Seminars

Each of our research poles host regular macroeconomics seminars

@LSE - Macro Seminars

 Upcoming Seminars - Winter Term


Monday 31 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10.30-12.00
SAL.1.04
Weijie Zhang (Benjamin Moll): Stimulus contract
Marta Guasch Rusiñol (Ethan Ilzetzki): Debt without Investment

Tuesday 1 April: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12.00-13.00
SAL.1.04
Rachel Ngai: Sowing Seeds of Mobility: Gender‐biased Impact of Land Reforms

Tuesday 01 April: Money-Macro Seminar 
14.30-16.00 
SAL.1.04 
Valerie Ramey, Stanford University: Why Didn't the U.S. Unemployment Rate Rise at the End of WWII



Upcoming Seminars - Spring Term


Tuesday 06 May: Money-Macro Seminar
14.30-16.00
SAL.1.04
Manuel Amador, University of Minnesota  

Monday 12 May: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
10.30-12.00
SAL.1.04 
Jasper Bechtold (Matthias Doepke)
Delia Macaluso (Matthias Doepke)
Brayan Segura Solano (Ethan Ilzetzki)

Tuesday 13 May: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis  

Monday 19 May: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
10.30-12.00
SAL.1.04 
Antonio Iavarone (Benjamin Moll and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey)
Runpu Li (Matthias Doepke, Joe Hazell and Rachel Ngai)  

Tuesday 20 May: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago 

Monday 02 June: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
10.30-12.00
SAL.1.04 
Wei Wang (Matthias Doepke and Rachel Ngai) 
Francisco Líbano-Monteiro (Wouter Den Haan) 

Tuesday 03 June: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago 

Monday 09 June: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
10.30-12.00
SAL.1.04 
Lukas Wiedemann (Matthias Doepke, Benjamin Moll and Rachel Ngai) 
Johannes Matt (Francesco Caselli)

Tuesday 10 June: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Chris Tonetti, Stanford University

Monday 16 June: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
10.30-12.00
SAL.1.04 
Tianhao Yin (Igor Makarov and Rachel Ngai) 
Yuhao Qian (Benjamin Moll and Dima Mukhin)


 

Past seminars: 2024 - 2025

Monday 30 September: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Soroush Sabet (Matthias Doepke and Benjamin Moll) 

Tuesday 01 October: Job Market Seminar 
12:45 – 14:00 
SAL.1.04 
Patrick Schneider 

Tuesday 01 October: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
15:00 – 16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Elisa Rubbo, University of Chicago: “What drives inflation? Lessons from disaggregated price data

Monday 07 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.2.04 
Ananya Kotia (Benjamin Moll): Trade, Management, and Firm Productivity  

Monday 14 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.2.04 
Sitong Ding (Ricardo Reis): Market Beliefs about Monetary Policy Rules: Evidence from Data Releases 

Monday 14 October: Job Market Seminar 
12:45 - 14:00 
SAL.1.04 
Runhong MaAutomation, Financial Frictions and Industrial Robot Subsidy in China

Thursday 17 October: Job Market Seminar 
11:00 - 12:15 
SAL.1.04 
Jingfeng ZhangCredit Relationships and Dynamic Credit Constraints

Thursday 17 October: Job Market Seminar 
12:45 - 14:00 
SAL.1.04 
Isaac Martinez-Centeno: Monetary Policy Transmission and Informal Employment: Insights from Household-Level Data 

Monday 21 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.2.04 
Marta Guasch Rusiñol (Joe Hazell and Ethan Ilzetzki): Debt without investment 

Monday 21 October: Job Market Seminar 
12:45 – 14:00 
SAL.1.04 
Julio Brandao-RollHuman Capital and Growth: The Role of High-Skill Labor Concentration

Monday 28 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Stephan Hobler (Wouter Den Haan and Matthias Doepke): Worker Mobility and Technology Adoption 

Tuesday 29 October: Job Market Seminar
11:00 - 12:15
SAL.1.04
Yannick SchindlerBad Bank, Bad Luck? Evidence from 1 Million Firm-Lender Relationships

Monday 04 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Antonio Iavarone (Benjamin Moll and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey): U.S.-China Technological War

Tuesday 05 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
12:00 - 13:00 
SAL.1.04 
Benjamin MollThe Trouble with Rational Expectations in Heterogeneous Agent Models: A Challenge for Macroeconomics

Tuesday 05 November: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30 - 16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia University: Exchange Controls as a Fiscal Instrument

Monday 11 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-11:50
SAL.1.04
Runpu Li (Matthias Doepke, Joe Hazell and Rachel Ngai): Heterogeneous Idiosyncratic Shock Propagation in the Production Network 

Tuesday 12 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
12:00-13:00 
SAL.1.04 
Josh Weiss, IIES: More Than the Sum of Its Parts? Markups and the Role of Establishments

Tuesday 12 November: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Seula Kim, Penn State University: Workers' Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics

