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The CFCM Seminar Series provides lectures to staff and students in the school. They regularly host leading economists and external speakers from academic and financial institutions.

Seminars in 2024/25

CFCM Seminar: Tom Schmitz (Queen Mary University of London)

Date: 03 October 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Industry life cycles in general equilibrium (C43, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Michael Owyang (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis)

Date: 10 October 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Impulse response functions for self-exciting nonlinear models (C43, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Luisa Corrado (University of Rome)

Date: 17 October 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Aerospace growth spillovers: A macroeconomic perspective (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Christian Probsting (KU Leuven)

Date: 14 November 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: The role of risk sharing in attenuating business cycles within currency unions (C43, SCGB)

CFCM Internal Seminar: Miquel Oliver-Vert

Date: 21 November 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Customer base and the advertising sector (C43, SCGB)

CFCM Internal Seminar: Yu Zheng (Queen Mary University of London)

Date: 06 March 2025 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

CFCM Internal Seminar: CFCM Seminar: Maya Eden (Brandeis University)

Date: 13 March 2025 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

CFCM Seminar: Hakki Yacizi (University of Bristol)

Date: 20 March 2025 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

CFCM Internal Seminar: Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po)

Date: 27 March 2025 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

CFCM Seminar: Christine Braun (University of Warwick)

Date: 01 May 2025 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

CFCM Seminar: Sebastian Köhne (Kiel University)

Date: 15 May 2025 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

CFCM Seminar: Miguel de Leon Ledesma (University of Exeter)

Date: 29 May 2025 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

Seminars in 2023/24

CFCM Seminar: Anthony Savagar (University of Kent)

Date: 28 September 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Returns to scale and productivity in the macroeconomy

CFCM Seminar: Arpad Abraham (University of Bristol)

Date: 12 October 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A44 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Optimal income redistribution (A44, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Lorenza Rossi (Lancaster University)

Date: 19 October 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A44 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Nonlinearities with de-anchored inflation expectation (A44, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Mike Elsby (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 26 October 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Spatial hysteresis (A01, Highfield House)

CFCM Seminar: Liliana Varela (LSE)

Date: 02 November 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Granular corporate hedging under dominant currency (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Joshua Weiss (IIES)

Date: 16 November 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Market concentration, growth, and acquisitions

CFCM Seminar: Francesco Celentano (HEC Lausanne)

Date: 23 November 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: B16 Trent Building
Description: CEO succession planning (B16, Trent Building)

CFCM Seminar: Elisa Keller (University of Exeter)

Date: 30 November 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C27 Coates
Description: Capital embodied structural change (C27, Coates)

CFCM Seminar: Cosmin Ilut (Duke University)

Date: 25 January 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Uncertainty or frictions? A quantitative model of scarce safe assets (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Stefan Gebauer (European Central Bank)

Date: 01 February 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A31 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: The macroeconomic effects of a European deposit (re-)insurance scheme (A31, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Christian Siegel (University of Kent)

Date: 15 February 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A02 Highfield House
Description: Skill mix and skill premia at the firm level (A02 Highfield House)

CFCM Seminar: Francesco Zanetti (University of Oxford)

Date: 22 February 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Dutch disease, unemployment and structural change (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Max Croce (Bocconi University)

Date: 29 February 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: SONOMA: A Small Open ecoNOmy for MAcrofinance (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Jane Olmstead-Rumsey (LSE)

Date: 07 March 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Digital platform acquisitions and growth (A40, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Celine Poilly (AMSE, Aix-Marseille University)

Date: 14 March 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Fiscal multipliers during disasters (A01, HH)

CFCM Seminar: Pontus Rendahl (Copenhagen Business School)

Date: 21 March 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Market power, growth and inequality (A01, HH)

Seminars in 2022/23

CFCM Seminar: Eddie Gerba (Bank of England)

Date: 22 September 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Macro-financial interactions in a changing world (A39, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Alessandro Ferrari (University of Zurich)

Date: 06 October 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Firm heterogeneity, market power and macroeconomic fragility (C43, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Alex Monje-Naranjo (European University Institute)

