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, 9 of March
Edouard Schaal (New York University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Coordinating Business Cycles" pdf
Classroom: 15.1.39

Wednesday, 29 of March
Sarah Zubairy (Texas A&M University)
"Household Debt Overhang and the Transmission of Monetary Policy" (joint with Sami Alpanda)
Classroom: 15.1.43

Thursday, 30 of March
David Wiczer (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
"Occupational Hazards and Social Disability Insurance" (joint with Amanda Michaud) pdf
Classroom: 15.0.05

Thursday, 20 of April
Yunus Aksoy (Birkbeck University of London)
"Demographic Structure and Macroeconomic Trends" pdf
Classroom: 15.0.14

Thursday, 27 of April
R. Anton Braun (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
"Why Prices Don’t Respond Sooner to a Prospective Sovereign Debt Crisis" (joint with Tomoyuki Nakajima) pdf

Thursday, 4 of May
Guillermo Ordoñez (University of Pennsylvania)
"Good Booms, Bad Booms " pdf

Thursday, 11 of May
Evi Pappa (European University Institute)
"Emerging Economies Business Cycles: The Role of the Terms of Trade Revisited" (joint with Nadav Ben Zeev and Alejandro Vicondoa) pdf

Thursday, 18 of May
Akos Valentinyi (University of Manchester)
"Unbalanced Growth Slowdown" (joint with Georg Duernecker and Berthold Herrendorf) pdf

Wednesday, 24 of May
Alfonso Irarrazábal (BI Norwegian Business School)
"Real Business Cycles in a Commodity Exporting Economy"