Past Seminars
Spring 2024
IMIM NO. 45
Guanyi Yang (Colorado College)
Macroeconomics of Racial Disparities: Discrimination, Labor Market, and Wealth
May 24, 2024: ET 11:00 am
IMIM NO. 44
Rosen Valchev (Boston College)
The Dollar in an Era of International Retrenchment
May 10, 2024: ET 11:00 am
IMIM NO. 43
Martin Uribe (Columbia University)
Exchange Controls as a Fiscal Instrument
April 26, 2024: ET 11:00 am
IMIM NO. 42
Robert Richmond (NYU Stern)
Reserve Asset Competition and the Global Fiscal Cycle
April 19, 2024: ET 11:00 am
IMIM NO. 41
Martin Wolf (University of St. Gallen)
Monetary Policy in the Age of Automation
April 05, 2024: ET 11:00 am
Wenting Song (Bank of Canada)
Narrative-Driven Fluctuations in Sentiment: Evidence Linking Traditional and Social Media
April 05, 2024: ET 11:50 am
IMIM NO. 40
Jacob Orchard (Federal Reserve Board)
Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates
March 29, 2024: ET 11:00 am
IMIM NO. 39
Giacomo Candian (HEC Montreal)
March 08, 2024: ET 1:00 pm
IMIM-Asia NO. 38
Sining Liu (Soochow University)
February 22, 2024: ET 9:00 pm | February 23, 2024: Beijing Time 10:00 am
Zefeng Chen (Peking University)
The Liquidity Premium of Digital Payment Vehicle
February 22, 2024: ET 9:50 pm | February 23, 2024: Beijing Time 10:50 am
IMAI NO. 37
David Rapach (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Economic Fundamentals and Short-Run Exchange Rate Prediction: A Machine Learning Perspective
February 09, 2024: ET 3:00 pm
IMIM NO. 36
Steve Pak Yeung Wu (University of California, San Diego)
Foreign Reserve Management and Original Sin
January 26, 2024: ET 1:00 pm
Enrique Martinetz-Garcia (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
January 26, 2024: ET 1:50 pm
IMIM-Asia NO. 35
Currency Risk under Capital Controls
January 11, 2024: ET 9:00 pm | January 12, 2024: Beijing Time 10:00 am
IMIM-Asia NO. 34
Deciphering the Dollar Exchange Rate and Interest Parity
January 04, 2024: ET 9:00 pm | January 05, 2024: Beijing Time 10:00 am
A Theory of Sovereign Bond Safety: Country Size and Equity Rebalancing Channel
January 04, 2024: ET 9:50 pm | January 05, 2024: Beijing Time 10:50 am
Fall 2023
IMIM-Rising Stars NO. 33
Markups Across the Income Distribution: Measurement and Implications
December 18, 2023: ET 9:00 pm | December 19, 2023: Beijing Time 10:00 am
Inequality in Income and Varieties
December 18, 2023: ET 9:50 pm | December 19, 2023: Beijing Time 10:50 am
IMIM-Rising Stars NO. 32
Heterogeneous Impact of the Global Financial Cycle
December 14, 2023: ET 9:00 pm | December 15, 2023: Beijing Time 10:00 am
Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions
December 14, 2023: ET 9:50 pm | December 15, 2023: Beijing Time 10:50 am
IMIM-Asia NO. 31
Forecasting Inflation Using Economic Narratives
December 07, 2023: ET 9:00 pm | December 08, 2023: Beijing Time 10:00 am
IMIM-Rising Stars IMIM NO. 30
Banking, Business and Household Finance, and Monetary Policy
December 01, 2023: ET 12:00 pm
Long Rates, Life Insurers, and Credit Spreads
December 01, 2023: ET 12:50 pm
IMIM-Rising Stars NO. 29
Intervening Against the Fed
November 10, 2023: ET 1:00 pm
The Firm Balance Sheet Channel of Uncertainty Shocks
November 10, 2023: ET 1:50 pm
IMIM NO. 28 October 27 Donghai Zhang (National University of Singapore)
The Macroeconomic Stabilization Role of Unemployment Benefit Extensions in a Monetary Union
IMIM NO. 27 October 6 Jaroslav Horvath (University of New Hampshire)
