Greg Kaplan (Princeton University)

Monetary Policy According to HANK (joint with Ben Moll and Gianluca Violante)

Thursday, September 17 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Sebastian Dyrda and Diego Restuccia

Tasso Adamopoulos (York University)

Misallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China (joint with Loren Brandt, Jessica Leight, and Diego Restuccia)

Thursday, September 24 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Diego Restuccia

Paco Buera (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Dynamics after Reforms in a Model with Innovation (joint with Roberto Fattal-Jaef)

Thursday, October 1 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Diego Restuccia

Baris Kaymak (University of Montreal)

The evolution of wealth inequality over half a century: the role of taxes, transfers and technology (joint with Markus Poschke)

Thursday, October 8 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Burhanettin Kuruscu and Diego Restuccia

Assaf Patir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Synchronization and Bias in a Simple Macroeconomic Model

Friday, October 9 2015 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Ronald Wolthoff

Ben Pugsley (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Understanding the 30-year decline in the Startup Rate: a General Equilibrium Approach (joint with Fatih Karahan, Aysegul Sahin)

Thursday, October 15 2015 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Sebastian Dyrda and Diego Restuccia

Stephen Ayerst (University of Toronto)

Policy Distortions and Technology Adoption

Friday, October 16 2015 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Ronald Wolthoff

Cesar Sosa Padilla (McMaster University)

Sovereign Defaults and Banking Crises

Thursday, October 22 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Burhanettin Kuruscu and Diego Restuccia

Kurt Mitman (IIES Stockholm)   Cancelled

Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession: Model Meets Evidence (joint with Greg Kaplan and Gianluca Violante)

Thursday, October 29 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Serdar Ozkan and Diego Restuccia

Hakki Yazici (Sabanci and Carnegie Mellon Uni.)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, October 30 2015 01:10–02:10, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Serdar Ozkan

Diego Comin (Dartmouth College)

Endogenous Technology Adoption and R&D as Sources of Business Cycle Persistence (joint with Diego Anzoategui, Mark Gertler, and Joseba Martinez)

Thursday, November 12 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Diego Restuccia

Rob Shimer (University of Chicago)

Decomposing Duration Dependence in a Stopping Time Model (joint with Fernando Alvarez and Katarina Borovickova)

Thursday, November 19 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Diego Restuccia and Ronald Wolthoff

Yan Bai (University of Rochester)

Do Financial Frictions Explain Chinese Firm Saving and Misallocation?

Thursday, November 26 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Diego Restuccia and Xiaodong Zhu

Fatih Karahan (New York Fed)

Unemployment Benefit Extensions and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects (joint with Marcus Hagedorn, Iourii Manovskii, and Kurt Mitman)

Thursday, December 3 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Burhanettin Kuruscu, Serdar Ozkan, and Diego Restuccia

Murat Alp Celik (University of Pennsylvania)

Does the Cream Always Rise to the Top? The Misallocation of Talent in Innovation

Friday, January 29 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Serdar Ozkan

Daniel Garcia-Macia (Stanford University)

The Financing of Ideas and the Great Deviation

Friday, February 12 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Diego Restuccia

Tommaso Porzio (Yale University)

Distance to the Technology Frontier and the Allocation of Talent

Friday, February 19 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Diego Restuccia

Christian Moser (Princeton University)

Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil (joint with Niklas Engbom)

Monday, February 22 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Ronald Wolthoff

George Alessandria (University of Rochester)

The Dynamics of the U.S. Trade Balance and Real Exchange Rate: The J Curve and Trade Costs?" (joint with Horag Choi)

Thursday, February 25 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Diego Restuccia and Joseph Steinberg

Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)   Cancelled

TBA

Thursday, March 3 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Gueorgui Kambourov and Diego Restuccia

Fabrizio Perri (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity (joint with Dirk Krueger, Kirt Mitman)

Thursday, March 10 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Diego Restuccia and Joseph Steinberg

Brant Abbott (Queen's University)

Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium (joint with Giovanni Gallipoli, Costas Meghir, and Giovanni L. Violante)

Thursday, March 17 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Gueorgui Kambourov and Diego Restuccia

Rasmus Lentz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Training and Search On the Job (joint with Nicolas Roys)

Tuesday, March 22 2016 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics/Labour economics, Organizers: Diego Restuccia and Ronald Wolthoff

Andres Rodriguez-Clare (UC Berkeley)

Micro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity (joint with Arnaud Costinot, Ivan Werning)

Thursday, March 24 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics/International trade, Organizers: Kunal Dasgupta, Diego Restuccia, and Xiaodong Zhu

Markus Poschke (McGill University)

Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share (joint with Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Ngo Van Long)

Thursday, March 31 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizers: Diego Restuccia and Xiaodong Zhu

Michael Peters (Yale University)

Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries (joint with Ufuk Akcigit and Harun Alp)

Thursday, April 7 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Diego Restuccia

Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)

Identifying Neutral Technology Shocks (joint with Luigi Bocola and Marcus Hagedorn)

Tuesday, April 12 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Gueorgui Kambourov

Hans Holter (University of Oslo)

How do Tax Progressivity and Household Heterogeneity Affect Laffer Curves? (joint with Dirk Krueger and Serhiy Stepanchuk)

Thursday, April 14 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Serdar Ozkan

Baxter Robinson (University of Toronto)

Optimal Fiscal Policy under Imperfect Commitment

Friday, April 22 2016 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics, Organizer: Burhanettin Kuruscu