Date: 13 October 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Of cities and slums (C43, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Oliver De Groot (University of Liverpool)

Date: 20 October 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: US Monetary Policy at the Height of the Financial Crisis: A Constrained Optimal Policy Projections Perspective (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Alex Clymo (University of Essex)

Date: 27 October 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Accounting for sectoral labour flows: A matching function approach (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Giulio Fella (Queen Mary University of London)

Date: 03 November 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Non-linear productivity and investment dynamics (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Christopher Hennessy (London Business School)

Date: 17 November 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Randomisation, motivation, and the SUTVA (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Federico Rossi (University of Warwick)

Date: 24 November 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Human capital, managerial talent and economic development (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Aysegul Sahin (University of Texas at Austin)

Date: 01 December 2022 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: The dual US labour market uncovered (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Mathias Hoffman (University of Zurich)

Date: 08 December 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Softening the blow: U.S. state-level banking deregulation and sectoral reallocation after the China trade shock (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Lukasz Rachel (UCL)

Date: 23 February 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger

CFCM Seminar: Elisa Giannone (CREI)

Date: 02 March 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Unequal global convergence (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Isabella Blengini (EHL, Lausanne)

Date: 06 March 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Foreign currency debt and expectations (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Salvatore Toni Whited (Michigan)

Date: 09 March 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Will central bank digital currency disintermediate banks? (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Nicolas Coeurdacier (Sciences Po)

Date: 16 March 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Structural change, land use and urban expansion (zoom)

2nd Edinburgh / Nottingham Joint Macro PhD Workshop

Date: 22 March 2023 (14:00-17:30)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: (A39, SCGB)

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Salvatore LoBello (Bank of Italy)

Date: 23 March 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Sophie Piton (Bank of England)

Date: 30 March 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Business creation during COVID-19

CFCM Seminar: Kim Ruhl (Wisconsin)

Date: 04 May 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: The aggregate effects of global and local supply chain disruptions: 2020-2022

CFCM Seminar: Joaquin Blaum (Brown)

Date: 18 May 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Global firms in large devaluations (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Nico Trachter (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

Date: 25 May 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Title: Sectoral development multipliers (C43)

CFCM Seminar: Gustavo Ventura (Arizona State University)

Date: 01 June 2023 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: The looming fiscal reckoning: Tax distortions, top earners and revenues (zoom)

Seminars in 2021/22

CFCM Seminar: Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)

Date: 07 October 2021 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Land security and mobility frictions

CFCM Seminar: Murat Celik (University of Toronto)

Date: 14 October 2021 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Style over substance? Advertising, innovation, and endogenous market structure

CFCM Seminar: Maarten De Ridder (LSE)

Date: 21 October 2021 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A4 Law and Social Sciences Building
Description: Market power and innovation in the intangible economy (A4, L&SS)

CFCM Seminar: Huifeng Chang (UCLA)

Date: 28 October 2021 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Bonds vs equities: Information for investment

CFCM Seminar: Francois Gourio (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Date: 04 November 2021 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Capital aggregation and investment prices. How much are investment prices declining?

CFCM Seminar: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Maryland)

Date: 11 November 2021 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Risk-taking and monetary policy transmission: Evidence from loans to SMEs and large firms

CFCM Seminar: Ester Faia (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Date: 18 November 2021 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Dynamic labour reallocation with heterogeneous skills and uninsured idiosyncratic risk

CFCM Seminar: Basile Grassi (Boconni University)

Date: 25 November 2021 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A1 Law and Social Sciences Building
Description: Bottom-up markup fluctuations (A1, L&SS and MS Teams)

CFCM Seminar: Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University)

Date: 02 December 2021 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Occupational exposure to capital-embodied technical change

Edinburgh / Nottingham Joint Macro PhD Workshop

Date: 09 December 2021 (13:00-16:30)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger, Zoom

CFCM Seminar: Jasmine Xiao (University of Notre Dame)

Date: 17 February 2022 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: The information driven financial accelerator

Postponed CFCM Seminar: Aysegul Sahin (University of Texas at Austin)

