Organizers: NYU Shanghai, Hong Kong Baptist University, National Taiwan University, and Academia Sinica.
| Date & Zoom Link | Speaker | Topic |
| March 27, 2026 16:00-17:30 |
Clément GORIN Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University |
State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings |
| March 20, 2026 9:00-10:30 |
Marco REUTER International Monetary Fund |
Decrypting Crypto: How to Estimate International Stablecoin Flows |
| March 13, 2026 9:00-10:30 |
Clemens GRAF VON LUCKNER Stanford University |
Beyond Market Exclusion: Creditor Attrition After Sovereign Default |
| December 5, 2025 9:00-10:30 |
Briana CHANG Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Impact Trickles Down: Exit, Engagement and Firm-Stakeholder Relationships |
| November 7, 2025 9:00-10:30 |
Gregory PHELAN William College |
The Slope of the Phillips Curve and the Mandate of the Central Bank |
| October 3, 2025 9:00-10:30 |
Tianyu FAN Yale University |
The Labor Market Incidence of New Technologies |
| September 12, 2025 16:00-17:30 |
Daniel WALDENSTRÖM IFN Stockholm (Research Institute of Industrial Economics) |
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West |
| May 23, 2025 16:00-17:30 |
Makoto WATANABE Kyoto University |
Money is the Root of Asset Bubbles |
| April 11, 2025 16:00-17:30 |
Manuel MUELLER-FRANK University of Navarra |
On the Robustness of Blockchain-Based Oracle Mechanisms |
| March 28, 2025 16:00-17:30 |
Patrick AUGUSTIN McGill University |
‘Safety’ by Designation: How Regulatory Treatment Affects the Convenience Yield of Near-Safe Assets |
| December 13, 2024 9:00-10:30 |
Ignacio PRESNO Federal Reserve Board |
Exchange Rate Disconnect and the Trade Balance |
| November 8, 2024 9:00-10:30 |
Shu Lin WEE University of Melbourne |
Optimal UI with Multiple Applications |
| October 4, 2024 16:00-17:30 |
Piero GOTTARDI University of Essex |
Capital Structure and Hedging Demand with Incomplete Markets |
| May 24, 2024 9:00-10:30 |
Lukas NORD Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Pennsylvania |
Shopping, Demand Composition, and Equilibrium Prices |
| May 3, 2024 16:00-17:30 |
Cyril MONNET University of Bern and the Study Centre Gerzensee |
On the Programmability and Uniformity of Money |
| April 12, 2024 16:00-17:30 |
Martin OEHMKE London School of Economics and Political Science |
Green Capital Requirements |
| March 8, 2024 16:00-17:30 |
Christoph TREBESCH Kiel University |
International Lending in War and Peace, 1790-2020 |
| February 23, 2024 9:00-10:30 |
Selman EROL Carnegie Mellon University |
Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act |
| December 1, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Olivier WANG New York University |
Banking on Uninsured Deposits |
| November 24, 2023 16:00-17:30 |
Priit JEENAS Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CREi, and Barcelona School of Economics |
Buy Big or Buy Small? Procurement Policies, Firms’ Financing, and the Macroeconomy |
| November 10, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Ludwig STRAUB Harvard University |
Optimal Long-Run Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents |
| October 13, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Nicolas CARAMP University of California, Davis |
Monetary Policy and Wealth Effects: The Role of Risk and Heterogeneity |
| October 6, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Jesse SCHREGER Columbia University |
The Geography of Capital Allocation in the Euro Area |
| September 22, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Barney HARTMAN-GLASER University of California, Los Angeles |
A Theory of Asset- and Cash Flow-Based Financing |
| September 15, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Gregory PHELAN Williams College |
Fragility of Safe Asset Markets |
| June 16, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Rafael GUNTIN University of Rochester |
Firms' Rollover Risk and Macroeconomic Dynamics |
| June 9, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Olivier JEANNE John Hopkins University |
“Whatever It Takes”: Government Default Versus Financial Repression |
| June 2, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Carola FRYDMAN Northwestern University |
The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets |
| May 19, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Scott DAVIS Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
A Theory of the Global Financial Cycle |
| May 12, 2023 16:00-17:30 |
Tore ELLINGSEN Stockholm School of Economics |
A Monetary Theory of Price Adjustment |
| May 5, 2023 16:00-17:30 |
Eran YASHIV Tel Aviv University |
When to Lock, Not Whom: Managing Epidemics Using Time-Based Restrictions |
