Seminars: Macroeconomics

Seminar in Macroeconomics
Term: Spring 2026
Location: Littauer 301, Hansen-Mason Room
Meeting Time: Mondays 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM 
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.
 * = Joint with the International Economics Seminar
DATESPEAKERTITLE
February 2
Larry Schmidt (MIT)

"Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market" 

(with Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Bryan Seegmiller)

February 9
Nathan Zorzi (Dartmouth College)
"The Labor Market Consequences of Rapid Sectoral Shifts" (with John Grigby)
February 23
Martin Rotemberg (NYU)*

"Tariffs and State Capacity: A Specific Example" (with Erik Madsen, Sharon Traiberman, and Shizhou Wang)

March 2
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)*
March 9
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
"The Psychology of Macroeconomic Expectations" (with Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Simon Schroeder, and Maarten van Rooij)
March 23
Emil Verner (MIT)
"Bank Runs With and Without Bank Failure" (with Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck)
March 30
Atif Mian (Princeton)
April 20
Shifrah Aron-Dine (UCLA Berkeley)*
April 27
Vasco Carvalho (University of Cambridge)
"Planning Against Disasters in Dynamics Nonlinear Networks" (with M Covarrubias and Galo Nuno)