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Macroeconomics, Trade, and Finance Seminar Series (Archive)



The Macro, Trade, and Finance Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department. The series invites leading researchers from the fields of macroeconomics, growth, trade, international integration, and finance to present the results of their most recent research in a seminar format.

Access the current schedule of macroeconomics seminars

 

Fall 2023 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker Paper
Thursday
September 28, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET Online Matteo Maggiori (Stanford University) A Framework for Geoeconomics                     
Thursday
October 5, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame) How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda 
Thursday
October 12, 2023

12:00 - 1:15pm ET

MC 3-570 Felipe Saffie (University of Virginia)
Thursday
October 19, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Sina Ates (Federal Reserve Board) Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
Wednesday
November 1, 2023
(Joint with and hosted by IMF)
12:00 - 1:00pm ET HQ1-9-611 (IMF) Sean Higgins (Northwestern University)
Thursday
November 2, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia SIPA) The Trade War and American Soft Power: Evidence from Movies, Cars, and Trust
Thursday
November 9, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Ebehi Iyoha (Harvard Business School) Third-Country Effects of the US-China Trade War: A Firm-level Analysis
Thursday
November 16, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Ishan Nath
Thursday
November 30, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Kory Kroft (University of Toronto) Earnings Inequality in Production Networks
Thursday
December 7, 2023
(Joint with IMF)
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Conor Walsh (Columbia Business School)


Spring 2023 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker Paper
Wednesday
February 1, 2023
(Joint with IMF)
12:00 - 1:00pm ET Online John Cochrane (Stanford University) The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Expectations and the Neutrality of Interest Rates
Thursday
March 2, 2023
(Joint with IMF & hosted by WB)
12:00 - 1:15pm ET Online Thomas Philippon (NYU)                
Thursday
March 9, 2023

Part 1:
12:00 - 12:45pm ET

Part 2:
12:45 - 1:45pm ET

MC 3-570 Anton Korinek (U VA/Brookings)

Part 1: 

Part 2: ¡°The economics of transformative AI¡± (covering papers on , ,  and )

Note that attendees are welcome to attend either or both parts of this seminar.

Thursday
March 16, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board)
Thursday
March 23, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Diego Perez (NYU)
Thursday
March 30, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Dietrich Vollrath (U Houston)
Thursday
April 6, 2023
(Joint with IMF & hosted by WB)
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Costas Arkolakis (Yale)
Wednesday
May 3, 2023
(Joint with & hosted by IMF)
12:30 - 1:45pm ET   Ryan Kim (Johns Hopkins SAIS)
Thursday
May 11, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Sebastian Sotelo Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective
Thursday
May 18, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Nancy Qian (Kellogg School of Management)
Thursday
May 25, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago)
Thursday
June 8, 2023
(Joint with IMF & hosted by WB)
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 David Nagy (Princeton) The Death and Life of Great British Cities
Thursday
June 15, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Ezra Oberfield (Princeton)
Thursday
June 22, 2023
12:00 - 1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Joseph Shapiro Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment

 

Fall 2022 Seminars

For connection information, please contact Anna Goodman (agoodman@worldbank.org)

Date Time Venue Speaker  Paper
Wednesday
7 September 2022
(Joint with & hosted by IMF)
12:00-1:00pm ET IMF (Room HQ1-09-611) David Baqaee (UCLA)
Thursday
15 September 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Thursday
22 September 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 4-300 James Cloyne
Thursday
29 September 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 13-121 Marco Tabellini
CANCELED
Wednesday
5 October 2022
(Joint with IMF & hosted by WB)
12:00-1:15pm ET Note that this seminar has been rescheduled for March 16, 2023. Will Peterman
Thursday
27 October 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Eunhee Lee (University of Maryland)
Wednesday
2 November 2022
(Joint with & hosted by IMF)
12:00-1:00pm ET IMF (Room HQ1-08-112) Andrea Presbitero Who Pays for Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market
Wednesday
9 November 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 4-300 Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia U) Government versus Market Failure: The Case of China¡¯s Pro-innovation Subsidy Program
Thursday
10 November 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 3-570  (MIT)
Thursday
17 November 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth)
Thursday
1 December 2022
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 3-570  (Federal Reserve Board)
Wednesday
7 December 2022
(Joint with IMF & hosted by WB)
12:00-1:15pm ET MC 3-570 Nicholas Trachter

 

