Research seminars

Research seminars at the Dallas Fed are technical discussions targeted for PhD-level economists. Academic visitors present current research in a 75-minute seminar format on a variety of topics in economics and finance. Seminars are open to academic researchers associated with local universities and research institutions.

Researchers who wish to attend a seminar must email Samuel Dodini or Ricardo Reyes-Heroles at least 48 hours in advance. All attendees must show photo ID and go through security screening.

2026

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Feb. 19	Julian F. Ludwig Wilfrid Laurier University	Local Projections Are VAR Predictions of Increasing Order
Feb. 26	Frank Wolak Stanford University	Combining Physics and Economics to Design a Reliable and Affordable Low Carbon Electricity Market
March 5	Xiang Ding Georgetown University	A Quantitative Model of Foreign Investment and Trade
March 19	Bo Sun University of Virginia	TBA
April 2	Paul Hubert Sciencespo	TBA
April 16	Sydnee Caldwell UC Berkeley	TBA
May 5	Brad Hershbein Upjohn Institute for Employment Research	TBA
May 28	Ezra Oberfield Cornell University	TBA
June 4	Barbara Biasi Yale University	TBA
June 18	Tara Sinclair George Washington University	TBA
Aug. 27	Mark Jacobsen UC San Diego	TBA
Oct. 15	Enrique Sentana CEMFI	TBA

2025 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Jan. 6 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Thomas Hasenzagl University of Minnesota	Scaling Up: How Technology and Policy Shape Firm Dynamics
Jan. 7 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Lucia Casal Cornell University	Lock-In and Productive Innovations: Implications for Firm-to-Firm Innovation Pass-Through
Jan. 8 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Owen Kay University of Michigan	Pollution Taxes and Clean Subsidies in an Open Economy
Jan. 9 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Laura Boisten University of Wisconsin	Impact of College Major Skills on Lifetime Earnings and Occupational Sorting (with Annemarie Schweinert and Layla O’Kane)
Jan. 10 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Lei Ma Boston University	Build What and for Whom? The Distributional Effects of Housing Supply
Jan. 13 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Christa Denault Cornell University	Should States Allow For-Profit Companies to Train Teachers? Evidence from Texas (with Evan Riehl)
Jan. 14 10:00–11:15 a.m.	Tarikua Erda Columbia University	Disasters, Capital, and Productivity
Jan. 14 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Rafael Guntin University of Rochester	Financial Frictions and the Market for Firms (with Federico Kochen)
Jan. 15 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Corrine Stephenson Boston University	Macroeconomic Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search
Jan. 16 10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Andrej Mijakovic European University Institute	Income Inequality and the Rise of Risky Capital
Jan. 17 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.	Simon Margolin Princeton University	Micro vs. Macro Corporate Tax Incidence
Jan. 17 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Michael Cai Northwestern University	Explaining the Macroeconomic Inertia Puzzle
Jan. 24 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Xander Abajian University of California, Santa Barbara	Savings and Migration in a Warming World
Jan. 27 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Sujan Bandyopadhyay Arizona State University	A Theory of Domestic Outsourcing: Search and Sorting in Skilled Services
Jan. 30 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Caleb Wroblewski Stanford University	The Interest Rate Elasticity of Investment: Micro Estimates and Macro Implications
March 20 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Bryan Stuart Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	Neighborhood Revitalization and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago’s Public Housing Demolitions (with Milena Almagro and Eric Chyn)
March 27 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Tomasz Piskorski Columbia University	The Secular Decline of Bank Balance Sheet Lending (with Greg Buchak, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru)
April 2 1:15–2:45 p.m.	Omeed Maghzian Harvard University	The Labor Market Spillovers of Job Destruction (with Michael Blank)
April 3 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Lisa Kahn University of Rochester	Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap? (with Eleanor W. Dillon, Joanna Venator and Michael Dalton)
April 8 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Christopher Huckfeldt Federal Reserve Board	The Labor Demand and Labor Supply Channels of Monetary Policy (with Sebastian Graves and Eric T. Swanson)
May 8 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Yongseok Shin Washington University in St. Louis	Did U.S. Multinationals Transfer Too Much Technology to China? (with Jaedo Choi, George Cui and Younghun Shim)
May 14 1:00–2:15 p.m.	Galip Kemal Ozhan International Monetary Fund	Global Prospects and Policies: A Critical Juncture Amid Policy Shifts and The Rise of the Silver Economy: Global Implications of Population Aging
May 15 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Amy Handlan Brown University	Reputation for Confidence (with Laura Gáti)
May 22 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Burcu Eyigungor Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	Credit and Welfare Implications of Credit Card Interchange Fees (with Satyajit Chatterjee)
May 27 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Manuel Amador University of Minnesota	Sovereign Swaps and Sovereign Default: Fundamental vs Rollover Risk (with Mark Aguiar)
June 3 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Scott Baker Northwestern University	The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment (with Darren Aiello, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark Johnson and Jason Kotter)
Aug. 14 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Cedomir Malgieri Arizona State University	Wage Contracts and Financial Frictions (with Luca Citino)
Aug. 21 12:30–1:45 p.m.	Todd Gerarden Cornell University	Strategic Avoidance and the Welfare Impacts of U.S. Solar Panel Tariffs (with Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham and Daniel Xu)
Sept. 18 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Tatiana Homonoff New York University	The Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access (with Min Lee and Katherine Meckel)
Sept. 25 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Francesco Beraldi Duke University	Banking Relationships and Loan Pricing Disconnect
Oct. 2 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Zhaogang Song Johns Hopkins University	Inflation, Default, and Corporate Bond Returns (with Xiaomeng Lu and Yoshio Nozawa)
Oct. 16 2:15–3:30 p.m.	Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham Yale University	Causal Inference in Financial Event Studies (with Tianshu Lyu)
Oct. 28 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Diana MacDonald Banco de México	A Dynamic Search and Matching Model of Foster Care: Theory and Evidence (with Ahmet Altinok)
Nov. 4 12:00–1:15 p.m.	Jens Christensen Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	The Natural Rate of Interest in the Euro Area: Evidence from Inflation-Indexed Bonds
Nov. 13 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Chenzi Xu University of California, Berkeley	EXIM’s Exit: Industrial Policy, Export Credit Agencies, & Capital Allocation
Dec. 11 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Galina Hale University of California, Santa Cruz	Global Spillovers of Climate Policy Shocks

