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Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2026

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:49:36 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2026

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Executive Authority and Household Bailouts

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2026

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:35:21 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2026

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet & Dongwon Lee

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/9/2026 10:00am to 11:00am	Ali Mehrabani, University of Kansas (Joint with Econometrics)	Identifying Latent Group Structures in Spatial Panel Models with Common Shocks.
1/9/2026 2:00pm to 3:20pm	Shahnaz Parsaeian University of Kansas (Joint with Econometrics)	Mixed Frequency Panel Regressions with Sparsity and Heterogeneity.
1/16/2026	Chandler Lutz, University of North Carolina – Charlotte	Highly Disaggregated Land Unavailability
1/30/2026	Shin Kikuchi, UC San Diego	Balassa–Samuelson in the Long Run: Qualitative Success, Quantitative Limits
2/13/2026 Zoom	Zeynep Senyuz, Federal Reserve Board	A Tale of Demand and Supply for Central Bank Reserves
2/20/2026	Jorge Miranda-Pinto, IMF	Zoom
2/27/2026	M. Hashem Pesaran, USC and Cambridge (Joint with Econometrics)	The Output Convergence Debate Revisited: Lessons from recent developments in the analysis of panel data models

3/6/2026	Lusha Xu, UCR
3/13/2026	Jianbin Chen, UCR

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2025

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:48:55 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2025

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo and Victor Ortego-Marti

When available, the papers can be downloaded as PDF files, which can be read or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/03/2025	Jeffrey Allen, UC Riverside	The Benefit of Known Unknowns: Estimating the Cost of Unplanned Power Outages on Firms in Developing Countries
10/10/2025	Ilsoo Han, UC Riverside	Educational-Specific Decompositional Effects of Skill Loss on TFP.
10/17/2025	Bessy Liao, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	Search Frictions and Rent Control Policies on the Rental Market: Theory and Evidence
10/24/2025, ZOOM	Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington (ZOOM)	The Impact of Rising Oil Price on Remittances and Migrant Workers in a Small Developing Economy
10/31/2025	Yeonjoo Son, UC Riverside	Home Renovation and Search Frictions in the Housing Market.
11/7/2025	Zeliha Begum Tunc, UC Riverside	The Effect of Salary History Bans on Labor Market Reattachment
11/14/2025	Simon Margolin, UC Santa Barbara	Micro vs. Macro Corporate Tax Incidence
11/21/2025	Vincenzo Quadrini, USC Marshall School of Business	Digital Economy, Stablecoins, and the Global Financial System
11/28/2025	No Seminar, Thanksgiving Break
12/5/2025	Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon (ZOOM)	Patriarchy and Household Labor Supply in Developing Countries Zoom Meeting ID: 955 9179 7061 Passcode: 108202

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:28:28 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2025

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Executive Authority and Household Bailouts

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
03/31/2025	Murilo Silva (UCR)	Climate Disaster Risk and Stock Returns
04/07/2025	Andrew Sinclair (Caltech)	Executive Authority and Household Bailouts
04/14/2025 *Zoom	Luciana Juvenal (IMF)	Commodity Prices and Fiscal (Pro)Cyclicality
04/21/2025	Munseob Lee (UC San Diego)	Land Reform, Agricultural Productivity, and Human Capital Accumulation
04/28/2025	Tomas Williams (George Washington University)	Global Investors in Local-Currency Bond Markets: Implications for Bond Yields and Exchange Rates∗
05/05/2025	Hamid Firooz (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)	Reshoring, Automation, and Labor Markets under Trade Uncertainty
05/12/2025	Oscar Jorda (UC Davis)	Interest Rates, Emissions and Energy Efficiency
05/19/2025 *Zoom	Chris Papageorgiou(IMF)	Financial Stress and Economic Activity: Evidence from a New Worldwide Index
05/26/2025
06/02/2025

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:19:50 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2025

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
3/04/2025 *Joint seminar with Econometrics	Richard Crump (NY-FRB)	A Jackknife Variance Estimator for Panel Regressions & A Simple Diagnostic for Time-Series and Panel-Data Regressions
03/10/2025

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:30:45 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2024

