Seminars
2024 Seminars
Seminar speakers visit for one day to make a presentation.
| Name (First Last) | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Eddie Gerba | Bank of England | When Credit Expansions becone Troublesome: The Story of Investory Sentiments (joint with Danilo Leiva-Leon and Johannes Poeschl) |
| Avi Goldfarb | University of Toronto | Pause Giant AI Experiments? |
| May Rostrom | Bank of England | Price Discrimination and Mortgage Choice (joint with James Coen and Anil Kashyap) |
| Dennis Carlton | University of Chicago | Assessing the New Antitrust Policy |
| Bruce Iwadate | Baruch College | Foreign Demand for Treasuries: Evidence from the Largest Pension Fund in the Work |
| Dilip Madan | University of Maryland | Unmasking stochastic volatility in discontinuous continuity approximations and extracting VIX optionality directly from SPX implied volatilities (joint with King Wang) |
| Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde | University of Pennsylvania | The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Macroeconomic Outcomes: Evidence and Theory (joint with Xiwen Bai, Yiliang Li, and Francesco Zanetti) |
| Francesco D'Acunto | Georgetown University | Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy and the Transmission of Monetary Policy (joint with Dimitris Georgarakos, Geoff Kenny, and Michael Weber) |
| Ilenin Kondo | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Granular Income Inequality and Mobility using IDDA: Exploring Patterns across Race and Ethnicity |
| David Sraer | University of California, Berkeley | Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms (joint with Elio Nimier-David and David Thesmar) |
| Nicola Pierri | International Monetary Fund | Mitigating Climate Change at the Firm Level: Mind the Laggards (joint with Damien Capelle, Divya Kirti, German Villegas-Bauer) |
| Steven Hamilton | George Washington University | A $100,000 Marshallow Experiment: Withdrawal and Spending Responses to Early Retirement-Savings Access (joint with Geoffrey Liu, Jorge Miranda-Pinto, and Traistram Sainsbury) |
| Isha Agarwal | University of British Columbia | Lending by Servicing: Monetary Policy Transmission through Shadow Banks (joint with Malin Hu, Raluca Roman, and Keling Zhang) |
| Desmond Andrades & Jiten Garg | World Bank | Adoption of AI at IFC: ChatIFC, Co-pilot at IFC, Prompt Engineering |
| Sergio Correia | Federal Reserve Board | Unlocking economic data with LLMS |
| Nancy Wallace | University of California Berkeley | Housing and Mortgage Markets with Climate risk: Evidence from California Wildfires (joint with Paulo Issler, Richard Stanton, and Carles Vergara-Alert) |
| Shohini Kundu | University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management | Diverging Banking Sector: New Facts and Macro Implications |
| Andrea Eisfeldt | University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management | The Labor Impact of Generative AI on Firm Values |
| Baeho Kim | Korea University | Conditional Tail-sampling Measure Change for Point Processes (joint with Alex Shkolnik) |
| Bruce Preston | University of Melbourne | Monetary Policy Trade-offs at the Zero Lower Bound (joint with Stefano Eusepi and Christopher G. Gibbs) |
| Constantine Yannelis | University of Chicago Booth School of Business | Does Climate Change Impact Sovereign Bond Yields? (joint with Michael Barnett) |
| Len Nakamura | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Climate Shocks in the Anthropocene Era: Should Net Domestic Product be Affected by Climate Disasters? (joint with Brian Sliker) |
| Bernard Herskovic | University of California Los Angeles | Interdealer Price Dispersion (joint with Andrea L. Eisfeldt and Shuo Liu) |
| Emma Pierson | Cornell University | Machine learning and data science methods to improve social equity |
| Deniz Igan | Bank of International Settlements | The premia on state-contingent sovereign debt instruments |
| Diego Bonelli | NHH Norwegian School of Economics | Good inflation, Bad Inflation: Implications for Risky Asset Prices (joint with Dino Palazzo and Ram Yamarthy) |
| Paul Ehling | BI Norwegian Business School | No Short in Sight (joint with Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen and Zeshu Xu) |
| Julian Neira | University of Exeter | Firm Dynamics with Many Sectors (joint with Hugo Hopenhayn and Rish Singhania) |