Date: 24 February 2022 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: *Postponed*

CFCM Seminar: Simon Mongey (University of Chicago)

Date: 03 March 2022 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A46 Trent Building
Description: Minimum wages, efficiency and welfare

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Mike Elsby (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 10 March 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Infrequent wage adjustment and unemployment dynamics

CFCM Seminar: Adriano Rampini (Duke University)

Date: 17 March 2022 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Constrained-efficient capital reallocation

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Silvia Miranda Agrippino (Bank of England)

Date: 24 March 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: TBC
Description: *Cancelled*

CFCM Seminar: Gustavo Souza (Chicago FED)

Date: 31 March 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: The labour market consequences of appropriate technology

CFCM Seminar: Krisztina Orban (NBER/Monash)

Date: 07 April 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: The inception of capitalism through the lens of firms

CFCM Seminar: Markus Poschke (McGill University)

Date: 28 April 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Gender, work and structural transformation (A40, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Ludo Visschers (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 05 May 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Cyclical earnings, career and employment transition (zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Antonin Bergeaud (Banque de France)

Date: 12 May 2022 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A42 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Good rents versus bad rents: R&D misallocation and growth (A42, SCGB)

Seminars in 2020/21

CFCM Seminar: George Alessandria (University of Rochester)

Date: 08 October 2020
Description: Trade policy is real news: A quantitative analysis of past, present, and future trade costs (via Zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Laura Pilossoph (Federal Reserve Bank, New York)

Date: 15 October 2020
Description: Latent heterogeneity in the marginal propensity to consume (via Zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Jose Fillat (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

Date: 22 October 2020
Description: The impact of regulatory stress tests on bank lending and its macroeconomic consequences (via Zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Michael Waugh (New York University)

Date: 29 October 2020
Description: The consumption response to trade shocks: Evidence from the US-China trade war (via Zoom)

CFCM Seminar: Michael McMahon (University of Oxford)

Date: 05 November 2020
Description: Monetary policymakers' uncertainty

CFCM Seminar: Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Date: 12 November 2020
Description: The rise of US earnings inequality: Does the cycle drive the trend?

CFCM Seminar: Daniel Xu (Duke University)

Date: 19 November 2020
Description: O-Ring Production Networks

CFCM Seminar: Francesco Bianchi (Duke University)

Date: 26 November 2020
Description: Belief distortions and macroeconomic fluctuations

CFCM Seminar: Chris Tonetti (Stanford University)

Date: 03 December 2020
Description: Accounting for job-to-job moves: Wages versus values

CFCM Seminar: Helene Turon (Bristol University)

Date: 10 December 2020
Description: Zero-hour contracts in a frictional labour market

CFCM Seminar: Kenza Benhima (University of Lausanne)

Date: 04 February 2021
Description: Foreign currency borrowing and expectations

CFCM Seminar: Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE)

Date: 11 February 2021
Description: Government purchases and plant level productivity: Evidence from World War II

CFCM Seminar: Joel David (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Date: 18 February 2021
Description: Risk-taking, capital allocation and optimal monetary policy

CFCM Seminar: Sebastian Dyrda (University of Toronto)

Date: 25 February 2021
Description: Taxes, private equity and evolution of income inequality in the US

CFCM Seminar: Ivan Werning (MIT)

Date: 05 March 2021
Description: Taming a Minsky Cycle

CFCM Seminar: Thomas Sampson (LSE)

Date: 11 March 2021
Description: The Brexit vote, inflation and UK livings standards

CFCM Seminar: Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University)

Date: 25 March 2021
Description: Why does capital flow from equal to unequal countries?

