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Department of Economics | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar

Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar

Fall 2024

Seminar Time & Location:

Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM
KMC 5-90 unless noted otherwise


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September 5: "Incidence in Heterogeneous Economies"

Yad Selvakumar (NYU)

September 12: "Unequal Markup Responses During Recessions"

Jonathan Becker (NYU)

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September 19: "Unemployment Risk, Mental Accounting, and the MPC over the Business Cycle"

Man Chon (Tommy) Iao (NYU)

September 26: "Dynamic Pricing under Information Frictions: Evidence from Firm-Level Subjective Expectations"

Luca Gagliardone (NYU)

October 3: "Dispersion in Borrowing Costs and the Aggregate Implications: Evidence from India"

Qinzhuo Gong (NYU)

October 8: "The Nexus Between Excess Returns, Financial Intermediaries and Uncertainty Shocks"

Giacomo Cattelan (NYU)

October 10: "Optimal monetary and fiscal policy without fiscal backing for the central bank"

Masayuki Okada (NYU)

October 15: "Labor Market Entry and Unequal Effects by Parental Income"

Diva Astinova (NYU)

October 17: Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy without Fiscal Backing for the Central Bank

Gabriel Toledo (NYU)

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October 22: TBA

Brandon Kaplowitz (NYU)

October 24: "The Expected Wage Premium and Models of Random Job Search"

Cesar Zambrano (NYU)

October 29: "Exchange Rate Expectations and Aggregate Dynamics"

Nadia Pozdnyakova (NYU)

October 31: "The Inflation Accelerator"

Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU)

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Nov 7: Property Taxes and Housing Allocation Under Financial Constraints

Abdoulaye Ndiaye (Stern)

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Nov 14: "Risk Markups"

Christopher Tonetti (Stanford)

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Nov 21: "Economic Development According to Chandler"

Niklas Engbom (NYU)

Dec 5: "Subjective Uncertainty and the Marginal Propensity to Consume"

Davide Melcangi (New York Fed)

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Please check back for regular updates as speakers and topics will be updated throughout the semester.  

Please contact Keana Kianian (kk4843@stern.nyu.edu) with any questions.