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/27/2024 Zoom Friday	Eric Leeper (University of Virginia)	1933 and 2020
10/07/2024 Sproul 2206	Ina Simonovska (UC Davis)	Trade Credit and Exchange Rate Risk Pass Through
10/14/2024 Sproul 2206	Nitish Kumar (UC Riverside)	A Search and Matching Model of Housing and Rental Market Interactions
10/21/2024 *Zoom	Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Columbia University)	Heterogeneous Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Foundations of a Nonlinear Phillips Curve
10/23/2024 Sproul 2206 Wednesday *4:00-5:20pm	Guillaume Rocheteau (UC Irvine)	Frictional Capital Markets and Economic Growth
10/28/2024 Sproul 2206	Nicolas Caramp (UC Davis)	Sticky Inflation: Monetary Policy when Deficits Drag Inflation Expectations
11/04/2024 *Zoom	David Evans (University of Oregon)	Efficiency, Insurance, and Redistribution Effects of Government Policies
11/11/2024	Veterans Day Holiday
11/18/2024 Sproul 2206	Ilsoo Han (UC Riverside)	Educational-Specific Decompositional Effects of Skill Loss on TFP
11/25/2024 Sproul 2206	Fabian Eckert (UC San Diego)	Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis
12/02/2024 Sproul 2206	John Duffy (UC Irvine)	Asset Prices and Bank Runs

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:21:18 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2024

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Victor Ortego-Marti

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/01/2024 *Monday	Oliko Vardishvili (UCI)	The Macroeconomic Cost of College Dropouts
4/10/2024	Allen Head (Queens University)	Money and Imperfectly Competitive Credit
4/16/2024 *Tuesday at 3:30-4:50pm	Yueyuan Ma (UCSB)	Technology Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation
4/24/2024	Xinchan Lu (UCR)	Asset Liquidity and Information Acquisition with Unknown Information Status
5/01/2024 *Zoom	Shiyun Zhang (University of Balearic Islands)	Discrimination against Ex-offenders in Frictional Labor Markets
5/08/2024	Julio Garin (Claremont McKenna)	What is in an Age?
5/15/2024	Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)	Dynamics of Job Search Effort and Vacancies: Evidence from Classified Advertisements
5/22/2024	Dario Laudati (USC)	Inequality and the Rise of Finance
5/29/2024	Andrés Fernández Martin (International Monetary Fund)	How to Respond to a Sudden Stop in Firm Financing— Government or Market? Lessons from the Pandemic-Era Policies
6/5/20204	Matthew Freedman (UCI)	Can Rapid Rental Assistance Avert Evictions?

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:37:58 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2024

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
2/28/2024	Chang He (UCLA)	Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions
3/06/2024
3/13/2024	Chenzi Xu (Stanford GSB)	EXIM’s Exit: The Real Effects of Trade Financing by Export Credit Agencies.

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:54:29 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2023

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Victor Ortego-Marti and Jang-Ting Guo

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/04/2023	Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley)	Deadwood Labor: The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection
10/11/2023	Xinchan Lu (UC Riverside)	Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
10/20/2023 3:30-4:50pm	Miroslav Gabrovski (University of Hawai, Manoa)	The Real Effects of Financial Disruptions in a Monetary Economy
10/25/2023	Pascal Michaillat (UC Santa Cruz)	u* = √uv
11/01/2023	Gabriele Camera (Chapman University)	Truth-telling in fully decentralized systems: An impossibility theorem and experimental evidence
11/08/2023	Fan Liang (Loyola Marymount University)	Adverse Selection and Small Business Finances
11/15/2023	Miguel Zercero (UC Irvine)	Union and Firm Labor Market Power
11/22/2023
11/29/2023	Jeffrey Allen (UCR)	Informality, Entry Costs, and the Differential Effectiveness of Public Goods
12/06/2023	Nitish Kumar (UCR)	A Search and Matching Model of Housing and Rental Market Interactions

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:50:24 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2023

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/07/2023 *Sproul 2206	Steve Wu (UC San Diego)	Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, and Global Cycles
4/14/2023 *Sproul 2206	Guillaume Rocheteau (UC Irvine)	The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations
4/21/2023 *Sproul 2206	Paul Bergin (UC Davis)	The Macroeconomic Stabilization of Tariff Shocks: What is the Optimal Monetary Response?
4/28/2023 *Sproul 2206	Oleg Itskhoki (UC Los Angeles)	Optimal Exchange Rate Policy
5/05/2023 *Sproul 2206	Dick Startz (UC Santa Barbara)	Recessions, Recoveries, and Leverage
5/12/2023	No seminar
5/19/2023 *Zoom	Viktoria Hnatkovska (UBC)	Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India
5/26/2023 *Zoom	Jun Ma (Northeastern)	Estimating the Interest Rate Trend in a Shadow Rate Term Structure Model
6/02/2023 *Sproul 2206	Xinchan Lu (UC Riverside)	Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
6/09/2023 *Zoom	Tony Zhang (Fed Board)	Understanding the Strength of the Dollar