CFCM Seminar: Dan Cao (Georgetown University)

Date: 20 May 2021
Description: Real exchange rate dynamics beyond business cycles

CFCM Seminar: Francesco Caselli (LSE)

Date: 27 May 2021
Description: Executive pay caps, efficiency, and inequality

Seminars in 2019/20

CFCM Seminar: Michael Owyang (St Louis Fed)

Date: 03 October 2019
Description: Tax progressivity, economic booms, and trickle up economics (A42, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Julian Neira (Exeter)

Date: 10 October 2019
Description: From population growth to firm demographics: Implications for concentration, entrepreneurship, and the labour share (A42, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Franck Portier (UCL)

Date: 17 October 2019
Description: Real Keynesian models and sticky prices (A39, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Joseba Martinez (London Business School)

Date: 24 October 2019
Description: Automation, growth and factor shares (C43, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Ivan Petrella (University of Warwick)

Date: 31 October 2019
Description: Structural scenarioa analysis with SVARs (A42, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Pavel Brendler (Bonn)

Date: 07 November 2019
Description: Earnings inequality and income redistribution through social security (A42, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Michael Webb (Stanford)

Date: 14 November 2019
Description: The impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market (A42, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Pau Roldan (Bank of Spain)

Date: 21 November 2019
Description: International trade and innovation dynamics with endogenous markups (A42, SCGB)

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Fabio Ghironi (University of Washington)

Date: 06 March 2020
Description: *Cancelled* Interest rate uncertainty as a policy tool (A40, SCGB)

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Mike Elsby (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 12 March 2020
Description: *Cancelled* Firm dynamics, on-the-job search and labour market fluctuations (A39, SCGB)

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Gregor Jarosch (Princeton University)

Date: 26 March 2020
Description: *Cancelled* Granular search, market structure and wages (A39, SCGB)

*Cancelled** CFCM Seminar: John Tsoukalas (University of Glasgow)

Date: 02 April 2020
Description: *Cancelled* Political economics of fiscal consolidations during the european debt crisis (A39, SCGB)

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Oilver De Groot (University of Liverpool)

Date: 07 May 2020
Description: *Cancelled* (A39, SCGB)

Cancelled CFCM Seminar: Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University)

Date: 14 May 2020
Description: *Cancelled* Globalization, trade imbalances, and labor market adjustment A39, SCGB)

Seminars in 2018/19

Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford)

Date: 11 October 2018
Description: Formal and informal firm dynamics

Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School)

Date: 18 October 2018
Description: Credit smoothing

Marti Mestieri (Northwestern University)

Date: 15 November 2018
Description: The technology frontier and the pattern of international trade

Ken Kuttner (Williams College, Massachusetts)

Date: 19 November 2018
Description: Unpacking changes in the funds rate target

Miguel Leon-Ledesma (University of Kent)

Date: 22 November 2018
Description: The missing link: monetary policy and the labour share

Tatsuro Senga (Queen Mary University of London)

Date: 29 November 2018
Description: Uncertainty, imperfect information, and learning in the international market

Carlos Carrillo Tudela (University of Essex)

Date: 07 March 2019
Description: Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi (Bank of England)

Date: 21 March 2019
Description: Firm heterogeneity, credit spreads and monetary policy

Tim Lee (Toulouse School of Economics)

Date: 28 March 2019
Description: Labour reallocation and wage growth: Evidence from East Germany

Francois Fontaine (Paris School of Economics)

Date: 11 April 2019
Description: Wealth, portfolios, and unemployment duration

Matteo Iacoviello (US Federal Reserve Board)

Date: 02 May 2019
Description: The economic effects of trade policy uncertainty

Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University)

Date: 16 May 2019
Description: Quantity measurement, balanced growth and welfare in multi–sector growth models

Seminars in 2017/18

Morten Ravn (UCL)

Date: 12 October 2017
Description: The macroeconomic effects of government asset purchases: Evidence from postwar US housing credit policy

Anton Nakov (ECB)

Date: 19 October 2017
Description: Logit Price Dynamics

Julien Prat (IAE-CSIC)

Date: 23 November 2017
Description: An equilibrium model of the market for bitcoin mining

Daniel Gray (University of Sheffield)

Date: 07 December 2017
Description: Portfolio allocation, income uncertainty and households' flight from risk

Giulia Iori (City University of London)

Date: 01 February 2018
Description: Experiments in networked markets

Alessia De Stefani (Danmarks Nationalbank)

Date: 22 February 2018
Description: Waves of optimism: House price history, biased expectations and credit cycles

Axel Gottfries (University of Cambridge)

