Quantitative Macroeconomics Reading Group (Fall 2022)
First/second/third year MRes./Ph.D. students in economics.

Times
Meetings from 12:30pm-1:30pm on Wednesdays in C43.

Participants
Faculty: Adam Spencer, Alejandro Graziano, Juan (Nacho) Vizcaino, Jake Bradley, Alessandro Ruggieri, Giammario Impullitti, Omar Licandro, Rahul Mukherjee.
1st year students: Pilar Monteagudo, Mirsad Sipahioğlu, Shipei Zhang, Sagarika Sengupta, Juan Rodriguez, Taejun Kim.
Upper-year students: Agustina Sampaolesi, Juan Siachoque, Miquel Oliver i Vert, Guido Lamarmora, Selim Elbadri, Fabrizio Ardiles Decker.

Rules
- Presentation team each week comprised of three members: a 1st year MRes. student, an upper-year Ph.D. student and a faculty mentor.
- 1st year student to prepare 45 minutes of slides (time including questions). They should present the paper as if it were their own.
- Upper-year student to prepare 15 minutes of slides (time including questions). They should present as if they were the paper’s discussant at a conference. Focus should be on critiques, suggestions, bigger picture and new ideas.
- All three members of the presentation team should meet in advance to decide on a paper that suits the members’ interests.
- Faculty member should briefly check over both sets of slides prior to the presentation date.
- 1st year student has a 15 slide limit (for real, I’ll enforce it this time round!).
- Upper-year student has a 5 slide limit.

Schedule
(1) 2nd November 2022: Mirsad, Selim & Alessandro. Paper: Uneven Growth: Automation’s Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality (Moll, Rachel, Restrepo, 2021)
(2) 16th November 2022: Pilar, Miquel & Adam. Paper: Equilibrium Asset Pricing with Leverage and Default (Gomes & Schmid, 2021).
(3) 23rd November 2022: Taejun, Juan S. & Rahul. Paper: U.S. Monetary Policy Spillovers to Emerging Markets: both Shocks and Vulnerabilities Matter (Ahmed, Akinci & Queralto, 2021).
(4) 30th November 2022 [alternative location and time: SCG A44, 13-14]: Juan R., Guido & Giammario. Paper: On the Heterogeneous Welfare Gains and Losses from Trade (Carroll & Hur, 2020).
(5) 7th December 2022 [alternative time: 12-13]: Sagarika, Agustina & Alejandro. Paper: Equilibrium Technology Diffusion, Trade and Growth (Perla, Tonetti & Waugh, 2021).
(6) 14th December 2022 [alternative time: 12-13] : Shipei, Fabrizio & Omar. Paper: Credit and Banking in a DSGE Model of the Euro Area (Gerali, Neri, Sessa & Signoretti).