Seminars in the Center for Research on International Economics and the Department of Economics

This semester all seminars will be held in Lubar College of Business, Room N116  at 2:00-3:30pm.

Fall 2026 Seminars Schedule

September 18, 2026
Rishabh Kirpalani, UW-Madison
“Accounting for Credibility: Fiscal-Monetary Interactions and the Credibility of Central Bank Mandates”

September 25, 2026
Debashis Pal, University of Cincinnati
“The Relevance of Make-or-Buy Decisions”

October 2, 2026
Stanton Hudja, Illinois Institute of Technology
“Encouraging Experimentation: Persuading Individuals to Experiment Through Explanation”

October 9, 2026
Peter Ganong, University of Chicago
“Literature Review and Evidence Aggregation: a Toolkit for Applied Micro”

October 16, 2026 
TBA

October 23, 2026 
Marta Lachowska, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
”Employer Hour Policies and the Gender Wage Gap.”

October 30, 2026   
Laura Schechter, UW-Madison
“Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal”

November 6, 2026   
Leonardo D’Amico, University of Chicago
“The Making of a National Mortgage Market and Its Effects on American Cities”

November 13, 2026   
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
“Ricardian Non-Equivalence

December 4, 2026   
TBD  

December 11, 2026   
TBD