Date: 01 March 2018
Description: Bargaining with renegotiation in models with on the job search

Michael Ehrmann (ECB)

Date: 08 March 2018
Description: Starting from a blank page? Semantic similarity in central bank communication and market volatility

Manuel Garcia-Santana (Pompeu Fabra)

Date: 03 May 2018
Description: Growing like Spain: 1995-2007

CFCM /GEP Seminar: Pietro Peretto (Duke University, Durham)

Date: 10 May 2018
Description: Implications of tax policy for innovation and aggregate productivity growth (A39, SCGB)

CFCM Seminar: Philip Turner (Visiting Lecturer, University of Basel)

Date: 31 May 2018
Description: Will central banks cause the the next financial crisis? (A39, SCGB)

CANCELLED: CFCM Seminar Paolo Giordani (LUISS "Guido Carli" University)

Date: 21 June 2018
Description: Cancelled (A42, SCGB)

Seminars in 2016/17

Christodoulos Stefanadis (University of Piraeus)

Date: 29 September 2016
Description: Monopolistic Competition and Inadequate Aggregate Demand

Fabrice Collard (University of Bern)

Date: 13 October 2016
Description: Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy

Alfred Duncan (Christ's College Cambridge)

Date: 20 October 2016
Description: Financial Macroeconomics with Business Cycle Risk Markets

Christoph Thoenissen (University of Sheffield)

Date: 27 October 2016
Description: Commodity prices and labour market dynamics in small open economies

Boris Hofmann (BIS)

Date: 03 November 2016
Description: Monetary facts revisited

Herman van Dijk (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Date: 17 November 2016
Description: Dynamic Predictive Density Combinations for Large Data Sets in Economics and Finance

Martin Kaae Jensen (University of Leicester)

Date: 24 November 2016
Description: Large Dynamic Economies with Aggregate Uncertainty

Arno Hantzsche (Nottingham)

Date: 08 December 2016
Description: Sovereign Credit Ratings under Fiscal Uncertainty

Sevi Rodriguez Mora (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 26 January 2017
Description: Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes

Filiz Unsal (IMF)

Date: 02 February 2017
Description: Macroprudential policy, incomplete information and inequality: The case of low-income and developing countries

Galo Nuno (Bank of Spain)

Date: 23 February 2017
Description: Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents

Tom Schmitz (University of Bocconi)

Date: 02 March 2017
Description: Endogenous growth, firm heterogeneity and the long-run impact of financial crises

Matthias Kredler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Date: 09 March 2017
Description: Why do people leave bequests?

Guido Ascari (University of Oxford)

Date: 16 March 2017
Description: Controlling Inflation with changing monetary and fiscal policies: expectations, fiscal guidance and timid regime changes

Javier Ferri and Jose E Bosca (Valencia)

Date: 23 March 2017
Description: Heterogeneous Household Finances and the Effect of Fiscal Policy

Martin Summer (Austrian Central Bank)

Date: 30 March 2017
Description: Systematic and Systemic Stress Tests: Improving current stress testing frameworks

David Hemous (University of Zurich)

Date: 06 April 2017
Description: The spillover effect of top income inequality

Luca Fornaro (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional & Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Date: 18 May 2017
Description: Aggregate Demand Externalities in a Global Liquidity Trap

Petr Sedlacek (University of Bonn)

Date: 25 May 2017
Description: The Nature of Firm Growth

Sudipto Karmakar (Bank of Portugal)

Date: 08 June 2017
Description: Real Effects of Financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity

Andreas Fagereng (Statistics Norway, Research Department)

Date: 15 June 2017
Description: Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth

Seminars in 2015/16

Michael Kumhof (Bank of England) Banks are not intermediaries of loanable funds — and why this matters

Date: 01 October 2015

Carlos Thomas (Bank of Spain) Monetary Policy and Sovereign Debt Sustainability

Date: 08 October 2015

Ana Fernandes (Bern University of Applied Sciences) - Institutions and the Sectoral Organization of Production

