Department of Economics | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar

Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar

Spring 2026

Seminar Time & Location:

Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM
KMC 5-90 (5th floor)

To join the mailing list, please contact Amanda Schwab ams9893@stern.nyu.edu

February 19th "AI and Scale: A Quantitative Task-Based Theory of Automation"

Danial Lashkari (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Link to paper

February 26th "Statistical Discrimination in Frictional Labor Markets: Theory and Application to Immigration Enforcement"

Giovanni Topa (NYU)

Link to paper

March 5th "IneQuality"

Alessandra Peter (NYU)

March 12th "The Spatial Distribution of Markups"

Jonathan Becker (SUNY Stony Brook)

Link to paper

March 26th "Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Model of Technology Adoption: P2P Digital Payments"

Francesco Lippi (LUISS University)

Link to paper

April 2nd

Tom Sargent (NYU)

April 9th "A Theory of Land Finance and Investment-Led Growth"

Sean Wu (NYU Stern)

Link to paper

April 16th "Deep Learning in the Sequence Space"

Jan Zemlicka (University of Zurich)

Link to paper

April 23rd

Paolo Martellini (NYU Stern)

April 30th "A Macroeconomic Model of the Cross-Section of Currencies"

Diego Perez (NYU)

Please check back for regular updates as speakers and topics will be updated throughout the semester.

Please contact Amanda Schwab (ams9893@stern.nyu.edu) with any questions.