Seminar Archive

Spring 2025

Tuesday, January 7

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-107

Anran Li (Cornell), "Commitment, Competition, and Preventive Care Provision."

Thursday, January 9

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Oscar Volpe (University of Chicago), "Job Preferences, Labor Market Power, and Inequality."

Friday, January 10

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-111

Jeff Gortmaker (Harvard), "Open Source Software Policy in Industry Equilibrium."

Monday, January 13

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Alejandro Sabal (Princeton), "Product Entry in the Global Automobile Industry."

Wednesday, January 15

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Jordan Rosenthal-Kay (University of Chicago), "Urban Costs Around the World."

Friday, January 17

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Constanza Abuin (Harvard), "Power Decarbonization in a Global Energy Market: The Climate Effect of U.S. LNG Exports."

Thursday, January 30

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-111

Thomas Bourany (University of Chicago), "The Optimal Design of Climate Agreements: Inequality, Trade, and Incentives for Climate Policy."

Friday, January 31

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-106

Rebekah Dix (MIT), "Combining Complements: Theory and Evidence from Cancer Treatment Innovation."

Monday, February 3

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-107

Brad Ross (Stanford), "Measuring and Mitigating Traffic Externalities."

Thursday, February 20

Cowles Auditorium, Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 5:00-6:30pm

2025 Jon Goldstein Memorial Lecture

Bard Harstad (Stanford), " The Economics of Conservation."

Register Here.

Friday, February 21

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Bard Harstad (Stanford), "Contingent Trade Agreements."

Friday, February 28

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Kelli Marquart (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), "The Role of Information in Pharmaceutical Advertising: Theory and Evidence by Kelli Marquardt, Conor Ryan :: SSRN"

Friday, March 28

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-109

Wendy Morrison (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), ``Optimal Saving with Heterogeneous Agents."

Friday, April 4

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Michael Rubens (UCLA) - "Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power."

Friday, April 11

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-109

Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern)

Tuesday, April 22

Cowles Auditorium, Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 5:00-6:30pm

Adriana Kugler (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve), HHEI Spring Roundtable

Friday, April 25

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-109

Gautam Gowrisankaran (Columbia University) - "Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets,” (with Ashley Langer and Mar Reguant).

Fall 2024

Friday, September 6

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Mortiz Lenel (Princeton), "Exchange Rates, Natural Rates, and the Price of Risk" (joint with Rohan Kekre) Link here

Friday, September 13

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Aleksei Oskolkov (University of Chicago), "Heterogeneous Impact of the Global Financial Cycle" Link here

Friday, September 20

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Ludwig Straub (Harvard), "When do Endogenous Portfolios Matter for HANK?" Link here

Tuesday, September 24

HHEI Fall Roundtable, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Cowles Auditorium

David Splinter & Anmol Bhandari, "Who Cheats on Taxes?" Event link

Friday, September 27

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Sadhika Bagga (University of Rochester), "Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation" Link here

Friday, October 11

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Martin B Holm (University of Oslo), "Estimating the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution using Dividend Tax News Shocks." Link here

Monday, October 21

Minnesota Lecture, 4 - 5:15 pm, HMH 1-108

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

Friday, November 1

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago), "Consumer demand and firm pricing: Lessons from a large-scale field experiment"

Friday, November 8

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Kevin Williams (Yale), "Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape"

Friday, November 15

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

William Witherige (NYU), "Monetary Policy and Fiscal-led Inflation in Emerging Markets"

Friday, November 22

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI, Madrid), “Nonlinear micro income processes with macro shocks”

Friday, December 6

ME Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-105

Robert Parham (Virginia), “Growth and differences-of-log-Normals."

