#  Seminars: Macroeconomics 

 



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SortSeminar 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.

**List Serve/Announcements:** [Info | macroseminar-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu - FASLists](https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/macroseminar-list.lists.fas.harvard.edu/)

 **\*** = Joint with the International Economics Seminar

Contact: [Nicole Ojugbana](mailto:nojugbana@fas.harvard.edu)





SortDATESPEAKERTITLEFebruary 2

Larry Schmidt (MIT)

[**"Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market"**](https://lawrencedwschmidt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MPSS_AI_Labor_Market.pdf)

(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"**](https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.nyu.edu/dist/a/8049/files/2025/09/mrtw_specific_tariffs.pdf) (with Erik Madsen, Sharon Traiberman, and Shizhou Wang)



March 2

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)*

[**"How Globalization Unravels: A Ricardian Model of Endogenous Trade Policy"**](https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/How_Globalization.pdf) (with Tomohide Mineyama and Dongho Song)



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"](https://download.ssrn.com/2026/1/29/6142147.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAkaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQCuTy%2BGVm%2B3DE7bLY03mhqkKN2b%2F1ZkluarawRsjSCvnwIgbmFhWFWS3CFHvTbBZ7krKgcfeE%2FN0zocCc33blMPAUQqxgUI0f%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARAEGgwzMDg0NzUzMDEyNTciDIfYfH9RJ%2B0VO77ibCqaBdsYb11GcY7Wpz7OyRaTXHazyva3k4l7cMwW8VjXtmyxhMaDI0NI9i0zmnxAbna%2Fwt6SqtObXPuNPYfbSBLcOzR4prbwbqb5l3jaSJsJ%2B58W6GbjoBBguooG%2FMEyoUu1BaPOoggIPE3xVsaIpFDp%2B9hRsaExmmDQz%2BQ%2FgSVP1GMrKN%2BSrueCPm%2F473GdwmcbcGCNmVUMigdPLrKEX5DKdQzagw%2F%2Bxxk3TYX16WiGyT1BXPG7BbUDd6yXNlBEgBqANRyCzhh9NV%2F3qXJLIjMQ6c08WzxW1KgHJitQy7HmjFmcrkmWJzwAIJqT%2BqCRx0Od8td9EZ5%2F7740WBd3WGzYk6cgAPgtKTx1E4rcdXwbON5nx7Y4NfwccwPeaGDAWyaS3krmr3EHb1T9lzHRZJPzozA9ploK%2B1n%2B7L1k9L9zyAnze4Fa9WOUARZqMK9XYn9BAbmp13sR6BxC65SgSPsmYPi6NqGGlTj0ctAnAkdVJ4Yx2cgggaOfRGt2unM1o50ZkA8Qz6h%2BOezqPRc3%2FFr3fq%2FRJHf8k02HG6MKJTtwbfNO1P2VAjL09%2FAEATcnc0HEf8eexA21ToR2dJRSNn%2FiRj1kWkXU7W0gYwoeo4FO%2FdU7q2uM3MBK4IQseVyBpNVrzQvFitZiyBMAv3ld4zScCIxzj9o8C2rJNJqhKGAv%2BV%2BVbW4pvWIvDaGVGCZUl4ci8XgyjdY0C4np%2F32ufTf3qb9cDs%2BHUS0dWni%2FSWEw0Bx46ecC%2B8M9tzKgizBZIN3s22S%2F3buUoz5iBGAigp2CMTrRe%2BoBpq1%2Byfx1DQrRIFi%2BHNCHN8GFszluv3B6gQsH0QIfnn%2FJg1JUFP9%2FJj4i200Js2hyMxwO9JBSE7FC9qre62cVQ3tOkss%2FNjDF1KbNBjqxAVlZdDtXEOULi7O%2FjpU1zoBQ%2FckC3dlv9s5tGE3njVhom%2FTiUfmb99SzwpxgNm4hle%2BQc%2B4lnpebW%2FkTmS%2FRyYV%2F9JWMVozqjkdZoJpCe3j1jIBO3%2F1mpuzvORb%2FkfDUs37Wvso72E%2FH86ysFnX%2FMZTDKKCWC%2FO0KQSGmp0sYPJ3wS3PojNu2gfnaxoEwwryP5afbpAJBelmvW6kWBXpCzqW4w7lIbuZ9%2F%2FLpo4SVVWYOA%3D%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20260305T173227Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAUPUUPRWEYUOE3FY4%2F20260305%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=1387f0bb71ed024bf11e67f5c8ce376cd20e3cfa28251336ebef9359c92334e0&abstractId=6142147) (with Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck)

March 30

Atif Mian (Princeton)

["How Do Interest Rates Affect Consumption? Household Debt and the Role of Asset Prices"](https://atif.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3691/files/documents/Household_Debt_Asset_Prices.pdf) (with Angus Foulis, Jonathon Hazell, and Belinda Tracey)

April 20

Shifrah Aron-Dine (UCLA Berkeley)*

["Rebuild or Relocate? Recovery after Natural Disasters"](https://papers.shifraharondine.com/arondinejmp.pdf)

April 27

Vasco Carvalho (University of Cambridge)

"Planning Against Disasters in Dynamics Nonlinear Networks" (with M Covarrubias and Galo Nuno)