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Fall 2023 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday September 28, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | Online | Matteo Maggiori (Stanford University) | A Framework for Geoeconomics |
| Thursday October 5, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame) | How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda |
| Thursday October 12, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET |
MC 3-570 | Felipe Saffie (University of Virginia) | Political Connections, Allocation of Stimulus Spending, and the Jobs Multiplier |
| Thursday October 19, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sina Ates (Federal Reserve Board) | Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World |
| Wednesday November 1, 2023 (Joint with and hosted by IMF) |
12:00 - 1:00pm ET | HQ1-9-611 (IMF) | Sean Higgins (Northwestern University) | Why Small Firms Fail to Adopt Profitable Opportunities |
| Thursday November 2, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia SIPA) | The Trade War and American Soft Power: Evidence from Movies, Cars, and Trust |
| Thursday November 9, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ebehi Iyoha (Harvard Business School) | Third-Country Effects of the US-China Trade War: A Firm-level Analysis |
| Thursday November 16, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ishan Nath | Agriculture, Trade, and the Spatial Efficiency of Global Water Use |
| Thursday November 30, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Kory Kroft (University of Toronto) | Earnings Inequality in Production Networks |
| Thursday December 7, 2023 (Joint with IMF) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Conor Walsh (Columbia Business School) | Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis |
Spring 2023 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 1, 2023 (Joint with IMF) |
12:00 - 1:00pm ET | Online | John Cochrane (Stanford University) | The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Expectations and the Neutrality of Interest Rates |
| Thursday March 2, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | Online | Thomas Philippon (NYU) | Additive Growth |
| Thursday March 9, 2023 |
Part 1: Part 2: |
MC 3-570 | Anton Korinek (U VA/Brookings) | Part 1: Using Large Language Models and Cognitive Automation for Economic Research Part 2: “The economics of transformative AI” (covering papers on work, development, growth and alignment) Note that attendees are welcome to attend either or both parts of this seminar. |
| Thursday March 16, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board) | Understanding the Inequality and Welfare Impacts of Carbon Tax Policies |
| Thursday March 23, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Diego Perez (NYU) | The Macroeconomic Implications of US Market Power in Safe Assets |
| Thursday March 30, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Dietrich Vollrath (U Houston) | Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism |
| Thursday April 6, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Costas Arkolakis (Yale) | Clean Growth |
| Wednesday May 3, 2023 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | Ryan Kim (Johns Hopkins SAIS) | Spillovers through Multimarket Firms: The Uniform Product Replacement Channel | |
| Thursday May 11, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sebastian Sotelo | Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective |
| Thursday May 18, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Nancy Qian (Kellogg School of Management) | The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy |
| Thursday May 25, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago) | On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes |
| Thursday June 8, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | David Nagy (Princeton) | The Death and Life of Great British Cities |
| Thursday June 15, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ezra Oberfield (Princeton) | Growth and the Fragmentation of Production |
| Thursday June 22, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Joseph Shapiro | Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment |
Fall 2022 Seminars
For connection information, please contact Anna Goodman (agoodman@worldbank.org)
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday 7 September 2022 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) |
12:00-1:00pm ET | IMF (Room HQ1-09-611) | David Baqaee (UCLA) | The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy |
| Thursday 15 September 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan | Five Facts about the Uncovered Interest Parity Premium |
| Thursday 22 September 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 4-300 | James Cloyne | Taxes and Growth: New Narrative Evidence from Interwar Britain |
| Thursday 29 September 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 13-121 | Marco Tabellini | Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S. |
| CANCELED Wednesday 5 October 2022 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00-1:15pm ET | Note that this seminar has been rescheduled for March 16, 2023. | Will Peterman | Understanding the Inequality and Welfare Impacts of Carbon Tax Policies |
| Thursday 27 October 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Eunhee Lee (University of Maryland) | High-skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics |
| Wednesday 2 November 2022 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) |
12:00-1:00pm ET | IMF (Room HQ1-08-112) | Andrea Presbitero | Who Pays for Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market |
| Wednesday 9 November 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 4-300 | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia U) | Government versus Market Failure: The Case of China’s Pro-innovation Subsidy Program |
| Thursday 10 November 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | David Atkin (MIT) | The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley |
| Thursday 17 November 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth) | Market Size and Trade in Medical Services |
| Thursday 1 December 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Tomas Dominguez (Federal Reserve Board) | Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains |
| Wednesday 7 December 2022 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Nicholas Trachter | The Big Push in Distorted Economies |
Spring 2022 Seminars
For connection information, please contact Anna Goodman (agoodman@worldbank.org)
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday 2 March 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Amit Khandelwal (Columbia) |