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)

Spring 2023

MONDAY, JANUARY 23

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-111

GARRETT ANSTREICHER (University of Wisconsin - Madison) "Spatial Influences in Upward Mobility"

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall and ZOOM

STEVE RUGGLES and DIANA MAGNUSON (University of Minnesota),  "It's None of their Damn Business:  Privacy and Disclosure Control in the U.S. Census, 1790-2022"

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

PETER ARCIDIACONO (Duke University)“Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers” (with Karthik Muralidharan, Eun-young Shim, and John Singleton)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:15, CSOM 2-213

EILIDH GEDDES (Northwestern University) "Effects of Price Regulation in Markets with Strategic Entry:  Evidence from Health Insurance Markets"

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-103

SAM ALTMANN (Oxford University) "Choice Welfare and Market Design: an Empirical Investigation of Feeding America's Choice System"

MONDAY,  FEBRUARY 6

Department Recruiting Seminar - CANCELED

MANKA NIMBENG (University of Minnesota) "Memory Loss/Dimentia in African Immigrants:  What Do We Know?"

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 8

Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-111

PIERRE BODERE (New York University) "Dynamic Spatial Competition in Early Education: an Equilibrium Analysis of the Preschool Market in Pennsylvania"

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

RISHABH KIRPALANI (University of Wisconsin-Madison),  TBA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, 4-170

DIEGO DARUICH (University of Southern California), TBA

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

SAM BUZZI (UC San Diego), TBA

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

DAVID EVANS (Center for Global Development), “A Perturbational Approach for Approximating Heterogeneous-Agent Models”

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

WEI CUI (University College London),  TBA

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ALESSANDRO REBUCCI (Johns Hopkins University) "Technology Adoption, Market Structure, and the Cost of Bank Intermediation"

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ANDRES BLANCO (University of Michigan),  "Nonlinear Inflation Dynamics in Menu Cost Economies"

FRIDAY, MARCH 3

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

RAUL SANTAEULALIA (UAB and B SE), "Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village”

MONDAY, MARCH 6

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MAX DVORKIN (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), "International Trade and Labor Reallocation:  Misclassification Errors, Mobility and Switching Costs"

TUESDAY, MARCH 7

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MICHAELA PAGEL (Columbia Business School), "Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud"

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8

OIGI Seminar, 12:00

BULENT GULER (Indiana University - Bloomington) "Do Automatic Stabilizers Really Stabilize?  Evidence from Unemployment Insurance and Housing Markets"

THURSDAY, MARCH 9

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MANU GARCIA-SANTANA (World Bank), "Government Procurement and Access to Credit:  Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Implications"

MONDAY, MARCH 13

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15 ZOOM

TIFFANY YIP (Fordham University) "Discrimination and Adolescent/Young Adult Development:  Identity, Sleep & Health"

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15

OIGI seminar, 12:00

FELIX TINTELNOT (University of Chicago), "Foreign Demand Shocks to Production Networks:  Firm Responses and Worker Impacts"

THURSDAY, MARCH 16

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

FELIX TINTELNOT (University of Chicago), "Foreign Demand Shocks to Production Networks:  Firm Responses and Worker Impacts"

FRIDAY, MARCH 17

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

RAUL SANCHEZ DE LA SIERRA (University of Chicago), TBA

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22

OIGI, 12:00pm

NATALIE EMANUEL (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), "The Power of Proximity"

FRIDAY, MARCH 24

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NICOLO RUSSO (University of Minnesota), "The Importance of Modeling Income Taxes Over Time: U.S. Reforms and Outcomes"

MONDAY, MARCH 27

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

KJETIL STORESLETTEN (University of Minnesota) "Serial Entrepreneurship in China"

TUESDAY, MARCH 28

OIGI, 12:00

MAX KAPUSTIN (Cornell University) TBA

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29

OIGI, 12:00

AMANDA MICHAUD (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) TBA

HHEI Seminar, 5:00, Humphrey School Cowles Auditorium

V.V. CHARI, TERRY FITZGERALD, CHRIS PHELAN, "Here we go again? Silicon Valley Bank and the current banking crisis."

