Past Money and Banking Workshops

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February 25
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania
Topic and Paper: "How Globalization Unravels: A Ricardian Model of Endogenous Trade Policy"

March 25
Ivan Werning, MIT
Topic: "Tâtonnement and Price Setting in General Equilibrium"

April 1
Chris Tonetti, Stanford
Topic and Paper: "Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion"(coauthored with Chad Jones)

April 8
John Sturm Becko, Princeton University
Topic and abstract: "Strategic Resilience"

April 15
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell
Topic and paper: "Grafting Plants: A Market of Selection"

April 22
Joao Guerreiro, UCLA
Topic: "Monetary Policy without Redistributive Concerns"

April 29
Jesse Schreger, Columbia
Topic and paper: "Geoeconomic Pressure"

May 6
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford
Topic and paper: "How Curvy is the Phillips Curve?"

May 13
Emi Nakamura, UC Berkeley
Topic and paper: "The Commoditization of Labor"

May 20
Andres Rodriguez, UC Berkeley
Topic and paper: "Carbon Taxes in the Global Economy: A Quantitative Analysis"

October 1
Daniel O'Connor, MIT
Topic and Paper: Granular Origins of Agglomeration

October 8
Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota
Topic and Paper: Intergenerational Mobility and Credit (with J. Carter Braxton, Nisha Chikhale, and Gordon Phillips)

October 15
Diego Känzig, Northwestern
Topic and Paper: The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature

October 22
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia
Topic and paper: The Austerity Threshold

October 29
Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics
Topic and Paper: Macroeconomic Implications of Executive Pay Caps

November 5
Aysegul Sahin, Princeton
Topic and Paper: Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation

November 12
Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland
Topic: The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy

November 19
Sasha Indarte, University of Pennsylvania
Topic and Paper: The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt

November 26
No Seminar

December 3
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard
Topic and Paper: Homeownership and the Cost of Living

March 26
Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics and Political Science
Topic: “The anatomy of a peg”

April 2
Gauti Eggertsson, Brown University
Topic: "The Inverse-L New Keynesian Phillips curve"

April 9
Noémie Pinardon-Touati, Columbia University
Topic: "The Crowding Out Effect of Local Government Debt: Micro- and Macro-Estimates"

April 16
Abddoulaye Ndiaye, NYU Stern
Topic and paper: "Bonus Question: How does Flexible Incentive Pay Affect Wage Rigidity?"

April 23
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University
Topic and paper: "Quick-Fixing: Near Rationality in Consumption and Savings Decisions"

April 30
Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, University of Chicago
Topic and paper: "Weathering the Storm: Supply Chain and Climate Risk"

May 7
Christian Bayer, University of Bonn
Topic and paper: "Unequal Lives - Heterogeneity in income risk and household portfolios"

May 14
David Baqaee, UCLA
Topic and paper: "Aggregate Efficiency with Heterogeneous Agents (joint with Ariel Burstein)"

May 21
Jane Ryngaert, University of Notre Dame
Topic: "Job Search, Wages, and Inflation"

October 2
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University
Topic: "Overworked: Implications for a Shorter Workweek" (with Gregor Jarosch and Anthony Swaminathan)

October 9
Michael Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Topic and paper: "Heterogeneous Agent Trade"

October 16
Conor Walsh, Columbia University
Topic: "Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach"

October 23
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: "Conflict in Dismissals: Evidence from ``Separations by Mutual Agreement'' in France" ( Coauthor: Pauline Carry )

October 30
Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Topic: “The Life-cycle of Concentrated Industries”

November 6
Simon Gilchrist, New York University
Topic: "The Green Transition in a Putty-Clay Model of Capital"

November 13
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego
Topic and paper: Why Are Some Recoveries Weak and Others Strong?

November 20
Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: "Equilibrium Spillover of Big Data" (with Peter Kondor and Pablo Kurlat)

November 27
NO MEETING

December 4
Mark Aguiar, Princeton University
Topic: "How Good is International Risk Sharing?"

December 11
Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics

March 20
Corina Boar, NYU
Topic and paper: "Nonlinear Inflation Dynamics in Menu Cost Economies"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May 29
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University
Topic: "Nominal Wages and Aggregate Fluctuations" with Kosuke Aoki of Tokyo University

September 27
Lukas Nord, Minneapolis Fed.  
Topic: "Shopping, Demand Composition, and Equilibrium Prices"

October 4
Chad Jones, Stanford University
Topic and paper: "Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" (with Adhami, Bils, and Klenow)

October 11
Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University

October 18
Chenzi Xu, Stanford University

October 25
Adrien Bilal, Harvard University
Topic and paper: “Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States,” joint with E. Rossi-Hansberg

November 1
Gene Grossman, Princeton University
Topic and paper: "Resilience in Vertical Supply Chains"

November 8
Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania
Topic and paper: "Investment, Innovation, and Financial Frictions,” joint with Pablo Ottonello"

November 15
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University 
Topic and paper: "A Framework for Geoeconomics"

November 29
Luigi Bocola, Stanford University
Topic and paper: "The Macroeconomics of Trade Credit"

December 6 (Time changed for this workshop only to 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.)
 Ulrike Malmendier, University of California Berkeley
Topic and paper: "The Long-lasting Effects of Experiencing Communism on Attitudes towards Financial Markets"