Virtual Seminar Series
Our virtual seminar series brings together economists and researchers from around the world to share their latest work in international macroeconomics and finance. These sessions offer a platform for in-depth discussion and collaboration, connecting scholars and practitioners in a global conversation about the key economic challenges of our time.
If you would like to join our virtual seminar series, you can register below.
2024/25 Seminar Schedule
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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19 September 2024 |
Christina Patterson (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) |
"Why do workers dislike inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs" |
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17 October 2024 |
Nir Jaimovich (University of California, San Diego) |
"The Impact of Supply, Demand, and Policy Shifts: From Micro Elasticities to Distributional Effects" |
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21 November 2024 |
Claire Celerier (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management) |
"Household Preferences, Security Design, and Volatility Prices" |
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6 December 2024 14:00-15:15 (IN PERSON- TRiSS Seminar Room |
Frank Westermann (University of Osnabrück) |
"Foreign Exchange Trading During World Cup Events (or I'll watch the game while you trade)" |
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30 January 2025 |
Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) |
“Financial Regulation, Risk Migration, and Global Liquidity Flows” |
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20 February 2025 |
Benjamin Born (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) |
"Uncertainty in Monetary Unions" |
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27 March 2025 |
Thomas Drechsel (University of Maryland) |
"The Macroeconomic Effects of Bank Regulation: New Evidence From a High-Frequency Approach" |
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16 May 2025 |
Dudley Cooke (Banco de Portugal) |
"Macroprudential Policy and Bank Capital in Open Economies" |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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27 September 2023 |
Vincenzo Quadrini (University of Southern California) |
"Dynamic Credit Constraints: Theory and Evidence from Credit Lines" |
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11 October 2023 |
Dmitriy Sergeyev (Bocconi University) |
"How Oil Shocks Propagate: Evidence on the Monetary Policy Channel" |
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31 October 2023 |
Valerie Ramey (Peterson Institute for International Economics) |
"Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates" |
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14 November 2023 |
Francesco Bianchi (Johns Hopkins University) |
"A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation" |
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28 November 2023 |
Federica Romei (University of Oxford) |
"Inequality, Demand Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy" |
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7 February 2024 |
Annette Alstadsæter (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) |
"Who Owns Offshore Real Estate? Evidence from Dubai" |
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21 February 2024 |
Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) |
"FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from firm-to-firm transactions" |
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13 March 2024 |
Sergio de Ferra (University of Oxford) |
"Avoiding Sovereign Default Contagion" |
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27 March 2024 |
Clara Martínez-Toledano (Imperial College Business School) |
"House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling" |
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10 April 2024 |
Paul Bergin (University of California at Davis) |
"Exchange Rates and Structural Change" |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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1 February 2023 |
Vania Stavrakeva (London Business School) |
"Individual Beliefs, Demand for Currency and Exchange Rate Dynamics" (joined with Jenny Tang) |
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15 February 2023 |
Lorena Keller (Wharton) |
"Arbitraging Covered Interest Rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending" |
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1 March 2023 |
Jonathan Wright (Johns Hopkins) |
"The Narrow Channel of Quantitative Easing: Evidence from YCC Down Under” (joined by David Lucca) |
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15 March 2023 |
Moritz Schularik (Bonn) |
"The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut" (joined be Luis Buluz and Filip Novokmet) |
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29 March 2023 |
Antonio Coppola (Standford) |
"The Geography of Capital Allocation in the Euro Area" (Joined by Roland Beck, Angus Lewis, Matteo Maggiori, Martin Schmitz and Jesse Schreger) |
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Name |
Speaker |
Title |
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22 September 2021 |
Eric T. Swanson (University of California, Irvine) |
"An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect” (joint with Michael D. Bauer) |
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6 October 2021 |
Jordi Gali (CREI) |
"Monetary Policy and Endogenous Financial Crises" |
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20 October 2021 |
Anna Cieslak (Duke University) |
"Policymakers' uncertainty" (joint with Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Song Xiao) |
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3 November 2021 |
Rachel Ngai (LSE) |
"Structural Transformation and U-shaped Female Employment" (with Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo) |
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17 November 2021 |
Ludwig Straub (Harvard University) |
"A Goldilocks Theory of Fiscal Policy" (joint with Atif Mian and Amir Sufi) |
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1 December 2021 |
Doireann Fitzgerald (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) |
"How Do Firms Build Market Share?" (joint with Daavid Argente, Sara Moreira and Anthony Priolo) |
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2 February 2022 |
Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota) |
"Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement?" (joint with Eric French, John Bailey Jones and Rory McGee) |
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16 February 2022 |
Juan M Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis) |
"Domestic Policies and Sovereign Default" (joint with Emilio Espino, Julian Kozlowski and Fernando M. Martin) |
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2 March 2022 |
Morten Ravn (University College London) |
"Financial Frictions: Micro vs Macro Volatility" (joint with Seungcheol Lee and Ralph Luetticke) |
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16 March 2022 |
Luca Macedoni (Aarhus University) |
"Large Firms, Consumer Heterogeneity and the Rising Share of Profits" (joint with Robert Feenstra and Mingzhi Xu) |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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18 September 2020 |
Matteo Maggiori (Stanford) |
"Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens" |
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2 October 2020 |
Ivan Werning (MIT) |
"A Multi-Risk SIR Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdown" |
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16 October 2020 |
Veronica Guerrieri (Chicago) |
"Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages" |
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30 October 2020 |
Emy Nakamura (Berkeley) |
"The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States" (joint with Jonathon Hazell, Juan Herreno and Jon Steinsson) |
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20 November 2020 |
Alan Taylor (UC Davis) |
"The Long-Run Effects of Monetary Policy" (joint with Òscar Jordà and Sanjay R. Singh) |
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27 November 2020 |
Gabriel Zucman (Berkeley) |
"Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence" |
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11 December 2020 |
Valentina Bruno (American University) |
"Dollar and Exports" (joint with Hyun Song Shin) |
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29 January 2021 |
Maurice Obstfeld (Berkeley) |
"Globalization and Nationalism: Retrospect and Prospect" |
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12 February 2021 |
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Maryland) |
"International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycles" |
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26 February 2021 |
James Cloyne (Davis) |
"Decomposing the Fiscal Multiplier" (joint with Òscar Jordà and Alan M. Taylor) |
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12 March 2021 |
Luca Fornaro (CREI) |
"The Global Financial Resource Curse" (joint with Gianluca Benigno and Martin Wolf) |
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26 March 2021 |
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard) |
"Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper Evidence from Peru" (joint with Bryan Gutierrez and Juliana Salomao) |
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9 April 2021 |
Hiro Ito (Portland) |
"Post Covid-19 Exit Strategies and Emerging Markets Economic Challenges" (joint with Joshua Aizenman) |
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23 April 2021 |
Wenxin Du (Chicago) |
"Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks" (joint with Alyssa Anderson and Bernd Schlusche) |
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21 May 2021 |
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (Brookings Institution) |
"Foreign Investment in emerging market debt securities: measurement and evidence from euro area investors" |