THURSDAY, MARCH 30

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

LEO KAAS (IZA - Institute of Labor Economics), TBA

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, TBA

James Bullard (St. Louis Fed President), TBA

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, 4-170

TREB ALLEN (Dartmouth), "Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona"

MONDAY, APRIL 17

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

GIORGIO PRIMICIERI (Northwestern University), TBA

TUESDAY, APRIL 18

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MARTIN BERAJA (MIT), TBA

Goldstein Lecture Series, 5:00pm, The Humphrey School Cowles Auditorium

CATHERINE HAUSMAN (University of Michigan), "Challenges in the Energy Transition" 

THURSDAY, APRIL 20

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

DIEGO RESTUCCIA (University of Toronto), TBA

TUESDAY, APRIL 25

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

TITON ALON (University of California-San Diego), TBA

THURSDAY, APRIL 27

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

HANMING FANG (University of Pennsylvania), TBA

TUESDAY, MAY 2

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ANDRES RODRIGUEZ (University of California-Berkeley), TBA

THURSDAY, MAY 4

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

DEAN CORBAE (University of Wisconsin), TBA

MONDAY, MAY 8

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MARK COLAS  (University of Oregon), TBA

TUESDAY, MAY 9

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

GABE CHODOROW-REICH  (Harvard University), TBA

TUESDAY, MAY 23

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

FEDERICO ROSSI (University of Warwick), TBA

TUESDAY, MAY 30

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

PIERRE-OLIVIER WEILL (University of California-Los Angeles), TBA

MONDAY, JUNE 5

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ROHAN KEKRE (University of Chicago-Booth School), TBA

TUESDAY, JUNE 6

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

TREB ALLEN (Dartmouth University), TBA

Fall 2022

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

INA SIMONOVSKA (University of California-Davis), "Economic Stabilizers in Emerging Markets: The Case for Trade Credit" 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

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

PAOLO MARTELLINI (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "On the spatial determinants of educational access" 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 1-135

HONGDA ZHONG (London School of Economics and CEPR ), "Market Structure of Intermediation" 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall and ZOOM

JENNIFER KARAS MONTEZ (Syracuse University),  "US State Policy Polarization and Death among Working-age Adults" 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NATALIE BAU (UCLA), "Cultural Institutions and Structural Change: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate" 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

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

DANIELA VIDART (University of Connecticut),  TBA

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

COSTAS MEGHIR (Yale University), "Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations" 

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, 1-135 Carlson

LUKAS SCHMID (USC Marshall School of Business), "Government Debt management and inflation with real and nominal bonds," with Alessandro Villa, and Vytautas Valaitis  

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Willey Hall and ZOOM

ROLAND THORPE, JR.  (Johns Hopkins University), "Black Men's Health Across the Life Course"

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

CHRISTINA PATTERSON (University of Chicago), "Monetary Policy and the Labor Market: A Quasi-Experiment in Sweden"

Trade and Development Seminars, 12:00, Ruttan 119

EDWARD MIGUEL (University of California-Berkeley), "Donor conditionality and public procurement: Causal evidence from Kenyan electrification" 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

OLEKSIY KRYVSTOV (Bank of Canada), "What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data" 

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Willey Hall and ZOOM

MOLLY MARTIN (Penn State University),  "The Causal Effect of Income Gains on Children's Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

OIGI Welcome Conference, 12:00

Preliminary Schedule

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

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

RASMUS LENTZ (University of Wisconsin-Madison),  "Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Employment and Productivity" 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MUNSEOB LEE  (University of California - San Diego), "The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications"

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Willey Hall and ZOOM

AUDREY DORELIEN (University of Minnesota),  "Racial/Ethnic Differences in US Social Contact Patterns and Implications for COVID-19" 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

FRANCISCO BUERA (Washington University in St. Louis),  "Big Push in Distorted Economies" 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MARINA GORZIG (Mathematica), TBA

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 (1:15 - 5:15) and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 (9 - 6)

Job Market Jamboree

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6

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

JESSE SCHREGER (Columbia Business School), “Internationalizing Like China” 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

LUIS BALDOMERO QUINTANA (William and Mary), "Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Zoning and Contemporaneous Urban Segregation" 

