Spring 2020

Time & Location: Thursday 9:30am-11:30am, Virtually; Apr 2 Zoom link here;

Faculty Participant: Lilia Maliar, Sangeeta Pratap, Thom Thurston

Students: Chris Naubert, Meng-Ting Chen, Minwoo Song, Chuxin Liu, Jiakai Zhang, Lulu Wang, Pablo Lara, Miguel Orozco Vazquez, Mikheil Dvalishvili, Archil Dvalishvili

Please email cnaubert@gradcenter.cuny.edu if interested in joining or have any question.

Coronavirus Update: we are moving our reading group online via Zoom starting from Mar 19. Link to July 16th meeting here (Password:macro).

Please use the following link for the Summer Signup Sheet

Meeting Schedule:

Jan 28: Meng-Ting Chen (Structure of the reading group, expectations and examples)

Feb 6: Meng-Ting Chen (link)(slides)

Feb 20: Chris (Redistributive Fiscal Policy and Marginal Propensities to Consume)

Mar 5: Chuxin Liu (Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities)

Mar 19: Jiakai Zhang (Two-Sided Sorting and Spatial Inequality in Cities)

Apr 2: Nana (The Impact of a Universal Basic Income System on Aggregate Capital, Labor, Welfare, and Inequality)

Apr 16: Minwoo Song

Apr 30: Lulu Wang (Synchronization of endogenous business cycles)

May 14: Meng-Ting Chen

May 27: End of Semester Discussion

June 4: Gunnar Poppe Yanez

June 18: Ercio Munoz

July 2: Archil Dvalishvili

July 16: Mikheil Dvalishvili

July 30: Miguel Orozco Vazquez

August 13: Miguel Orozco Vazquez


If you are interested in applied micro economics, go to Micro Brown Bag, held on Friday 10am-12pm.