeton University),  “Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy,” with Song Ma  

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

Trade and Development Seminar, 11:00, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

DAVID ATKIN (MIT),  "Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?" 

Finance Seminar, 10:30,  CSOM 1-143

SONG MA (Yale University), "Technological Obsolescence"

TUESDAY, MARCH 8

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

BAXTER ROBINSON (University of Western Ontario), "Risky Business: The Choice of Entrepreneurial Risk under Incomplete Markets"

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

ERIC OHRN (Grinnell College), "Capital Investment and Labor Demand," with Curtis, Garrett, Roberts, and Suarez Serrato

TUESDAY, MARCH 15

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

CESAR SOSA-PADILLA (University of Notre Dame), "Sovereign Debt Standstills" 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

OIGI Seminar, 12:00, Missouri/Mississippi Room

FABRIZIO ZILIBOTTI (Yale University),  "Growing like India: The Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth,"   with Tianyu Fan and Michael Peters

THURSDAY, MARCH 17

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, 4-170 Hanson

JO MULLINS (University of Minnesota), "A structural meta-analysis of welfare reform experiments and their impacts on children" 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

MARIANNE BITLER (University of California-Davis), “How Place and Need Intersect: How Lack of Retail and Enrollment Offices Deters Nutrition Assistance Takeup” 

FRIDAY, MARCH 18

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

COLETTE SALEMI (University of Minnesota),  "Refugee camps and land cover change in Bangladesh"

MONDAY, MARCH 21

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

DEADRIC WILLIAMS (University of Tennessee, Knoxville),   "Racism and the Mechanisms Maintaining Black Families' Income Inequality" 

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 2:00, Zoom

HAMID MOHTADI (University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), "When do Dry Spells Spell Trouble"     

TUESDAY, MARCH 22

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  

GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS (MIT), TBA

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

DAVID ARGENTE (Pennsylvania State University),  TBA

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

MONIKA  PIAZZESI (Stanford University), "How Unconventional is Green Monetary Policy?" 

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

DIANE CHARLTON (University of Montana), "Effects of Trade Policy on Rural Employment and Wages" 

MONDAY, MARCH 28

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

ROBERT HUMMER (University of North Carolina),   "Race/Ethnicity, Racism, and Population Health in the United States: The Straightforward, The Complex, Innovations, and the Future" 

TUESDAY, MARCH 29

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  

RALPH LUETTICKE (University College London), Financial Frictions: Macro vs Micro Volatility 

THURSDAY, MARCH 31

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

ALESSANDRA VOENA (Stanford University),  "ALESSANDRA VOENA (Stanford University),    "Gendered Spheres of Learning and Household Decision Making over Fertility," with Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Roberta Ziparo

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

MARTIN SCHNEIDER (Stanford University), Moving to fluidity: Regional Growth and Labor Market Churn 

MONDAY, APRIL 4

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

SCOTT SCHIEMAN (University of Toronto),   "A Great Reimagining? The Quality of Work Life—Past, Present, and Future" 

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 2:00, Zoom

GABRIEL LADE (Macalester College),  "Rural Drinking Water Habits, Information Provision, and Pollution Exposure" 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  

NITYA PANDALAI NAYAR (University of Texas-Austin), TBA

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

The Jon Goldstein Memorial Lecture on Economics and Environmental Policy, 12:00, Zoom Lecture + Q&A 

SIR PARTHA DASGUPTA (University of Cambridge), "Population: The Missing Factor in Climate and Biodiversity Policy"  

Please register.

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

BENJAMIN SCHOEFER (University of California-Berkeley),   "Worker Beliefs and Outside Options" 

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

ORE KOREN (Indiana University Bloomington),  "Climate Change, Crops, Counterinsurgency, and Conflict: A Disaggregated Test of Competing Logics"

MONDAY, APRIL 11

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

CHALANDRA BRYANT (University of Minnesota),   "Views of Resilience with a Focus on Context" 

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

TODD SCHOELLMAN (Minneapolis Federal Reserve),  "The Global Distribution of College Graduate Quality," with Paolo Martellini and Jason Sockin

THURSDAY, APRIL 14

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

XIAO LIN (Pennsylvania State University),  Credible Persuasion 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

ILSE LINDENLAUB (Yale University),  "Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting,"  with Paula Calvo and Ana Reynoso