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

RAUL SANTAEULALIA-LLOPIS (UAB and BSE ), "Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village"     CANCELLED

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  ZOOM

KEVIN CAHILL (Boston College),  "To What Extent Do Older Americans Combine Retirement Pathways in the United States?" 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MORTEN OLSEN (University of Copenhagen),  "The Foundations of the Cobb-Douglas Aggregate Production Function and the 2/3 Labor Share" 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

TEEGAWENDE ZEIDA (Brock University), TBA

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

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

DIMA MUKHIN (London School of Economics), "Optimal exchange rate policy," with Oleg Itskhoki

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 14

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

KASHI KAFLE (Texas A & M), "Does climate change induce migration among small-scale farmers? Evidence from Uganda" 

Finance Department Seminars Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-224

KATHERINA  LEWELLEN (Dartmouth College), "The Ownership of Structure in U.S. Corporations"

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

LOUPHOU COULIBALY (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "A Theory of Fear of Floating" 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

MEBDI/LAEF Conference

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room  CANCELED

STEVE REDDING (Princeton University), "The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws"  

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Willey Hall and ZOOM

SHEKINAH FASHAW-WALTERS (University of Minnesota),  "Inequitable Access and Outcomes:  The Case for Medicare Home Health"

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

AXELLE FERRIERE (Paris School of Economics), “On the Optimal Design of Transfers and Income-Tax Progressivity” 

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 21

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

TAMARA MCGAVOCK (Grinnell College), "Calling for Time: Examining Bias in Time Use Measurement using High-Frequency Phone Surveys "

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

GUIDO MENZIO (New York University),  "Vertical Differentiation in Frictional Product Markets"

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15,  Willey Hall and ZOOM

WHITNEY ROBINSON (Duke University),  "Selected Methodological Takes on Race, Racism, and Health Inequity" 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ENRIQUE MENDOZA (University of Pennsylvania), "Beware the Side Effects: Capital Controls, International Trade, Misallocation and Welfare" 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

BELINDA ARCHIBONG (Barnard College, Columbia University), “Firm Culture: The Effects of Information Interventions on Gender Gaps in Online Labor Markets” 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27

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

JONATHAN DINGEL (University of Chicago-Booth School),  "Market Size and Trade in Medical Services," with Joshua Gottlieb, Maya Lozinski, and Pauline Mourot

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 28

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

BELINDA ARCHIBONG (Barnard College), "Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration" 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

CORINA BOAR (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?" 

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, Willey Hall and ZOOM

JANNA JOHNSON (University of Minnesota),  "The Heterogeneous Impacts of Climate-Related Extreme Events on Population Change: Evidence from U.S.-County Hurricane Exposure"

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

JASMINE XIAO (Notre Dame), "Credit Markets, Imperfect Information, and Business Cycles" 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MODIBO SIDIBE (Duke University), “Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime” 

THURSDAY,  NOVEMBER 3

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

TOMAZZO PORZIO (Columbia Business School), “Self-Employment within the Firm,” with Vittorio Bassi,Jung H. Lee, Alessandra Peter, Ritwika Senand, and Esau Tugume

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Trade and Development Seminars, 10:30, Ruttan 119

LING YAO (University of Minnesota), "Agricultural Mechanization and Structural Transformation in China" 

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

CHRISTIAN HELLWIG (Toulouse School of Economics), "A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work: Optimal Tax Design as Redistributional Arbitrage" 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

SEVI RODRIGUEZ-MORA (University of Edinburgh), "National Accounts in a World of Naturally Occurring Data: A Proof of Concept for Consumption" 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

AKOS VALENTINYI (University of Manchester), "New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity: Implications for Industrialization and Development" 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, Carlson 1-135

NIKOLAI ROUSSANOV (University of Pennsylvania), "Why Does Oil Matter? Commuting and Aggregate Fluctuations" 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

CHARLES ENGEL (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows and Global Cycles," with Michael B. Devereux & Steve Pak Yeung Wu

