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The Insightful Minds in International Macro (IMIM) online seminar series empowers economists to explore cutting-edge research in macroeconomics and finance, foster idea exchange, and cultivate valuable collaborations.
Currently, we organize FOUR distinct types of seminars over Zoom:
(1) IMIM Academic Seminar Series
(2) IMAI Seminar Series: This segment focuses on the economics of artificial intelligence (AI).
(3) IMIM Asia Seminar Series: These presentations are scheduled for the morning in Beijing time and the evening in U.S. time zones.
(4) IMIM Rising Stars Seminar Series: This segment features presentations by PhD students and job market candidates.
Register here to join IMIM email list, attend seminar series, and connect with peers.
Please submit your registration to receive emails with Zoom links to attend the series. You only need to register once to automatically get an email for each upcoming IMIM seminar.
If you have any questions, please contact imimseminars@gmail.com.
UPCOMING SEMINARS
UPCOMING SEMINARS
Fall 2025
IMIM NO. 76
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Columbia University)
Transitory and Permanent Import Tariff Shocks in the United States: An Empirical Investigation
Discussant: Daniel A. Ostry (Bank of England)
December 5, 2025: ET 10:00 am
IMIM-Rising Stars NO. 77: AI(1) (Join from https://txstate.zoom.us/j/89749966202)
December 6, 2025: ET 8:00 pm ~ 10:00 pm
Songrun He (Washington University in St. Louis)
Interpretable Systematic Risk around the Clock
Barry Ke (Yale University)
Analysts' Belief Formation in Their Own Words
Francesco Amodeo (University of California San Diego)
Mind the Gap: Disagreement and Credible Monetary Policy
IMIM-Rising Stars NO. 78: AI(2) (Join from https://txstate.zoom.us/j/89749966202)
December 7, 2025: ET 8:00 pm ~ 10:00 pm
Paul Tran (University of Texas at Austin)
How Long Do Markets Need to Fully React to Monetary Policy Announcements?
Linying Lyu (Washington University in St. Louis)
The Value of Information from Sell-side Analysts
Ali Zarifhonarvar (Indiana University)
Generating Inflation Expectations with Large Language Models
IMIM-Rising Stars NO. 79: International Finance (Join from https://iu.zoom.us/j/84472463305)
December 13, 2025: ET 8:00 pm ~ 10:00 pm
Nicolas Hommel (Princeton University)
Firms' Foreign Exchange Hedging
Umang Khetan (University of Iowa)
Synthetic Dollar Funding
Oliver Xie (Stanford University)
Financial Hedging and Optimal Currency of Invoicing
IMIM-Rising Stars NO. 80: International Macro (Join from https://ucsd.zoom.us/my/stevewu)
December 14, 2025: ET 8:00 pm ~ 10:00 pm
Pedro Martínez-Bruera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Reassessing Central Bank Reputation: Beyond Long-Run Expectations
Carlos Bolivar (University of Minnesota)
The Micro Effects of Aggregate Shocks in Endogenous Trade Network
Alfredo Mendoza-Fernandez (University of California, Berkeley)
Do Central Banks Follow the Fed?
Giovanni Bonfanti (Columbia University)
A European Safe Asset? Not Without the Investors
Spring 2026
IMIM NO. 81
Tony Zhang (Arizona State University)
Trade War and the Dollar Anchor
January 16, 2026: ET 10:00 am
IMIM NO. 82
Xiang Fang (University of Hong Kong)
World Interest Rate and Emerging Market Spread: A Tale of Two Shocks
January 30, 2026: ET 10:00 am
IMIM NO. 83
Tarek Hassan (Boston University)
TBD
February 13, 2026: ET 10:00 am
IMIM NO. 84
Pablo Ottonello (University of Maryland)
TBD
February 20, 2026: ET 10:00 am
IMIM NO. 85
Julie Zhiyu Fu (Washington University in St. Louis)
TBD
March 6, 2026: ET 10:00 am
Seminar Series Organizers
Steve Pak Yeung Wu (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Li Yu (Liaoning University, China)
Ruizhi Dong (Nankai University, China)
Rong Zheng (New Mexico State University, USA)
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