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-143

LAURA STARKS (University of Texas Austin), TBA

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

BERENGER DJOUMESSI TIAGUE (University of Minnesota),  "Air Pollution, Avoidance Behavior and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the United States" 

MONDAY, APRIL 18

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

MARC GARCIA (Syracuse University),   TBA

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 2:00, Zoom

ANDREW TILMAN (U.S. Forest Service), "Evolutionary approaches to modeling human-environmental dynamics" 

TUESDAY, APRIL 19

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

JUAN PABLO NICOLINI (Minneapolis Federal Reserve), "Evaluating Pegs: A Natural Experiment?" with Constantino Hevia

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

ILSE LINDENLAUB (Yale University),  ILSE LINDENLAUB (Yale University), Firm Sorting and Spatial Inequality," with Ryungha Oh and Michael Peters 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM/Ops IA (hybrid)

JOHANNES FLECK (European University Institute, Florence),  "Income Insurance in the Fifty Nifty: Evidence from America’s Working Poor” 

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-143

JESSE SCHREGER (Columbia University), TBA

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

BEN PIPER (Research Triangle Institute), TBA

Trade and Development Seminar, 3:00, Ruttan 143 ZOOM

BEN PIPER (Gates Foundation),  "Responding to Learning Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa and India: Improving Learning Outcomes at Scale" 

MONDAY, APRIL 25

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

ELIZABETH HEGER BOYLE (University of Minnesota),   "Can Community Demographics Help Predict Political Conflict?" 

TUESDAY, APRIL 26

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

TIM KEHOE (University of Minnesota),  "Risk Loving, Growth, and Redistribution" with Aloisio Pessoa de Araujo and Juan Pablo Gama 

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

IVAN WERNING (MIT),  "Price Theory for Incomplete Markets" with Emmanuel Farhi and  Alan Olivi 

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, TBD

PHILIPP SCHNABL (New York University), TBA

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, Mcgrath 6 ZOOM

HOPE MICHELSON (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), TBA

MONDAY, MAY 2

Department Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

ALOISO  ARAUJO (FGV/IMPA),  "Inflation Targeting under Fiscal Fragility," with Vitor Costa, Paulo Lins, Rafael Santos, and Serge de Valk

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

JENNA NOBLES (University of Wisconsin-Madison),  TBA

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars, 2:00, Zoom

DOMINIQUE VAN DER MENSBRUGGHE (Purdue University), "Climate Policies and Circular Economy Transition: Impacts and Interactions" 

Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-190  ZOOM

SERGIO BARRERA (University of Minnesota), TBA

Final Defense, 3:00, ZOOM

TOBEY KASS (University of Minnesota), TBA

TUESDAY, MAY 3

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  

LUKASZ RACHEL (Princeton University), "Leisure-Enhancing Technological Change" 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  

ADRIEN BILAL (Harvard University), "Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output"  

THURSDAY, MAY 5

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

AXEL GOTTFRIES (University of Edinburgh),  TBA

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30,  Hybrid:  ZOOM and large conference room on the 7th floor

SARAH COHODES (Columbia University),  “STEM Summer Programs Increase STEM Degrees for Underrepresented Youth” 

MONDAY, MAY 9

Final Defense, 10:00, ZOOM

ROSS BATZER (University of Minnesota), TBA

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  

MASAO FUKUI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), MASAO FUKUI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations" 

THURSDAY, MAY 12 and FRIDAY, MAY 13

University of Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference 

Please register.

THURSDAY, MAY 12 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, Research Conference Room

ROBERT TOWNSEND (MIT), “Inequality and Globalization”  Paper

FRIDAY, MAY 13

Final Defense, 3:00, HMH 4-190

STELIOS FOURAKIS (University of Minnesota), TBA

MONDAY, MAY 16

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

ERZO LUTTMER (University of Minnesota), "Permanent Primary Deficits in a Growing Economy" 

TUESDAY, MAY 17

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

BASILE GRASSI (Bocconi University), BASILE GRASSI (Bocconi University), "Bottom-up Markup Fluctuations" 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

Final Defense, 4:30, HMH 4-190

JOAO RODRIGUES (University of Minnesota), TBA

THURSDAY, MAY 19

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

CHRIS TONETTI (Stanford University),  "Risky Insurance: Life-cycle Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets" 