The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations |
| Thursday 10 March 2022 |
10:00-11:00am ET | YouTube | Peter Blair Henry (NYU) | The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction |
| Thursday 17 March 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Liliana Varela (LSE) | The Micro and Macro Dynamics of Capital Flows |
| Wednesday 6 April 2022 |
12:00-1:00pm ET | Online | Erik Hurst (University of Chicago) | Task-Based Discrimination |
| Thursday 21 April 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Monica Martinez-Bravo (CEMFI) | Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil |
| Wednesday 4 May 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Alan Auerbach (Berkeley) | Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID-19 Recession |
| Wednesday 25 May 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Devaki Ghose (World Bank) | Production Networks and Firm-level Elasticities of Substitution |
| Wednesday 1 June 2022 |
12:00-1:00pm ET | Online | Martina Jasova (Barnard College) | Monetary Policy, Labor Income Redistribution and the Credit Channel: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee and Credit Registers |
| Thursday 16 June 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Vanessa Alviarez (IADB) | Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences |
Fall 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday 16 September 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Melanie Morten (Stanford) |
Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies |
| Wednesday 5 October 2021 |
1:30-2:45pm ET | Online | Elias Papaioannou (London Business School) |
Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa |
| Thursday 21 October 2021 |
12:15-1:30pm ET | Online | Alessandra Peter (NYU) | Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation |
| Wednesday 3 November 2021 |
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET | Online | Christine A. Parlour | When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows |
| Thursday 18 November 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Daniel Xu (Duke) | Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress |
| Wednesday 1 December 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Oscar Jorda (UC Davis/SF Fed) |
Decomposing the Fiscal Multiplier |
| Thursday 9 December 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Jonas Hjort (Columbia) | Local or Imported? Middlemen, Market Power, and Input Sourcing in a Network Economy |
Spring 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 3, 2021 |
12:00 - 1pm ET |
Online | Kristin Forbes (MMIT) |
Spillovers at the Extremes: Macroprudential Tools and Vulnerability to the Global Financial Cycle |
| Wednesday March 3, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Thuy Lan (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Santa Clara University) |
Quantifying the Real Exchange Rate (Dis)Connect |
| Thursday March 25, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Arnaud Costinot (MIT) |
International Trade and Earnings Inequality: A New Factor Content Approach |
| Thursday April 1, 2021 |
12:30 – 1:45 pm ET | Online | Philippe Aghion (Harvard) |
What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France |
| Thursday April 15, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Cecile Gaubert |
Granular Comparative Advantage Government Policies in a Granular Global Economy |
| Thursday April 29, 2021 |
11:00am - 12:15pm ET |
Online | Paula Bustos (CEMFI) | Industrialization without Innovation |
| Wednesday May 5, 2021 |
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET |
Online | Amine Ouazad (HEC Montreal) |
Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters |
| Thursday May 20, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Tommaso Porzio (Columbia) |
Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany |
| Wednesday June 2, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Diana Van Patten (Princeton) | Multinationals, Monopsony, and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company |
Fall 2020 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday September 2 |
12:00–1 pm | Online | James D. Hamilton (UCSD) | Advances in Structural Vector Autoregressions With Imperfect Identifying Information |
| Thursday September 17 |
12:30-1:45 pm |
Online | Scott Gehlbach (Chicago) |
The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections |
| Wednesday October 7 |
12:30-1:45 pm |
Online | Carolin Pflueger (Chicago) |
Why Does the Fed Move Markets so Much? A Model of Monetary Policy and Time-Varying Risk Aversion |
| Thursday October 22 |
9:00-10:15 am | Online | Adrien Bussy (LSE) |
Corporate Tax Evasion: Evidence from International Trade |
| Thursday October 29 |
11:00-12:15pm | Online | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia) | Natural Tariffs |
| Wednesday November 4 |
12:00-1:00 pm | Online | Massimiliano Croce (Bocconi University) |
When the Markets Get Co.V.I.D.: Contagion, Viruses, and Information Diffusion |
| Thursday November 19 |
12:30-1:45 pm | Online | Eduardo Morales (Princeton) | Firm-Export Dynamics in Interdependent Markets |
Spring 2020 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 5 |
12:00-1:15 pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Yan Bai (University of Rochester) | World Financial Cycles |
| Thursday March 5 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Simon Alder (UNC-Chapel Hill) |
Political Distortions and Infrastructure Networks in China: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Analysis |
| Thursday March 12 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 8-100 | Carolin Pflueger (University of Chicago) CANCELLED |
A Consumption Based Model of Monetary Policy and Asset Prices |
| Thursday March 19 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 3-570 | Matthias Kehrig (Duke) WEBEX |
Good dispersion, bad dispersion |
| Thursday March 26 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 7-100 | Arnaud Costinot (MIT) CANCELLED | |
| Thursday April 9, 2020 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 4-100 | Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins University) CANCELLED |
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| Thursday April 23, 2020 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley) CANCELLED |
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| Thursday April 30, 2020 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 7-100 | Thuy Lan Nguyen (Santa Clara) CANCELLED |
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| Wednesday May 6 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 4-100 | Eduardo Morales (Princeton) CANCELLED |