Date: 05 November 2015

Torsten Arno Hantzsche (Nottingham) - Determinants of sub-sovereign bond yield spreads – The role of fiscal fundamentals and federal bail-out expectations

Date: 12 November 2015

Dimitris Georgarakos (Deutsche Bundesbank) - Trust in Central Bank and Economic Expectations

Date: 19 November 2015

Salome Baslandze (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) - The Role of the IT Revolution in Knowledge Diffusion, Innovation and Reallocation

Date: 26 November 2015

Marco Lombardi (Bank for International Settlements) - A shadow policy rate to calibrate US monetary policy at the zero lower bound

Date: 16 December 2015

Francisco Veiga (University of Minho) - Public spending and growth: the role of government accountability

Date: 14 January 2016

Volker Hahn (University of Konstanz) - Nominal threshold prices, microeconomic and aggregate price stickiness

Date: 21 January 2016

Arvid Raknerud and Bjorn-Helge Vatne (Statistics Norway & Norges Bank) - A model of credit risk in the corporate sector based on bankruptcy prediction

Date: 27 January 2016

Antonia Diaz (University Carlos III of Madrid) - Investment, technological progress and energy efficiency

Date: 18 February 2016

Laura Coroneo (University of York) - TIPS Liquidity Premium and Quantitative Easing

Date: 03 March 2016

Matthias Hertweck (University of Konstanz) - The Aggregate Effects of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Date: 17 March 2016

Andreas Pick (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) - On forecasting with structural breaks

Date: 21 April 2016

Kevin Mumford (Purdue University) - Prosperity, Sustainability, and the Measurement of Wealth

Date: 28 April 2016

Katarina Juselius (University of Copenhagen) - Real exchange rate persistence and the excess return puzzle: the case of Switzerland versus the US

Date: 05 May 2016

CFCM Seminar Joerg Breitung (University of Cologne)

Date: 19 May 2016
Description: How far can we forecast? Statistical tests of the predictive content (A09 HH)

CFCM Seminar Livio Stracca (European Central Bank)

Date: 02 June 2016
Description: Brutal moves? Winners and losers of exchange rate shifts (A09 HH)

Seminars in 2014/15

Gregory Thwaites (Bank of England) - Why are real interest rates so low? Secular stagnation and the relative price of investment goods

CFCM Public Lecture Richard Barwell (RBS)

Description: The life and times of an investment bank economist

Ernesto Villanueva (Bank of Spain) - The Distribution of Debt Across Euro Area Countries: The Role of Individual Characteristics, Institutions and Credit Conditions

Kian Ong (Nottingham) - The Sources and Persistent Effects of Shocks to Nations' Net Foreign Asset Stock

Xavier Raurich (Barcelona) - Labor mobility, structural change and economic growth

Angel Estrada (Bank of Spain) - Spanish boom and bust: some lessons for macroprudential policy

Yunus Aksoy (Birkbeck) - Demographic Structure and Macroeconomic Trends

Joao Cocco (London Business School) - 'Reverse Mortgage Design'

Angus Chu (Liverpool) - Labor Unions, Directed Technical Change and Cross-Country Wage Inequality

Markus Poschke (McGill) - Macroeconomic Implications of Top Income Tax Cuts: 1960 - 2010

Campbell Leith (Glasgow) - An Empirical Assessment of Optimal Monetary Policy Delegation in the Euro Area

Stylianos Asimakopoulos (Nottingham) -The optimal distribution of the tax burden over the business cycle

Description: Title - The optimal distribution of the tax burden over the business cycle

CFCM Lecture Panicos Demetriades (Leicester)

Description: Title: Europe and the Cyprus Crisis: The Governor's Perspective

Dudley Cooke (Exeter) - Pricing-to-Market and Optimal Interest Rate Policy

Franck Portier (Toulouse) - 'Reconciling Hayek's and Keynes' views of recessions'.

Sule Alan (Essex) Good Things Come To Those...

