Past seminars


  • Tuesday 31/03: Greg Kaplan, Ben Moll, and Gianluca Violante

Pandemics According to HANK

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  • Thursday 02/04: Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub, and Ivan Werning

Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19

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  • Tuesday 07/04: Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, and Emil Verner

Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu

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  • Thursday 09/04: Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, and Mathias Trabandt

The Macroeconomics of Epidemics

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  • Friday 10/04: Marianna Kudlyak, Lones Smith, and Andrea Wilson

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Avoidance Behavior at Breakout in an SI3R Model of Covid

and The Behavioral SIR Model, with Applications to the Swine Flu Epidemic, joint with Jussi Keppo and Elena Quercioli

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  • Tuesday 14/04: Fernando Alvarez, David Argente and Francesco Lippi

A Simple Planning Problem for Covid-19 Lockdown

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  • Wednesday 15/04: Andy Glover, Jonathan Heathcote, Dirk Krueger and Victor Rios-Rull

Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic

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  • Thursday 16/04: Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub, and Amir Sufi

Indebted Demand and Economic Policy in the Post-Covid World

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  • Tuesday 21/04: Chris Boehm, Andrei Levchenko, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities

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  • Thursday 23/04: Martin Bodenstein, Giancarlo Corsetti and Luca Guerrieri

Social Distancing and Supply Disruption in a Pandemic

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  • Friday 24/04: Maryam Farboodi, Gregor Jarosch, and Rob Shimer

Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic

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Mortgage prepayment and path-dependent effects of monetary policy

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  • Thursday 30/04: David Baqaee and Emmanuel Farhi

Nonlinearities in Disaggregated Economies: Implications for the Covid-19 Crisis

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  • Tuesday 05/05: Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke, and Gernot Mueller

The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How large is the transfer multiplier?

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  • Thursday 07/05: Michele Tertilt, Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in the Great Lockdown

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  • Tuesday 12/05: Markus Brunnermeier, Sebastian Merkel, Jonathan Payne and Yuliy Sannikov

Inflation and Deflation Pressures after the COVID Shock


  • Thursday 14/05: Xavier Gabaix and Ralph S.J. Koijen

In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations

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  • Tuesday 19/05: Jonathan Heathcote, Fabrizio Perri, and Giovanni L. Violante

The Rise of US Earnings Inequality: Does the Cycle Drive the Trend?

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  • Thursday 21/05: Adrien Auclert, Hannes Malmberg, Fred Martenet and Matt Rognlie

Demographics, Wealth and Global Imbalances in the Twenty-First Century

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  • Tuesday 26/05: Dirk Krueger, Harald Uhlig and Taojun Xie

Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic

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  • Thursday 28/05: Ravi Bansal, Mariano (Max) Croce, Wenxi Liao, Samuel Rosen

Uncertainty-Induced Reallocations and Growth

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  • Tuesday 02/06: Benigno, Gianluca and Foerster, Andrew T. and Otrok, Christopher and Rebucci, Alessandro

Estimating Macroeconomic Models of Financial Crises: An Endogenous Regime Switching Approach

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  • Thursday 04/06: Stefania Albanesi, Rania Gihleb, Jialin Huo, Jiyeon Kim

Household Insurance and The Macroeconomic Impact of the Novel Corona Virus

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  • Tuesday 09/06: Cristina Arellano, Yan Bai and Gabriel Mihalache

Deadly Debt Crises: Covid-19 in Emerging Markets

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  • Thursday 11/06: Claudia Sahm, Matthew Shapiro, Joel Slemrod

Direct Stimulus Payments to Individuals in the Covid Pandemic

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  • Tuesday 16/06: Robert Hall and Marianna Kudlyak

Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?

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  • Thursday 18/06: Chris Edmond and Simon Mongey

Unbundling Labor

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  • Tuesday 23/06: Dionissi Aliprantis, Daniel Caroll, Eric Young

Dynamics of Racial Wealth Gaps

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  • Thursday 25/06: Mark Bognanni, Douglas Hanley, Daniel Kolliner, Kurt Mitman

Economic Activity and COVID-19 Transmission: Evidence from an Estimated Economic-Epidemiological Model

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  • Tuesday 30/06: Ricardo Caballero and Alp Simsek

A Model of Asset Price Spirals and Aggregate Demand Amplification of a Covid-19 Shock

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Fall 2020 Schedule

September 17, 2020

Alexander Koptyov, Nikolai Roussanov and Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel


September 24, 2020

The Economic Ripple Effects of COVID-19

Francisco J. Buera, Roberto N. Fattal-Jaef, Hugo Hopenhayn, P. Andres Neumeyer, and Yongseok Shin


October 1, 2020

Corina Boar and Virgiliu Midrigan


October 8, 2020

Tommaso Porzio, Federico Rossi, and Gabriela Santangelo


October 15, 2020

Julian di Giovanni, Andrei A. Levchenko, and Isabelle Mejean


October 22, 2020

Benjamin Hebert and Jennifer La'O


October 29, 2020

Pawel Doligalski, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Nicolas Werquin


November 5, 2020

Kilian Huber


November 12, 2020

Cosmin Ilut and Rosen Valchev


November 19, 2020

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Irina Popova


November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving - no seminar


December 3, 2020

Daniel Lewis, Davide Melcangi, and Laura Pilossoph


December 10, 2020

Monetary Policy when the Phillips Curve is Locally Flat

Paul Beaudry, Chenyu Hou, and Franck Portier