Property Rights and Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Consumption Volatility
IMIM-Anniversary NO. 26 September 29 Irina Panovska (University of Texas Dallas)
Output Measurement and Technological Shocks in Business Cycles
IMIM NO. 25 September 22 Andrej Sokol (Bloomberg)
CBDC policies in open economies
IMIM NO. 24 September 15 Martina Jasova (Barnard College)
Monetary Policy, Earning Redistribution and the Credit Channel: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee and Credit Registers (with Caterina Mendicino, Jose-Luis Peydro, Etto Panetti and Dominik Supera )
IMIM-Business IMIM NO. 23 September 13 Tim Mahedy (Access Macro)
IMIM NO. 22 August 25 Loris Rubini (University of New Hampshire)
Can Modern Theories of Structural Change Fit Business Cycle Data? (with Alessio Moro)
Summer 2023
IMIM NO.21 August 11 Sebastian Laumer (The University of North Carolina Greensboro)
Monetary Policy Transmissions under Supply Chain Pressure (with Matthew Schaffer)
IMIM NO.20 July 28 Haonan Zhou (Princeton University)
IMIM NO.19 July 21 Sun Yong Kim (Northwestern University)
Global Footprint of US Fiscal Policy
IMIM NO.18 June 30 Stefan Avdjiev (Bank of International Settlements)
IMIM NO.17 June 16 Zhao Han (The College of William and Mary)
Time-Varying Fiscal Foresight (with Junjie Guo)
IMIM NO.16 June 9 Leland Bybee (Yale University)
IMIM NO.15 June 2 Karley Stedman (Kansas Fed)
Global Fund Flows and Emerging Market Tail Risk (with Anusha Chari and Christian Lundblad
IMIM NO.14 May 12 Leifei Lyu (Washington University in St. Louis)
Policy Rule Regressions with Survey Data
Spring 2023
IMIM NO.13 May 5 Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia (Federal Reserve Board)
What Happens in China does not Stay in China (with William L Barcelona, Jasper J. Hoek, and Eva Van Leemput)
IMIM NO.12 Apr 14 Emile A. Marin (UC Davis)
Exchange Rate Risk and Business Cycles (with Simon Lloyd
IMIM NO.11 Apr 7 Yinxi Xie (Bank of Canada)
The Convenience Yield, Inflation Expectations, and Public Debt Growth (with Zhiyu Fu and Jian Li.)
IMIM NO.10 Mar 10 Scott Davis (Dallas Fed)
"A Theory of Gross and Net Capital Flows over the Global Financial Cycle" (with Eric van Wincoop)
IMIM NO.9 Feb 24 Aeimit Lakdawala (Wake Forest)
Firm-Level Uncertainty and the Transmission of Monetary Policy (with Timothy Moreland)
IMIM NO.8 Feb 10 Ren Zhang (Texas State University)
“Twisting Theories to Suit Facts: Revisiting the Effects of Technology Shocks” (with Yang Yang)
Fall 2022
IMIM NO.7 Soo Kyung Woo ( University of Rochester)
Real Exchange Rate and Net Trade Dynamics: Financial and Trade Shocks (with Marcos Mac Mullen)
IMIM NO.6 Rusi Yan ( Washington University in St. Louis)
Debt Contracts, Outside Equity and Financial Development
IMIM NO.5 Saroj Bhattarai (UT Austin)
Inflation and GDP Dynamics in Production Networks: A Sufficient Statistic Approach (with Hassan Afrouzi)
IMIM NO.4 Hewei Shen (University of Oklahoma)
IMIM NO.3 Dong Cheng (Union College)
Did Durable Goods Producing States Suffer a Greater Great Depression? (with Mario J. Crucini and Hanjo T. Kim,)
IMIM NO.2 Zhengyang Chen (St. Cloud State University)
Embedding Rational Expectations in a Structural VAR: Internal and External Instruments for Set Identification(with Victor J. Valcarcel)
IMIM NO.1 Ren Zhang (Texas State University)
The Dollar Exchange Rate and Interest Parity: Letting Different Views Compete (with Yang Yang and Shuwei Zhang)