Sponsors: Economics Department, Cátedra Santander de Estudios Internacionales.

Organizers: Hernán Seoane, Pedro Gomes and Emircan Yurdagul.

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

Thursday, 29 of September
Etienne Lalé (University of Bristol)
"The Rise of Part-Time Employment" pdf

Thursday, 6 of October
Alberto Martin (CREI Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Monetary Policy for a Bubbly World" pdf

Thursday, 13 of October
Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics)
"The decision to move house and aggregate housing-market dynamics" pdf

Thursday, 20 of October
Morten Ravn (University College London)
Canceled

Thursday, 27 of October
Kurt Mitman (Institute for International Economic Students, Stockholms Universitet)
"Do Unemployment Benefit Extensions Explain the Emergence of Jobless Recoveries"

Thursday, 10 of November
Dominik Thaler (European University Institute)
"Austerity to Save the Banks? A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Default with Endogenous Default Costs and a Financial Sector" pdf

Thursday, 24 of November
Beatriz de Blas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
"Follow the Leader: International technology diffusion through intermediates with heterogeneous firms" (with Mónica Correa

Thursday, 1 of December
Tamon Asonuma (International Monetary Fund)
"Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Delays in Negotiations with Risk Averse Creditors" (with Hyungseok Joo)

Wednesday, 14 of December
Selahattin Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California Marshall School of Business)
"Replacing Income Taxation with Consumption Taxation in Japan" (with Gary Hansen and Nao Sudo)