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, with no virtual options. Please contact workshop administrator Megan Jennings-Quist 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.
Spring 2023
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 20, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
Harper C10 |
A Perturbational Approach for Approximating Heterogeneous-Agent Models Co-Authors: Anmol Bhandari, Thomas Bourany, David Evans |
Mikhail Golosov | UChicago Econ |
| Monday, March 27, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
Harper C10 | Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution | Joe Vavra & Fabrice Tourre |
Booth & Visitor - Copenhagen Business School |
| Monday, April 3, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
Harper C10 | Fiscal Policy Under Low Interest Rates | Olivier Blanchard |
Visitor MIT & PIIE |
| Monday, April 10, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
Harper C10 | TBD | Lars Hansen | UChicago Econ |
| Monday, April 17, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Harper C10 |
Information Frictions and News Media in Global Value Chains Co-Authors: Ha Bui, Zhen Huo, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar |
Andrei Levchenko |
Visitor U of Michigan |
| Monday, April 24, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Harper C10 | TBD | Carolin Pflueger |
UChicago Harris |
| Monday, May 1, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
Harper C10 | TBD | Thomas Drechsel |
Visitor U of Maryland |
| Monday, May 8, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Harper C10 | TBD | Fumio Hayashi |
Visitor GRIPS |
| Monday, May 15, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Harper C10 | Spending a Windfall | Andre de Castro Silva |
Nova SBE / UChicago Booth |
| Monday, May 22, 2023 | 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Harper C10 | Remote Work and Urban Structure |
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg | UChicago Econ |
Winter 2023
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. |
3B | How to Fix a Coordination Failure: A "Super-Pigouvian" Approach | John Sturm |
MIT |
| Monday, January 23, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | C10 | Climate Hazards and Resilience in the Global Car Industry |
Juanma Castro-Vincenzi |
Princeton |
| Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | C10 |
The Macroeconomics of Narratives |
Joel Flynn |
MIT |
| Thursday, January 26, 2023 |
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
3B |
Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms |
Benny Kleinman |
Princeton |
| Monday, January 30, 2023 |
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | C10 |
The Pass-through of Productivity Shocks to Wages and the Cyclical Competition for Workers |
Martin Souchier |
Stanford |
| Monday, February 27, 2023 | 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. | C10 | Non-Tariff Trade Barriers in the US-China Trade War | Chang-Tai Hsieh | UChicago Booth |