Money and Banking Workshop Spring 2024

The Money and Banking workshop is organized jointly between the Becker Friedman Institute (BFI), the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, and the Chicago Booth School of Business. The majority of the talks are given by external speakers presenting works in progress; however, some talks are reserved for internal speakers. Please refer to the weekly announcement for up-to-date time changes.

View other past workshops: Fall 2023.

March 20
Corina Boar, NYU
"Nonlinear Inflation Dynamics in Menu Cost Economies"

March 27
Daron Acemoglu, MIT
“Community and Employment:Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown”

April 3
Manuel Amador, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 
"Sovereign Swaps and Sovereign Default: Fundamental versus Confidence Risk with Mark Aguiar"

April 10
Ricardo Lagos, NYU
"Monetary Policy Operations: Theory, Evidence, and Tools for Quantitative Analysis"

April 17
Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University    
"Deficits and Inflation: Beyond FTPL" (joint with Chen Lian and Christian Wolf)

April 24
Jonathan Payne, Princeton University
"Convenience Yields and Financial Repression” (joint with Bálint Szőke (FED Board))

May 1
Robert Barro, Harvard University
"Fiscal Influences on Inflation in OECD Countries, 2020-2022"

May 8
Christian Wolf, MIT 
"Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals: A “VAR-Plus” Approach"

May 15
Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
"Official Sovereign Debt, which is joint with Leonardo Barreto"

May 22
Tom Sargent, NYU
 "Implementing a Ramsey Plan" (joint with Wei Jian and Neng Wang)

May 29
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University
 "Nominal Wages and Aggregate Fluctuations" with Kosuke Aoki of Tokyo University
Location: SHFE 112 (Please note the location change)