2024 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
April 4 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Erica Jiang University of Southern California	Branching Out Inequality: The Impact of Credit Equality Policies (with Jacelly Cespedes, Carlos Parra and Jinyuan Zhang)
April 11 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Arpit Gupta New York University	The Costs of Housing Regulation: Evidence From Generative Regulatory Measurement (with Alexander Bartik and Daniel Milo)
April 18 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Hillary Stein Federal Reserve Bank of Boston	Dealer Risk Limits and Currency Returns (with Omar Barbiero, Falk Brauning and Gustavo Joaquim)
May 2 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Richard Sweeney Boston College	Winds of Change: Estimating Learning by Doing without Cost or Input Data (with Thomas Covert)
June 13 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Fabrizio Perri Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Reconciling Macroeconomics and Finance for the U.S. Corporate Sector: 1929 – Present (with Jonathan Heathcote and Andy Atkeson)
June 20 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Manju Puri Duke University Fuqua School of Business	From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech (with Yiming Qian and Xiang Zheng)
Aug. 22 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Jorge De la Roca University of Southern California	Skill Allocation and Urban Amenities in the Developing World (with Andrii Parkhomenko and Daniel Velásquez-Cabrera)
Aug. 29 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Selahattin Imrohoroglu University of Southern California	Fiscal Sustainability and Market Incompleteness: Quantitative Findings for Japan (with Akio Ino)
Sept. 5 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Andrew Atkeson University of California, Los Angeles	There is No Excess Volatility Puzzle (with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri)
Sept. 17 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Ashley Langer University of Arizona	What Were the Odds? Estimating the Market's Probability of Uncertain Events (with Derek Lemoine)
Sept. 26 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Charles Engel University of Wisconsin-Madison	Exchange Rate Models Are Better Than You Think, and Why They Didn’t Work in the Old Days (with Steve Pak Yeung Wu)
Oct. 1 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Kyle Herkenhoff University of Minnesota	Intergenerational Mobility and Credit (with J. Carter Braxton, Nisha Chikhale and Gordon Phillips)
Oct. 10 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Yueran Ma University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Business Concentration around the World: 1900—2020 (with J. Mengdi Zhang and Kaspar Zimmerman)
Oct. 17 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Thomas Drechsel University of Maryland	Estimating the Effects of Political Pressure on the Fed: A Narrative Approach with New Data
Oct. 24 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Hyunju Lee University of Houston	Globalization Accounting (with Sterre Kuipers and Radek Paluszynski)
Nov. 7 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Kurt See Bank of Canada	The Implications of Labor Market Heterogeneity on Unemployment Insurance Design (with Serdar Birinci)
Nov. 14 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Cody Tuttle University of Texas at Austin	Police Work and Political Identity (with Felipe Goncalves)
Nov. 21 1:45–3:00 p.m.	Chi Hyun Kim University of Bonn	Measuring the Effects of Aggregate Shocks on Unit-Level Outcomes and Their Distribution
Dec. 4 12:00–1:00 p.m.	Sarah Zubairy Texas A&M University	Treasury Supply Shocks: Volume Expansion and Maturity Extension Effects (with Huixin Bi and Maxime Phillot)
Dec. 20 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Stephen Hansen University College London	Inference for Regression with Variables Generated by AI or Machine Learning (with Laura Battaglia, Timothy Christensen and Szymon Sacher)

2023 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Feb. 9 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Mariacristina De Nardi University of Minnesota	The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health (with Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm)
Feb. 23 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Ana Maria Santacreu Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions
March 2 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Ben Keys University of Pennsylvania	Racial Bias in the Mortgage Market: New Evidence from Lending Discontinuities (with Will Dobbie and Andrew Paciorek)
March 9 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Francois Gourio Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Downward Nominal Rigidities and Bond Premia (with Phuong Ngo)
March 23 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Ian Dew-Becker Northwestern University	Tail Risk in Production Networks
March 30 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Peter Christensen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Energy Efficiency Can Deliver for Climate Policy: Evidence from Machine Learning-Based Targeting (with Paul Francisco, Erica Myers, Hansen Shao and Mateus Souza)
April 6 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Job Boerma University of Wisconsin-Madison	Composite Sorting (with Aleh Tsyvinski, Ruodu Wang and Zhenyuan Zhang)
April 13 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Dan Greenwald New York University	The Credit Line Channel (with John Krainer and Pascal Paul)
April 20 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Illenin Kondo Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Accounting for Racial Wealth Disparities (with Teegawende H. Zeida, Samuel L. Myers Jr. and William A. Darity Jr.)
April 27 12:45–2:00 p.m.	David Low Consumer Financial Protection Bureau	What Triggers Mortgage Default? New Evidence from Linked Administrative and Survey Data
May 11 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Lu Han University of Wisconsin-Madison	Frictional and Speculative Vacancies: The Effects of an Empty Homes Tax (with Derek Stacy and Hong Chen)
May 18 12:45–2:00 p.m.	George Alessandria University of Rochester	Rising Current Account Dispersion: Trade or Financial Integration? (with Yan Bai and Soo Kyung Woo)
June 22 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Nathaniel Baum-Snow University of Toronto	The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings (with Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Remi Jedwab)
June 29 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Rajashri Chakrabarti Federal Reserve Bank of New York	College Finance, Migration and Long-Term Financial Well-Being of Students (with William Nober and Wilbert van der Klaauw)
July 6 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Arthur Van Benthem University of Pennsylvania	Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient? (with Mark Jacobsen, James M. Sallee and Joseph S. Shapiro)
Aug. 17 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Samuel Kruger University of Texas at Austin	Did Pandemic Relief Fraud Inflate House Prices? (with John M. Griffin and Prateek Mahajan)
Aug. 31 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Aeimit Lakdawala Wake Forest University	Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts (with Benjamin S. Kay, Jane Ryngaert and Michael Futch)
Sept. 14 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Marianne Bitler University of California, Davis	Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program (with Theodore F. Figinski)
Sept. 21 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Mark Spiegel Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Targeted Reserve Requirements for Macroeconomic Stabilization (with Zheng Liu and and Jingyi Zhang)
Oct. 12 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Mark Hoekstra Baylor University	Are American Juries Racially Discriminatory? Evidence from Over a Quarter Million Felony Grand Jury Cases (with Suhyeon Oh and Meradee Tangvatcharapong)
Oct. 17 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Michael Weber University of Chicago	Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups (with Francesco D’Acunto and Andreas Fuster)
Oct. 19 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Zach Bethune Rice University	The Dynamics of Unemployment, Inflation and the Distribution of Liquidity (with Guillaume Rocheteau)
Oct. 26 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Katalin Springel HEC Montréal	Entry and Coordination in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Charging Industry (with Jing Li)
Nov. 2 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé Columbia University	Heterogeneous Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Foundations of a Nonlinear Phillips Curve (with Martin Uribe)
Nov. 9 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Columbia University	Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse (with Arpit Gupta and Vrinda Mittal)
Nov. 16 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Javier Bianchi Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Financial Integration and Monetary Policy Coordination (with Louphou Coulibaly)
Nov. 30 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Claudia Macaluso Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	Outsourcing Dynamism (with Andrea Atencio De Leon and Chen Yeh)
Dec. 7 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Eva Steiner Penn State University	The Best Cities for Firms (with Andra Ghent)