Spring 2022 Seminars

For connection information, please contact Anna Goodman (agoodman@worldbank.org)

Date Time Venue Speaker  Paper
Wednesday
2 March 2022    
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Amit Khandelwal
(Columbia)
Thursday
10 March 2022
10:00-11:00am ET Peter Blair Henry (NYU)
Thursday
17 March 2022
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Liliana Varela (LSE)
Wednesday
6 April 2022
12:00-1:00pm ET Online Erik Hurst (University of Chicago)
Thursday
21 April 2022
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Monica Martinez-Bravo (CEMFI)
Wednesday
4 May 2022
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Alan Auerbach (Berkeley)
Wednesday
25 May 2022
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Devaki Ghose (World Bank)
Wednesday
1 June 2022
12:00-1:00pm ET Online Martina Jasova (Barnard College) Monetary Policy, Labor Income Redistribution and the Credit Channel: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee and Credit Registers
Thursday
16 June 2022
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Vanessa Alviarez (IADB)

 

Fall 2021 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker  Paper
Thursday
16 September 2021    
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Melanie Morten
(Stanford)
Wednesday
5 October 2021      
1:30-2:45pm ET Online Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Thursday
21 October 2021    
12:15-1:30pm ET Online Alessandra Peter (NYU) Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation
Wednesday
3 November 2021
12:00 ¨C 1:00 pm ET Online Christine A. Parlour When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows
Thursday
18 November 2021
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Daniel Xu (Duke)
Wednesday
1 December 2021
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Oscar Jorda (UC Davis/SF Fed)
Thursday
9 December 2021 
12:30-1:45pm ET Online Jonas Hjort (Columbia) Local or Imported? Middlemen, Market Power, and Input Sourcing in a Network Economy

 

Spring 2021 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker  Paper
Wednesday
February 3, 2021
12:00 - 1pm
ET
Online Kristin Forbes
(MMIT)
 
Spillovers at the Extremes: Macroprudential Tools and Vulnerability to the Global Financial Cycle
Wednesday
March 3, 2021
12:30 - 1:45pm
ET
Online Thuy Lan
(Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Santa Clara University)
Thursday
March 25, 2021
12:30 - 1:45pm
ET
Online Arnaud Costinot
(MIT)
Thursday
April 1, 2021
12:30 ¨C 1:45 pm ET Online Philippe Aghion
(Harvard)
Thursday
April 15, 2021
12:30 - 1:45pm
ET
Online

Cecile Gaubert
(Berkeley)


Thursday
April 29, 2021
11:00am - 12:15pm
ET
Online Paula Bustos (CEMFI) Industrialization without Innovation
Wednesday
May 5, 2021
 
12:00 ¨C 1:00 pm
ET
Online Amine Ouazad 
(HEC Montreal)
Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters
Thursday
May 20, 2021
12:30 - 1:45pm
ET
Online Tommaso Porzio
(Columbia)
Wednesday
June 2, 2021
12:30 - 1:45pm
ET
Online Diana Van Patten (Princeton)

 

Fall 2020 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker  Paper
Wednesday
September 2
12:00¨C1 pm  Online James D. Hamilton (UCSD) Advances in Structural Vector Autoregressions With Imperfect Identifying Information
Thursday
September 17

12:30-1:45 pm

Online

Scott Gehlbach (Chicago)

Wednesday
October 7

12:30-1:45 pm

Online

Carolin Pflueger (Chicago)

Thursday
October 22
9:00-10:15 am Online Adrien Bussy
(LSE)
Thursday
October 29
11:00-12:15pm Online Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia)
Wednesday
November 4
12:00-1:00 pm Online Massimiliano Croce
(Bocconi University)
When the Markets Get Co.V.I.D.: Contagion, Viruses, and Information Diffusion
Thursday
November 19
12:30-1:45 pm Online Eduardo Morales (Princeton) Firm-Export Dynamics in Interdependent Markets

Spring 2020 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker Paper
Wednesday
February 5 
12:00-1:15 pm IMF HQ1 9-611 Yan Bai (University of Rochester) World Financial Cycles
Thursday
March 5
12:30-2 pm MC 5-100 Simon Alder
(UNC-Chapel Hill)
Thursday
March 12
12:30-2 pm MC 8-100 Carolin Pflueger
(University of Chicago)
CANCELLED
A Consumption Based Model of Monetary Policy and Asset Prices
Thursday
March 19
12:30-2 pm MC 3-570 Matthias Kehrig
(Duke)
WEBEX
Thursday
March 26
12:30-2 pm MC 7-100 Arnaud Costinot (MIT) CANCELLED  
Thursday
April 9, 2020
12:30-2 pm MC 4-100 Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins University)
CANCELLED
 
