Monday 26 September: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Filip Rozsypal:
Income Expectations and Household Consumption Choices.
Monday 26 September: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Jiajia Gu (K. Jin & R. Ngai).
Monday 26 September: CFM & LSE Public Event
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Ryan Avent (The Economist):
The Wealth of Humans: work, power, and status in the twenty-first century.
Thursday 29 September: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Thursday 06 October: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 10 October: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Matthew Shapiro:
Stimulus Effects of Investment Tax Incentives: Production versus Purchases.
Monday 10 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Kilian Huber (A. Manning, A. Young, R. Reis).
Tuesday 11 October: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Xavier Gabaix (Harvard):
Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming.
Thursday 13 October: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 17 October: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Ethan Ilzetzki: The Effect of House Prices on Household Borrowing: A New Approach.
Monday 17 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Davide Porcellacchia (G. Benigno).
Wednesday 19 October: CFM Public Event
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton), Harold James (Princeton), and Jean Lanau (IMF):
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas.
Thursday 20 October: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 24 October: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Andrea Tamoni.SEMINAR CANCELLED.
Monday 24 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Tiloka De Silva (S. Tenreyro).
Tuesday 25 October: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Anton Korinek (Johns Hopkins):
Currency Wars or Efficient Spillovers? A General Theory of International Policy Cooperation.
Thursday 27 October: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 31 October: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
David Baqaee: Beyond Hulten's Theorem: Networks and the Amplification of Microeconomic Shocks.
Monday 31 October: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Thomas Drechsel (S. Tenreyro): Intangible capital, corporate liquidity and future productivity.
Tuesday 01 November: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Jan Eeckhout (University College London):Unemployment Cycles.
Thursday 03 November: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 07 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Shengzing Zhang: Financial Stability and Optimal Fractional Reserve Banking.
Monday 07 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.2.04
Laura Castillo Martinez (S. Tenreyro).
Tuesday 08 November: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Rohan Kekre (Chicago Booth): Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization.
Thursday 10 November: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 14 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Ian Martin: The Quanto Theory of Exchange Rates.
Monday 14 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Andreas Ek (F. Caselli).
Tuesday 15 November: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Paul De Grauwe (LSE): Inflation Targets and the zero lower bound in a behavioural macroeconomic model.
Thursday 17 November: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 21 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, KSW.1.04
Alessio Moro: The role of gender in employment polarization.
Monday 21 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, KSW.1.04
Chao He (G. Benigno).
Tuesday 22 November: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Elias Papaioannou (London Business School): Land Mines and Spatial Development.
Wednesday 23 November: CFM & LSE Public Event
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Kenneth S. Rogoff (Harvard):
The Curse of Cash.
Thursday 24 November: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 28 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Wouter Den Haan: Temperance.
Monday 28 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Sevim Kosem (E. Ilzetzki).
Tuesday 29 November: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Martin Ellison (Oxford): Time-Consistent Institutional Design.
Thursday 01 December: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
Monday 05 December: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04
Kevin Sheedy.
Monday 05 December: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Yan Liang (F. Caselli & G. Ottaviano).
Tuesday 06 December: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04
Randy Wright (Wisconsin School of Business).
Thursday 08 December: CFM Reading Group
17:00-19:00, 32L.2.04
For convenience, a pdf file of all this term's seminars (including job market seminars) is available for download here.
Academic Year: 2015-16
Thursday 30 June: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Gabriel Zucman (LSE): The HIdden Wealth of Nations.
Tuesday 07 June 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Marco Del Negro (FRB New York): The Forward Guidance Puzzle.
Monday 06 June 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.3.05.
Tiancheng Sun (W. Den Haan) and Marcel Ribeiro (K. Sheedy).
Monday 06 June 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.2.04.
Ethan Ilzetzki: Exchange Rate Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold?
Tuesday 31 May 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:30-14:00, 32L.1.04.
Guillermo Ordonez (University of Pennsylvania): Good Booms, Bad Booms.
Monday 23 May 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Marcel Ribeiro (K. Sheedy) and Charles Dennery (G. Benigno).
Monday 23 May 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.2.04.
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki: Managing Financial and Housing Cycles.
Tuesday 17 May 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04.
Jose Peydro (Barcelona GSE): Monetary Policy at Work: Security and Credit Application Registers Evidence.
Monday 16 May 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Chao He (G. Benigno).
