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Fall 2023 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday September 28, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | Online | Matteo Maggiori (Stanford University) | A Framework for Geoeconomics |
| Thursday October 5, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame) | How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda |
| Thursday October 12, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET |
MC 3-570 | Felipe Saffie (University of Virginia) | |
| Thursday October 19, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sina Ates (Federal Reserve Board) | Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World |
| Wednesday November 1, 2023 (Joint with and hosted by IMF) |
12:00 - 1:00pm ET | HQ1-9-611 (IMF) | Sean Higgins (Northwestern University) | |
| Thursday November 2, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia SIPA) | The Trade War and American Soft Power: Evidence from Movies, Cars, and Trust |
| Thursday November 9, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ebehi Iyoha (Harvard Business School) | Third-Country Effects of the US-China Trade War: A Firm-level Analysis |
| Thursday November 16, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ishan Nath | |
| Thursday November 30, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Kory Kroft (University of Toronto) | Earnings Inequality in Production Networks |
| Thursday December 7, 2023 (Joint with IMF) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Conor Walsh (Columbia Business School) |
Spring 2023 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 1, 2023 (Joint with IMF) |
12:00 - 1:00pm ET | Online | John Cochrane (Stanford University) | The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Expectations and the Neutrality of Interest Rates |
| Thursday March 2, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | Online | Thomas Philippon (NYU) | |
| Thursday March 9, 2023 |
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MC 3-570 | Anton Korinek (U VA/Brookings) | Part 1: Part 2: “The economics of transformative AI” (covering papers on , , and ) Note that attendees are welcome to attend either or both parts of this seminar. |
| Thursday March 16, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| Thursday March 23, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Diego Perez (NYU) | |
| Thursday March 30, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Dietrich Vollrath (U Houston) | |
| Thursday April 6, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Costas Arkolakis (Yale) | |
| Wednesday May 3, 2023 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | Ryan Kim (Johns Hopkins SAIS) | ||
| Thursday May 11, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sebastian Sotelo | Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective |
| Thursday May 18, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Nancy Qian (Kellogg School of Management) | |
| Thursday May 25, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago) | |
| Thursday June 8, 2023 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | David Nagy (Princeton) | The Death and Life of Great British Cities |
| Thursday June 15, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ezra Oberfield (Princeton) | |
| Thursday June 22, 2023 |
12:00 - 1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Joseph Shapiro | Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment |
Fall 2022 Seminars
For connection information, please contact Anna Goodman (agoodman@worldbank.org)
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday 7 September 2022 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) |
12:00-1:00pm ET | IMF (Room HQ1-09-611) | David Baqaee (UCLA) | |
| Thursday 15 September 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan | |
| Thursday 22 September 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 4-300 | James Cloyne | |
| Thursday 29 September 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 13-121 | Marco Tabellini | |
| CANCELED Wednesday 5 October 2022 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00-1:15pm ET | Note that this seminar has been rescheduled for March 16, 2023. | Will Peterman | |
| Thursday 27 October 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Eunhee Lee (University of Maryland) | |
| Wednesday 2 November 2022 (Joint with & hosted by IMF) |
12:00-1:00pm ET | IMF (Room HQ1-08-112) | Andrea Presbitero | Who Pays for Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market |
| Wednesday 9 November 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 4-300 | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia U) | Government versus Market Failure: The Case of China’s Pro-innovation Subsidy Program |
| Thursday 10 November 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | (MIT) | |
| Thursday 17 November 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth) | |
| Thursday 1 December 2022 |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| Wednesday 7 December 2022 (Joint with IMF & hosted by WB) |
12:00-1:15pm ET | MC 3-570 | Nicholas Trachter |
Spring 2022 Seminars
For connection information, please contact Anna Goodman (agoodman@worldbank.org)
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday 2 March 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Amit Khandelwal (Columbia) |
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| Thursday 10 March 2022 |
10:00-11:00am ET | Peter Blair Henry (NYU) | ||
| Thursday 17 March 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Liliana Varela (LSE) | |
| Wednesday 6 April 2022 |
12:00-1:00pm ET | Online | Erik Hurst (University of Chicago) | |
| Thursday 21 April 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Monica Martinez-Bravo (CEMFI) | |
| Wednesday 4 May 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Alan Auerbach (Berkeley) | |
| Wednesday 25 May 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Devaki Ghose (World Bank) | |
| Wednesday 1 June 2022 |
12:00-1:00pm ET | Online | Martina Jasova (Barnard College) | Monetary Policy, Labor Income Redistribution and the Credit Channel: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee and Credit Registers |
| Thursday 16 June 2022 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Vanessa Alviarez (IADB) |
Fall 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday 16 September 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Melanie Morten (Stanford) |
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| Wednesday 5 October 2021 |
1:30-2:45pm ET | Online | Elias Papaioannou (London Business School) |
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| Thursday 21 October 2021 |
12:15-1:30pm ET | Online | Alessandra Peter (NYU) | Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation |
| Wednesday 3 November 2021 |
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET | Online | Christine A. Parlour | When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows |
| Thursday 18 November 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Daniel Xu (Duke) | |
| Wednesday 1 December 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Oscar Jorda (UC Davis/SF Fed) |
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| Thursday 9 December 2021 |
