Events and Seminars

Macroeconomics Seminar

Spring 2014

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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics
Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M University)
February 11, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

Trading and Information Diffusion in OTC Markets
Ana Babus (FRB Chicago)
February 25, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Jonathan Vogel (Columbia)
March 04, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

Small and Large Price Changes and the Propagation of Monetary Shocks
Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)
March 11, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

A Theory of Macroprudential Policies in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
Ivan Werning (MIT)
April 01, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

Runs versus Lemons: Fiscal Capacity and Financial Stability
Thomas Phillippon (Stern School)
April 08, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

Money as a Unit of Account
Matthias Doepke (Northwestern)
April 15, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

Special Macroeconomics Seminar: Capital In the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics)
April 18, 2014
10:30am - 12:00pm
E51-345 This talk is not open to the general public due to room capacity constraints. Please contact Linda Woodbury at lwoodbur@mit.edu if you are outside the Economics Department community and want to attend.

Identifying Equilibrium Models of Labor Market Sorting
lourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
April 29, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E8-202

A Model of Aggregate Demand, Labor Utilization, and Unemployment
Pascal Michaillat (LSE)
May 06, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202

International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics
Matteo Maggiori (NYU, Stern)
May 13, 2014
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E18-202