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| Thursday May 14 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| Thursday May 21 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Stephen J. Redding (Princeton) WEBEX |
The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London |
Fall 2019 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 5-100 | Matthew Rognlie (Northwestern) | The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 6-100 | Chad Jones (Stanford) |
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas |
| Sep 19 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 9-100 | Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke) |
Unintended Consequences of Eliminating Tax Havens |
| Sep 26 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Scott Taylor (U Calgary) |
Is Free Trade Bad for Resources? |
| Oct 2 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Cian Ruane (IMF) |
Misallocation or Mismeasurement? |
| Oct 10 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 4-100 | Kerem Cosar (UVA) |
Regional and Aggregate Implications of Transportation Costs and Tradability of Services |
| Oct 17 | 12:30 - 2 pm | G 4-001 | Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern Kellogg) | Trust and Innovation within the Firm: Evidence from Matched CEO-Firm Data |
| Oct 24 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 9-100 | Jo van Biesebroeck (Duke) | Comparative Advantage in (Non-) Routine Production |
| Oct 31 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Alejandro Molnar (World Bank) |
Language barriers to foreign trade: evidence from translation costs |
| Nov 6 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 7-100 | Kala Krishna (Penn State) |
Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence |
| Nov 14 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 5-100 | David Baqaee (UCLA) |
Networks, Barriers, and Trade |
| Nov 21 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 7-100 | Pamela Medina (University of Toronto) | Capital-Reallocation Frictions and Trade Shocks |
| Dec 4 | 12pm - 1:15pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Dmitriy Stolyarov (University of Michigan) | Asset Pricing Implications of Disruptive Technological Change |
| Dec 12 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 8-100 | Sebastian Sotello (University of Michigan) | Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil's March to the West |
Spring 2019 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Feb 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Lauren Falcao Bergquist (Michigan) | Sell Low and Buy High: Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets |
| Mar 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Todd Schoellman (Minneapolis Fed) | Structural Transformation by Cohort |
| Mar 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Teresa Fort (Dartmouth) | Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization |
| Mar 21 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Johannes Boehm(Science Po) | The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Value Chains and Aggregate Productivity |
| Mar 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-301 | Daniel Murphy (UVa) |
Saving Constraints, Debt, and the Credit Market Response to Fiscal Stimulus: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence |
| Apr 3 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Treb Allen (IMF) | The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements |
| Apr 11 | Cancelled | |||
| Apr 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Eric Ohrn (Grinnel) | Tax Policy and Local Labor Market Behavior |
| Apr 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Ben Faber (UC Berkeley) | Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda |
| May 2 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Joel Slemrod | Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Motivations for Tax Compliance: Evidence from Pakistan |
| May 9 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Davin Chor (Dartmouth) | Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare |
| May 16 | 11- 12:30pm | MC 5-100 | Manuel Garcia-Santana (UPF) | Investment Demand and Structural Change |
| May 23 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Alonso de Gortari (Princeton/Dartmouth) | Disentangling Global Value Chains |
| May 30 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 9-100 | Ezra Oberfield (Princeton) | Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production |
| Jun 5 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1-9-611 | Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern) | On the Equivalence of Private and Public Money |
| Jun 13 | 11- 12:30pm | MC 3-570 | Kei Mu Yi (University of Houston) | Structural Change and Deindustrialization |
| Jun 16 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-500 | Tatjana Kleineberg (Yale) | Can We Save the American Dream? A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of School Financing and Rent Subsidies on Local Opportunities |
| Jul 31 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Amit Khandelwal (Columbia) | The Return to Protectionism |
Fall 2018 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 9-100 | German Cubas (University of Houston) | Public Capital and Economic Development |
| Sep 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago) | Trade and Domestic Production Networks |
| Sep 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke) | Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations |
| Oct 3 | 12:00 - 1:30pm | IMF HQ1-9-611 | Sebnem Kalemi-Ozcan (University of Maryland) | Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity: Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects |
| Oct 11 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Kevin Donovan (Yale) | Labor Market Flows and Development |
| Oct 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Amit Khandelwal (Columbia) | Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Evidence from FDI |
| Oct 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Sandra Sequiera (LSE) | Immigrants and the Making of America |
| Oct 31 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Nicolas Werquin (TSE/Yale) | Generalized Compensation Principle |
| Nov 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Andres Liberman (NYU Stern) | The Equilibrium Effects of Information Deletion: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets |
| Nov 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Douglas Hanley (University of Pittsburgh) | Patents to Products: Innovation and Firm Performance |
| Nov 29 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Wolfgang Keller | International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer: Evidence from China |
| Dec 5 | Doireann Fitzgerald | Please note this seminar is cancelled due to closure of World Bank headquarters. | ||