12:30-1:45pm ET | Online | Jonas Hjort (Columbia) | Local or Imported? Middlemen, Market Power, and Input Sourcing in a Network Economy |
Spring 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 3, 2021 |
12:00 - 1pm ET |
Online | Kristin Forbes (MMIT) |
Spillovers at the Extremes: Macroprudential Tools and Vulnerability to the Global Financial Cycle |
| Wednesday March 3, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Thuy Lan (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Santa Clara University) |
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| Thursday March 25, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Arnaud Costinot (MIT) |
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| Thursday April 1, 2021 |
12:30 – 1:45 pm ET | Online | Philippe Aghion (Harvard) |
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| Thursday April 15, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Cecile Gaubert |
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| Thursday April 29, 2021 |
11:00am - 12:15pm ET |
Online | Paula Bustos (CEMFI) | Industrialization without Innovation |
| Wednesday May 5, 2021 |
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET |
Online | Amine Ouazad (HEC Montreal) |
Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters |
| Thursday May 20, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Tommaso Porzio (Columbia) |
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| Wednesday June 2, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET |
Online | Diana Van Patten (Princeton) |
Fall 2020 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday September 2 |
12:00–1 pm | Online | James D. Hamilton (UCSD) | Advances in Structural Vector Autoregressions With Imperfect Identifying Information |
| Thursday September 17 |
12:30-1:45 pm |
Online | Scott Gehlbach (Chicago) |
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| Wednesday October 7 |
12:30-1:45 pm |
Online | Carolin Pflueger (Chicago) |
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| Thursday October 22 |
9:00-10:15 am | Online | Adrien Bussy (LSE) |
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| Thursday October 29 |
11:00-12:15pm | Online | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia) | |
| Wednesday November 4 |
12:00-1:00 pm | Online | Massimiliano Croce (Bocconi University) |
When the Markets Get Co.V.I.D.: Contagion, Viruses, and Information Diffusion |
| Thursday November 19 |
12:30-1:45 pm | Online | Eduardo Morales (Princeton) | Firm-Export Dynamics in Interdependent Markets |
Spring 2020 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 5 |
12:00-1:15 pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Yan Bai (University of Rochester) | World Financial Cycles |
| Thursday March 5 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Simon Alder (UNC-Chapel Hill) |
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| Thursday March 12 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 8-100 | Carolin Pflueger (University of Chicago) CANCELLED |
A Consumption Based Model of Monetary Policy and Asset Prices |
| Thursday March 19 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 3-570 | Matthias Kehrig (Duke) WEBEX |
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| Thursday March 26 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 7-100 | Arnaud Costinot (MIT) CANCELLED | |
| Thursday April 9, 2020 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 4-100 | Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins University) CANCELLED |
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| Thursday April 23, 2020 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley) CANCELLED |
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| Thursday April 30, 2020 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 7-100 | Thuy Lan Nguyen (Santa Clara) CANCELLED |
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| Wednesday May 6 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 4-100 | Eduardo Morales (Princeton) CANCELLED |
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| Thursday May 14 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| Thursday May 21 |
12:30-2 pm | MC 5-100 | Stephen J. Redding (Princeton) WEBEX |
Fall 2019 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Sep 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 5-100 | Matthew Rognlie (Northwestern) | |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 6-100 | Chad Jones (Stanford) |
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas |
| Sep 19 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 9-100 | Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke) |
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| Sep 26 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Scott Taylor (U Calgary) |
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| Oct 2 | 12:00 - 1:15pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Cian Ruane (IMF) |
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| Oct 10 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 4-100 | Kerem Cosar (UVA) |
Regional and Aggregate Implications of Transportation Costs and Tradability of Services |
| Oct 17 | 12:30 - 2 pm | G 4-001 | Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern Kellogg) | |
| Oct 24 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 9-100 | Jo van Biesebroeck (Duke) | |
| Oct 31 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Alejandro Molnar (World Bank) |
Language barriers to foreign trade: evidence from translation costs |
| Nov 6 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 7-100 | Kala Krishna (Penn State) |
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| Nov 14 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 5-100 | David Baqaee (UCLA) |
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| Nov 21 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 7-100 | Pamela Medina (University of Toronto) | |
| Dec 4 | 12pm - 1:15pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Dmitriy Stolyarov (University of Michigan) | Asset Pricing Implications of Disruptive Technological Change |
| Dec 12 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 8-100 | Sebastian Sotello (University of Michigan) |
Spring 2019 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Feb 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Lauren Falcao Bergquist (Michigan) | |
| Mar 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Todd Schoellman (Minneapolis Fed) | |
| Mar 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Teresa Fort (Dartmouth) | |
| Mar 21 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Johannes Boehm(Science Po) | |
| Mar 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-301 | Daniel Murphy (UVa) |
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| Apr 3 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1 9-611 | Treb Allen (IMF) | |
| Apr 11 | Cancelled | |||
| Apr 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Eric Ohrn (Grinnel) | |
| Apr 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Ben Faber (UC Berkeley) | Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda |
| May 2 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Joel Slemrod | |