Thursday
April 23, 2020
12:30-2 pm MC 5-100 Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley)
CANCELLED
 
Thursday
April 30, 2020
12:30-2 pm MC 7-100 Thuy Lan Nguyen (Santa Clara)
CANCELLED
 
Wednesday
May 6
12:30-2 pm MC 4-100 Eduardo Morales
(Princeton)
CANCELLED
 
Thursday
May 14
12:30-2 pm MC 5-100 Will Peterman (Federal Reserve Board)  
Thursday
May 21
12:30-2 pm MC 5-100 Stephen J. Redding (Princeton)
WEBEX

 

Fall 2019 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker Paper
Sep 4 12:30 - 2 pm MC 5-100 Matthew Rognlie (Northwestern)
Sep 12 12:30 - 2 pm MC 6-100 Chad Jones
(Stanford)
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas
Sep 19 12:30 - 2 pm MC 9-100 Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato
(Duke)
Sep 26 12:30 - 2 pm MC 3-570 Scott Taylor
(U Calgary)
Oct 2 12:00 - 1:15pm IMF HQ1 9-611 Cian Ruane
(IMF)
Oct 10 12:30 - 2 pm MC 4-100 Kerem Cosar
(UVA)
Regional and Aggregate Implications of Transportation Costs and Tradability of Services
Oct 17 12:30 - 2 pm G 4-001 Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern Kellogg)
Oct 24 12:30 - 2 pm MC 9-100 Jo van Biesebroeck (Duke)
Oct 31 12:30 - 2 pm MC 3-570 Alejandro Molnar
(World Bank)
Language barriers to foreign trade: evidence from translation costs
Nov 6 12:30 - 2 pm MC 7-100 Kala Krishna
(Penn State)
Nov 14 12:30 - 2 pm MC 5-100 David Baqaee
(UCLA)
Nov 21 12:30 - 2 pm MC 7-100 Pamela Medina (University of Toronto)
Dec 4 12pm - 1:15pm IMF HQ1 9-611 Dmitriy Stolyarov (University of Michigan) Asset Pricing Implications of Disruptive Technological Change
Dec 12 12:30 - 2 pm MC 8-100 Sebastian Sotello (University of Michigan)

 

Spring 2019 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker Paper
Feb 28 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Lauren Falcao Bergquist (Michigan)
Mar 6 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Todd Schoellman (Minneapolis Fed)
Mar 14 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 3-570 Teresa Fort (Dartmouth)
Mar 21 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Johannes Boehm(Science Po)
Mar 28 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-301 Daniel Murphy (UVa)
Apr 3 12:00 - 1:30 pm IMF HQ1 9-611 Treb Allen (IMF)
Apr 11       Cancelled
Apr 18 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Eric Ohrn (Grinnel)
Apr 25 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Ben Faber (UC Berkeley) Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda
May 2 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 3-570 Joel Slemrod 
May 9 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Davin Chor (Dartmouth) Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare
May 16 11- 12:30pm MC 5-100 Manuel Garcia-Santana (UPF)
May 23 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Alonso de Gortari (Princeton/Dartmouth)
May 30 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 9-100 Ezra Oberfield (Princeton)
Jun 5 12:00 - 1:30 pm IMF HQ1-9-611 Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern)
Jun 13 11- 12:30pm MC 3-570 Kei Mu Yi (University of Houston) Structural Change and Deindustrialization
Jun 16 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-500 Tatjana Kleineberg (Yale)
Jul 31 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Amit Khandelwal (Columbia)

 

Fall 2018 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker Paper
Sep 5 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 9-100 German Cubas (University of Houston)
Sep 13 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 5-100 Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)
Sep 27 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 5-100 Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke) Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Oct 3 12:00 - 1:30pm IMF HQ1-9-611 Sebnem Kalemi-Ozcan (University of Maryland) Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity: Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects
Oct 11 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 6-100 Kevin Donovan (Yale)
Oct 18 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 10-100 Amit Khandelwal (Columbia) Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Evidence from FDI
Oct 25 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Sandra Sequiera (LSE)
Oct 31 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Nicolas Werquin (TSE/Yale)
Nov 8 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 6-100 Andres Liberman (NYU Stern)
Nov 15 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Douglas Hanley (University of Pittsburgh) Patents to Products: Innovation and Firm Performance
Nov 29 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Wolfgang Keller
Dec 5     Doireann Fitzgerald Please note this seminar is cancelled due to closure of World Bank headquarters. 
Dec 13 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 9-100 Thibault Fally (Berkeley)