2022 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
March 23 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Michela Giorcelli University of California, Los Angeles	Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from Sino-Soviet Alliance (with Bo Li)
March 31 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Gregor Matvos Northwestern University	Banking Without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Call Reports (with Erica Jiang, Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru)
April 7 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Max Auffhammer University of California, Berkeley	Natural Gas Price Elasticities and Optimal Cost Recovery Under Consumer Heterogeneity (with Edward Rubin)
April 28 2:00–3:15 p.m. (virtual)	Anna Cieslak Duke University	Policymakers’ Uncertainty (with Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Song Xiao)
May 5 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Ludwig Straub Harvard University	A Goldilocks Theory of Fiscal Deficits (with Atif Mian and Amir Sufi)
May 12 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Nitya Pandalai-Nayar University of Texas at Austin	News Media and International Fluctuations (with Ha Bui, Zhen Huo and Andrei Levchenko)
May 19 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Lorenzo Caliendo Yale University	The Quantitative Effects of Trade Policy on Industrial and Labor Location (with Fernando Parro)
May 26 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Andreas Mueller University of Texas at Austin	Predicting Long-Term Unemployment Risk (with Johannes Spinnewijn)
Aug. 11 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Toni Whited University of Michigan	Central Bank Digital Currency and Banks (with Yufeng Wu and Kairong Xiao)
Aug. 18 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Michael Barnett Arizona State University	Does Climate Change Impact Sovereign Bond Yields? (with Constantine Yannelis)
Aug. 25 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Diego Comin Dartmouth College	Supply Chain Constraints and Inflation (with Robert C. Johnson)
Sept. 1 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Eric Zou University of Oregon	Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke (with Mark Borgschulte and David Molitor)
Sept. 8 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Ralf Meisenzahl Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Crisis Liquidity Facilities with Nonbank Counterparties: Lessons from the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (with Karen M. Pence)
Sept. 15 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Manuel Adelino Duke University	The Environmental Cost of Easy Credit: The Housing Channel (with David Robinson)
Sept. 22 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Louphou Coulibaly University of Wisconsin	A Theory of Fear of Floating (with Javier Bianchi)
Sept. 29 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Sharat Ganapati Georgetown University	Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis (with Fabian Eckert and Conor Walsh)
Oct. 13 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Corina Boar New York University	Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed? (with Denis Gorea and Virgiliu Midrigan)
Oct. 20 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Elena Pikulina University of British Columbia	Political Divide and the Composition of Households’ Equity Portfolios (with Yihui Pan, Stephan Siegel and Tracy Yue Wang)
Nov. 3 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Andra Ghent University of Utah	Does Main Street Benefit from What Benefits Wall Street? (with Sean J. Flynn Jr.)
Nov. 10 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Raven Molloy Federal Reserve Board	Differences in Rent Growth by Income 1985-2021 and Implications for Inflation (with Daryl Larsen)
Nov. 17 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Kevin Shih Queens College CUNY	The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery and U.S. Employer-Employee Data (with Agostina Brinatti, Mingyu Chen, Parag Mahajan and Nicolas Morales)
Dec. 1 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Wenli Li Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	The Impact of Opioid Epidemic on Consumer Finance (with Sumit Agarwal, Raluca Roman and Nonna Sorokina)
Dec. 2 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Amit Seru Stanford University	Why is Intermediating Houses so Difficult? Evidence from iBuyers (with Greg Buchak, Gregor Matvos and Tomasz Piskorski)
Dec. 8 12:45–2:00 p.m.	Catherine Hausman University of Michigan	Spillovers from Ancillary Services to Wholesale Energy Markets (with Jesse F. Buchsbaum, Johanna L. Mathieu and Jing Peng)

2021

Date	Speaker	Presentation
April 8 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Regis Barnichon Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Testing Macroeconomic Policies with Sufficient Statistics (with Geert Mesters)
April 15 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Sandra Black Columbia University	Where Does Wealth Come From? (with Paul J. Devereux, Fanny Landaud and Kjell G. Salvanes)
April 22 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Conny Olovsson Sveriges Riksbank	On the Effectiveness of Climate Policies (with John Hassler, Per Krusell and Michael Reiter)
April 29 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Andreas Fuster Swiss National Bank	How Resilient is Mortgage Credit Supply? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Aurel Hizmo, Lauren Lambie-Hanson, James Vickery and Paul Willen)
May 6 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Javier Cravino University of Michigan	Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences: Evidence from Multinational Firms (with Vanessa Alviarez and Natalia Ramondo)
May 13 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Ivan Ivanov Federal Reserve Board	Fighting Failure: The Persistent Real Effects of Resolving Distressed Banks (with Stephen A. Karolyi)
May 20 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Milena Almagro Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam (with Tomas Dominguez-Iino)
May 27 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Monika Piazzesi Stanford University	How Unconventional is Green Monetary Policy? (with Melina Papoutsi and Martin Schneider)
June 3 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Motohiro Yogo Princeton University	Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in a Global Demand System (with Ralph S.J. Koijen)
June 10 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Christopher Knittel Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Distributed Effects of Climate Policy: A Machine Learning Approach (with Tomas W. Green)
July 29 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Erin Wolcott Middlebury College	How Does the Dramatic Rise of CPS Non-Response Impact Labor Market Indicators? (with Robert Bernhardt and David Munro)
Aug. 5 9:00–10:15 a.m. (virtual)	Daniel Prinz Institute for Fiscal Studies	The Impact of Payroll Tax Subsidies: Theory and Evidence (with Aniko Biro, Reka Branyiczki, Attila Lindner and Lili Mark)
Aug. 12 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Matthew Kahn Johns Hopkins University	Local Public Finance Dynamics and Hurricane Shocks (with Rhiannon Jerch and Gary Lin)
Aug. 19 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Peter Ganong University of Chicago	Spending and Job Search Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data (with Fiona Greig, Max Liebeskind, Pascal Noel, Daniel Sullivan and Joseph Vavra)
Sept. 9 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (virtual)	Charles Engel University of Wisconsin	Scrambling for Dollars: International Liquidity, Banks and Exchange Rates (with Javier Bianchi and Saki Bigio)
Sept. 16 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Loukas Karabarbounis University of Minnesota	Reparations and Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps (with Job Boerma)
Sept. 23 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Adrien Auclert Stanford University	Demographics, Wealth, and Global Imbalances in the Twenty-First Century (with Hannes Malmberg, Frédéric Martenet and Matthew Rognlie)
Sept. 30 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Matteo Maggiori Stanford University	Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens (with Antonio Coppola, Brent Neiman and Jesse Schreger)
Oct. 7 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Rebecca Diamond Stanford University	The Effect of Foreclosures on Homeowners, Tenants, and Landlords (with Adam Guren and Rose Tan)
Oct. 14 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley	Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and Geography of Consumption (with Rebecca Diamond)
Oct. 21 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Johannes Stroebel New York University	A Quantity-Based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios (with Georgij Alekseev, Stefano Giglio, Quinn Maingi and Julia Selgrad)
Oct. 28 10:00–11:15 a.m. (virtual)	Kiminori Matsuyama Northwestern University	A Technology-Gap Model of Premature Deindustrialization (with Ippei Fujiwara)
Nov. 4 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	When Hosios Meets Phillips: Connecting Efficiency and Stability to Demand Shocks (with Etienne Wasmer and Philippe Weil)
Dec. 2 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Kilian Huber University of Chicago	Disaggregated Economic Accounts: Measurement and Implications for Fiscal Policy
Dec. 9 12:45–2:00 p.m. (virtual)	Victoria Ivashina Harvard University	Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? (with B. Gutiérrez and J. Salomao)