Monday 16 May 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Pascal Michaillat: Modernizing Fixprice Models: A Matching Model of Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies.
Wednesday 11 May 2016: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Robert Gordon (Northwestern University): The Rise and Fall of American Growth.
Monday 09 May 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Orhun Sevinc (R. Ngai).
Monday 09 May 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Ricardo Reis: Funding QE.
Tuesday 03 May 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04.
Diego Resuccia (University of Toronto): Land Misallocation and Productivity.
Tuesday 26 April 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.1.04.
Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania): Agency Business Cycles.
Monday 25 April 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Robert Hall (Stanford): Understanding the Decline in the Real Interest Rate.
Tuesday 22 March 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Young Kim (Yonsei University): Age Earnings Profiles and TFP Differences: Financial Institutions in a Vintage Human Capital Model.
Monday 21 March 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Charles Dennery (G. Benigno) and Sándor Sóvágó (W. den Haan).
Monday 21 March 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.G.24.
David Baqaee: Cascading Failures in Production Networks.
Tuesday 15 March 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.204.
Thomoas Philippon (New York University).
Monday 14 March 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Yan Liang (F. Caselli).
Monday 14 March 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Rachel Ngai: Rising inequality and trends in leisure (Joint with Timo Boppart).
Wednesday 09 March: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre.
Keyu Jin: Clear and Present Challenges to the Chinese Economy.
Tuesday 08 March 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.204.
Enrique Mendoza (University of Pennsylvania).
Monday 07 March 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Sevim Kosem (E. Ilzetzki).
Tuesday 01 March 2016: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre:
Mervyn King: The End of Alchemy.
Tuesday 01 March 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Berkeley): Global Imbalances and Currency Wars at the ZLB.
Monday 29 February 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Andreas Ek (F. Caselli).
Monday 29 February 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Shengxing Zhang: Turnover Liquidity and the Transmission of Monetary Policy.
Tuesday 23 February 2016: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Wei Cui (UCL): Monetary-fiscal Interactions with Endogenous Liquidity Frictions.
Monday 22 February 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Thomas Drechsel (S. Tenreyro).
Monday 22 February 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Ricardo Reis: Optimal Automatic Stabilizers.
Monday 15 February 2016: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Akshay Shankar (W. den Haan) and Martin Wolf (G. Benigno and W. den Haan).
Monday 15 February 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Filip Rozyspal: Household Income Expectations and Durable Consumption.
Monday 08 February 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Rodrigo Rodrigues Adao: Worker Heterogenity, Wage Inequality, and International Trade: Theory and Evidence from Brazil.
Monday 08 February 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
10:45-11:45, 32L.1.04.
Silvana Tenreyro: History Dependence in Housing Markets.
Friday 05 February 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Daniel Reck: Preference Identification under Inconsistent Choice.
Thursday 04 February 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Emily Nix: Learning Spillovers in the Firm.
Wednesday 03 February 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Laura Doval: A Theory of Stability in Dynamis Markets.
Monday 01 February 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Wouter den Haan: Estimation of Misspecified DSGE Models.
Friday 29 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Esther Boeler: Technology-skill complementarity in a globalized world.
Wednesday 27 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Sara Moreira: Firm Dynamics, Persistent Effects of Entry Conditions, and Business Cycles.
Tuesday 26 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Gaston Illanes: Switching Costs in Pension Plan Choice.
Monday 25 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Melanie Wasserman: Hours Constraints, Occupational Choice and Fertility: Evidence from Medical Residents.
Monday 25 January 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
10:45-11:45, 32L.1.04.
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki: Monetary Finance Policies in Emerging Markets.
Friday 22 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Matthew Rognlie: What Lower Bound? Monetary Policy with Negative Interest Rates.
Thursday 21 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
David Nagy: City Location and Economic Development.
Tuesday 19 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Maria Coelho: Dodging Robin Hood: Responses to France and Italy's Financial Transaction Taxes.
Monday 18 January 2016: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre.
Gertjan Vlieghe: Debt, Demographics and the Distribution of Income: new challenges for monetary policy.
Monday 18 January 2016: Junior Recruitment Fly Out Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Simon Jaeger: How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths.
Monday 18 January 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
10:45-11:45, 32L.1.04.
Ethan Ilzetzki: Does Vote Conting Count: Labor Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task.