Description: Title:Good Things Come to Those Who (Are Taught How to) Wait: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Time Preference

Peter Smith (York) -Carry, Momentum and Trend Following Returns in the Foreign Exchange Market

Description: Title: Carry, Momentum and Trend Following Returns in the Foreign Exchange Market

Paloma Taltavull (Alicante) The sources of House Price Change: Identifying Liquidity Shocks to the Housing Market

Description: Title: The sources of House Price Change: Identifying Liquidity Shocks to the Housing Market

Marco Bassetto (UCL) -Speculative Runs on Interest Rate Pegs

Description: Title: Speculative Runs on Interest Rate Pegs

Spiros Bougheas (Nottingham) Optimal Organization of Financial Intermediaries

Description: Title: Optimal Organization of Financial Intermediaries

Ivan Jaccard (ECB) Capital flows, intermediation frictions and the adjustment to common shocks

Description: Title: Capital flows, intermediation frictions and the adjustment to common shocks

Michael McMahon (Warwick) Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: a Computational Linguistics Approach

Description: A pre-seminar lunch will be served from 12.30pm to 2pm. The presentation will commence at 2pm - title: Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: a Computational Linguistics Approach

Seminars in 2013/14

Juan S Mora-Sanguinetti (Bank of Spain)

Description: Entrepreneurship, enforcement institutions and access to finance: disaggregated evidence for Spain

Ivan Petrella (Birkbeck, University of London)

Description: "Loss Aversion and the Asymmetric Transmission of Monetary Policy"

Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Description: Hiring Through Referrals

Tianxi Wang (University of Essex)

Description: Simultaneous Reporting of Credit Ratings May Discipline Rating Agencies

Anindya Banerjee (University of Birmingham)

Description: Structural FECM: Cointegration in large-scale structural FAVAR models

Milan Vanko (University of Nottingham) "Persistence of Shocks to Output and Prices in the Eurozone: A Time Series Analysis of Biases in Area-Level Estimates"

Description: Persistence of Shocks to Output and Prices in the Eurozone: A Time Series Analysis of Biases in Area-Level Estimates

Veronica Veleanu (University of Nottingham) "Credit spreads and economic activity in Europe"

Stephen Trypsteen (University of Nottingham)

Description: The role of benefit indexation and the government budget in the growth-volatility nexus

Vanessa Smith (Cambridge) - 'Constructing Multi-country Rational Expectations Models'

Description: 'Constructing Multi-country Rational Expectations Models' (Note New Venue: A11, Highfield House)

Ana Galvao (Warwick Business School) - "Forecasting with DSGE models in the presence of data revisions"

Description: "Forecasting with DSGE models in the presence of data revisions" (C43)

Ron Smith (Birkbeck)

Description: "Counterfactual Analysis in Macroeconometrics: An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Quantitative Easing"

Jack Rogers (University of Exeter) - Fixed versus Variable Rate Debt Contracts and Optimal Monetary Policy

Description: (A01, Highfield House)

Jagjit S Chadha (University of Kent) - "Stabilisation Policy in a Model of Consumption, Housing Collateral and Bank Lending"

Description: "Stabilisation Policy in a Model of Consumption, Housing Collateral and Bank Lending" C43

Eric French (UCL) - "Medicaid Insurance in Old Age"

Description: "Medicaid Insurance in Old Age". (C43)

Petra Geraats (University of Cambridge) - "The Effects of Inflation Targeting: A Mean-Reverting Mirage?"

Description: "The Effect of Inflation Targeting: A Mean-Reverting Mirage?" (C43)

Antonio Mele (University of Surrey) - The suboptimality of commitment equilibrium when agents are learning

John Gathergood (University of Nottingham) - House Prices, Wealth Effects and Labour Supply

Description: House Prices, Wealth Effects and Labour Supply (A45, SCGB)

Garry Young (Bank of England) - The Pass-through of Bank Funding Costs to Loan and Deposit Rates: UK Evidence

Description: "The Pass-through of Bank Funding Costs to Loan and Deposit Rates: UK Evidence" (C43)

Sean Holly (Cambridge) - International Sources of Technology Shocks

Description: International Sources of Technology Shocks (C43)

Seminars in 2012/13

Margarita Rubio - Optimal monetary policy, macroprudential rules and financial stability

Description: "Optimal monetary policy, macroprudential rules and financial stability."

