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