MONDAY, MAY 23

Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-170

MARIA JOSE CARRERAS VALLE (University of Minnesota), TBA

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  

NICO TRACHTER (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond),  "Plants in Space," with Oberfield, Rossi-Hansberg, and Sarte

TUESDAY, MAY 24

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

LUDWIG STRAUB (Harvard University), "New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?" with Auclert, Rigato, and Rognliee

THURSDAY, MAY 26

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

DIEGO DARUICH (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business),  ”An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children” 

FRIDAY, MAY 27

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

PAULINA RESTREPO-ECHAVARRIA  (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), “The Consequences of Bretton Woods’ International Capital Controls and the High Value of Geopolitical Stability" 

TUESDAY, MAY 31

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NIK ENGBOM (New York University), “Contagious Unemployment”  

Final Defense, 1:30, HMH 4-190

JACOB ADENBAUM (University of Minnesota), TBA

Final Defense, 3:00, HMH 4-190

ZHIXIU YU (University of Minnesota), TBA

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1

Final Defense, 12:00, ZOOM

MARK PONDER (University of Minnesota), TBA

THURSDAY, JUNE 2

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

JAMEIN CUNNINGHAM (Cornell University),  “Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation” 

TUESDAY, JUNE 7

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

LAURA CASTILLO-MARTINEZ  (Duke University), "Firm Exit and Financial Frictions" 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

MANUEL MACERA (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), "Climate Policy and Inequality" 

TUESDAY, JUNE 14

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

PETE KLENOW (Stanford University), "Romer or Ricardo," with Chang-Tai Hsieh and Kazuatsu Shimizu 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15

Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-190

SAM WASCHER (University of Minnesota), TBA

THURSDAY, JUNE 16

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

LOUKAS KARABARBOUNIS  (University of Minnesota),  "Minimum Wage Project" 

FRIDAY, JUNE 17

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

JANE OLMSTEAD-RUMSEY  (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis OIGI), "Country Banks and the Panic of 1825" 

TUESDAY, JUNE 21

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NICOLA PAVONI  (Bocconi University),  "The (mis)perceived slope of the Phillips curve: Monetary policy with limited aware agents" 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22

Final Defense, 1:30, HMH 4-190

YUE HUA (University of Minnesota), TBA

TUESDAY, JULY 12

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MORITZ KUHN (University of Minnesota), "Job stability, earnings dynamics, and life-cycle savings" 

Final Defense, 2:00, 4-190

YAN ZHAO (University of Minnesota), TBA

FRIDAY, JULY 15

Final Defense, 2:00, 4-190

PETER PUSZTAI (University of Minnesota), TBA

TUESDAY, JULY 19

Final Defense, 11:00, ZOOM

ALBERT RAYA MUNTE (University of Minnesota), TBA

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ANDY ATKESON (UCLA), "Monetary Policy According to __ANK?" 

THURSDAY, JULY 28

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

LICHEN ZHANG  (University of Hong Kong),  "Personal Income Taxation and Entrepreneurship" 

Final Defense, 2:00, ZOOM

EGOR MALKOV (University of Minnesota), TBA

Final Defense, 4:30, HMH 4-170

XIAOHAN ZHANG (University of Minnesota), TBA

MONDAY, AUGUST 8

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

TODD SCHOELLMAN (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis),  "Labor Market Responses to Crises and Shocks" 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

CHRISTIAN MOSER  (Columbia Business School),  "A Theory of Labor Markets with Allocative Wages" 

MONDAY, AUGUST 22

Final Defense, 4:30, HMH 4-170

YUKI YAO (University of Minnesota), TBA

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24

fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

DIRK KRUEGER (University of Pennsylvania), "The Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Policy Responses to the COVID-19 School Closures" 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

FERNANDO ALVAREZ (University of Chicago), "Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador"  

MONDAY, AUGUST 29

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

ANDY NEUMEYER (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), "The Incredible Taylor Principle"

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room 

JULIETA CAUNEDO (University of Toronto Rotman), "Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy" 

Fall 2021

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, HMH 4-170

JAVIER BIANCHI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), “Bank Runs, Fragility and Credit Easing” with Manuel Amador 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

ILLENIN KONDO  (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Real Interest Rates, Inflation, and Default," with Sewon Hur and Fabrizio Perri

