Research Workshops Workshop in Macro/International Economics
In this workshop, students, faculty, and invited visitors present their macroeconomics and international economics research and research papers.
Students, faculty, and invited visitors present papers on the theoretical and empirical studies in real and monetary aspects of international trade and monetary policies and institutions.
The workshop will be held in-person (in HC 3B), with no virtual options. Please contact workshop administrator Daniel Owings to be added to the listserv for weekly updates or for information. Please refer to the weekly announcement for updates or time changes.
Since Autumn Quarter 2019, the workshop has been organized jointly between Chicago Booth and the University of Chicago Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. The majority of the talks are given by internal speakers presenting works in progress, though some talks are reserved for external speakers.
When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers choose not to circulate their papers. In such cases, the link will be unavailable.
Winter 2025
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, January 15 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Harper 219 |
Strategic (Dis)Integration |
John Sturm | MIT (Princeton Postdoc) |
| Wednesday, January 22 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Harper 219 |
Capital Market Integration and Growth Across the United States |
Leonardo D'Amico | Harvard |
| Friday, January 24 | 10:00am - 11:30am | Harper C09 |
Can Industrial Policy Overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence |
Tishara Garg | MIT |
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Monday, February 10 |
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| Monday, February 17 | No workshop |
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| Monday, February 24 | No workshop |
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| Monday, March 3 | 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Harper C10 |
Strategic Complementarity: Persistence in Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Games | Fernando Alvarez | Griffin Dept. of Economics, UChicago |
| Monday, March 10 | No workshop |
No workshop |
No workshop | No workshop |
Spring 2025
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 24 | No Workshop | No Workshop | No Workshop | No Workshop | |
| Monday, March 31 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | Guido Lorenzoni | Chicago Booth |
| Monday, April 7 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | TBD | |
| Monday, April 14 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | Carolin Pflueger | Harris School of Public Policy, UChicago |
| Monday, April 21 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | Chang-Tai Hsieh | Chicago Booth |
| Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | TBD | |
| Monday, May 5 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | Hugo Lhuillier | Postdoctoral Fellow, Becker Friedman Institute |
| Monday, May 12 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | Rohan Kekre | Chicago Booth |
| Monday, May 19 | 12:00pm -- 1:15pm | Harper C10 | TBD | Greg Kaplan | Griffin Dept. of Economics, UChicago |
Autumn 2024
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, September 30th | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
Earnings Instability |
Christina Patterson | Chicago Booth |
| Monday, October 7th | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
A Theory of How Workers Keep Up With Inflation | Erik Hurst | Chicago Booth |
| NO WORKSHOP | --- | --- | |||
| Monday, October 21st | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
Stochastic Responses and Marginal Valuation with an Application to Uncertain Climate Change View paper and in-progress book chapter. |
Lars Hansen |
Chicago Booth |
| Monday, October 28th | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
On the Dynamics of a Big Push |
Fernando Alvarez | UChicago Econ |
| Monday, November 4th | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality and Welfare |
Guangbin Hong | UChicago Postdoc: Econ and Mansueto Urban |
| Monday, November 11th | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020 |
Yueran Ma | Chicago Booth |
| Monday, November 18th | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
A World Trading System For Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs |
Rodrigo Adão |
Chicago Booth |
| Monday, November 25th | Thanksgiving - No Workshop | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Monday, December 2nd | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 |
Interest Rate Risk in Banking |
Stefan Nagel |
Chicago Booth |
| Monday, December 9th | 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Harper C10 | Treasury Market Dysfunction and the Role of the Central Bank | Anil Kashyap | Chicago Booth |