Macro Finance Reading Group

Welcome to the home page of the Macro-Finance Reading Group at MIT



Fall 2016

I. Organization

Organizers:      Daniel Greenwald, Alp Simsek and Erik Loualiche

Meeting time:    Tuesdays 9am-10am 
Location:        E52-324

You can view the schedule in google calendar or add it to your own calendar

Download the syllabus here



II. Program


  - October 4:   A Toolbox for Solving and Estimating Heterogeneous Agent Macro Models 
                 Winberry (2016) 
                 discussed by Sebastien Fanelli 

  - October 18:  Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession: Model Meets Evidence
                 Kaplan, Mitman and Violante (2016)
                 discussed by Masao Fukui

  - October 25:  Globalization and Synchronization of Innovation Cycles
                 Matsuyama and Sushko (2014)
                 discussed by Mazi Kazemi

  - November 1:  Financial Frictions in Production Networks
                 Bigio and Lao (2016)
                 Input Specificity and the Propagation of Idiosyncratic Shocks in Production Networks
                 Barrot and Sauvagnat 
                 discussed by Nathan Zorzi and Joe Hazell

  - November 8:  Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System
                 Begeneau and Landvoigt (2016)
                 discussed by Anton Petukhov

  - November 15: Preferences for Fair Prices, Cursed Inferences, and the Nonneutrality of Money
                 Eyster, Madarasz and Michaillat
		 discussed by Chen Lian

  - November 22: Real Interest Rates, Imbalances and the Curse of Regional Safe Asset Providers at the Zero Lower Bound
                 Gourinchas and Rey
                 discussed by Olivier Wang

  - November 29: Risk Preferences and the Macro Announcement Premium
                 Ai and Bansal
                 discussed by Mariano Spector

  - December 6:  A Model of the International Monetary System
                 Gabaix and Maggiori
                 discussed by Valere Fourel

  - December 13: World Asset Markets and the Global Financial Cycle
                 Miranda-Agrippino and Rey
                 Cross-border Banking and Global Liquidity
                 Bruno and Shin
                 discussed by Kevin Wang