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan Hall

NATALIE BAU (UCLA), "Crowding in Private Quality:  The Equilibrium Effect of Public Spending in Education"

Virtual Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

BEN ROTH (Harvard Business School), "The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital," with Daniel Green

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00  Zoom

CRISTINA ARELLANO (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), “Micro Risks and Pareto Improving Policies," with Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

CESAR SOSA-PADILLA (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Sovereign Risk," joint with Javier Bianchi 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan Hall

RACHEL HEATH (University of Washington), TBA

Finance Guest Seminar, 10:30,  CSOM 2-233  

WILLIAM DIAMOND (University of Pennsylvania),  "The Reserve Supply Channel of Unconventional Monetary Policy," with Zhengyang Jiang and Yiming Ma 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

ALISDAIR MCKAY (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "What Can Time-Series Regressions Tell Us About Policy Counterfactuals?" with Christian Wolf

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

JANE OLMSTEAD-RUMSEY (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis),  “Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown”   

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan Hall

PAUL GLEWWE  (University of Minnesota), TBA

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

KATHERINE CURTIS (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Understanding the Role of Natural Resources in Environmental Migration in the US Gulf Coast"

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

MANUEL AMADOR (University of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Federal Reserve), "Sovereign Swaps and Sovereign Default:  Fundamental vs Confidence Risk"

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Micro Macro Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

MARYAM FARBOODI (MIT), "Cleansing by Tight Credit: Rational Cycles and Endogenous Lending Standards," with Peter Kondor 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

MASAO FUKUI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Impact of Central Bank Stock Purchases: Evidence from Discontinuities in Policy Rules,"  with Masayuki Yagasaki 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan Hall

PAUL NIEHAUS (UCSD), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30  Zoom

SIMON GERVAIS (Duke University), "Money Management and Real Investment"

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  Zoom

EMMA AGUILA (University of Southern California), "Supplemental Income Income Programs and Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults" 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

DOIREANN FITZGERALD (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Impact of Multinationals Along the Job Ladder" 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7

Job Market Jamboree, 4-170 Hanson

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, Zoom

CORINA BOAR (University of Southern California), “Occupational Choice and the Intergenerational Mobility of Welfare," with Danial Lashkari 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30,  McGrath Library, Room 6

MOHAMMAD MOSTAFAVI-DEHZOOEI (Georgia Southwestern State University), "Unconditional cash transfers and nutrition of the poor in Iran" 

Finance Department Seminar, 12:00  Zoom

MICHAEL WEISBACH (Ohio State University), "Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Monitoring," with Wenzhi (Dave) Ding, Chen Lin, and Thomas Schmid

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  Zoom

ELLIS MONK (Harvard University), "Inequality without Groups: Intersectional Typicality and the Shift from Categories to the Cues of Categories" 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00 

CARTER BRAXTON (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Changing Income Risk Across US Skill Distribution: Evidence From a Generalized Kalman Filter" 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

SIMON MONGEY (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), TBA  

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Finance Department Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-143

MIKHAIL CHERNOV (UCLA), "The real explanation of nominal bond-stock puzzles,"  with Lars A. Lochstoer, and Dongho Song Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30,  McGrath Library, Room 6

KADIDIATOU DOUCOURE (University of Minnesota), "Debt Accumulation and Default in Low-Income Countries"  

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, ZOOM  

CHRISTOPHER PHELAN (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota), "Reputation and Partial Default" 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21  CANCELLED

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

JO MULLINS (University of Minnesota), "Designing Cash Transfers in the Presence of Children's Human Capital Formation"  

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30,  ZOOM

JANE OLMSTEAD-RUMSEY (Northwestern University), “Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown” 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, McNeal Hall Room 316

ASIM KHWAJA (Harvard University), "Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Access Constraints Faced by Women" 

Finance Department Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-143

KAIRONG XIAO (Columbia University), TBA

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Zoom

ALLISON BUTTENHEIM (University of Pennsylvania), “Can you just tell us what works?” Building the evidence base for effective COVID-19 vaccine demand creation in a dynamic environment" 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, ZOOM

TOBEY KASS (University of Minnesota), "The Value of Contingent Work"

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

THIBAUT LAMADON (University of Chicago), "Why Do Larger Firms Have Lower Labor Shares?" with L. Henry de Frahan, T. Meling, and M. Mogstad 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