Spring 2018 Seminars

Date Time Venue Speaker Title
Jun 28 10:30 - 12:00 pm MC 5-100 Guy Michaels (LSE) Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
Jun 14 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Meredith Startz (Princeton)
Jun 6 12:00 - 1:30 pm IMF HQ2-04B-592 Carol Corrado (Georgetown) Estimating Spillovers from Intangible Investments: What models and techniques should be used?
May 24 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Jonathan Eaton (PSU)
May 17 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 10-100 Eoin McGuirk (Yale)
May 10 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 6-100 Catia Bastita (NOVAFRICA) Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment
May 2 10:30 am - 12:00 pm MC 7-370 Owen Zidar (Chicago Booth)
Apr 12 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 6-100 Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale)
Apr 4 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 10-100 Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley) The Missing Profits of Nations
Mar 29 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Eunhee Lee (Maryland)
Mar 22 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 5-100 Gabriel Chodrow-Reich (Harvard)
Mar 15 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA)
Mar 7  2 - 3:30 pm MC 3-570 Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia) Trade Imbalance as a Source of Comparative Disadvantage and Welfare Loss
Feb 15 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 3-570 Robert Staiger (Dartmouth)


Fall 2017 Seminars

Date Time  Venue

Speaker

Paper

Dec 14 11:30 am - 12:30 pm MC 10-100 Peter Schott (Yale)
Dec 6 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 8-100 Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth)

Foreign Direct Investment Jobs and Schooling

Nov 30 2:30 - 4:00 pm MC 3-570 Marti Mestieri (Northwestern)
Nov 16 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Giovanni Maggi (Yale) Choked by Red Tape? The Political Economy of Wasteful Trade Barriers
Nov 9 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 10-100 David Atkin (MIT) Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico
Nov 1 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-370 Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State) Structural Change within the Service Secotr and the Future of Baumol's Disease
Oct 26 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 10-100 Pascual Restrepo (Boston University)
Oct 19 2:00 - 3:30 pm MC 3-570 Sara Moreira (Northwestern)
Oct  4 12:00 - 1:30 pm IMF HQ1 10-713 Javier Bianchi (Minneapolis Fed)
Sep 28 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 7-100 Fernando Parro (JHU)
Sep 21 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Anton Korinek (JHU)
Sep 14 12:30 - 2:00 pm MC 8-100 Jessica Leight
Aug 31 12:30 ¨C 2:00 pm MC 4-100 Jonathan Vogel, UCLA
Jun 29 12:30 ¨C 2:00 pm MC 10 -100 John McLaren, University of Virginia
Jun 15  12:30 ¨C 2:00 pm   MC 10 -100 Felipe Saffie, University of Maryland
Jun 7 12:00 ¨C 1:30 pm IMF HQ1 10-713
Jun 1 12:30 ¨C 2:00 pm  MC 10-100 Human Capital and Financial Development
May 18 12:30 ¨C 2:00 pm   MC 10-100 Rodrigo Rodrigues Adao, Princeton University Trade Openness, Agglomeration Effects, and the Labor Market
May 11 12:30 ¨C 2:00 pm MC 6-100 Andres Rodriguez Clare, Princeton University
May 3 12:30 ¨C 2:00 pm   MC 4 -100
Apr 27 12:30 -2:00 pm MC6-100 Hiau Looi Kee, World Bank Non-Tariff Measures and Trade Agreements
Apr 13 12:30 -2:00 pm MC 8-100

Apr 5 12:00 - 1:30 pm 

IMF HQ 1 10-713

Cristina Arellano, Minneapolis Fed

Mar 30 12:30 -2:00 pm   MC 10-100  
Mar 23  12:30 -2:00 pm  

MC 7-370

 
Mar 1  12:30 -2:00 pm   MC C2-135

Mar 1 12:30 -2:00 pm   MC 4-100

 

MC 8-100 
forthcoming