| Gustavo de Souza | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | More Trade, Less Diffusion: Technology Transfers and the Dynamic Effect of Import Liberalization |
| Hyung Joo Kim | Federal Reserve Board | A New Closed-Form Discrete-Time Option Pricing Model with Stochastic Volatility (joint with Steven Heston and Kris Jacobs) |
| Siddharth Vij | University of Georgia Terry College of Business | Size-Based Regulation and Bank Fragility: Evidence from the Wells Fargo Asset Cap (joint with Tianyue Ruan) |
| Andras Borsos | Central Bank of Hungary | Firm-level production networks: what do we (really) know? (joint with Andrea Bacilieri, Pablo Astudillo-Estevez and Francois Lafond) |
| Federica Romei | University of Oxford | Inequality, Expenditure Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy (joint with Lukas Boehnert, Sergio de Ferra, and Kurt Mitman) |
| Mina Lee | Federal Reserve Board | Who is Minding the Store? Order Routing and Competition in Retail Trade Execution (joint with Xing Huang, Philippe Jorion, and Christopher Schwarz) |
| Urban Jermann | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Tokenomics: Optimal Monetary and Fee Policies (joint with Haotian Xiang) |
| Oren Danieli | Tel Aviv University | Revisiting US Wage Inequality at the Bottom 50% |
| Lira Mota | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Beyond Cash-Flows: What Drives Corporate Bond Valuation (joint with Felix Cornell and Melina Papoutsi) |
| Mark Carey | Federal Reserve Board | Short Selling and Bank Deposit Flows (joint with Christopher Healy) |
| Erica Jiang | University of Southern California Marshall School of Business | Branching Out Inequality: The Impact of Credit Equality Policies (joint with Jacelly Cespedes, Carlos Parra, and Jinyuan Zhang) |
| Eli Fenichel | Yale University | Minding Ps & Qs in US Natural Capital Accounts |
| Chukwuma Dim | George Washington University | 0DTEs: Trading, Gamma Risk and Volatility Propagation (joint with Bjorn Eraker and Grigory Vilkov) |
| Yang-Ho Park | Federal Reserve Board | Do Margins Contribute to Market Illiquidity? Evidence form the S&P 500 Futures |
| Ryan Lewis | University of Colorado Boulder | The Value of Climate Hedge Assets: Evidence from Australian Water Markets |
| Joshua Chan | Purdue University | Large Bayesian Matrix Autoregressions (joint with Yaling Qi) |
| Irina Stefanescu | Federal Reserve Board | Choosing Pension Fund Investment Consultants (joint with Aleksandar Andonov and Matteo Bonetti) |
| Martin Beraja | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Durables and Size-Dependencies in the Marginal Propensity to Spend (joint with Nathan Zorzi) |
| Hassa Afrouzi | Columbia University | The Distributional Effects of Inflation on the Labor Market (joint with Andres Blanco, Andres Drenik, and Erik Hurst) |
| Jisung Park | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Mandatory Climate Adaptation: Evidence from Firms and Workplace Safety (joint with Nora Pankratz and Patrick Behrer) |
| Tatiana Homonoff | New York University | Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply: Evidence from California (joint with Jacob Goldin, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelemore) |
| Jon Danielsson | London School of Economics | On the use of artificial intelligence in financial regulations and the impact on financial stability (joint with Andreas Uthemann) |
| Andrew Chen | Federal Reserve Board | Most claimed statistical findings in cross-sectional return predictability are likely true |
| Giovanni Pagliardi | BI Norwegian Business School | Political risk everywhere (joint with Vito Gala, Ivan Shaliastovich, Stavros Zenios) |
| Toan Phan | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence (joint with Laura Bakkensen and Russell Tsz-Nga Wong) |
| Vladimir Yankov | Federal Reserve Board | Rewiring Repo (joint with Jin-Wook Chang and Elizabeth Klee) |
| Lu Liu | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Mortgage Lock-In, Mobility, and Labor Reallocation (joint with Julia Fonseca) |
| Menaka Hampole | Yale University | Financial Frictions and Human Capital Investments |
| Greg Werden | George Mason University | The Foundations of Antitrust |
| Aaron Pancost | University of Texas Austin McCombs School of Business | Bailing out (Firms') Uninsured Deposits: A Quantitative Analysis (joint with Roberto Robatto) |
| Caroline Norris | Federal Reserve Board | Spatial Lending Patterns and Physical Risks (joint with Ben Dennis and Gurubala Kotta) |
