Seminars 2018

December

• 17/12/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Francisco Queiros (European University Institute): Asset Bubbles and Product Market Competition (1 MB)
• 05/12/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Paolo Surico (London Business School):  
• 03/12/2018 (16:30-18:00)  Doug Laxton (IMF): Advancing the Frontiers of Monetary Policy

November

• 28/11/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Veronica Frisancho (IADB): Perceived Ability and Career Choices in High School (1 MB)
• 21/11/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Anne Boring (Science Po): Reducing Gender Biases in Performance Evaluations by Spreading Results of Past Research
• 20/11/2018 (12:30-13:45)  Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Emory University): Inference in Bayesian Proxy-SVARs (1 MB)
• 14/11/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Hannes Mueller (IAE Barcelona): Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text (650 KB)
• 12/11/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Michael McCracken (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis):  An Empirical Investigation of Direct and Iterated Multistep Conditional Forecasts (254 KB)
• 07/11/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Francesco Ravazzolo (University of Bozen):  Markov Swithcing Panel with Network Interaction Effects (1 MB)

October

• 24/10/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Francesco Zanetti (University of Oxford): State Dependence in Labor Market Fluctuations: Evidence, Theory, and Policy Implications (1 MB)
• 24/10/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Francesco Zanetti (University of Oxford):  
• 17/10/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Juri Marcucci (Banca d’Italia):  News and Consumer Card Payments (2 MB)
• 10/10/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Isabelle Mejean (Ecole Polytechnique): Foreign Shocks as Granular Fluctuations (680 KB)

September

• 26/09/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Santiago Carbo (CUNEF): Competition, Geographic Proximity and Pricing in the Retail Banking Industry  (1 MB)
• 19/09/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Edouard Challe (Ecole Polytechnique): Uninsured Unemployment Risk and Optimal Monetary Policy (1 MB)
• 12/09/2018 (12:30-13:45)  Luigi Minale (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): (The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labor Market: Evidence from Europe (1 MB)

June

• 28/06/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Jesús Fernández Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania): Can Currency Competition Work? (403 KB)
• 20/06/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Graciela Kaminsky (George Washington University): The Center and the Periphery: Two Hundred Years of International Borrowing Cycles (758 KB)
• 13/06/2018 (15:00-16:15)  Hervé Le Bihan (Banque de France): Shocks vs Menu Costs: Patterns of Price Rigidity in an Estimated Multi-Sector Menu-Cost Model (674 KB)
• 11/06/2018 (11:00-12:15)  Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA): Commodity Pricing Models
• 07/06/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Wei Shen (Oklahoma State University): Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity and State-Dependent Government Spending Multipliers (295 KB)
• 06/06/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Juan Dolado (European University Institute): Monetary Policy and Inequality under Labor Market Frictions and Capital-Skill Complementarity (1 MB)

May

• 30/05/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Sara Moreira (Northwestern University): How do Firms Grow? The Life Cycle of Products Matters (1 MB)
• 29/05/2018 (12:00-13:30)  Miguel Otero (Real Instituto Elcano): Teorías del dinero y futuro del euro
• 25/05/2018 (12:00-13:30)  José Mª Serena: Firms’ credit risk and the onshore transmission of the global financial cycle (693 KB)
• 23/05/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po and UCL): The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis (594 KB)
• 09/05/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Melanie Lührmann (Royal Holloway, University of London): Peer Effects in Risky Choices among Adolescents (654 KB)

April

• 25/04/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Michael Ehrmann (European Central Bank): Stock Return Comevement when Investors are Distracted: More, and More Homogeneous
• 18/04/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Margarida Duarte (University of Toronto): Relative Prices and Sectoral Productivity (805 KB)
• 11/04/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Pedro Trivin (Universitat de Girona): The Global Rise of Asset Prices and the Decline of the Labor Share (1 MB)
• 04/04/2018 (12:00-12:15)  Albert Solé-Ollé (Universitat de Barcelona): Housing booms and local spending (1 MB)

March

• 21/03/2018 (15:30-16:45)  Sala Cibeles – Entresuelo. Enrique Quilis (AIReF): A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Spanish System of Regional Finance (1 MB)
• 14/03/2018 (12:00-13:15)  Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University): From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Rise of an Inefficient Bureaucracy (835 KB)

February

• 21/02/2018 (12:00-13:15)  David Marques (European Central Bank): Whatever it Takes: Cross-Border Spillovers of a Major Central Bank Intervention