Date | Event | Type | Participants | Details |
 2009 | |
| June 18 | Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence? | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Martin Ravallion (World Bank) | MC 9-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| June 11 | Country Size, Currency Unions, and International Asset Returns    | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Tarek Alexander Hassan (Harvard) | MC 4-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| June 4Â | Â Â Â NO SEMINAR |
| May 28  | Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World   | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Antonio Spilimbergo and Prachi Mishra (IMF) | MC 4-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| May 21 | Medium Term Cycles in Developing Countries | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Diego Comin (Harvard Business School and NBER) | MC 5-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| May 14 | Monetary Policy and the Equity Premium  | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | David Lopez-Salido (Federal Reserve Board) | MC 5-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| May 7 | Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Kenya | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Michael Kremer (Harvard, Brookings, CGD, J-PAL, and NBER) | MC 7-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Apr. 30 | NAFTA and the Productivity of the Business in Mexico     | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Leonardo Iacovone (World Bank)and Rafael E. de Hoyos (Min. of Education, Mexico) | MC 7-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Apr. 23  | Technology Adoption and Factor Proportions in Open Economies: Theory and Evidence from the Global Computer | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Daniel Lederman and Ana Cusolito (World Bank) | MC 3-570
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Apr. 16 | What Caused the Recession of 2008? Hints from Labor Productivity    | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Casey Mulligan (Chicago) | MC 5-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Apr. 9 | Noisy Real Business Cycles | Macro Brown Bag Seminar  | George-Marios Angeletos (MIT) | MC 4-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Apr. 2 | Organizing Growth    | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton) | MC 5-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Mar. 26Â | Â Â Â Â Â NO SEMINAR |
| Mar. 19Â | Â Â Â Â NO SEMINAR |
| Mar. 12Â | Â Â Â Â NO SEMINAR |
| Mar. 5 | Exchange Rate Forecasting with Structural Shocks as Predictors | Recruitment Seminar   | Konstantin Styrin (Harvard) | MC 6-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Mar. 4 | Valuation Effects with Transitory and Trend Output Shocks  | Recruitment Seminar    | Ha Nguyen (UMD) | MC 7-100
4:00 to 5:30 pm
 |
| Feb. 27 | Firm Size, Innovation Dynamics and Growth | Recruitment Seminar   | Ufuk Akcigit (MIT) | MC5-100Â
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Feb. 26 | Sudden Stops and Reallocation: Evidence from Labor Market Flows in Latin America | Recruitment Seminar    | José Tessada (UMD)
 | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Feb. 25 | Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies, and Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from China and India's FDI | Recruitment Seminar   | Yong Wang (Chicago) | MC 3-570
4:00 to 5:30 pm |
| Feb. 17 | Housing Markets and Current Account Dynamics  | Recruitment Seminar   | Pedro Gete (Chicago)  | MC 3-570
4:00 to 5:30 pm  |
| Feb. 12 | Financial "Whac-a-mole": Bubbles, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Pierre-OIivier Gourinchas | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Feb. 11 | Sovereign Debt and Domestic Economic Fragility | Recruitment Seminar  | Suman Basu (MIT) | MC 3-570
4:00 to 5:30 pm |
| Feb. 10 | Income Differences and Prices of Tradables | Recruitment Seminar   | Ina Simonovska (UMN) | MC 3-570
4:00 to 5:30 pm |
| Feb. 5 | The Subprime Turmoil: What's Old, What's New, and What's Next  | Macro Brown Bag Seminar     | Charles Calomiris (Columbia School of Business and NBER)       | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Feb. 4 | Industrial Structure and Financial Capital Flows  | Recruitment Seminar | Keyu Jin (Harvard) | MC 3-570
4-5:30 pm |
| Jan. 29 | To Formalize or Not To Formalize? Comparisons of Microenterprise Data Southern and East Africa | Macro Brown Bag Seminar   | Alan Gelb (DECVP, World Bank) and Vijaya Ramachandran (Center for Global Development) | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Jan. 22 | Indirect, Long-term and Cumulative Effects of Natural Disasters | Macro and Economics of Natural Disasters Brown Bag Seminar  | Jose Miguel Albala Bertrand (University of London) and Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (University of Inssbruck) | MC C1-200
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Jan. 15Â | Â NO SEMINAR |
| Jan. 8Â | NO SEMINAR |
| Jan. 1 | NO SEMINAR |
 2008 |  |
| Dec. 25 | NO SEMINAR |
| Dec. 18 | A Structural Model of Establishment and Industry Evolution: Evidence from Chile | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Murat Seker (World Bank) | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Dec. 11 | NO SEMINAR |
| Dec. 4 | Capital Flows and Asset Trade: A Puzzle | Macro Brown Bag Seminar  | Aart Kraay (World Bank) and Jaume Ventura (CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Nov. 13 | Multilateral Debt Relief throughthe Eyes of Financial Markets | Macro Brown Bag Seminar   | Claudio Raddatz(World Bank) | MC 5-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Oct. 30 | Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century | Macro Brown Bag Seminar   | Benjamin Jones (Kellogg School of Management) | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Oct. 16 | Hierarchic Government, Endogenous Policies, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from China and India | Macro Brown Bag Seminar  | Yong Wang (World Bank)  | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Oct. 9 | Misallocation and Manufacturing in China and India | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Pete Klenow (Stanford University) | I2-210
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Sept. 25 | Aggregate Effects of AIDS on Development | Macro Brown Bag Seminar  | Raul Santaeulali-Llopis (Washington Univ.) | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Sept. 18 | Emerging Market Fluctuations: What Makes The Difference? | Macro Brown Bag Seminar  | Constantino Hevia (World Bank) | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Sept. 11 | Equilibrium Portfolios and External Adjustment under Incomplete Markets | Macro Brown Bag Seminar  | Roberto Rigobon(MIT and NBER)  | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
| Sept. 4 | Foreign Aid and Real Exchange Rate Adjustments in a Financially Constrained Dependent Economy | Macro Brown Bag Seminar | Valerie Cerra (IMF) and Serpil Tekin (Univ. of Washington) | MC 10-100
12:30 to 2:00 pm |
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