Macro Seminars Autumn 2017

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, 21 of September
Chris Tonetti (Standfor Graduate School of Business)
"Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation: A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier" (with Jess Benhabib and Jesse Perla) pdf
Classroom: 18.1.A04

Thursday, 28 of September
Burhanettin Kuruscu (University of Toronto)
"Use it or Lose it: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation" (with Fatih Guvenen, Gueorgui Kambourov, Sergio Ocampo-Diaz and Daphne Chen)
Classroom: 14.1.10

Thursday, 19 of October
Clodomiro Ferreira (Banco de España)
"Monetary Policy When Households Have Debts: New Evidence On The Transmission Mechanism" (with James Cloyne and Paolo Surico) pdf
Classroom: 14.1.10

Thursday, 26 of October
Cezar Santos (Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças)
"Family Planning and Development: Aggregate Effects of Contraceptive Use" (with Tiago Cavalcanti and Georgi Kocharkov) pdf
Classroom: 15.1.39

Thursday, 2 of November
Giammario Impullitti (University of Nottingham)
"Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World" (with Ufuk Akcigit and Sina Ates) pdf

Thursday, 23 of November
Martin Gonzalez Eiras (University of Copenhagen)
"The cost of nuclear war threat" (with Dirk Niepelt)

Sponsors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ayuda María de Maeztu), Consejería de Educación, Juventud y Deporte de la Comunidad de Madrid and Cátedra Santander de Estudios Internacionales.