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall and ZOOM

ELIZABETH WRIGLEY-FIELD  (University of Minnesota),  "COVID-19 Mortality in Minnesota: What Do We Know and How is it Changing?" 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

TERESA FORT (Dartmouth University), "Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States," with Xiang Ding, Stephen J. Redding & Peter K. Schott

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NIR JAIMOVICH (UCSD, NBER,CEPR ), “The Empirical Distribution of Firm Dynamics and its Macro Implications," with Stephen J. Terry-Boston University, NBER and Nicolas Vincent- HEC Montreal

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

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

DIANA VAN PATTEN (Yale University),  "Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness," with Esteban Mendez

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Finance Department Seminars Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 1-135

HOWARD KUNG (London Business School and CEPR), "Firm Product Concentration and Asset Prices," with Nuno Clara abd Alexandre Corhay  

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NICHOLAS CAROLLO (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), “The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States" 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NIC KOZENIAUSKUS (Bank of Portugal),  "Demand Learning, Customer Capital, and Exporter Dynamics"

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall and ZOOM

STEPHEN RUSSELL (University of Texas),  "Don’t Say Gay: Research, Politics, and LGBTQ+ Youth" 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

SASHA INDARTE (University of Pennsylvania), "Inflation and Household Consumption and Saving"

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

SANG MIN LEE (University of Minnesota), "Trade Liberalization and Structural Transformation: The Role of Tradable Services" 

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall and ZOOM 

MARTI DELIEMA  (University of Minnesota),  "Older Adult Victims of Mass Marketing Scams: An Analysis of Longitudinal Data Seized From Scammers’ Customer Relationship Management Systems"

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

DANIAL LASHKARI (Boston College), "Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy" 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

MATT NOTOWIDIGDO (University of Chicago Booth School), "Consumer-Financed Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from Digital Coupons in China" 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1

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

GIULIA BRANCACCIO (New York University),  "Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bonds Market" 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ERIK HURST (University of Chicago Booth School),  "Task Based Discrimination"  

MONDAY,  DECEMBER 5

Junior Scholar Conference,  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall and ZOOM 

RUBY NGUYEN  (University of Minnesota),  "Phthalate Chemicals Influence Pregnancy and Postnatal Development but (Unfortunately) Who Cares?" 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

SIMON MONGEY (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), “Pricing Inequality” 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ALESSANDRA PETER (New York University),“Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation” 

THURSDAY,  DECEMBER 8

Fed Bag Lunch, 2:30, Research Conference Room

GASTON NAVARRO (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) ), “Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity and Skill Acquisition,” with Axelle Ferriere and Ricardo Reyes-Heroles

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

RICHARD ROGERSON (Princeton University), “Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth, and Inequality: A Dynamic Roy Model” 

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, 1-135 CSOM

CHRISTOS KAMARAS (University of Minnesota), "US multinationals and the Intermediation of Dollar Credit by European Banks" 

MONDAY,  DECEMBER 12

Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall and ZOOM 

KATHRYN GRACE (University of Minnesota),  "Climate Change and Fertility"

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

GARY LYN (Iowa State University),  "Dynamic Market Adaptation to Climate Change: Micro-Estimation and Macro-Simulation" 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

FILIP BABALIEVSKY (University of Minnesota),  "Misallocation in the Market for Inventors" 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

NIKLAS ENGBOM (New York University), “Misallocative Growth” 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

PETE KLENOW (Stanford University),  "Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" 

FRIDAY,  DECEMBER 16

Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room

FILIP PREMIK (University of Minnesota), "Procurement with Bid Preference and Buyer’s Switching Costs: The Case of Municipal Buses"

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21

OIGI Institute Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room

ILLENIN KONDO (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis),  "Income Dynamics and Income Inequality: Estimates from U.S. Tax Records"

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

Spring 2021

MONDAY, JANUARY 11

3M Reading Group, 12:00

STEPHANE BONHOMME (University of Chicago), "Income risk inequality - Evidence from Spanish administrative records"