2020 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
March 3 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Carolin Pflueger University of Chicago	A Consumption Based Model of Monetary Policy and Asset Prices (with Gianluca Rinaldi)
May 19 12:00–1:00 p.m. (virtual)	Thiago Ferreira Federal Reserve Board	Scarcity of Safe Assets and Global Neutral Interest Rates (with Samer Shousha)
May 21 9:30–10:45 a.m. (virtual)	Urban Jermann University of Pennsylvania	Is SOFR Better than LIBOR?
May 28 9:30–10:45 a.m. (virtual)	Jesús Fernández-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania	Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities (with Charles I. Jones)
June 11 9:30–10:45 a.m. (virtual)	Veronica Guerrieri University of Chicago	Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? (with Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub and Iván Werning)
June 25 9:30–11:00 a.m. (virtual)	Sergio Rebelo Northwestern University	The Macroeconomics of Epidemics (with Martin Eichenbaum and Mathias Trabandt)
Aug. 27 9:30–10:45 a.m. (virtual)	Stephanie Johnson Rice University	Financial Technology and the 1990s Housing Boom
Sept. 10 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Jacob Vigdor University of Washington	The Price of Protection: Landlord-Tenant Regulations and the Decline in Rental Affordability, 1960-2017 (with Alanna F. Williams)
Sept. 17 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania	Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic (with Andrew Glover, Jonathan Heathcote and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull)
Oct. 1 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	David Berger Duke University	Mortgage Prepayment and the Path-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy (with Konstantin Milbradt, Fabrice Tourre and Joseph Vavra)
Oct. 14 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Menzie Chinn University of Wisconsin–Madison	The New Fama Puzzle (with Matthieu Bussière, Laurent Ferrara and Jonas Heipertz)
Oct. 22 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Jonathan Dingel University of Chicago	Spatial Economics for Granular Settings (with Felix Tintelnot)
Oct. 29 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Sydnee Caldwell University of California, Berkeley	Experimental Evidence on Male and Female Labor Supply (with Emily Oehlsen)
Nov. 5 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Alp Simsek Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets (with Ricardo J. Caballero)
Nov. 12 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Atif Mian Princeton University	Indebted Demand (with Ludwig Straub and Amir Sufi)
Dec. 3 1:15–2:30 p.m. (virtual)	Oleg Itskhoki University of California, Los Angeles	Dominant Currencies: How Firms Choose Currency Invoicing and Why It Matters (with Mary Amiti and Jozef Konings)

2019 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Feb 21 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Marco Del Negro Federal Reserve Bank of New York	A Bayesian Approach for Inference on Probabilistic Surveys (with Roberto Casarin and Federico Bassetti)
Feb. 28 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Annette Vissing-Jorgensen University of California, Berkeley	The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves (with Robin Greenwood)
March 7 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Eric Sims University of Notre Dame	Evaluating Central Banks' Tool Kit: Past, Present, and Future (with Jing Cynthia Wu)
March 14 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago	What Happened to the U.S. Business Dynamism? (with Sina T. Ates)
March 20 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Christopher Otrok University of Missouri	Estimating Macroeconomic Models of Financial Crises: An Endogenous Regime Switching Approach (with Gianluca D. Benigno, Andrew Foerster and Alessandro Rebucci)
April 4 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Francesco Bianchi Duke University	The Origins and Effects of Macroeconomic Uncertainty (with Howard Kung and Mikhail Tirskikh)
April 11 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Antoine Martin Federal Reserve Bank of New York	Can the US Interbank Market Be Revived? (with Kyungmin Kim and Ed Nosal)
April 18 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Wouter den Haan London School of Economics	Agnostic Structural Disturbances (ASDs): Detecting and Reducing Misspecification in Empirical Macroeconomic Models (with Thomas Drechsel)
May 2 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Dejanir Silva University of Illinois	Wealth Effects and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy (with Nicolas Caramp)
May 9 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Nicholas Bloom Stanford University	The Finance Uncertainty Multiplier (with Iván Alfaro and Xiaoji Lin)
May 16 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Pascual Restrepo Boston University	Demographics and Automation (with Daron Acemoglu)
May 30 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Martin Eichenbaum Northwestern University	Monetary Policy and the Predictability of Nominal Exchange Rates (with Benjamin K. Johannsen and Sergio Rebelo)
June 20 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Stephen Ross University of Connecticut	The Returns to Ability and Experience in High School Labor Markets: Revisiting Evidence on Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination (with Xizi Li)
June 27 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Andrés Fernández Martin Central Bank of Chile	Sticky Capital Controls (with Miguel Acosta and Laura Alfaro)
July 16 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Stathis Tompaidis University of Texas at Austin	Measuring Risks in Hedge Funds: Evaluation and Usefulness of Exposure Data in Form PF (with Phillip J. Monin and Matthew Pritsker)
July 25 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Émilien Gouin-Bonenfant University of California, San Diego	Productivity Dispersion, Between-Firm Competition, and the Labor Share
Aug. 13 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Michael Bordo Rutgers University	Digital Cash: Principles & Practical Steps and Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Monetary Policy
Aug. 22 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Mikkel Plagborg-Møller Princeton University	Local Projections and VARs Estimate the Same Impulse Responses (with Christian K. Wolf)
Sept. 5 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Winston Dou University of Pennsylvania	Competition, Profitability, and Risk Premia (with Yan Ji and Wei Wu)
Sept. 13 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Carola Binder Haverford College	Central Bank Communication and Disagreement about the Natural Rate Hypothesis
Sept. 24 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Linda Goldberg Federal Reserve Bank of New York	International Capital Flow Pressures (with Signe Krogstrup)
Oct. 1 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Ali Ozdagli Federal Reserve Bank of Boston	Monetary Policy through Production Networks: Evidence from the Stock Market (with Michael Weber)
Oct. 3 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Felix Tintelnot University of Chicago	The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States (with Bradley Setzler)
Oct. 8 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Toni Ahnert Bank of Canada	Bank Competition, Bank Runs and Opacity (with David Martinez-Miera)
Oct. 10 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Rodrigo Adão University of Chicago	Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations (with Martin Beraja and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar)
Oct. 17 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Harald Uhlig University of Chicago	Cryptocurrencies, Currency Competition, and the Impossible Trinity (with Pierpaolo Benigno and Linda M. Schilling)
Oct. 24 1:15–2:30 p.m.	John Knowles Simon Fraser University	Savings and Attitudes – An Intergenerational Analysis (with Andrew Postlewaite)
Oct. 31 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Michael McMahon University of Oxford	Monetary Policymakers' Uncertainty (with Anna Cieslak and Stephen Hansen)
Nov. 4 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Florin Bilbiie University of Lausanne	Monetary Policy and Heterogeneity: An Analytical Framework
Nov. 7 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Kyle Jurado Duke University	Recoverability and Expectations-Driven Fluctuations (with Ryan Chahrour)
Nov. 14 9:30–10:45 a.m.	Fatih Karahan Federal Reserve Bank of New York	Anatomy of Lifetime Earnings Inequality: Heterogeneity in Job Ladder Risk vs Human Capital (with Serdar Ozkan and Jae Song)
Dec. 5 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Dana Kiku University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Climate Change Risk (with Ravi Bansal and Marcelo Ochoa)
Dec. 12 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University	The Great Micro Moderation (with Nicholas Bloom, Fatih Guvenen, John Sabelhaus, Sergio Salgado and Jae Song)

