Sponsors: Economics Department, Cátedra Santander de Estudios Internacionales

Organizers: Hernán Seoane and Pedro Gomes

Seminars usually take place on Thursdays from 13:15 to 14:30 in classroom 15.1.01 unless other place/time is signaled

Thursday, 12 of March
Mark Wright (UCLA and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Public and External Debt Crises


Thursday, 9 of April
Fabio Canova
Approximating time varying structures with time invariant models (joint with F. ferroni and C. Matthes)


Wednesday, 22 of April (joint A&E)
Luca Gambeti (UAB)
"Noisy news in business cycles"


Thursday, 30 of April 12:00
Dudley Cooke(University of Exeter)
"Demand Uncertainty, Product Creation, and Aggregate Fluctuations"


Friday, 15 of May
Klaus Desmet
"The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding" pdf


Tuesday, 26 of May
Labour Market Workhshop , Room: 15.1.01 (Carlos Escribano)

• 12.30-13.30 Sekyu Choi (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona), "Occupational Mobility Across Years, Decades and a Century"
• 13.30-14.30 Iacopo Morchio (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), "Information Frictions, Match Quality and Lifetime Unemployment"
• 15.30-16.30 Henry Siu (University of British Columbia), "What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle"
• 16.30-17.30 Ludo Visschers (University of Edinburgh), "Self-employment, Paid employment and Unemployment over the business cycle"

Thursday, 28 of May
Gilles Saint-Paul


Thursday, 11 of June
Alessio Moro


Thursday, 18 of June
Dean Corbae


Thursday, 9 of July
Fabrizio Perri


Wednesday, 15 of July
Ctirad Slavik (Goethe University Frankfurt)