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

Times
Meetings from 1pm-2pm on Fridays in C43.

Rules
- Students to prepare 45 minutes of slides (including questions).
- Students have 15 slide limit.
- Faculty has the option to present slides in the final 15 minutes (or to have an open discussion).
- Faculty and student to meet to negotiate presentation paper.

Schedule
(1) 18th February 2022 [alternate time and place of 2:30-3:30 online]: Agustina & Adam. Firm Heterogeneity, Capital Misallocation and Optimal Monetary Policy (Gonzalez, Nuni, Thaler & Albrizio).
(2) 25th February 2022: Nina & Giammario. Population Growth and Firm Dynamics (Peters & Walsh).
(3) 4th March 2022: spare.
(4) 11th March 2022 [alternate time of 12:45-1:45]: Selim & Nacho. Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries (Akcigit, Alp & Peters).
(5) 18th March 2022: Fabrizio & Rahul. Uncertainty Shocks in Currency Unions (Born, Muller & Pfeifer).
(6) 25th March 2022: Guido & Omar. Tasks, Automation and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality (Acemoglu & Restrepo).
(7) 1st April 2022: spare.
(8) 8th April 2022 [alternate time of 14:00-15:00]: Juan & Alessandro. Informality, Labor Regulation, and the Business Cycle (Leyva & Urrutia).
(9) 6 May 2022: Sungwon & Jake. Optimal Labor Income Taxes, Incomplete Markets and Labor Market Power (Mousavi)
(10) 13 May 2022: Lucas & Alejandro. International Trade and Innovation Dynamics with Endogenous Markups (Cavenaile, Roldan-Blanco & Schmitz).