2018 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Jan. 16 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Cynthia Wu University of Chicago, Booth	A Shadow Rate New Keynesian Model (with Ji Zhang)
Jan. 17 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Drew Creal University of Chicago, Booth	Multihorizon Currency Returns and Purchasing Power Parity (with Mikhail Chernov)
Feb. 27 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Kris Mitchener Santa Clara University	Systemic Risk and the Great Depression (with Sanjiv Das and Angela Vossmeyer)
March 8 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Ryan Chahrour Boston College	The International Medium of Exchange: Privilege and Duty (with Rosen Valchev)
March 15 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi Northwestern University	Information Revelation and Efficiency in Heterogeneous Markets
March 22 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Dmitriy Sergeyev Bocconi University	Central Bank Balance Sheet Policies without Rational Expectations (with Luigi Iovino)
March 29 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Dacheng Xiu University of Chicago, Booth	Inference on Risk Premia in the Presence of Omitted Factors (with Stefano Giglio)
April 3 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Galina Hale Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Monitoring Banking System Fragility with Big Data (with Jose A. Lopez)
April 13 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Lutz Kilian University of Michigan	Modeling Fluctuations in the Global Demand for Commodities (with Xiaoqing Zhou)
April 19 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Ben Johannsen Federal Reserve Board	A Time Series Model of Interest Rates with the Effective Lower Bound (with Elmar Mertens)
April 26 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Pablo Cuba-Borda Federal Reserve Board	Likelihood Evaluation of Models with Occasionally Binding Constraints (with Luca Guerrieri, Matteo Iacoviello and Molin Zhong)
May 1 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Jose Montiel Olea Columbia University	A/B Testing (with Eduardo Azevedo, Alex Deng, Justin Rao and E. Glen Weyl)
May 3 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Yuriy Gorodnichenko University of California, Berkeley	Unbundling Quantitative Easing: Taking a Cue from Treasury Auctions (with Walker Ray)
May 10 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Giorgio Primiceri Northwestern University	The Mortgage Rate Conundrum (with Alejandro Justiniano and Andrea Tambalotti)
May 17 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Latchezar Popov Texas Tech University	Misallocation and Intersectoral Linkages (with Sophie Osotimehin)
May 22 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Michel Robe American University	The Third Dimension of Financialization: Electronification, Intraday Institutional Trading, and Commodity Market Quality (with Vikas Raman and Pradeep K. Yadav)
May 31 10:30–11:45 a.m.	B. Ravikumar Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	Explaining Cross-Cohort Differences in Life-Cycle Earnings (with Yu-Chien Kong and Guillaume Vandenbroucke)
June 7 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Boragan Aruoba University of Maryland	How Big is the Wealth Effect? Decomposing the Response of Consumption to House Prices (with Ronel Elul and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan)
June 14 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Benjamin Wong Monash University	Estimating and Accounting for the Output Gap with Large Bayesian Vector Autoregressions (with James Morley)
June 26 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Jorge Miranda-Pinto The University of Queensland	Production Network Structure, Service Share, and Aggregate Volatility
July 26 10:30–11:45 a.m.	David Miller Federal Reserve Board	A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
Aug. 23 1:15–2:30 p.m.	James D. Hamilton University of California, San Diego	A Skeptical View of the Impact of the Fed's Balance Sheet (with David Greenlaw, Ethan S. Harris and Kenneth D. West)
Aug. 28 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Eric Swanson University of California, Irvine	Measuring the Effects of Federal Reserve Forward Guidance and Asset Purchases on Financial Markets
September 4 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Xiaoqing Zhou Bank of Canada	The Propagation of Regional Shocks in Housing Markets: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks in Canada (with Lutz Kilian)
September 6 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Alex Gelber University of California, San Diego	Using Non-Linear Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test (with Damon Jones, Daniel W. Sacks and Jae Song)
September 13 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Benjamin Born Frankfurt School of Finance & Management	The Costs of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from the Brexit Experiment (with Gernot Müller, Moritz Schularick and Petr Sedlacek)
September 20 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Martin Uribe Columbia University	The Neo-Fisher Effect: Econometric Evidence from Empirical and Optimizing Models
September 26 10:30–11:45 a.m.	James Vickery Federal Reserve Bank of New York	The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending (with Andreas Fuster, Matthew Plosser and Philipp Schnabl)
September 27 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Nicolas Ziebarth Auburn University	Firm Networks in the Great Depression (with Chris Vickers and Erik Loualiche)
Oct. 4 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Domenico Giannone Federal Reserve Bank of New York	Economic Predictions with Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity (with Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri)
Oct. 11 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Bernard Herskovic UCLA Anderson School of Management	OTC Intermediaries (with Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Sriram Rajan and Emil Siriwardane)
Oct. 18 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Jennifer Hunt Rutgers University	Why Are Fewer Workers Earning Middle Wages and Is It a Bad Thing? (with Ryan Nunn)
Oct. 25 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Aditya Aladangady Federal Reserve Board	High-Frequency Spending Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit (with Shifrah Aron-Dine, David Cashin, Wendy Dunn, Laura Feiveson, Paul Lengermann, Katherine Richard and Claudia Sahm)
November 1 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Christoph Boehm University of Texas at Austin	Government Consumption and Investment: Does the Composition of Purchases Affect the Multiplier?
November 2 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Eric Van Wincoop University of Virginia	Puzzling Exchange Rate Dynamics and Delayed Portfolio Adjustment (with Philippe Bacchetta)
November 8 10:30–11:45 a.m.	David Albouy University of Illinois	Valuing Public Goods More Generally: The Case of Infrastructure (with Arash Farahani)
November 15 1:15–2:30 p.m.	Johannes Wieland Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	The Interest Elasticity of Durable Demand: Measurement and Implications (with Alisdair McKay)
Dec. 11 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Neil Mehrotra Brown University	Small and Large Firms Over the Business Cycle (with Nicolas Crouzet)
Dec. 13 10:30–11:45 a.m.	Anna Orlik Federal Reserve Board	On Credible Monetary Policies under Model Uncertainty (with Ignacio Presno)

