Macroeconomics Seminars

Our seminars are held by world-famous scholars from around the globe

Macroeconomics seminars take place on Wednesdays from 11:00 to 12:15, unless otherwise specified.

Term 1

04 October 2024Presenter: Pedro Teles, Catolica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics
Title: Behavioral Sticky Prices
09 October 2024Presenter: Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: Scalable vs. Productive Technologies
23 October 2024
Presenter: Marta Prato, Bocconi University
Title: The Geography of Innovative Firms
20 November 2024
Presenter: Ryungha Oh, Yale University
Title: Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms
27 November 2024
Presenter: Greg Kaplan, The University of Chicago
Title: How Does Monetary and Fiscal Policy Shape Macroeconomic Dynamics in the Face of Large Shocks
04 December 2024 - joint FBF-ECO Seminar
Presenter: Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam
Title: Financial Resilience

Term 2

19 March 2025
Presenter: Elena Pastorino, Standford University and Hoover Institution
Title: Taxing the Rich? A Theory of Income and Wealth Inequality
26 March 2025
Presenter: Ariel Burstein, UCLA Economics
Title: Consumer Surplus from Suppliers: How Big is it and Does it Matter for Growth?

Term 3

Term 1

04 October 2023
Presenter: Rustam Jamilov (University of Oxford)
Title: "HBANK: Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Banks"
18 October 2023
Presenter: Valerie Ramey (Hoover Institution)
Title: "Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates"

Term 2

31 January 2024
Presenter: Giulio Fella (University of Bologna and Queen Mary University of London)
Title: "Non-linear productivity and investment dynamics"
07 February 2024
Presenter: Piotr Zoch (University of Warsaw)
Title: "Financial intermediation and aggregate demand: a sufficient statistics approach"
21 February 2024
Presenter: Tamon Asonuma (IMF)
Title: "Output Dynamics and Private Sector Access during Sovereign Debt Crises"
28 February 2024
Presenter: Elisa Giannone (UPF and BSE)
Title: "Unequal Global Convergence"
27 March 2024
Presenter: Xioadong Zhu (Hong Kong Univeristy)
Title: "Bottom-up Institutional Change and Growth: Theory and Evidence from China"

Term 3

24 April 2024
Presenter: Joan Llull (MOVE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and BSE)
Title: "Selective Immigration Policies and the U.S. Labor Market"
12 May 2024
Presenter: Simon Gilchrist
Title: "Bank Health and Local Economic Outcomes"
3 June 2024
Presenter: Zhengyang Jiang
Title: Exorbitant Privilege: A Safe-Asset View
05 June 2024
Presenter: Ester Faia
Title: Effects of Monetary Policy: the Labour Mobility Channel

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