Research Workshops Workshop in Macro/International Economics

In this workshop, students, faculty, and invited visitors present their macroeconomics and international economics research and research papers.

Students, faculty, and invited visitors present papers on the theoretical and empirical studies in real and monetary aspects of international trade and monetary policies and institutions.

The workshop will be held in-person (in Harper C10), with no virtual options. Please contact workshop administrator Charisse Willis to be added to the listserv for weekly updates or for information. Please refer to the weekly announcement for updates or time changes.

Since Autumn Quarter 2019, the workshop has been organized jointly between Chicago Booth and the University of Chicago Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. The majority of the talks are given by internal speakers presenting works in progress, though some talks are reserved for external speakers.

When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers choose not to circulate their papers. In such cases, the link will be unavailable.

Winter 2026

Date	Time	Location	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Monday, February 16	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	Consumption, Wealth, and Income Inequality: A Tale of Tails	Christian Hellwig	Toulouse School of Economics
Monday, February 23	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	Monopsony, Markdowns, and Minimum Wages	Ester Faia	Goethe University Frankfurt
Monday, March 2	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	TBD	Markus Brunnermeier	Princeton

Spring 2026

Date	Time	Location	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Monday, March 23	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	Concentrating on Customers: A New Measure of Size-Based Market Power	Christina Patterson	Booth, University of Chicago
Monday, March 30	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	Limited-Information Estimation of Heterogeneous Agent Models	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller	Griffin Dept. of Economics, University of Chicago
Monday, April 6	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	TBD	TBD	TBD
Monday, April 13	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	Sticky Discount Rates	Kilian Huber	Booth, University of Chicago
Monday, April 20	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	The Psychology of Macroeconomic Expectations	Andrei Shleifer	Harvard
Monday, April 27	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	TBD	Esteban Rossi-Hansberg	Griffin Dept. of Economics, University of Chicago
Monday, May 4	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	TBD	Erik Hurst	Booth, University of Chicago
Monday, May 11	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	TBD	George Nikolakoudis	Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago
Monday, May 18	12:00 - 1:15pm	Harper C10	Intangible Capital and (Mis)Measured Productivity	Christopher Stewart	Booth, University of Chicago

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