Seminars

Each of our research poles host regular macroeconomics seminars

@LSE - Macro Seminars

Autumn Term

Monday 17 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
Marie Fuchs (Ricardo Reis): When One Size Doesn't Fit All: How Credit Card Heterogeneity Affects Monetary Transmission and Edward Manuel (Ricardo Reis): Identification in General Equilibrium: The Missing Intercept Problem Revisited

Tuesday 18 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00
SAL.1.04
Claudia Macaluso, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: Job Dynamics with Staffed Labor, joint with Andrea Atencio and Chen Yeh

Tuesday 18 November: Money-Macro Seminar

14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Marti Mestieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Engel's Treadmill: A Demand-Driven Theory of Structural Change

Monday 24 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
Tuo Fan
(Silvana Tenreyro)and Diego Ferreras Garrucho (Silvana Tenreyro)

Tuesday 25 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00
SAL.1.04
Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University

Tuesday 25 November: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Paul Bouscasse, Sciences Po

Monday 01 December: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
Giovani Minolfi (Ethan Ilzetzki) and Ludovica Priviero (Silvana Tenreyro)

Tuesday 02 December: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00
SAL.1.04
Philippe Aghion

Tuesday 02 December: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Venky Venkateswaran, NYU Stern School of Business

Monday 08 December: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
Dimitrios Athanassiou (Francesco Caselli) and Xiao Sun (Rachel Ngai)

Tuesday 09 December: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00
SAL.1.04
Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

Tuesday 09 December: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University


Winter Term

Monday 19 January: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
Sierene Abdelsayed (Ethan Ilzetzki) and Enrico Turri (Ethan Ilzetzki)

Monday 26 January: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Monday 02 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Monday 09 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar

10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Monday 16 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Monday 23 February: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 24 February: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Vincent Sterk, UCL

Monday 02 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 03 March: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Titon Alon, University of California San Diego

Monday 09 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 10 March: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Larry Christiano, Northwestern University

Monday 16 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 17 March: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School

Monday 23 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 24 March: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Job Boersma, UW, Madison

Monday 30 March: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 31 March: Money-Macro Seminar
14.30-16.00
SAL.1.04
Lukas Nord, University of Pennsylvania

Spring Term

Tuesday 05 May: Money-Macro Seminar
14.30-16.00
SAL.1.04
Tomasso Porzio, Columbia Business School

Monday 11 May: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 12 May: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University

Monday 18 May: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 19 May: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan

Tuesday 26 May: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University

Monday 01 June: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 02 June: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Paolo Martellini, NYU Stern School of Business

Monday 08 June: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 09 June: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Leonardo D'Amico, Princeton University

Monday 15 June: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
TBC

Tuesday 16 June: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Hanno Lustig, Stanford University


Past seminars: 2025 - 2026

Monday 29 September: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.2.04
Antonio Iavarone (Benjamin Moll and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey): US-China, Tech War and Francisco Líbano-Monteiro (Wouter Den Haan): The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Inequality: Cross-Sectional vs Lifetime Perspectives

Monday 29 September: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00
SAL.1.04
Adrien Couturier (Benjamin Moll): The Sentiment Channel of Fiscal Policy

Tuesday 30 September: Job Market Seminar
11:00-12:15
SAL.1.04
Marta Guasch Rusiñol (Ethan Ilzetzki): Debt without Investment

Monday 06 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.2.04
Wei Wang (Matthias Doepke and Rachel Ngai) Unequal Parental Altruism and the Reversal of Gender Education Gap and Charles Nourse (Ethan Ilzetzki) Consumption Elasticities to Anticipated Income Fluctuations

Wednesday 08 October: Job Market Seminar
11:00-12:15
SAL.1.04
Johannes Matt (Francesco Caselli): The Impact of Pension Fund Investment on Economic Growth

Thursday 09 October: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00
SAL.1.04
Ananya Kotia (Benjamin Moll): When Competition Compels Change: Trade, Management, and Firm Productivity

Monday 13 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.2.04
Salomé Fofana (Ricardo Reis): Polarizing Time Preferences: the Ambivalent Role of Uncertainty in Precautionary Savings and Marco Bellifemine (Ricardo Reis): Crises without FIRE: Animal Spirits and the Financial Accelerator

Tuesday 14 October: Job Market Seminar
11:00-12:30
SAL.1.04
Yuhao Qian (Benjamin Moll and Dmitry Mukhin): Capital Misallocation and Earnings-based Borrowing

Tuesday 14 October: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University: Non-Ricardian Equivalence, joint with Joao Guerreiro and Jana Obradovic

Wednesday 15 October: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00
SAL.1.04
Soroush Sabet (Matthias Doepke and Benjamin Moll): The Unproductive Wealth of Nations: The Case of Gold in India

Monday 20 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.2.04
Paula Patzelt (Ricardo Reis): Production reallocation across electricity markets and Abhijit Tagade (Philippe Aghion and Xavier Jaravel): On the shoulders of giants: A theory of financial spillovers in innovation networks

Tuesday 21 October: Job Market Seminar
12:45-14:00
SAL.1.04
Lukas Wiedemann (Matthias Doepke, Benjamin Moll and Rachel Ngai): The Dual Role of Inequality for Structural Change: Cause and Consequence

Thursday 23 October: Job Market Seminar
11:00-12:15
SAL.1.04
Stephan Hobler (Wouter DenHaan): Worker Mobility and the Diffusion of Radical Technologies

Thursday 23 October: Job Market Seminar
12:30-14:00
SAL.1.04
Sitong Ding (Ricardo Reis): Who Moves the Long End? The Dynamics of Gilt Market Segmentation

Monday 27 October: Student Work in Progress Seminar
11:00-12:00
SAL.2.04
Kazunari TanabeCross-Country Productivity Differences and Intermediate Input Intensity in Agriculture (Matthias Doepke and Benjamin Moll)

Monday 03 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
Jasper Bechtold (Matthias Doepke): Hysteresis: Directed Search with Liquidity Constraints and Weijie Zhang (Benjamin Moll): Unkink MPCs

Tuesday 04 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00
SAL.1.04
Neng Wang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business: "Implementing an Optimal Tax Plan with Short Term Debt", joint with Wei Jiang and Thomas Sargent

Tuesday 04 November: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Morten Ravn, UCL: Brothers in Arms: Monetary-Fiscal Interactions Without Ricardian Equivalence

Monday 10 November: Student Work in Progress Seminar
10:30-12:00
SAL.1.04
Brayan Segura Solano (Ethan Ilzetzki): The Housing Cost Channel of Fertility and Marina Santos Feliciano (Ethan Ilzetzki): The Political Procurement Cycle: Evidence from Municipalities in Portugal

Tuesday 11 November: Faculty Work in Progress Seminar
12:00-13:00
SAL.1.04
Ethan Ilzetzki: Fiscal Policy and Labor Mobilization: Labor Demand and Supply Effects

Tuesday 11 November: Money-Macro Seminar
14:30-16:00
SAL.1.04
Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley: In the Fed’s Mind

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