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

JENNIFER LA'O (Minneapolis Federal Reserve), “Optimal Monetary Policy in Production Networks” 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13

Lunch Seminar, 12:00

DAVIDE ALONZO (University of British Columbia),TBA

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14

Lunch Seminar, 12:00

SHMUEL (MULY) SAN (NYU),TBA

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

GIDEON BORNSTEIN (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School), “Entry and Profits in an Aging Economy: The Role of Consumer Inertia” 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

RACHAEL MEAGER (London School of Economics and Political Science), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

AMINE OUAZAD (HEC-Montreal), "Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters," with Matthew E. Kahn 

MONDAY, JANUARY 25

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

RICHARD SETTERSTEIN (Oregon State University), GLEN ELDER (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and  LISA PEARCE (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century"  

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

KYLE HERKENHOFF (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Can the Unemployed Borrow? Implications for Public Insurance," Joint with J. Carter Braxton, and Gordon Phillips.  

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

YUERAN MA (University of Chicago), "Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis,"  with John W. Barry, Murillo Campello, and John R. Graham 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

RACHEL HARDEMAN (University of Minnesota), "Structural Racism, Police Violence, and Population Health Research"  

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

DMITRY MUKHIN (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Optimal Currency under Dollar Pricing" 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4

Minnesota Economics Virtual Seminar, 12:00

JUANPA NICOLINI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Two Illustrations of the Quantity Theory of Money Reloaded," with Han Gao and Mariano Kulish

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

ARIELL ZIMRAN (Vanderbilt University) “Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration” 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

VALENTIN HADDAD (UCLA), "How Competitive is the Stock Market? Theory, Evidence from Portfolios, and Implications for the Rise of Passive Investing,” with Paul Huebner and Erik Loualiche 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

MARTIN DRIBE (Lund University), "Has it Always Paid to be Rich? Income and Cause-Specific Mortality in Southern Sweden 1905-2014"  

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

EDUARDO DAVILA (Yale University), "Prudential Policy with Distorted Beliefs," with Ansgar Walther

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

OIGI Virtual Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

ROB GULLEZEAU (University of Victoria ), “Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths,”​ (Google Docs)  with Donna Feir and Jamien Cunningham

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

BEN OIKEN (MIT), "Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia," with Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto  

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

ZHENGYANG JIANG (Northwestern University), "A Portfolio Approach to Global Imbalances," with Robert Richmond, and Tony Zhang 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

MATT MCGUE (University of Minnesota), "Non-cognitive Skills and Social Success: Evidence from the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (MCTFR) Longitudinal Studies"  

TUESDAY, FEBUARY 16

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar,12:00

DIRK NIEPELT(University of Bern),  "Monetary Policy and CBDC: Optimality, Equivalence, and Politics"  

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18

OIGI Virtual Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

MATTHIAS DOEPKE (Northwestern University), “When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times”, with with Francesco Agostinelli, Giuseppe Sorrenti, and Fabrizio Zilibotti 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

JEREMY MACGRUDER (University of California-Berkeley),  "Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda," with Maria Jones, Florence Kondylis, and John Loeser. 

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

SYDNEY LUDVIGSON (New York University), SYDNEY LUDVIGSON (New York University), "How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals," with  Daniel L. Greenwald and Marin Lettau 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

ABIGAIL WOZNIAK (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "A Shock by Any Other Name? Understanding Migration Responses to Local Demand Shocks"  

TUESDAY, FEBUARY 23

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

MARTINA KIRCHBERGER (Trinity College Dublin), "Concrete Thinking About Development" 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25

OIGI Virtual Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

LUIGI PISTAFERRI (Stanford University), “Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net,” with Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Alessandra Voena

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

ALEX EBLE (Columbia University), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

ULRIKE MALMENDIER (University of California-Berkeley), "CEO Stress, Aging, and Death," with Mark Borgschulte, Marius Guenzel, and Canyao Liu 

MONDAY, MARCH 1

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

KRISTEN JACKLIN (University of Minnesota-Duluth), "Dementia Inequities in Indigenous Populations: Translation of Ethnographic Community-Based Participatory Research Findings to Culturally Safe Dementia Care Tools" 