| Dec 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 9-100 | Thibault Fally (Berkeley) | A New Engle on the Gains from Trade |
Spring 2018 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Title |
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| Jun 28 | 10:30 - 12:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Guy Michaels (LSE) | Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline |
| Jun 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Meredith Startz (Princeton) | The value of face-to-face: Search and contracting problems in Nigerian trade |
| Jun 6 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ2-04B-592 | Carol Corrado (Georgetown) | Estimating Spillovers from Intangible Investments: What models and techniques should be used? |
| May 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Jonathan Eaton (PSU) | Firm-to-Firm Trade: Exports, Imports, and the Labor Market |
| May 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Eoin McGuirk (Yale) | The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa |
| May 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Catia Bastita (NOVAFRICA) | Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| May 2 | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | MC 7-370 | Owen Zidar (Chicago Booth) | Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century |
| Apr 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale) | Distortions and the Structure of the World Economy |
| Apr 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley) | The Missing Profits of Nations |
| Mar 29 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Eunhee Lee (Maryland) | Global Value Chains and Inequality with Endogenous Labor Supply |
| Mar 22 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Gabriel Chodrow-Reich (Harvard) | The Loan Covenant Channel: How Bank Health Transmits to the Real Economy |
| Mar 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA) | Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting |
| Mar 7 | 2 - 3:30 pm | MC 3-570 | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia) | Trade Imbalance as a Source of Comparative Disadvantage and Welfare Loss |
| Feb 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Robert Staiger (Dartmouth) | Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Party Tariff Negotiations |
Fall 2017 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker |
Paper |
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| Dec 14 | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | MC 10-100 | Peter Schott (Yale) | Investment Responses to Trade Liberalization: Evidence from U.S. Industries and Establishments |
| Dec 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 8-100 | Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth) | Foreign Direct Investment Jobs and Schooling |
| Nov 30 | 2:30 - 4:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Marti Mestieri (Northwestern) | Structural Change with Long-run Income and Price Effects |
| Nov 16 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Giovanni Maggi (Yale) | Choked by Red Tape? The Political Economy of Wasteful Trade Barriers |
| Nov 9 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | David Atkin (MIT) | Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico |
| Nov 1 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-370 | Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State) | Structural Change within the Service Secotr and the Future of Baumol's Disease |
| Oct 26 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Pascual Restrepo (Boston University) | Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets |
| Oct 19 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm | MC 3-570 | Sara Moreira (Northwestern) | Firm Dynamics, Persistent Effects of Entry Conditions, and Business Cycles |
| Oct 4 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1 10-713 | Javier Bianchi (Minneapolis Fed) | Exchange Rate Policies at the Zero Lower Bound |
| Sep 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Fernando Parro (JHU) | Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement |
| Sep 21 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Anton Korinek (JHU) | Currency Wars or Efficient Spillovers? A General Theory of International Policy Cooperation |
| Sep 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 8-100 | Jessica Leight | Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China |
| Aug 31 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Jonathan Vogel, UCLA | Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. |
| Jun 29 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10 -100 | John McLaren, University of Virginia | NAFTA and the Gender Wage Gap |
| Jun 15 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10 -100 | Felipe Saffie, University of Maryland | Too Big to Pay: Tax Benefits and Corporate Lobbying |
| Jun 7 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1 10-713 | Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University | Financial Crises and Lending of Last Resort in Open Economies |
| Jun 1 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University | Human Capital and Financial Development |
| May 18 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Rodrigo Rodrigues Adao, Princeton University | Trade Openness, Agglomeration Effects, and the Labor Market |
| May 11 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Andres Rodriguez Clare, Princeton University | The Intensive Margin in Trade |
| May 3 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 4 -100 | Yongseok Shin, Washington University St. Louis | Horizontal and Vertical Polarization: Task-Specific Technological Change in a Multi-Sector Economy |
| Apr 27 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC6-100 | Hiau Looi Kee, World Bank | Non-Tariff Measures and Trade Agreements |
| Apr 13 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 8-100 | ||
| Apr 5 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ 1 10-713 |
Cristina Arellano, Minneapolis Fed |
Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity |
| Mar 30 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Brian McCaig, Wilfred Laurier University | |
| Mar 23 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 7-370 |
Paulina Restrepo Etcheverria, St. Louis Fed | |
| Mar 1 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC C2-135 | Adam Storeygard, Tufts University | The Global Spatial Distribution of |
| Mar 1 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 4-100 |
Fernando Leibovici, York University | Financial Frictions and Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations |
MC 8-100
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