Fall 2018
This workshop meets Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. in Saieh Hall for Economics 112. For questions, please contact Jamie Phillips.
October 3
Xavier Vives, IESE Business School
"Oligopoly, Macroeconomic Peformance, and Competition Policy"
October 10
Ricardo Lagos, New York University
"On Money as a Medium of Exchange in Near-Cashless Credit Economies"
October 17
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University
"Monetary and Financial Policies in Emerging Markets"
October 24
Simon Mongey, Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"Labor Market Concentration and Welfare"
October 31
Fernando Alvarez, Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"The Analytic Theory of A Monetary Shock"
November 7
Urban Jermann, University of Pennsylvania
"Negative Swaps and Limited Arbitrage"
November 14
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation"
November 21
Thanksgiving - University Holiday
No Meeting
November28
Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA
"Incentive Constrained Risk Sharing, Segmentation, and Asset Pricing"
December 5
Emi Nakamura, University of California at Berkeley
"Women, Wealth Effect, and Slow Recoveries"
December 12
TBA