AYSE IMROHOROGLU (University of Southern California), "Homelessness"

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, McNeal Hall Room 316

COLETTE SALEMI (University of Minnesota),  "Hungry hosts? Refugee camps and host community nutritional outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa"

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  Zoom

COURTNEY COILE (Wellesley College), "The Demography of Retirement" 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00

STELIOS FOURAKIS (University of Minnesota), "Sovereign Default and Government Reputation" 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

EMILIEN GOUIN-BONENFANT (Columbia University), "A Q-Theory of Inequality”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Finance Guest Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-143

ZHIGUO HE (University of Chicago), TBA

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, McNeal Hall 316

MICHAEL OLABISI (Michigan State University), "Market Linkages and Price Volatility: Evidence from Nigerian Grain Markets" 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, ZOOM

JACOB ADENBAUM (University of Minnesota), “Endogenous Firm Structure and Worker Specialization” 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

NAOKI AIZAWA  (University of Wisconsin), "Firm Investment, Labor Supply, and the Design of Social Insurance: Evidence from Accommodations for Workplace Disability," with Corina Mommaerts and Stephanie Rennane 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

EMILY NIX (University of California, Berkeley), "Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility," with Martti Kaila and Krista Riukula

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, McNeal Hall 10

ALESSANDRA VOENA  (Stanford University),  "Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children" 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  Zoom

JENNIFER MANLY (Wellesley College), "Structural Determinants of Disparities in Later Life Cognitive Function and Dementia" 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

JON STEINSSON (UC-Berkeley), "When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870" 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, ZOOM

MARK PONDER (University of Minnesota), “The Welfare Impact of Price Regulation on U.S. Pipeline Investment During the Shale Revolution” 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

BRAD LARSEN (Stanford University), "How Well Does Bargaining Work in Consumer Markets? A Robust Bounds Approach"   

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

JOHN GRIGSBY (Princeton University), “Searching for Approval” 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan Hall

CELESTINE SIAMEH  (University of Minnesota), TBA

Finance Guest Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-143

PATRICK BOLTON (Columbia University), TBA

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23

Micro Macro Seminar, 4:15, HMH 4-190

SASHA INDARTE (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School), TBA

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00

MARIA-JOSE CARRERAS-VALLE (University of Minnesota), "Increasing Inventories: The Role of Sourcing Inputs from China" 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Zoom

GHERARDO CARACCIOLO (University College London), "Parole, Parole, Parole":  The Importance of Central Bank Communication" 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

DAVID BAQAEE (UCLA), DAVID BAQAEE (UCLA), DAVID BAQAEE (UCLA), "Darwinian Returns to Scale," with Farhi and Sangani 

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

CHELDA SMITH (Georgia Southern University), "Preparing Teachers for Diverse Classrooms"

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, McGrath 6

KENN CHUA, WAHED KHANDKER, AND/OR QINGXIAO LI  (University of Minnesota), "Effective Training Through a Mobile App: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment" 

Finance Guest Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-143

KEER YANG (University of Minnesota), TBA

MONDAY,  DECEMBER 6

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  Zoom

ANDREW HALPERN-MANNERS (Indiana University Bloomington),  "Cross-over Effects of Education on Health within Married Couples"

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, HMH 4-170

PETER ARCIDIACONO (Duke University), "Equilibrium Grade Inflation with Implications for Female Interest in STEM Majors"  

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30, ZOOM

EMI NAKAMURA (University of California, Berkeley), "Learning About the Long Run"  

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30,  TBA

CHRIS BOYD LEON (University of Minnesota),  "Urgent Yet Ineffective? The Welfare Impacts of a Potato Price Support in Peru" 

Finance Guest Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-143

DAN SU (University of Minnesota), TBA

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13

Fed Bag Lunch,  12:00

STEFANIE STANTCHEVA (Harvard University), "Heterogeneous Spending and Saving Behavior: What Can We Learn from Survey Experiments?” 

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  Zoom

CATHERINE GARCIA  (Syracuse University), "Raíces de Salud: The Social Determinants of Health among Older Latina/o/xs in the U.S." 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00

JOHANNES FLECK (European University Institute Florence),  "State Tax and Transfer Progressivity and the Household Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus" 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17

Finance Guest Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-114

RAMIN HASSAN (University of Minnesota), TBA