| Anthony Lee Zhang | University of Chicago Booth School of Business | Automated Market Making and Loss-Versus-Rebalancing (joint with Jason Milionis, Ciamac C. Moallemi, and Tim Roughgarden) |
| Daniel Greenwald | New York University Stern School of Business | Monetary Transmission Through Bank Securities Portfolios (joint with John Krainer and Pascal Paul) |
| Itamar Dreschler | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Credit Crunches and the Great Stagflation (joint with Alexi Savov and Philipp Schnabl) |
| Matthew Agarwala & Patrycja Klusak | University of Cambridge & University of East Anglia | Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness |
| Huiyu Li | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Ideas, Rents and Firm Growth (joint with Timo Boppart, Pete Klenow, and Reiko Laski) |
| Stephen Terry | University of Michigan | The Empirical Distribution of Firm Dynamics and Its Macro Implications (joint with Nir Jaimovich and Nicolas Vincent) |
| Felix Chang | Ohio State University Moritz College of Law | The Strength of Bad Ties (joint with James Lee) |
| Kevin Zhao | Office of Financial Research | Foot Traffic Dynamics Following Natural Disasters (joint with Jue Ren and Thomas Ruchti) |
| Magi Llorenc Clave Badia | International Monetary Fund | IMF response to the GenAI revolution |
| Enrique Sentana | Center for Monetary & Financial Studies | The information matrix test for Gaussian mixtures (joint with Dante Amengual and Gabriele Fiorentini) |
| Aysegul Sahin | University of Texas Austin | Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation (joint with Sadhika Bagga, Lukas Mann, and Giovanni L. Violante) |
| Emilio Osambela | Federal Reserve Board | Understanding the Pricing of Carbon Emissions: New Evidence from the Stock Market (joint with Matteo Crosignani and Matthew Pritsker) |
| Gernot Wagner | Columbia Business School | Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset (joint with Adam Michael Bauer and Cristian Proistosescu) |
| Yueran Ma | University of Chicago | Bankruptcy Resolution and Credit Cycles (joint with Martin Kornejew, Chen Lian, Pablo Ottonello, and Diego J. Perez) |
| Jeremias Huber | Columbia Business School | Venture Capital Risk |
| Thomas Lubik | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | The Changing Nature of Technology Shocks (joint with Christoph Gortz and Christopher Gunn) |
| Jenny Ding | University of Maryland | Consumption Upgrading and Wage Inequality |
| Michael Navarrete | Brookings Institution | Geosptial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story (joint with Seula Kim) |
| Victor Duarte | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Maximum Likelihood Estimation of High-Dimensional Diffusions (joint with Diogo Duarte and Dejanir H. Silva) |
| Seung Kwak | Federal Reserve Board | Pre-LBO Credit Market Conditions and Post-LBO Target Behavior (joint with Charles Press) |
| Giang Nguyen | Penn State Smeal College of Business | Markup or Markdown: National Underwriters' Exit and the Changing Landscape of Municipal Finance (joint with John Hund, Christian Lundblad, and Christos A. Makridis) |
| Anders Humlum | University of Chicago | The Adoption of ChatGPT (joint with Emilie Vestergaard) |
| Jann Spiess | Stanford Graduate School of Business | Unpacking the Black Box: Regulating Algorithmic Decisions (joint with Laura Blattner and Scott Nelson) |
| Sonia Jaffe | Microsoft Research | Generative AI in Real-World Workplaces (joint with Neha Parikh Shah, Jenna Butler, Alax Farach, Alexia Cambon, Brent Hecht, Michael Schwarz, and Jaime Teevan) |
| Lilia Maliar | City University of New York | The Power of Open Mouth Policies (joint with Vadym Lepetyuk, Serguei Maliar, and John Taylor) |
| Reena Aggarwal | Georgetown University | Why do Investors Vote Against Corporate Directors? (joint with Sandeep Dahiya and Umit Yilmaz) |
| Aina Puig | American University | New Survey Evidence of Marginal Propensities to Consume: A Decomposition of Differences by Race |
| David Sperry | Amazon Web Services | Envisioning the role of generative artificial intelligence in central banking |
| Noriyasu Kaneda | Bank of Japan | Indexing and Visualization of Climate Narratives Using BERT and Causal Extraction (joint with Hiroki Sakaji) |
| Hanno Lustig | Stanford Graduate School of Business | Can U.S. Treasury Markets Add and Subtract? (joint with Roberto Gomez-Cram and Howard Kung) |
| Luigi Bocola | Stanford University | Bond Market Views of the Fed (joint with Alessandro Dovis, Kasper Joergensen, and Rishabh Kirpalani) |
| Ivelin Zvezdov | Verisk | Catastrophe models: introduction, contribution to transparency and stability in the technical price of insurance risk |
| Caitlin Gorback | University of Texas at Austin | Impact of Institutional Owners on Housing Markets (joint with Franklin Qian and Zipei Zhu) |
| Facundo Piguillem | Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance | Fiscal Rules and Discretion with with Risk of Default (joint with Chiara Felli and Liyan Shi) |
| Sebastian Di Tella | Stanford Graduate School of Business | The Zero-Beta Interest Rate (joint with Benjamin Hebert, Pablo Kurlat, and Qitong Wang) |
| Sebastian Heise | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | The Language of Prices: Firms' Price Setting and Passthrough Behavior in their Own Words (joint with Keshav Dogra, Edward S. Knotek II, Brent H. Meyer, Robert W. Rich, Raphael S. Schoente, Giorgio Topa, Wilbert van der Klaauw, and Wandi Bruine de Bruin) |
| Sarah Miller | University of Michigan Ross School of Business | Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income (joint with Elizabeth Rhodes, Alexander Bartik, David Broockman, Patrick Krause, and Eva Vivalt) |
| Decory Edwards | Johns Hopkins University | Heterogeneous Returns and the Distribution of Wealth |
| Jesse Bruhn | Brown University | Path Dependence in the Labor Market: The Long-Run Effects of Early Career Occupational Experience (joint with Jacob Fabian, Luke Gallagher, Matthew Gudgeon, Aaron Phipps, and Adam Isen) |
| Zhengyang Jiang | Northwestern University | Monetary-Fiscal Coordination with International Hegemon (joint with Xuning Ding) |
| Loukas Karabarbounis | University of Minnesota | The Puzzling Behavior of Spreading during Covid (joint with Stelios Fourakis) |
| Joakim Weill & Mallick Hussein | Federal Reserve Board & Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Climate risks and the pricing of homeowners' insurance (joint with Joshua Blonz) |
| Amy Wang Huber | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Intermediary Elasticity and Limited Risk-Bearing Capacity |
| Michela Giorcelli | University of California Los Angeles | The Effects of Business Schools Education on Manager Career Outcomes |
| Federico Huneeus | Duke University | The Incidence of Distortions (joint with David Atkin, Baptiste Bernadac, Dave Donaldson, and Tishara Garg) |
| Aline Butikofer | Norwegian School of Economics | Long-Term Consequences of Air Pollution: Does age or years of exposure matter? (joint with Zichen Deng and Kjell Salvanes) |
| Nir Jaimovich | University of California San Diego | The Impact of Supply, Demand, and Policy Shifts: From Micro Elasticities to Distributional Effects (joint with Nittai Bergman and Itay Saporta-Eksten) |
| Steve Cecchetti | Brandeis University | Fiscal Consequences of Central Bank Losses (joint with Jen Hilscher) |
| Joao Granja | University of Chicago Booth School of Business | How (in)active was bank supervision during the 2022 Monetary Tightening? (joint with Yadav Gopalan) |
| Ariel Binder | United States Census Bureau | Intergenerational Mobility and Housing Wealth in the United States (joint with Max Risch and John Voorheis) |
| James Graham | University of Sydney | Of House and Home-Related Goods: Consumption Spending via the Home Purchase Channel (joint with Giovanni Favara and Geng Li) |
| Michael Gordy | Federal Reserve Board | Spectral backtests unbounded and folded (joint with Alexander J. McNeil) |
| Sang Byung Seo | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Learning, Subjective Beliefs, and Time-Varying Preferences for Different Inflation Ranges (joint with Mohammad Ghaderi and Ivan Shaliastovich) |
| Ye Li | University of Washington | The Network Structure of Money Multiplier (joint with Yi Li and Huijin Sun) |
| Thummum Cho | Korea University | Fundamental Values and Where (Else) To Find Them |
| Ricardo Caballero | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Financial Conditions Targeting (joint with Tomas E. Caravello and Alp Simsek) |
| Anton Korinek | University of Virginia | LLMs Level Up - Better, Faster, Cheaper: A Mid-2024 Update of Generative AI for Economic Research |
| Victoria Gregory | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Subjective Earnings Risk (joint with Andrew Caplin and Eungik Lee) |
