Macroeconomics Seminar

Fall 2025

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept 4	Shifrah Aron-Dine (UC Berkeley)	Rebuild or Relocate? Recovery after Natural Disasters
Sept 11	Ricardo Caballero (MIT)
Sept 18	Shoumitro Chatterjee (JHU)
Sept 25	Lukas Freund (BC)
Oct 2	Diego Comin (Darmouth)
Oct 9	Xavier Gabaix (Harvard)
Oct 16	Ivan Werning (MIT)
Oct 23	José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (Penn)
Oct 30	Veronica Guerrieri (UChicago Booth)
Nov 6	Richard Rogerson (Princeton)
Nov 13	Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (Brown)
Nov 21	Yueran Ma (UChicago Booth)
Dec 4	Alessandra Peter (NYU)

Past Seminars

Spring 2025

Date	Speaker	Title
Mar 6	Hugo Lhuillier (Columbia)	“Should I Stay or Should I Grow?”
Mar 20	Antonio Coppola (Stanford)	“Chokepoints: Identifying Economic Pressure”
Apr 3	Robert Ulbricht (BC)	“The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes”
Apr 10	Emil Verner (MIT)	“Failing Banks”
Apr 17	Wendy Morrison (Columbia)	“Redistribution and Investment”
Apr 24	David Argente (Yale)	“Price Setting During a Currency Changeover”
May 1	Ariel Burstein (UCLA)	“Aggregate efficiency with heterogeneous agents”

Fall 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept 5	Nik Engbom (NYU)	“Misallocative Growth”
Sept 10	David Baqaee (UCLA)	“Sufficient Statistics for Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare”
Sept 19	Job Boerma (UW Madison)	“Macroeconomics of Mental Health”
Sept 26	Zhen Huo (Yale)	“Inattentive Network: Evidence and Theory”
Oct 10	Rohan Kekre (UChicago)	“Exchange Rates, Natural Rates, and the Price of Risk”
Oct 17	Zheng Liu (SF Fed)	“Reshoring, Automation, and Labor Markets under Trade Uncertainty.”
Oct 24	Ryunga Oh (Yale/Northwestern)	“Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms”
Oct 31	Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard)	“What do financial markets say about the exchange rate?”
Nov 7	Yan Bai (U Rochester)	“Financing from Workers: Can Labor Market Power Mitigate Financial Frictions?”
Nov 14	Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU)	“The Inflation Accelerator”
Dec 5	Christina Patterson (UChicago)	“Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs”