{"id":37289,"date":"2025-08-21T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/?page_id=37289"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:47:18","slug":"macroeconomics-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/macroeconomics-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Macroeconomics Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fall 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"884\" height=\"522\" style=\"height: 524px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 4<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Shifrah Aron-Dine (UC Berkeley)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.shifraharondine.com\/arondinejmp.pdf\">Rebuild or Relocate? Recovery after Natural Disasters<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 11<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Ricardo Caballero (MIT)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 18<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Shoumitro Chatterjee (JHU)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 25<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Lukas Freund (BC)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Diego Comin (Darmouth)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 9<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Xavier Gabaix (Harvard)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 16<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Ivan Werning (MIT)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 23<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Jos\u00e9-V\u00edctor R\u00edos-Rull (Penn)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 30<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Veronica Guerrieri (UChicago Booth)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Nov 6<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Richard Rogerson (Princeton)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Nov 13<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u015eebnem Kalemli-\u00d6zcan (Brown)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Nov 21<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Yueran Ma (UChicago Booth)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Dec 4<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Alessandra Peter (NYU)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Past Seminars<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"884\" height=\"522\" style=\"height: 524px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Mar 6<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Hugo Lhuillier (Columbia)\u00a0 <\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2025\/08\/lhuillier2023should.pdf\">&#8220;Should I Stay or Should I Grow?&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Mar 20<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Antonio Coppola (Stanford)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/p\/osf\/socarx\/zsc4x_v1.html\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8220;Chokepoints: Identifying Economic Pressure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Apr 3<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Robert Ulbricht (BC) <\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Frobertulbricht.com%2Ffiles%2Fcolocation_friction.pdf&amp;sa=D&amp;source=calendar&amp;ust=1756732620000000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1eBOYJYVg9zGLAaaSXtTxh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Apr 10<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Emil Verner (MIT)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4650834\">&#8220;Failing Banks&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Apr 17<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Wendy Morrison (Columbia)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wendyamorrison.com%2F_files%2Fugd%2F041ab5_84a5cdf9325644489632cf7179580fa7.pdf&amp;sa=D&amp;source=calendar&amp;ust=1756732620000000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3DRx09xGNjkaLNDB0OZlkA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>\u201cRedistribution and Investment\u201d<\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Apr 24<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">David Argente (Yale)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Price Setting During a Currency Changeover&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">May 1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Ariel Burstein (UCLA)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w34176\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u201cAggregate efficiency with heterogeneous agents\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Fall 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"884\" height=\"522\" style=\"height: 524px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Nik Engbom (NYU)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2025\/08\/Engbom2024.pdf\">&#8220;Misallocative Growth&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 10<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">David Baqaee (UCLA)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Sufficient Statistics for Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 19<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Job Boerma (UW Madison)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2025\/08\/Boerma-macro_mental.pdf\">&#8220;Macroeconomics of Mental Health&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 26<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Zhen Huo (Yale)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2025\/08\/ZhenHuoSeminarPaper.pdf\">&#8220;Inattentive Network: Evidence and Theory&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 10<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Rohan Kekre (UChicago)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2025\/08\/KekreMacroPaper.pdf\">&#8220;Exchange Rates, Natural Rates, and the Price of Risk&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 17<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Zheng Liu (SF Fed)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2025\/08\/Zheng-Liu-MacroPaper.pdf\"><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8220;<\/b><span>Reshoring, Automation, and Labor Markets under Trade Uncertainty.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 24<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Ryunga Oh (Yale\/Northwestern)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2025\/08\/Spatial-Sorting-of-Workers-and-Firms-RyunghaOh_JMP.pdf\">&#8220;Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 31<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itskhoki.com\/papers\/FMER.pdf\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8220;What do financial markets say about the exchange rate?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Nov 7<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Yan Bai (U Rochester)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u201c<\/b><span>Financing from Workers: Can Labor Market Power Mitigate Financial Frictions?\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td 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