| Rupal Kamdar | Indiana University | The Effects of New Shocks and Supply-Side Beliefs (joint with Walker Ray) |
| Alisdair McKay | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | How Should Monetary Policy Respond to Housing Inflation? (joint with Javier Bianchi and Neil Mehrotra) |
| Elisa Rubbo | University of Chicago | What Drives Inflation? Lessons from Disaggregated Price Data |
| Nina Boyarchenko | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | The Global Credit Cycle (joint with Leonardo Elias) |
| Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe | Columbia University | Heterogeneous Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Foundations of a Nonlinear Phillips Curve (joint with Martin Uribe) |
| Manju Puri | Duke University | Does open banking expand credit access? (joint with Shashwat Alok, Pulah Ghosh, and Nirupama Kulkarni) |
| Tetiana Davydiuk | Johns Hopkins University | Corporate Bond Issuance by Financial Institutions (joint with Tatyana Marchuk and Ivan Shaliastovich) |
| Amy Handlan | Brown University | Monetary Communication Rules (joint with Laura Gati) |
| Alan Moreira | University of Rochester Simon Business School | Asset Purchase Rules: How QE Transformed the Bond Market (joint with Valentin Haddad and Tyler Muir) |
| Diego Perez | New York University | The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy (joint with Pablo Ottonello and William Witheridge) |
| Deeksha Gupta | Johns Hopkins University | Dynamic Green Disclosure Requirements (joint with Jan Starmans) |
| Peter Hull | Brown University | "Something Works" in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program (joint with Marcella Alsan, Arkey Barnett, and Crystal S. Yang) |
| Tatevik Sekhposyan | Texas A&M University | The Relevance of Temporal Aggregation for the Propagation of Macroeconomic Shocks (joint with Yeon Jik Lee) |
| Jawad Addoum | Cornell University | Does Wildfire Smoke Choke Local Business (joint with Dimirios Gounopoulos, Matthew Gustafson, Ryan Lewis, and Tam Nguyen) |
| Ellora Derenoncourt | Princeton University | The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S. |
| Jonathan Wright | Johns Hopkins University | Macroeconomic news announcements and identification of policy shocks in SVARs |
| Ian Martin | London School of Economics | Forecasting Crashes with a Smile (joint with Ran Shi) |
| Yunzhi Hu | University of North Carolina Kenan-Flager Business School | Lending Competition and Funding Collaboration (joint with Pavel Zryumov) |
| Hugh Kim | University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business | Alerting Banks to Climate Risks: Impact of Bad Air Quality Shocks on Pricing Loans for Brown Firms (joint with Allen N. Berger, Hyun-Soo Choi, and Yun-Soo Kim) |
| Liliana Varela | London School of Economics | Segmented Financial Integration (joint with Juan Carluccio) |
| Ina Simonovska | University of California Davis | Trade Credit and Exchange Rate Risk Pass Through (joint with Bryan Hardy and Felipe Saffie) |
| Nicola Cetorelli | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | The Nonbank Footprint of Banks (joint with Saketh Prazad) |
| Sylvain Catherine | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | How Do Income-Driven Repayment Plans Benefit Student Debt Borrowers? (joint with Mehran Ebrahimian and Constantine Yannelis) |
| Jonathan Chiu | Bank of Canada | Money Creation for Crypto Space: Stablecois, Tokenized Depositys or Central Bank Digital Currencies (joint with Cyril Monnet) |
| Tomas Jankauskas | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | The Term Structure of Corporate Bond Risk Premia |
| Guillaume Rocheteau | University of California, Irvine | Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run Revisited (joint with Zachary Bethune, Michael Choi, and Sebastien Lotz) |
| Andres Blanco | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | The inflation accelerator (joint with Corina Boar, Callum Jones, and Virgiliu Midrigan) |
| Pablo D'Erasmo | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | A Quantitative model of Banking Industry Dynamics (joint with Dean Corbae) |
| Xian Ng | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Recurring-Payment Sensitivity in Household Borrowing |
| Adam Copeland | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Repo and the Liquidity Premium (joint with Owen Engbretson) |