2018 - 2019

Fall 2018
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Date Name Topic
September 6 Virgiliu Midrigan
(NYU)		 Asset Prices and Unemployment Fluctuations
September 13 Stanley Zin
(NYU)		 Identifying Monetary Policy in Macro-Finance Models
September 20 Pablo Ottonello
(U. of Michigan)		 Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy
September 27 Priit Jeenas
(NYU)		 Firm Balance Sheet Liquidity, Monetary Policy Shocks, and Investment Dynamics
October 4 Jonathan Payne
(NYU)		 Searching for Bank Funding
October 11 Francisco Roldan
(NYU)		 Aggregate Demand around Debt Crises
October 18 Alberto Polo
(NYU)		 Pass-through to Deposit Rates and Monetary Policy
October 25 Joshua Weiss
(NYU)		 MARKET POWER ACCUMULATION, ENTRY, AND MARKUPS
November 1 Peifan Wu
(NYU)		 Firm Demographics and the Great Recession
November 8 Kiminori Matsuyama
(Northwestern University)		 On Three Classes of CRS Production Function
November 15 Mateusz Giezek
(NYU)		 Directed Attention in Markets
November 22 Thanksgiving  
November 29 Ricardo Lagos
(NYU)		 On Money as a Medium of Exchange in Near-Cashless Credit Economies
December 6 Fadi Hassan
(Trinity College of Dublin)		 Trade Shocks and Capital Reallocation
December 13 Guido Menzio
(NYU)		 Production and Learning in Teams

Spring 2019
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Date Name Topic
February 28 Bruce Preston
(U. of Melbourne)		 On the Limits of Monetary Policy
March 7 Mike Waugh
(NYU)		 Quantifying the Losses from International Trade
March 14 Titan Alon
(Princeton)		 A Theory of Human Capital Specialization
March 28 Moritz Schularick
(U. of Bonn)		 Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016
April 4 Kyle Herkenhoff
(U. of Minnesota)		 Labor Market Power
April 11 Diego Perez
(NYU)		 Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crises
April 18 Corrado Macchiarelli
(Brunel University/LSE)		 Introducing housing in a macro model with heuristics
April 25 Xavier Gabaix
(Harvard visiting NYU)		 Granular Instrumental Variables
May 2 Corina Boar
(NYU)		 Markups and Inequality
May 9 Johannes Stroebel
(NYU)		 Five Facts About Beliefs and Portfolios