TUESDAY, MARCH 2

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

JOSE-LUIS PEYDRO (Pompeu Fabra ), "Monetary Policy and Inequality"

THURSDAY, MARCH 4

 OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30  -- CANCELLED

CHRISTIANA STODDARD (Montana State University), TBA

FRIDAY, MARCH 5

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

PASCALINE DUPAS (Stanford University), TBA

MONDAY, MARCH 8

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

TIFFANY GREEN (University of Wisconsin), "The Impact of Income on Maternal Health Behaviors and Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" 

TUESDAY, MARCH 9

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

JONATHAN HEATHCOTE  (Federal Reserve Bank o f Minneapolis), "The End of Privilege," with Andrew Atkeson and Fabrizio Perri

THURSDAY, MARCH 11

 OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30 

TERRY-ANN CRAIGIE (Connecticut College), "Mayor's Courts and Electoral Incentives"

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

LINDSAY NOVAK (Colby College), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

YUFENG WU (University of Illinois), "Human Capital Portability and Worker Career," with Janet Gao and Wenyu Wang  

MONDAY, MARCH 15

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

CHRISTOPHER WINSHIP (Harvard University), "Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis" 

TUESDAY, MARCH 16

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

MELANIE MORTEN (Stanford University), "Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies"  

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

MAIA GUELL (University of Edinburgh), “Unemployment Duration Variance Decomposition à la ABS: Evidence from Spain” 

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

BERENGER DJOUMESSI TIAGUE (University of Minnesota), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

HOLGER MUELLER (New York University),  "Productivity Spillovers within Firms across Regions," with Xavier Giroud, Simone Lenzu, and Quinn Maingi   

MONDAY, MARCH 22

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

ELIZABETH FRANKENBERG (University of North Carolina), "Long-Term Dynamics of Health, Well-Being, and Population Change after a Disaster" 

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar,12:00

NIR JAIMOVICH (University of Zurich), “Job Hunting: A Costly Quest,” with Domenico Ferraro, Francesca Molinari, and Cristobal Young

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

ADRIEN AUCLERT (Stanford University), “Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy With Heterogeneous Agents: Resurrecting the Real Income Channel,”  with  Matt Rognlie, Martin Souchier, and Ludwig Straub 

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

JASON KERWIN (University of Minnesota), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

YUNZHI HU (University of North Carolina), "Intermediate Financing without Commitment," with Felipe Varas

MONDAY, MARCH 29

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

JACOB FABER (New York University), "Push, Pull, and Trap: How Federal Housing Policy Racialized Metropolitan Development" 

TUESDAY, MARCH 30

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar,12:00

CRISTOPH TREBESCH (Kiel University), “Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending” 

THURSDAY, APRIL 1

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

KRISTA RUFFINI (UC-Berkeley), “Minimum Wages and Employment Composition”   

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

JESSICA HOEL (Colorado College), TBA

Final Defense,  3 :00
KLEVI XHAXHO  (University of Minnesota), TBA

TUESDAY, APRIL 6

Fed Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

CHRIS FLINN (New York University), “Labor Market Returns to Personality: A Job Search Approach to Understanding Gender Gaps” with Petra Todd and Weilong Zhang 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

DEREK NEAL (University of Chicago), “Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions” 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

UM/Fed Conference for Recent Graduates

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

JONATHAN COLMER (University of Virginia), TBA

MONDAY, APRIL 12

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

EILEEN CRIMMINS (University of Southern California), "The Process of Health Change with Aging: Evidence on Social, Psychological, Behavioral and Biological Risks from the HRS   

TUESDAY, APRIL 13

OIGI Event Series, 11:00 - 2:30 (CT)

Racism and the Economy:   Focus on the Economics Profession     Please register in advance.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14