Tuesday 12 January 2016: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre.
Alan Manning: Economics Of Migration.
Monday 11 January 2016: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00, 32L.1.04.
Francesco Caselli: Domestic Market Size, Inward Orientation, and Industrialization.
Tuesday 08 December 2015: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Enrico Perotti (Amsterdam University): Technological Change and the Evolution of Finance.
Monday 07 December 2015: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Tiloka De Silva (S. Tenreyro).
Tuesday 01 December 2015 Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Joseph Vavra (Chicago Booth): House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices.
Monday 30 November 2015: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04
Laura Castillo Martinez (S. Tenreyro).
Tuesday 24 November 2015: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Peter Karadi (European Central Bank): Menu Costs, Aggregate Fluctuations, and Large Shocks.
Monday 23 November 2015: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Federico Rossi (F. Caselli).
Tuesday 17 November 2015: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre.
Patrick Honohan: Debt and Austerity: post-crisis lessons from Ireland.
Tuesday 17 November 2015: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.2.04.
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton): Wholesale Banking and Bank Runs in Macroeconomic Modelling of Financial Crises.
Monday 16 November 2015: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Wolfson Theatre.
Diane Coyle: GDP: a brief but affectionate history.
Monday 16 November 2015: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Davide Porcellachia (G. Benigno).
Wednesday 11 November 2015: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre.
Robert Shiller: Phishing for Phools: the economics of manipulation and deception.
Monday 09 November 2015: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Jiajia Gu (K. Jin).
Tuesday 03 November 2015: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Timo Boppart (Stockholm University): Labor Supply in the Past, Present, and Future: A Balanced-Growth Perspective.
Monday 02 November 2015: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04:
Jonathan Pinder (W. Den Haan).
Wednesday 28 October 2015: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre.
Ben Bernanke: In Converstaion with Ben Bernanke.
Tuesday 27 October 2015: Money-Macro Seminar
12:00-13:30, 32L.2.04.
Frederic Malherbe (London Business School): Optimal capital requirements over the business and financial cycles.
Monday 26 October 2015: Student Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Thomas Carr (E. Ilzetzki).
Thursday 22 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
13:30-15:00, 32L.1.04.
Munir Squires: Kinship Taxation: The Economic Cost of Mutual Insurance.
Tuesday 20 October 2015: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre.
John Kay: Other People's Money.
Tuesday 20 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00, 32L.1.04.
Giulia Zane: Sharing a Workforce: the Effect of Agricultural Productivity Shocks on Industrial Performance.
Monday 19 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
16:00-17:30, 32L.1.04.
Michele Valsecchi: The Political Economy of Corruption in the Bureaucracy.
Monday 19 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
11:30-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Anders Jensen: Occupational Transformation and the Rise of the Modern Tax System.
Friday 16 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
11:30-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Zelda Brutti: Cities drifting apart: Heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education.
Thursday 15 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
13:30-15:00, 32L.1.04.
Yu-Hsiang Lei: Harvesting Connection in a Crony Economy: Evidence from China.
Tuesday 13 October 2015: Money-Macro Seminar
12:15-13:45, 32L.1.04.
Pierre Yarred (Columbia): Fiscal Rules and Discretion in a World Economy.
Monday 12 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
11:30-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Sergio De Ferra: European capital flows. Sovereign debt, intermediation and trade.
Friday 09 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
11:30-13:00, 32L.1.04.
Sarah Sandford: My way: NGOs and mission conflict (provisional).
Thursday 08 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
13:30-15:00, 32L.1.04.
Pedro Pinto: Securitization, Screening and Housing Bubbles.
Wednesday 07 October 2015: Public Lecture
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre.
Dani Rodrik: Economic Rules: the rights and wrongs of the dismal science.
Wednesday 07 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00, 32L.1.04.
Esther Ann Boler: Technology-skill complementarity at the firm level.
Tuesday 06 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00, 32L.1.04.
Shiyu Bo: The Value of Centralization: Evidence from a Political Hierarchy Reform in China.
Monday 05 October 2015: Job Market Seminar
16:00-17:30, 32L.1.04.
Luis Martinez: Sources of Revenue and Government Performance: Theory and Evidence from Colombia.
Tuesday 29 September 2015: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00, 32L.1.04.
Jonathan Colmer: The Productivity Effects of Labour Reallocation: Evidence from India.