Department of Economics Universidad Carlos III

The Unproductive Wealth of Nations: The Case of Gold in India
2026-02-17 12:45 - 14:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | 15.1.39
Soroush Sabet
(LSE)

“The Unproductive Wealth of Nations: The Case of Gold in India”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Mafias and Firms
2026-02-18 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Mounu Prem (Francisco Muñoz)
(EIEF)

“Mafias and Firms”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Overreaction in Expectations with Endogenous Feedback
2026-02-19 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Tanja Linta
(TSE)

“Overreaction in Expectations with Endogenous Feedback”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Shifting the Value of Norms: Fast Internet, Premarital Sex, and the Erosion of Female Genital Mutilation
2026-02-24 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Jorge García-Hombrados
(UAM)

“Shifting the Value of Norms: Fast Internet, Premarital Sex, and the Erosion of Female Genital Mutilation“

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Household Labor Supply Insurance Around the World", with Annika Bacher, Kevin Donovan, Lukas Nord, and Philipp Grubener
2026-02-26 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Todd Schoellman
(FED Minneapolis)

“Household Labor Supply Insurance Around the World”, with Annika Bacher, Kevin Donovan, Lukas Nord, and Philipp Grubener”

Room 15.1.39

The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)
2026-03-02 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Maximilian Kasy
(University of Oxford )

“The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)“

Room 15.1.39

Optimal Disclosure of Private Information to Competitors
2026-03-03 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Rosina Rodríguez Olivera
(U. Montevideo)

“Optimal Disclosure of Private Information to Competitors”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

High-Dimensional Nonparametric Local Projections
2026-03-04 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Jiaming Huang
(Hong Kong University)

“High-Dimensional Nonparametric Local Projections”

Face to Face 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

The Death and Life of Great British Cities
2026-03-05 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
David Nagy
(CREI)

“The Death and Life of Great British Cities”

Face to Face 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Memories and Tail Beliefs
2026-03-06 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Johannes Beutel
(Deutsche Bundesbank)

“Memories and Tail Beliefs”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Public Demand Allocation and Productivity of the Private Sector (with A. Tulli)
2026-03-09 00:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Lavinia Piemontese
(University of Bologna)

“Public Demand Allocation and Productivity of the Private Sector (with A. Tulli)”

Room 15.1.39

PhD Workshop with Tim Kehoe (Third edition)
2026-03-09 15:00 - 17:45 | 14.1.08
Macroeconomics I Session

Chair: Andrés Erosa
ROOM 14.1.08
15:00-15:15 – Miguel Vázquez-Carrero – K and L Inflows without Productivity Gains? Firm Dynamics and Spain’s Growth Experience
15:15 -15:30 – Borisav Markovic – Talent Flows and Productivity: The Role of Inter-Firm Worker Mobility
15:30 -15:45 – Bohdan Kalinichenko – Risk Frictions in Atomistic Housing Markets
15:45 -16:15 – Puyu Wang – A Theory of General Two-Sided Directed Search
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COFFEE BREAK: 16:15-16:45 (Faculty Lounge 15.1.47)
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Macroeconomics II Session

Chair: Andrés Erosa
ROOM 14.1.08
16:45 -17:15 –Emanuele Savini – Exchange Rates and the `Fed Information Effect’
17:15 -17:45 – Berkin Durmaz – Tariff Wars and Monetary Policy in Open Economies

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Optimal Allowance with Limited Auditing Capacity
2026-03-10 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Albin Erlanson
(University of Essex )

“Optimal Allowance with Limited Auditing Capacity”

Face-to-face Seminar – Room 15.1.39

Data, Power and Emissions: The Environmental Cost of AI" (with Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Rosario Crinò and Mattia Filomena)
2026-03-11 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Gino Gancia
(University of Milan)

“Data, Power and Emissions: The Environmental Cost of AI” (with Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Rosario Crinò and Mattia Filomena)”

Face-to-face Seminar – Room 15.1.39

New Horizons with ML in Econometrics
2026-03-11 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.0.06
Esfandiar Maasoumi
(Emory University)

“New Horizons with ML in Econometrics“

Face to Face Room 15.2.36 – Room 15.0.06

Sharing the caring? Dynamic interaction between siblings in the provision of care to parents
2026-03-13 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Timothy Hunt
(University of Oxford)

“Sharing the caring? Dynamic interaction between siblings in the provision of care to parents“

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

The Impact and Incidence of Supplemental Health Insurance: Evidence from Sweden
2026-03-16 00:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
David Seim
(Stockholm University)

“The Impact and Incidence of Supplemental Health Insurance: Evidence from Sweden”

Room 15.1.39

Stochastic Optimization and Coupling
2026-03-17 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Kai Hao Yang
(Yale School of Management)

“Stochastic Optimization and Coupling”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.36 – Room Seminar 15.1.39

An Exact Analysis of Precautionary Consumption Growth
2026-03-18 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Jeanne Commault
(Sciences Po)

“An Exact Analysis of Precautionary Consumption Growth”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India
2026-03-20 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Mauricio Romero
(ITAM)

“The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Selection Bias and Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force
2026-03-23 00:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Felipe Goncalves
(UCLA)

“Selection Bias and Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force”

Face to Face 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Sophisticated Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Dynamics'' (joint with Mahdi Ebsim, Yueran Ma, Pablo Ottonello, and Diego Perez)
2026-03-26 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Chen Lian
(UC Berkeley)

“Sophisticated Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Dynamics” (joint with Mahdi Ebsim, Yueran Ma, Pablo Ottonello, and Diego Perez)”

Room 15.1.39

When and how to rescue efficiencies from oblivion in horizontal merger control?
2026-04-07 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Jorge Padilla
(Compass Lexecon)

“When and how to rescue efficiencies from oblivion in horizontal merger control?”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Quantitative Easing and Portfolio Rebalancing
2026-04-08 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Hedda Thorell
(Stockholm University)

“Quantitative Easing and Portfolio Rebalancing”

Face-to-face Seminar – Room 15.1.39

Fiscal Policy and Sectoral Reallocation According to HANK-SAM-IO
2026-04-09 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Antonella Trigari
(Bocconi University)

“Fiscal Policy and Sectoral Reallocation According to HANK-SAM-IO”

Room 15.1.39

Noncausal AR processes driven by causal GARCH volatility
2026-04-13 00:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Jean-Michel Zakoian
(CREST and U.Lille)

“Noncausal AR processes driven by causal GARCH volatility”

Room 15.1.39

Strategyproof Maximum Matching Under Dichotomous Agent Preferences," joint work with Haris Aziz and Shahidul Islam
2026-04-14 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Szilvia Papai
(Concordia University)

“Strategyproof Maximum Matching Under Dichotomous Agent Preferences,” joint work with Haris Aziz and Shahidul Islam”

Face-to-face Seminar 15.2.71 – Room 15.1.39

Government Contracting and Living Wages > Minimum Wages
2026-04-15 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Stephen Machin
(LSE)

“Government Contracting and Living Wages > Minimum Wages”

Room 15.1.39

Plastic Dumping Grounds: International Impacts of China's Waste Import Ban ​(with Deniz Atalar and Banu Demir)
2026-04-16 12:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Swati Dhingra
(LSE)

“Plastic Dumping Grounds: International Impacts of China’s Waste Import Ban ​(with Deniz Atalar and Banu Demir)”

Room 15.1.39

Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Electrification of U.S. Agriculture
2026-04-20 00:45 - 14:00 | 15.1.39
Martin Fiszbein
(Boston University)

“Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Electrification of U.S. Agriculture”

Face to Face 15.2.36 – Room 15.1.39