2017 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Feb. 24	Lorenzo Caliendo Yale University	Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms (with Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg)
March 10	Ben Johannsen Federal Reserve Board	Monetary Policy and the Predictability of Nominal Exchange Rates (with Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo)
March 17	Young (Seonyoung) Park University of Delaware	Recent Decline in Aggregate Labor Supply of Married Women in the United States: A Life-Cycle Structural Model
March 24	Daniel Murphy University of Virginia	Fiscal Stimulus, Interest Rates, and Inequality: A Global Perspective (with Jorge Miranda-Pinto and Kieran Walsh)
April 7	Pietro Peretto Duke University	Commodity Prices and Growth (with Domenico Ferraro)
April 14	Ryan Kellogg University of Chicago	Information Asymmetry, Drilling Distortions, and Oil and Gas Leases (with Evan Herrnstadt and Eric Lewis)
May 5	Ricardo Reyes-Heroles Federal Reserve Board	Globalization and Structural Change in the United States: A Quantitative Assessment
May 12	Daniel Greenwald Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Mortgage Credit Channel of Macroeconomic Transmission
May 26	Jose Joaquin Lopez University of Memphis	Size-Dependent Policies, the Allocation of Talent, and the Return to Skill (with Jesica Torres-Coronado)
June 23	Marco Lombardi Bank for International Settlements	The Real Effects of Household Debt in the Short and Long Run (with Madhusudan Mohanty and Ilhyock Shim)
June 30	Anson Soderbery Purdue University	Trade Elasticities, Heterogeneity, and Optimal Tariffs
July 7	Gil Sadka University of Texas at Dallas	Cross-Sectional Dispersion, Expected Loan Losses, and Debt Cycles (with Xanthi Gkougkousi and Suresh Radhakrishnan)
July 14	Eric Young University of Virginia	Flexibility and Frictions in Multisector Models (with Jorge Miranda-Pinto)
July 28	Ralf Meisenzahl Federal Reserve Board	Pipeline Risk in Leveraged Loan Syndication (with Max Bruche and Frederic Malherbe)
Aug. 11	Kim Ruhl Penn State University	Offshore Profit Shifting and Domestic Productivity Measurement (with Fatih Guvenen, Raymond Mataloni, and Dylan Rassier)
Sept. 15	Andy Glover University of Texas at Austin	Aggregate Effects of Minimum Wage Regulation at the Zero Lower Bound
Sept. 22	Benjamin Bridgman Bureau of Economic Analysis	Is Productivity on Vacation? The Impact of the Digital Economy on the Value of Leisure
Sept. 29	Christian Matthes Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	Indeterminacy and Imperfect Information (with Thomas Lubik and Elmar Mertens)
Oct. 6	Matthew Jaremski Colgate University	Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks (with Charles W. Calomiris)
Oct. 13	Ayse Sapci Colgate University	Housing Wealth Reallocation between Subprime and Prime Borrowers during Recessions (with Nam Vu)
Oct. 27	Radek Paluszynski University of Houston	Learning about Debt Crises
Nov. 10	Daniela Scida Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	Structural VAR and Financial Networks: A Minimum Distance Approach to Spatial Modeling
Nov. 17	Rodolfo Manuelli Washington University in St. Louis	Central Banking Without Fiscal Support: Honest (and Dishonest) Optimal Monetary Policy
Dec. 8	Pablo Guerron-Quintana Boston College	Political Distribution Risk and Business Cycles (with Thorsten Drautzburg and Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)
Dec. 15	Sarah Zubairy Texas A&M University	Homeownership and Housing Transitions: Explaining the Demographic Composition (with Eunseong Ma)