| May 9 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Davin Chor (Dartmouth) | Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare |
| May 16 | 11- 12:30pm | MC 5-100 | Manuel Garcia-Santana (UPF) | |
| May 23 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Alonso de Gortari (Princeton/Dartmouth) | |
| May 30 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 9-100 | Ezra Oberfield (Princeton) | |
| Jun 5 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1-9-611 | Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern) | |
| Jun 13 | 11- 12:30pm | MC 3-570 | Kei Mu Yi (University of Houston) | Structural Change and Deindustrialization |
| Jun 16 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-500 | Tatjana Kleineberg (Yale) | |
| Jul 31 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Amit Khandelwal (Columbia) |
Fall 2018 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Sep 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 9-100 | German Cubas (University of Houston) | |
| Sep 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago) | |
| Sep 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke) | Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations |
| Oct 3 | 12:00 - 1:30pm | IMF HQ1-9-611 | Sebnem Kalemi-Ozcan (University of Maryland) | Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity: Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects |
| Oct 11 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Kevin Donovan (Yale) | |
| Oct 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Amit Khandelwal (Columbia) | Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Evidence from FDI |
| Oct 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Sandra Sequiera (LSE) | |
| Oct 31 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Nicolas Werquin (TSE/Yale) | |
| Nov 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Andres Liberman (NYU Stern) | |
| Nov 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Douglas Hanley (University of Pittsburgh) | Patents to Products: Innovation and Firm Performance |
| Nov 29 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Wolfgang Keller | |
| Dec 5 | Doireann Fitzgerald | Please note this seminar is cancelled due to closure of World Bank headquarters. | ||
| Dec 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 9-100 | Thibault Fally (Berkeley) |
Spring 2018 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Title |
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| Jun 28 | 10:30 - 12:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Guy Michaels (LSE) | Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline |
| Jun 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Meredith Startz (Princeton) | |
| Jun 6 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ2-04B-592 | Carol Corrado (Georgetown) | Estimating Spillovers from Intangible Investments: What models and techniques should be used? |
| May 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Jonathan Eaton (PSU) | |
| May 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Eoin McGuirk (Yale) | |
| May 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Catia Bastita (NOVAFRICA) | Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| May 2 | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | MC 7-370 | Owen Zidar (Chicago Booth) | |
| Apr 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale) | |
| Apr 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley) | The Missing Profits of Nations |
| Mar 29 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Eunhee Lee (Maryland) | |
| Mar 22 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 5-100 | Gabriel Chodrow-Reich (Harvard) | |
| Mar 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA) | |
| Mar 7 | 2 - 3:30 pm | MC 3-570 | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia) | Trade Imbalance as a Source of Comparative Disadvantage and Welfare Loss |
| Feb 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Robert Staiger (Dartmouth) |
Fall 2017 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker |
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| Dec 14 | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | MC 10-100 | Peter Schott (Yale) | |
| Dec 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 8-100 | Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth) | Foreign Direct Investment Jobs and Schooling |
| Nov 30 | 2:30 - 4:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Marti Mestieri (Northwestern) | |
| Nov 16 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Giovanni Maggi (Yale) | Choked by Red Tape? The Political Economy of Wasteful Trade Barriers |
| Nov 9 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | David Atkin (MIT) | Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico |
| Nov 1 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-370 | Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State) | Structural Change within the Service Secotr and the Future of Baumol's Disease |
| Oct 26 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Pascual Restrepo (Boston University) | |
| Oct 19 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm | MC 3-570 | Sara Moreira (Northwestern) | |
| Oct 4 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1 10-713 | Javier Bianchi (Minneapolis Fed) | |
| Sep 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 7-100 | Fernando Parro (JHU) | |
| Sep 21 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Anton Korinek (JHU) | |
| Sep 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 8-100 | Jessica Leight | |
| Aug 31 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 4-100 | Jonathan Vogel, UCLA | |
| Jun 29 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10 -100 | John McLaren, University of Virginia | |
| Jun 15 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10 -100 | Felipe Saffie, University of Maryland | |
| Jun 7 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm | IMF HQ1 10-713 | ||
| Jun 1 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Human Capital and Financial Development | |
| May 18 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Rodrigo Rodrigues Adao, Princeton University | Trade Openness, Agglomeration Effects, and the Labor Market |
| May 11 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 6-100 | Andres Rodriguez Clare, Princeton University | |
| May 3 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 4 -100 | ||
| Apr 27 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC6-100 | Hiau Looi Kee, World Bank | Non-Tariff Measures and Trade Agreements |
| Apr 13 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 8-100 |
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| Apr 5 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | IMF HQ 1 10-713 |
Cristina Arellano, Minneapolis Fed |
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| Mar 30 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 10-100 | ||
| Mar 23 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 7-370 |
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| Mar 1 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC C2-135 | ||
| Mar 1 | 12:30 -2:00 pm | MC 4-100 |
MC 8-100
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