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.

Wednesday, 24 of February
Rody Manuelli (Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
"The role of human capital in shaping immigrant earnings"

Thursday, 10 of March
Pierpaolo Benigno (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Soziali Guido Carli)
"Dynamic Debt Deleveraging and Optimal Monetary Policy"

Monday, 14 of March
Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University) [joint with Applied Economics and Econometrics]
"Optimal Taxation and R&D policies"

Wednesday, 6 of April
Itay Saporta (Tel Aviv University and University College of London) [joint with Applied Economics and Econometrics]
"Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance"

Monday, 11 of April
Esther Boler (University of Oslo) [joint with Applied Economics and Econometrics]
"Technology-skill complementarity at the firm level" pdf

Thursday, 14 of April
Luca Fornaro (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional)
"Stagnation Traps" pdf

Thursday, 14 of April
Macroeconomics Workshop - Centro de Estudios Monetario y Financieros (CEMFI)
    16:00-16:45 : Ronald Wolthoff (University of Toronto), "Meetings and Mechanisms"
    16:45-17:15 : Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI), "Health Inequality"
    17:30-18:15 : Carlos Carrillo Tudela (University of Essex), "Occupational Reallocation, Employment and
Earnings over the Business Cycle"
    18:15-18:45 : Hernán Seoane (UC3M), "Time-varying volatility, default and the sovereign risk premium"
Classroom: 15.0.04

Wednesday, 27 of April
Howard Kung (London Business School)
"Government Maturity Structure Twists" (with Corhay and Morales)

Thusday, 28 of April
Serguei Maliar (Santa Clara University)
"A tractable framework for analyzing a class of nonstationary Markov models" pdf

Thursday, 12 of May
Manuel Santos (University of Miami)
"Technology Eras and Their Impact on the US Labor Market"

Thursday, 19 of May
Roberto Chag (Rutgers University)
"Bond finance, bank credit, and aggregate fluctuations in an open economy" pdf

Thursday, 2 of June
Fernando Martin (St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank)
"Monetary Policy and Financial Stability"

Monday, 27 de Junio
Marco del Negro (New York Federal Reserve Bank) [joint with Applied Economics and Econometrics]
"The Forward Guidance Puzzle" pdf