Seminars: Macroeconomics

Seminar in Macroeconomics
Term: Fall 2021
Location: Hybrid
Meeting Time: 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Unless otherwise noted
Description: Seminar speakers present papers on macroeconomic topics, including issues relating to monetary and fiscal policies, economic growth, the role of institutions, and other research issues in the field.
List Serve/Announcements: https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/macroseminar-list * = Joint with International Seminar

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
SEPT 13	Andy Atkeson (UCLA)	“The End of Privilege: A Reexamination of the Net Foreign Asset Position of the United States,” joint with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri
SEPT 20	David S. Miller (Federal Reserve Board)	"A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations and Currency Crises"
SEPT 27	Cristina Arellano (Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis)	"Micro Risks and Pareto Improving Policies" ( joint with Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador)
OCT 4	Xavier Giroud (Columbia) *	"Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers"
OCT 18	Martin Beraja (MIT)	"Inefficient Automation"
OCT 25	Mikhail Golosov (Chicago)	"How Americans Respond to Idiosyncretic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income"
NOV 1	Iván Werning (MIT)	“Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness”
NOV 8	Daron Acemoglu (MIT)	"Automation, Tasks and the Rise in US Wage Inequality"
NOV 15	Adrien Bilal (Harvard)	"Solving Heterogeneous Agent Models with the Master Equation"
NOV 22	Larry Kotlikoff (BU)	"When Interest Rates Go Low, Should Public Debt Go High" and "Deficit Follies"
NOV 29	Teresa Fort (Dartmouth Tuck)*	"Title Pending"

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