Macro
Workshop Schedule 2021-2022
Program Directors:
Sergio Ocampo Diaz and Simona Cociuba
Fall Term 2021
Tuesday, September 14: 3:30-5:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Monica Morlacco (University of Southern California)
"Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development"
Tuesday, October 5: 3:30-5:00 p.m., ONLINE
Shu Lin Wee (Bank of Canada)
"Emerging markets, household heterogeneity, and exchange rate policy"
Tuesday, October 12: 3:30-5:00 p.m., ONLINE
Ilse Lindenlaub (Yale University)
"Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting"
Joint with Paula Calvo and Ana Reynoso
Tuesday, October 19: 12:00-1:30 p.m., ONLINE
Ben Moll (London School of Economics)
"Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy"
Joint with David Laibson and Peter Maxted
Tuesday, October 26: 3:30-5:00 p.m., ONLINE
Eugenia Gonzalez Aguado (University of Toulouse)
"Labor mobility over the business cycle"
Tuesday, November 23: 3:30-5:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)
"From Micro to Macro: Land Institutions, Agricultural Productivity, and Structural Transformation"
Tuesday, November 30: 3:30-5:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Joao Galindo Da Fonseca (University of Montreal)
"Spouses, Children, and Entrepreneurship"
Monday, December 6: 3:30-5:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Steve Williamson (Western University)
"Forward Guidance and Multiple Equilibria"
Winter Term 2022
Tuesday, March 8: 3:30-5:00 p.m., ONLINE
Ayşegül Şahin (University of Texas - Austin)
"The Dual U.S. Labor Market Uncovered"
Joint with Hie Joo Ahn and Bart Hobijn
Tuesday, March 29: 3:30-5:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Jafar El Armali (Western University)
"Financial Shocks, Spreads, and Economic Fluctuations,"
Tuesday, April 19: 3:30-5:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Pascual Restrepo (Boston University)
"Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality"
Tuesday, April 26: 3:30-5:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Bariş Kaymak (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
"Labor Substitutability Among Schooling Groups"
Joint with Mark Bils and Kai-Jie Wu
Summer Term 2022
Tuesday, May 10: 3:30-5:00 p.m., ONLINE
Linjie Hao (Western University)
"TBA"
Tuesday, May 17: 12:00-1:00 p.m., SSC 4161
Karthik Kotikalapudi (Western University)
"TBA"
Tuesday, May 24: 12:00-1:00 p.m., ONLINE
Chong Wang (Western University)
"The Rise and Fall of Sovereign Default”
Tuesday, May 31: 12:00-1:00 p.m., ONLINE
Jihyun Kim (Western University)
"The Role of Government's Firm Finance Policy in the Rise of Zombie Firms”