2016 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Feb. 3	Clemens Sialm University of Texas at Austin	Complex Mortgages (with Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang, and Edward Zhong)
Feb. 4	Mark Wright Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America (with Lee Ohanian and Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria)
March 3	Berthold Herrendorf Arizona State University	Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment (with Georg Duernecker)
March 15	Yunjong Eo University of Sydney	Forecasting the Term Structure of Interest Rates with Potentially Misspecified Models (with Kyu Ho Kang)
March 22	Cathy Zhang Purdue University	Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy (with Guillaume Rocheteau and Randall Wright)
March 24	Athanasios Orphanides Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Euro Area Crisis Five Years After the Original Sin
March 28	Georgios Georgiadis European Central Bank	To Bi, or not to Bi? Differences in Spillover Estimates from Bilateral and Multilateral Multi-country Models
April 13	Bernabe Lopez-Martin Bank of Mexico	The Blighted Youth: The Impact of Recessions and Policies on Life-Cycle Unemployment (with Naoki Takayama)
April 28	Jae Won Lee Seoul National University	Optimal Index versus Simple Index for Monetary Policy (with Yeji Sung)
May 5	Saroj Bhattarai University of Texas at Austin	Optimal Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy at the Zero Lower Bound in a Small Open Economy (with Konstantin Egorov)
May 11	Alex Hsu Georgia Institute of Technology	Monetary Policy, Volatility Risk, and Return Predictability
May 19	Adrien Auclert Princeton University	Inequality and Aggregate Demand (with Matthew Rognlie)
May 25	Ricardo Fernholz Claremont McKenna	Empirical Methods for Dynamic Power Law Distributions in the Social Sciences
June 7	Anand Srinivasan National University of Singapore	Unintended Consequences of Government Bailouts: Evidence from Bank-Dependent Borrowers of Large Banks (with Yupeng Lin and Xin Liu)
July 6	Rodrigo Sekkel Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City	The Real-Time Properties of the Bank of Canada's Staff Output Gap Estimates
July 18	Edward Nelson University of Sydney	The Correlation between Money and Output in the United Kingdom: A Resolution of the Puzzle
Aug. 17	Jon Willis Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City	Can Machine-Learning Techniques Contribute to our Understanding of Labor Market Dynamics? (with San Cannon, Nenad Jukic, Svetlozar Nestorov, and Abhishek Sharma)
Aug. 19	David Papell University of Houston	Policy Rules and Economic Performance (with Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy)
Aug. 22	Karel Mertens Cornell University	The Macroeconomic Effects of Government Asset Purchases: Evidence from Postwar US Housing Credit Policy (with Andrew Fieldhouse and Morten Ravn)
Aug. 30	Edward Herbst Federal Reserve Board	The Empirical Implications of the Interest-Rate Lower Bound (with Chris Gust, Matt Smith, and David Lopez-Salido)
Sept. 8	Lilia Maliar University of Alicante and Stanford University	A Tractable Framework for Analyzing a Class of Nonstationary Markov Models (with Serguei Maliar, John Taylor, and Inna Tsener)
Sept. 19	Adam Kolasinski Texam A&M	Managerial Myopia and the Mortgage Meltdown (with Nan Yang)
Sept. 29	Roc Armenter Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	The Perils of Nominal Targets
October 5	Eric Van Wincoop University of Virginia	What Can we Learn from Euro-Dollar Tweets? (with Vahid Gholampour)
October 14	Christiane Baumeister University of Notre Dame	Structural Interpretation of Vector Autoregressions with Incomplete Identification: Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks (with James Hamilton)
October 20	George Alessandria University of Rochester	The Dynamics of the U.S. Trade Balances and Real Exchange rate: The J Curve and Trade Costs? (with Horag Choi)
October 28	Todd Walker University of Indiana	Approximate Aggregation in Dynamic Economies (with Karsten O. Chipeniuk and Nets Hawk Katz)
Nov. 18	Anna Kormilitsina Southern Methodist University	Is Government Spending Predetermined? A Test of identification for Fiscal Policy Shocks
Dec. 9	Farid Farrokhi Purdue University	Global Sourcing in Oil Markets
Dec. 16	Mark Agerton Rice University	Anatomy of a Shale Boom: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Mineral Leasing and Drilling Decisions

2015 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Jan. 13	Zachary Stangebye University of Pennsylvania	Dynamic Panics: Theory and Application to the Eurozone
Jan. 15	Ilaf Scheikh Elard University of Oxford	Financial Openness and Interbank Market Crises
Jan. 20	Everett Grant University of Virginia	Exposure to International Crises: Trade vs. Financial Contagion
Jan. 21	Aaron Flaaen University of Michigan	Input Linkages and the Transmission of Shocks: Firm Level Evidence from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Jan. 23	Regina Martinez George Washington University	International Banking Flows and 'Bad' Credit Booms: Do Booms Go with the Flow?
Feb. 2	Nikhil Patel Columbia University	Credit Constraints, Trade Finance and the Cost Channel of Monetary Policy in Open Economies
Feb. 6	Qingqing Cao Princeton University	Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Collateral Constraints
Feb. 13	Pablo Cuba-Borda University of Maryland	What Explains the Great Recession and the Slow Recovery?
March 5	Lutz Killian University of Michigan	A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices With An Application to Crude Oil
March 27	Todd Walker Indiana University	Approximate Aggregation in the Neoclassical Growth Model with Idiosyncratic Shocks
April 3	Giuseppe Moscarini Yale University	Wage Posting and Business Cycles: A Quantitative Exploration
April 10	Guido Lorenzoni Northwestern University	Slow Moving Debt Crises
April 17	Nicholas Sly University of Oregon	Labor Market Effects of Offshoring Within and Across Firm Boundaries
May 1	Andrea Civelli University of Arkansas	Globalization and Inflation: Evidence from a Time Varying VAR
May 11	Thomas Covert University of Chicago, Booth School of Business	Experiential and Social Learning in Firms: The Case of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Bakken Shale
May 19	Ina Simonovska University of California, Davis	The Risky Capital of Emerging Markets
May 28	Michael Klein Tufts University	Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma: Sources of Monetary Policy Autonomy
June 12	Batchimeg Sambalaibat University of Oklahoma	A Theory of Liquidity Spillover Between Bond and CDS Markets
July 1	Hilde Bjornland BI Norwegian Business School	Boom or Gloom: Examining the Dutch Disease in a Two-Speed Economy
Aug. 19	William Gavin Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (retired)	The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 and Financial Crises
Sept. 17	Ariel Burstein University of California, Los Angeles	Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy (with Andrew Atkeson)
Sept. 23	Stephen Quinn Texas Christian University	Death of a Reserve Currency (with William Roberds)
Sept. 29	Juergen von Hagen University of Bonn	Governance of the Euro Area: Fiscal Union, Debt Union, Fiscal Freedom
Oct. 5	Stefan Zeume University of Michigan	Corporate Tax Havens and Transparency (with Morten Bennedsen)
Oct. 26	Ariel Weinberger University of Oklahoma	Exporter Heterogeneity and Price Discrimination: A Quantitative View
Nov. 5	Thomas Holden University of Surrey	Existence, Uniqueness and Computation of Solutions to DSGE Models with Occasionally Binding Constraints
Nov. 9	Ine Van Robays European Central Bank	Oil Prices, Exchange Rates and Asset Prices (with Marcel Fratzscher and Daniel Schneider)
Nov. 20	Andrei Levchenko University of Michigan	TFP, News, and "Sentiments:" The International Transmission of Business Cycles (with Nitya Pandalai-Nayar)
Dec. 1	Malory Vachon Louisiana State University	The Impact of Local Labor Market Conditions on Migration: Evidence from the Bakken Oil Boom
Dec. 18	Erwan Quintin University of Wisconsin	Limited Disclosure And Hidden Orders In Asset Markets (with Cyril Monnet)

