The Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group (CMSG) is hosting a Virtual Seminar Series.
Time: 10:00-11:30 Pacific / 13:00-14:30 Eastern, Fridays, March-April of 2021.
The CMSG solicits papers in all areas of macroeconomics. The presentations will take place in 90 minute sessions with each session consisting of 2 papers.
If you have any questions, please contact 2021cmsg@gmail.com.
Registration
The virtual seminar series will be held on Microsoft Team sessions.
Please check the Program for registration information for each seminar session.
Program
March 12 Request Registration
(Note: session held at 10:00-11:30 Pacific Standard Time / 13:00-14:30 Eastern Standard Time)
- Optimal Bailouts in Banking and Sovereign Crises
- Sewon Hur (FRB Dallas), César Sosa-Padilla (Notre Dame), Zeynep Yom (Villanova)
- Inequality, Taxation, and Sovereign Default Risk
- Minjie Deng (SFU)
March 19 Request Registration
- Herding Cycles
- Edouard Schaal (CREI), Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel (Cornell)
- How do People Respond to Small Probability Events with Large, Negative Consequences?
- Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern), Miguel Godinho de Matos (UCP), Francisco Lima (Statistics Portugal), Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern), Mathias Trabandt (Freie Universität Berlin)
March 26 Request Registration
- Spouses, Children, and Entrepreneurship
- João Galindo da Fonseca (Montréal), Charles Berubé (ISED Canada)
- The Inexorable Recoveries of US Unemployment
- Robert Hall (Stanford), Marianna Kudlyak (FRB SF)
April 9: Bank of Canada Session Request Registration
- Money, Credit and Imperfect Competition Among Banks
- Allen Head (Queen's), Timothy Kam (ANU), Ieng-Man Ng (ANU), Isaac Pan (Sydney)
- Bank Market Power and Central Bank Digital Currency: Theory and Quantitative Assessment
- Jonathan Chiu (BoC), Mohammad Davoodalhosseini (BoC), Janet Jiang (BoC), Yu Zhu (BoC)
April 16 Request Registration
- Dissecting Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk
- Elin Halvorsen (Statistics Norway), Hans Holter (Oslo), Serdar Ozkan (Toronto), Kjetil Storesletten (Oslo)
- Labor Substitutability among Schooling Groups
- Mark Bils (Rochester), Baris Kaymak (Montréal), Kai-Jie Wu (Rochester)
April 23 Request Registration
- Doubling Down on Debt: Limited Liability as a Financial Friction
- Jesse Perla (UBC), Carolin Pflueger (Harris), Michal Szkup (UBC)
- Plants in Space
- Ezra Oberfield (Princeton), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton), Pierre-Daniel Sarte (FRB Richmond), Nicholas Trachter (FRB Richmond)
April 30 Request Registration
- Tax Evasion and Capital Taxation
- Shahar Rotberg (Toronto), Joseph Steinberg (Toronto)
- Taxing the Rich
- V.V. Chari (Minnesota), Patrick Kehoe (Stanford), Elena Pastorino (Stanford), Sergio Salgado (Wharton)
May 7 Request Registration
- 'You Will:' A Macroeconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising
- Jeremy Greenwood (Penn), Yueyuan Ma (Penn), Mehmet Yorukoglu (Koç)
- Cheap Thrills: The Price of Leisure and the Global Decline in Work Hours
- Alexandr Kopytov (Hong Kong), Nick Roussanov (Wharton), Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel (Cornell)
Organizers
Michelle Alexopoulos, Jim MacGee, Henry Siu
Committee Members
Sponsors
Bank of Canada
Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
History of the CMSG
CMSG Permanent link: https://dge.repec.org/cmsg.html