Monday 18 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Francisco Líbano-Monteiro (Wouter Den Haan): Trends in wage rate/income inequality and mobility 

Tuesday 19 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
12:00-13:00 
SAL.1.04 
Chen Lian, UC Berkeley: Beliefs About the Economy are Excessively Sensitive to Household-Level Shocks: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Tuesday 19 November: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Guido Lorenzoni, University of Chicago, Booth: Global Inflation and Monetary Coordination 

Monday 25 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Johannes Matt (Francesco Caselli): Equilibrium Investment Horizons and the Macroeconomy 

Tuesday 26 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
12:00-13:00 
SAL.1.04 
Felipe Saffie, University of Virginia: Volatile Rates, Fragile Growth:
Global Financial Risk and Productivity Dynamics
 

Tuesday 26 November: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University: Deficits and Inflation: HANK meets FTPL

Monday 02 December: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Yuhao Qian (Benjamin Moll and Dima Mukhin): Capital Misallocation and Cash-flow-based Borrowing 

Tuesday 03 December: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
12:00-13:00 
SAL.1.04 
Matthias DoepkeThe Political Economy of Housing in an Aging Society

Thursday 05 December: Money-Macro Seminar 
12:00-13:00 
SAL.1.04 
Adrien Bilal, Stanford University: The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature 

Monday 09 December: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Wei Wang, (Matthias Doepke and Rachel Ngai): Population Ageing and Intergenerational Allocation of Resources 

Tuesday 10 December: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
12:00-13:00 
SAL.1.04 
Friedrich GeieckeConversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews with a Simple Open-Source Platform

Tuesday 10 December: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Moritz Kuhn, Mannheim University: To Have or Not to Have: Understanding Wealth Inequality

Monday 20 January: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Lukas Wiedemann (Matthias Doepke and Rachel Ngai): The Dual Role of Inequality for Structural Change: Cause and Consequence 

Monday 27 January: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Tianhao Yin (Igor Makarov and Rachel Ngai): Decentralized Governance: Exploring Turnout in Token-Based Organizations

Monday 03 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Marco Bellifemine (Ricardo Reis): Firms' animal spirits and the business cycle

Monday 10 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Sierene Abdelsayed (Ethan Ilzetzki): Exploring Consumption Beyond the Healthy Mind 

Monday 17 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Adrien Couturier-Roguet (Benjamin Moll): Managers expectations and productivity

Monday 24 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00 - 11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Salomé Fofana (Ricardo Reis): Time-discounting: the missing piece in the precautionary savings empirical puzzle?”

Tuesday 25 February: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar 
12.00-13.00 
SAL.1.04 
Ricardo ReisThe Market for Inflation Risk

Tuesday 25 February: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Annette Vissing-Jørgensen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors: A Stock Return Decomposition Using Observables

Monday 03 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Charles Nourse (Ethan Ilzetzki): Consumption Responses to Regular, Anticipated Income Shocks

Tuesday 04 March: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12.00-13.00
SAL.1.04
Christian WolfLocal Projections or VARs? A Primer for Macroeconomists

Tuesday 04 March: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University: A Theory of Endogenous Degrowth and Environmental Sustainability

Monday 10 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Paula Patzelt (Ricardo Reis): Business cycle implications of the energy (shock) transition
SAL.2.04
Ananya Kotia (Benjamin Moll): Family Matters: How Globalization Reshapes Firm Management and Productivity

Tuesday 11 March: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12.00-13.00
SAL.1.04
Jonathon HazellMonetary Policy, Consumption and the Financial Accelerator - Evidence from 6 Million Natural Experiments

Tuesday 11 March: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Diego Kanzig, Northwestern University: The Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Policy Uncertainty

Monday 17 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-11:50
SAL.1.04
Kazunari Tanabe (Matthias Doepke and Ben Moll): Asymmetric Impacts of Sectoral Shocks between Rich and Poor Countries 
SAL.2.04
Sitong Ding (Ricardo Reis): Riskless Inflation under Risky Monetary Policy

Tuesday 18 March: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12.00-13.00
SAL.1.04
Ethan IlzetzkiGuns and Growth: The Economic Consequences of Defense Buildups

Tuesday 18 March: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Paulo Surico, LBS: Non-Essential Business Cycles

Monday 24 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar 
11:00-11:50 
SAL.1.04 
Enrico Turri (Ethan Ilzetzki): Ageing and the Direction of Innovation
SAL.2.04
Stephan Hobler (Wouter Den Haan and Matthias Doepke): Technology Adoption and Human Capital: The Role of Worker Mobility and Match Duration

Tuesday 25 March: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12.00-13.00
SAL.1.04
Leonardo MelosiLong-run inflation expectations

Tuesday 25 March: Money-Macro Seminar 
14:30-16:00 
SAL.1.04 
Sergio Rebelo, Kellogg School of Management: Behavioral Sticky Prices  


Archived Seminars @LSE

@Cambridge - Macro Seminars

@UCL - Macro Seminars