2014 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Jan. 13	Chiara Forlati École Polytechnique Fédéerale de Lausanne	Mortgage Amortization and Welfare (with Luisa Lambertini)
Jan. 15	Emir Malikov SUNY Binghamton	Are All U.S. Credit Unions Alike (with Diego A. Restrepo-Tobon and Subal C. Kumbhakar)
Jan. 17	Soojin Jo Bank of Canada	The Effects of Oil Price Uncertainty on Global Real Economic Activity
Jan. 22	Jonathan Hoddenbagh Boston College	The Optimal Design of a Fiscal Union (with Mikhail Dmitriev)
Jan. 27	Julieta Yung University of Notre Dame	Can Interest Rate Factors Explain Exchange Rates?
Jan. 28	Martin Stuermer University of Bonn	150 Years of Boom and Bust: What Drives Mineral Commodity Prices?
Jan. 30	Lance Bachmeier Kansas State University	Does the Stock Market React Slowly to Oil Price Shocks?
Jan. 31	Kimberly Berg University of Notre Dame	The Choice of Exchange Rate Regime: A Welfare Based Analysis
Feb. 3	Mark Curtis Georgia State University	Who Loses Under Power Plant Cap-and-Trade Programs?
Feb. 4	Raju Huidrom University of Virginia	Credit Shocks and the U.S. Business Cycle: Is This Time Different?
Feb. 5	Felipe Benguria University of Virginia	Production and Distribution in International Trade: Evidence from Matched Exporter-Importer Data
Feb. 6	Mikhail Dmitriev Boston College	The Financial Accelerator and the Optimal Lending Contract (with Jonathan Hoddenbagh)
Feb. 7	Burcu Cigerli Centrica plc	An Imperfectly Competitive Model of the World Natural Gas Market
March 5	Mario Crucini Vanderbilt University	Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration: Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns
March 11	Alexander Richter Auburn University	Global Dynamics at the Zero Lower Bound
March 17	Frank Barry Trinity College, Dublin	The Mechanics of Aggressive Tax Planning by U.S. Multinationals
March 28	Benjamin Keen University of Oklahoma	The Stimulative Effect of Forward Guidance
April 7	Jing Cynthia Wu University of Chicago, Booth	Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound
April 16	Olivier Coibion University of Texas, Austin	Commodity Price Comovement and Global Economic Activity (with Ron Alquist)
April 17	Zoltan Pozsar Senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Treasury and visiting Scholar at the IMF	Shadow Banking: The Money View
May 9	Guillaume Vandenbroucke University of Southern California	Dynamic Squeezing: Marriage and Fertility in France After World War One (with John Knowles)
May 12	German Cubas University of Houston	A Macroeconomic Analysis of Career Choice and Earnings Risk in the Labor Market (with Pedro Silos)
May 19	Alvaro Aguirre Central Bank of Chile	Welfare Effects of Structural Balance Fiscal Rules
May 23	Heiwai Tang Johns Hopkins University	Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Firm Evidence from China (with Hiau Looi Kee)
June 20	Victor Valcarcel Texas Tech University	A Model of Monetary Policy Shocks for Financial Crises and Normal Conditions
June 23	Ippei Fujiwara Keio University and Australian National University	Policy Regime Change Against Chronic Deflation? Policy Option Under a Long-term Liquidity Trap (with Yoshiyuki Nakazono and Kozo Ueda)
June 24	Ronald Edwards Tamkang University	Economic Revolution: Song China and England
July 7	David Gould World Bank	Europe's Linkages with the World: Has EU Integration Been as Successful as Global Integration?
Sept. 5	Ruth Judson Federal Reserve Board	Estimating Cross-Border Securities Positions: New Data and New Methods (with Carol Bertaut)
Sept. 22	Manasa Patnam CREST (ENSAE)	Estimating Fiscal Multipliers with Essential Heterogeneity (with Emmanuoil Kitsios)
Oct. 2	Loris Rubini Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	Trade Costs and Markups (with Alexander McQuoid)
Oct. 6	Nathaniel Throckmorton College of William and Mary	The Consequences of an Unknown Debt Target (with Alexander Richter)
Oct. 10	Saroj Bhattarai University of Texas, Austin	Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy at the Zero Lower Bound in a Small Open Economy
Oct. 14	Elisa Keller Durham University Business School	Gender and Occupational Outcome
Oct. 21	Mark Wohar University of Nebraska Omaha	What Drives Commodity Returns? Market, Sector or Idiosyncratic Factors? (with Jun Ma and Andrew Vivian)
Oct. 27	Ezra Oberfield Princeton University	Micro Data and Macro Technology (with Devesh Raval)
Nov. 3	CY Choi University of Texas Arlington	The Role of Two Frictions in Geographic Price Dispersion: When Market Friction Meets Nominal Rigidity
Nov. 10	Lorenzo Caliendo Yale University	The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy (with Fernando Parro, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Pierre-Daniel Sarte)
Nov. 12	Diego Vilan University of Southern California	Demand Shocks and Endogenous Uncertainty
Nov. 14	Samuel Reynard Swiss National Bank	QE Equivalence to Interest Rate Policy: Implications for Exit
Nov. 17	Daniel Sullivan Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Estimating and Forecasting Trend Labor Force Participation
Nov. 17	Santiago Barraza University of Arkansas	Financial Crisis and the Supply of Corporate Credit (with Wayne Lee and Timothy Yeager)
Dec. 3	David Jacks Simon Fraser University	From Boom to Bust: A Typology of Real Commodity Prices in the Long Run

2013 seminars

Date	Speaker	Presentation
Jan. 9	Danilo Trupkin Universidad de Montevideo	The Role of Inventories and Capacity Utilization as Shock Absorbers
March 1	David Ling University of Florida	Credit Availability and Asset Pricing in Illiquid Markets
March 29	Natalia Kovrijnykh Arizona State University	Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?
April 10	Anastasia Zervou Texas A&M University	Firms’ Finance, Cyclical Sensitivity, and the Role of Monetary Policy
April 16	Colleen Baker University of Notre Dame	The Federal Reserve as a Last Resort
Aug. 30	Yu Yuan Shanghai Advanced Institute for Finance and Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania	Global, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment” and “Arbitrage Asymmetry and the Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle
Oct. 10	Lutz Kilian University of Michigan	The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil (with Daniel P. Murphy)
Oct. 16	David Papell University of Houston	(Taylor) Rules versus Discretion in U.S. Monetary Policy
Dec. 2	Stephen Terry Stanford University	Really Uncertain Business Cycles