Toni Ahnert - Crisis, Coordination, and Contagion

Description: "Crisis, Coordination, and Contagion"

Thijs van Rens - Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment

Description: "Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment"

Neil Rankin - Maximum Sustainable Government Debt - A Theoretical Exploration

Description: "Maximum Sustainable Government Debt - A Theoretical Explanation"

Michael Owyang - Measuring Macro Financial Stress

Description: "Measuring Macro Financial Stress" (C43)

Petra Gerlach-Kristen - International Patterns of Consumption

Description: "International Patterns of Consumption" C43, SCGB

George Kapetanios - Determining the Degree of Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Datasets

Description: Determining the Degree of Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Datasets

CFCM workshop - John Temple - Changing Places: Labour Markets and Structural Transformation

Description: Changing Places: Labour Markets and Structural Transformation

James Mitchell - Recalibrated opinion pools

John Driffill - Liquidity when it matters: QE and Tobin's q

Ming Jen - Keeping up with the Joneses and Exchange Rate Volatility in a Redux Model

CFCM workshop - Karl Taylor - The Existence and Persistence of Household Financial Hardship

Seminars in 2011/12

CFCM Seminar - Karl Taylor - Modelling Household Debt: A Panel Latent Class Approach

CFCM Seminar - Christoph Ungerer - Monetary Policy, Hot Housing Markets and Household Debt

CFCM Seminar - Amit Dasgupta -The Wall Street Walk when Blockholders Compete for Flows

CFCM Seminar - Joe Perlman - Determinacy and Identification with Optimal Rules

CFCM Seminar - Markus Eberhardt - The Long-Run Effect of Public Debt on Growth

CFCM Seminar - Winfried Koeniger - Collateral constraints and macroeconomic volatility

CFCM Seminar - Stephen Millard - An estimated DSGE model of energy, costs and inflation in the United Kingdom

CFCM Seminar - Gabriel Talmain - Campbell-Shiller Dividend-Price ratio

CFCM Seminar - Xuan Tam - Bankruptcy, Default, and Delinquency

CFCM Seminar - Alessandro Flamini - Price Stickiness Asymmetry, Persistence and Volatility in a New Keynesian Model

CFCM Seminar - Francesco Zanetti - Wage rigidities in an estimated DSGE model of the UK labour

One-day conferences

March 2016 - Uncertainty, Volatility and Monetary Policy
November 2014 - Effective Macro-Prudential Instruments
May 2014 - Liquidity Management, Institutions and the Macro-economy
May 2013 - Systemic Risk, Financial Markets and the Post-Crisis Economy
May 2012 - Methods for Forecasting Macroeconomic Data
May 2011 - Household Behaviour, Household Finance, Housing, and Macroeconomics
November 2010 - CFCM Workshop on Finance, Credit and Output Fluctuations
December 2009 - Workshop on New Developments in DSGE Model
May 2009 - Money and Macro Finance Workshop - Asset Prices, Consumption and Monetary Policy, 21 May 2009
December 2007 - Money and Macro Finance Workshop - Use of Panel Data in Macroeconomics and Finance, 14 December 2007
September 2007 - Annual Research Workshop - Current Issues for Research on Credit Markets, 28 September 2007
July 2006 - Annual Research Workshop - Financial Constraints and Real Activity, 21 July 2006

CFCM Lecture Series

8th lecture - Richard Anderson (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis) 2009 - slides (PowerPoint)
7th lecture - Steve Fazzari (Washington University, St Louis) 2007
6th lecture - Simon Price (Bank of England) 2006
5th lecture - Lyndon Nelson (Financial Services Authority) 2005
4th lecture - Professor Michael Artis (EUI professorial fellow and George Fellow Bank of England) 2005
3rd lecture - Professor Stephen Nickell (MPC member, Bank of England and LSE) 2004
2nd lecture - Professor Charlie Bean (Chief Economist and MPC member, Bank of England) 2003
1st lecture - Professor Alec Chrystal (Bank of England) 2002

Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics

Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Enquiries: hilary.hughes@nottingham.ac.uk