Economics Seminars (2020-2021)

Economics Seminars are co-organized by CRED, CERPE and CeReFiM. Seminars usually take place on Tuesday, start at 4pm and end between 5.30pm and 6pm. Location: room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge 8, 5000 Namur.

Fall

September 22 - Dimitris Korobilis (University of Glasgow) - Sign restrictions in high-dimensional vector autoregressions - via TEAMS

September 29 - Pietro Perretto (Duke University) - Market Size, Innovation, and the Economic Effects of an Epidemic - via TEAMS

October 6 - Wim Naudé (Aachen University) and Thomas Gries (Paderborn University) - Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth - via TEAMS

October 13 - Mariana Zerpa (KULeuven) - Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits - E12

October 15 - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm)

                       Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge University and CEPR) - Exchange Rate Misalignment and External Imbalances: What is the Optimal Monetary Policy Response? - via TEAMS

October 27 - Ted Miguel (University of California, Berkeley) - Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming - via TEAMS

October 29 - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm)

                        Hanno Lustig (Stanford University) - The U.S. Public Debt Valuation Puzzle - via TEAMS

November 10 - Claudia Foroni (European Central Bank) - A mixed frequency model for the euro area labour - via TEAMS

November 19 - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm)

                     Javier Bianchi (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)- Bank-Runs, Contagion and Credit Easing - via TEAMS

November 24 - Ferre De Graeve (KULeuven) A Credit Anatomy of the U.S. House Price Boom - via TEAMS

December 1 - Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan School of Management) - Mechanizing Agriculture: Impacts on Labor Productivity  - via TEAMS

December 8 - Glenn Magerman (ULB) - Price Updating with Production Networks - via TEAMS

December 10 - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS 

Ludwig Straub (Havard University)

Winter

January 7 : Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium - via TEAMS

                     Philippe Baccheta (HEC Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute) - International macroeconomic implications of gradual porfolio adjustment

January 21 : Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS

                     Lawrence J. Christiano ( Northwestern University) - Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster ?

February 9 - Jacques-François Thisse (UCLouvain) - Working from home: Too much of a good thing? - via TEAMS
February 11 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS  
                     Ricardo Caballero (MIT Economics)  - Monetary Policy with Opinionated Market

February 16 - Squires Munir (University of British Columbia) - Economic consequences of intensive kinship: Evidence from US bans on cousin marriage - via TEAMS

February 23 - Hélène Latzer - Paris-I, CNRS and Université Saint Louis - Reconsidering the Market Size Effect in Innovation and Growth (with K.Matsuyama and M. Parenti) - via TEAMS

February 25 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS

                    Cristina Arellano (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)  - Deadly Debt Crises - 19 in Emerging Markets                                             

March 2 - Frederik Noack - University of British Columbia - Economies of scale and ecology of Scope - via TEAMS

March 9 - Georgiadis Georgios (European Central Bank) -  Global uncertainty and the dollar - via TEAMS

March 11 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS                                                                                                                     Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich ) - Job Hunting : a Costly Quest

March 18 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS 

March 23 - Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics) - Does Identity Affect Labor Supply? - Via TEAMS

March 23 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS

                     Florin O. Bilbiie (Lausanne University) - Aggregate-Demand Amplification of Supply Disruptions : the Entry-Exit Multiplier - Via Teams

Spring

April 1 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS                                                                                                                     Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich ) - Job Hunting : a Costly Quest

April 15 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - via TEAMS                                                                                                                          Harald Uhlig - University of Chicago - Central Bank Digital Currency: When Price and Bank Stability Collide

April 20 - Timo Boppart - University of St. Gallen - The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture (with Patrick Kierman, Per Krusell and Hannes Malmberg) - via TEAMS

April 29 - CEREFIM - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:00 to 5:00 pm) - via TEAMS 

               Morten Ravn - University College of London - Financial Frictions: Macro Volatility

May 4 - Laura Boudreau (Columbia University) - Multinational enforcement of labor law: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh’s apparel sector- via TEAMS

May 11 - TBA

 

Last updated: 21 January 2021 | Contact: Pierrette NOEL (pierrette.noel@unamur.be)