#  Michael Chae Seminar on Macroeconomic Policy 

 



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SortMichael Chae Seminar on Macroeconomic Policy

**Term:** Only in Fall semester**Location:** Littauer M15 **Meeting Time: Tuesdays 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM****Description:** This seminar will feature presentations on current macroeconomic policy issues by Economics Department faculty and invited outsider speakers. Specific topics will include (among others) tax reform, fiscal policy, monetary policy in the U.S. and in other advanced economies, international imbalances, labor market policies, raising the U.S. economic growth rate, Europe's economic problems, housing and the mortgage market. Students not taking the course for credit are welcome to participate in each week's discussion.

**List Serve/Announcements:** [**https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/macropolicy-seminar-list.lists.fas.harvard.edu/**](https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/macropolicy-seminar-list.lists.fas.harvard.edu/)







SortDATESPEAKERTITLESeptember 2 

No meeting

 

September 9

Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard University) [“Trade War and International Financial Adjustment”](https://www.economics.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/2025-09/MacroTariff_slides_Harvard_0.pdf)

 

September 16

Greg Mankiw (Harvard University) "[The Fiscal Future](https://www.economics.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/2025-09/Fiscal%20Discussion%20-%20September%202025.pdf)"

 

September 30

Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University) "Transportation, Infrastructure and Trade Disruptions"

 

October 7

Ludwig Straub (Harvard University) ["The Race Between](https://www.economics.harvard.edu/media/add/hwp_document)  
[Asset Supply and Asset Demand"](https://www.economics.harvard.edu/media/add/hwp_document)

 

October 14 

Klaas Knot (former governor, Die Nederlandsche Bank)

“Monetary Policy in Perspective: 14 years in the ECB Governing Council”.



 

October 21 

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World" 

 

October 28 

Jakob von Weizsäcker State Minister of Finance, Saarland, Germany “Germany’s Fiscal U-turn”

 

November 4 

Mervyn King (former governor, Bank of England) “Inflation Targeting, Central Bank Independence, and the Theory of Inflation”

 

November 11 

Karen Dynan (Harvard University) ["Lessons for Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers from the Great Recession and the COVID Recession"](https://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.economics.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/2025-11/dynam.pdf)

 

November 18 

John Cochrane (Stanford) "Inflation"

 

November 25 

David Laibson

Owen Lamont (Acadian Asset Management)

Adi Sunderam (Harvard Business School)

"Is There an AI Bubble? Implications for Credit Markets and Macroprudential Policies"

\*Hansen Mason Room



 

December 2 

Richard Clarida (former vice chair, Federal Reserve System) US Monetary Policy: Past, Present and Future



 

 

 









 

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 Attachments- [  picture\_as\_pdf  MacroTariff\_slides\_Harvard.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/2025-09/MacroTariff_slides_Harvard_0.pdf)
- [  picture\_as\_pdf  Fiscal Discussion - September 2025.pptx ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/2025-09/Fiscal%20Discussion%20-%20September%202025.pptx)
 
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