Date | Event | Presenter | Details |
| Sept. 15, 2011 | The Dynamics of Asset Prices and Leverage Under Belief Heterogeneity | Dan Cao (Georgetown Univesity) | MC8-100 |
| Sept. 22, 2011 | How Large is the Govenment Spending Multiplier? Evidence from World Bank Lending | Aart Kraay (World Bank) | MC4-100 |
| Sept. 29, 2011 | International Crisis Transmission and Asymmetric Recoveries | Ha Nguyen (World Bank) | MC8-100 |
| Oct. 6, 2011 | An Engel Curve for Variety | Nicholas Li (University of Toronto) | MC10-100 |
| Oct. 13, 2011 | Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and Macroeconomic Performance | Tom Krebs (University of Mannheim) | MC10-100 |
| Oct. 20, 2011 | Efficient Bailouts | Javier Bianchi (New York University) | MC5-100 |
| Oct. 27, 2011 | Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit- Export Data | Veronica Rappoport (Columbia University) | MC5-100 |
| Nov. 3, 2011 | Three's Company: Wall Street, Capitol Hill, and K Street | Prachi Mishra (IMF) | MC7-100 |
| Dec. 1, 2011 | Aiding Conflict: The Consequences of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War | Nancy Qian (Yale University) | MC7-100 |
| Dec. 8, 2011 | Pegs and Pain | Stephanie Schmidt-Grohe (Columbia University) | MC7-100 |
| Jan. 12, 2011 | Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets | Craig Burnside (Duke University) | IMF (HQ1 10-713) |
| Jan. 26, 2012 | Why do some countries default more often than others? The role of institutions | Rong Qian (YP- DECRG) | MC10-100 |
| Feb. 16, 2012 | Tranching, CDS and Asset Prices: How Financial Innovation can Cause Bubbles and Crashes | Ana Fostel (George Washington University) | MC3-570 |
| Mar. 1, 2012 | The Household Effects of Government Spending | Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi) | Postponed |
| Mar. 8, 2012 | The Political Economy of Sovereign Default and Market Reaccess | Guido Sandleris (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) | MC10-100 |
| Mar. 15, 2012 | Deleveraging Dynamics | Jonathan E. Goldberg (Federal Reserve Board) | MC10-100 |
| Mar. 22, 2012 | The Wasteful 'Money Creation' Aspect of Financial Intermediation | Maya Eden (DECRG- World Bank) | MC10-100 |
| Apr. 5, 2012 | Online and Official Price Indexes: Measuring Argentina's Inflation | Alberto Cavallo (MIT Sloan) | MC9-100 |
| Apr. 12, 2012 | Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting | Benjamin Moll (Princeton University) | MC8-100 |
| Apr. 19, 2012 | The Household Effects of Government Spending | Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi) | IMF (HQ1 10-713) 12:00-1:30 pm |
| Apr. 26, 2012 | Optimal Devaluations | Constantino Hevia (DECRG) | MC6-100 |
| May 3, 2012 | Dealing with the Trilemma: Capital Controls and Government Spending | Ivan Werning (MIT) | IMF (HQ1 10-713) 12:00-1:30 pm |
| May 17, 2012 | Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth | Ufuk Akcigit (University of Pennsylvania) | MC10-100 |
| May 24, 2012 | The Risk of Civil Conflicts as a Determinant of Political Institutions | Alvaro Aguirre (Central Bank of Chile) | MC10-100 |
| May 31, 2012 | Is China Slowing? Engel Curve Estimates of Chinese Growth and Inflation. | Emi Nakamura (Columbia University) | MC10-100 |
| June 7, 2012 | Wealth and Volatility | Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota) | MC10-100 |
| June 21, 2012 | Did Unconventional Interventions Unfreeze the Credit Market? Some International Evidence | Hui Tong (IMF) | MC9-100 |