Final Defense,  3 :30
PEDRO TANURE VELOSO  (University of Minnesota), TBA

FRIDAY, APRIL 16

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

AMIT SERU (Stanford University), "Banking Without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Cell Reports," with  Erica Jiang, Gregor Matvos, and  Tomasz Piskorski  

MONDAY, APRIL 19

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

ANGIE O'RAND (Duke University), "Cohort Differences in the Relationship Between Debt and Risk of Heart Attack" 

TUESDAY, APRIL 20

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar,12:00

RICARDO REIS (London School of Economics),  "The constraint on the debt when r<g but g<m" 

THURSDAY, APRIL 22

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

COSTAS ARKOLAKIS (Yale University), "Combinatorial Discrete Choice with Heterogeneous Agents Aggregation," with Fabian Eckert and Rowan Shi

FRIDAY, APRIL 23

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

VALERIE MUELLER (Arizona State University), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

PASCAL NOEL (University of Chicago), "Why Do Borrowers Default on Mortgages? A New Method For Causal Attribution," with Peter Ganong  

MONDAY, APRIL 26

Final Defense, 12:00

SERGI MARIN ARANEGA (University of Minnesota), TBA

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

CHRIS WILDEMAN (Duke University), "Does Incarceration Shape Trust in the State, Community Engagement, and Civic Participation?"  

Final Defense, 1:00

VITORIA RABELLO DE CASTRO (University of Minnesota), TBA

TUESDAY, APRIL 27

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar,12:00

ELISA RUBBO (Harvard University), “Networks, Phillips Curves, and Monetary Policy” 

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

ABDOULYE NDIAYE (New York University), “Redistribution with Performance Pay “ 

FRIDAY, APRIL 30

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

MICHAEL FISHMAN (Northwestern University), "A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards," with Jonathan A. Parker, and Ludwig Straub  

MONDAY, MAY 3

Minnesota Demography and Aging, 12:15

SARAH BURGARD (University of Michigan), "Work-Family Histories and Cognitive Function in Later Life" 

TUESDAY, MAY 4

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar,12:00

JUAN PABLO NICOLINI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices: Mussa meets Backus-Smith"  

THURSDAY, MAY 6

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

SEVI RODRIGUEZ MORA (University of Edinburgh), "Giant: Oil Shocks and Intergenerational Mobility" 

FRIDAY, MAY 7

Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30

PAMELA JAKIELA (Williams College), TBA

Finance Department Seminar, 10:30

DAVID NG (Cornell University), TBA

TUESDAY, MAY 11

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar,12:00

GUILLERMO ORDONEZ (University of Pennsylvania), "Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act” 

Final Defense, 4:00

JORDAN PANDOLFO (University of Minnesota), TBA

THURSDAY, MAY 13

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

LOUPHOU COULIBALY (University of Pittsburgh), “Liquidity Traps, Prudential Policies and International Spillovers”    with Javier Bianchi 

Final Defense, 3:00, 4-168

AMY HANDLAN (University of Minnesota), TBA

THURSDAY, MAY 20

Final Defense,  9:30
FERNANDO ARCE (University of Minnesota), TBA

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

SIMON MONGEY (New York University), "Minimum Wages And Welfare" 

OIGI Bag Coffee Break, 4:00

Discuss "Minimum Wages And Welfare" with Simon Mongey

TUESDAY, MAY 25

 Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

TODD SCHOELLMAN (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development" 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26

Final Defense,  1:00, 4-190
SAMUEL BAILEY  (University of Minnesota), TBA

THURSDAY, MAY 27

 OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30 

DIANA VAN PATTEN (UCLA), "Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes towards Openness" 

TUESDAY, JUNE 1

Final Defense, 11:30

CAMILO ALVAREZ, (University of Minnesota), TBA

THURSDAY, JUNE 3

OIGI Bag Lunch, 1:30

MILENA ALMAGRO (New York University), "The Effects of Urban Renewal Programs on Gentrification and Inequality" 

TUESDAY, JUNE 8

Virtual/Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00

MARCO BASSETTO (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), TBA 

THURSDAY, JUNE 10