| April 28, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Michael SOCKIN University of Texas at Austin |
Endogenous Illiquidity and the Wealth Distribution |
| April 21, 2023 16:00-17:30 |
Saleem BAHAJ University College London |
The Market for Inflation Risk |
| April 14, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Diego PEREZ New York University |
The Macroeconomic Implications of US Market Power in Safe Assets |
| March 31, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Felipe VARAS Duke University |
Debt Maturity Management |
| March 24, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Ricardo REIS London School of Economics and Political Science |
Jumpstarting an International Currency |
| March 10, 2023 16:00-17:30 |
Gianluca BENIGNO Federal Reserve Bank of New York, London School of Economics and Political Science |
The Financial (In)Stability Real Interest Rate, R** |
| February 24, 2023 16:00-17:30 |
Luigi BOCOLA Stanford University |
The Macroeconomics of Trade Credit |
| February 17, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Michael DEVEREUX University of British Columbia |
Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, and Global Cycles |
| February 3, 2023 9:00-10:30 |
Min FANG University of Toronto |
Pollution Abatement Investment under Financial Frictions and Policy Uncertainty |
| November 25, 2022 4:00-5:30 |
Vladimir ASRIYAN Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional |
Falling Interest Rates and Credit Reallocation: Lessons from General Equilibrium |
| November 18, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Jonathan Payne Princeton University |
Platforms, Tokens, and Interoperability |
| November 4, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Lasse Heje PEDERSEN Copenhagen Business School and New York University |
Machine Learning and the Implementable Efficient Frontier |
| October 28, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Victoria VANASCO Centre de Recerca en Economia International |
Banks vs. Firms: Who Benefits from Credit Guarantees? |
| October 21, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Kiminori MATSUYAMA Northwestern University |
Selection and Sorting of Heterogeneous Firms through Competitive Pressures |
| October 14, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Brett GREEN Washington University in St. Louis |
Digital Collateral |
| October 7, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Uday RAJAN University of Michigan |
Boundaries of the Bank |
| September 30, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Kristoffer NIMARK Cornell University |
Endogenous Production Networks under Supply Chain Uncertainty |
| September 16, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Saki BIGIO University of California, Los Angeles |
A Theory of Payments-Chain Crises |
| September 9, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Narayana KOCHERLAKOTA University of Rochester |
Infinite Debt Rollover in Stochastic Economies |
| August 5, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Pablo OTTONELLO University of Michigan |
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments |
| July 29, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Matteo MAGGIORI Stanford University |
Internationalizing Like China |
| July 22, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Itamar DRECHSLER University of Pennsylvania |
Credit Crunches and the Great Stagflation |
| July 14, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Katrin ASSENMACHER European Central Bank |
Central Bank Digital Currency and Bank Intermediation |
| June 30, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Hans GERSBACH ETH Zurich |
Monetary Policy with a Central Bank Digital Currency: The Short and the Long Term |
| June 23, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Katrin ASSENMACHER European Central Bank |
CBDC and Business Cycle Dynamics in a New Monetarist New Keynesian Model |
| June 10, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Matteo CROSIGNANI Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Exorbitant Privilege? Quantitative Easing and the Bond Market Subsidy of Prospective Fallen Angels |
| June 2, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Aleksander BERENTSEN University of Basel |
Decentralized Finance: The Future of Money and Finance |
| April 7, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Maximilian GUENNEWIG University of Bonn |
Money Talks: Information and Seignorage |
| March 18, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Simone LENZU NYU Stern |
Zombie Lending and Policy Traps |
| March 11, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Tai-Wei HU University of Bristol |
Optimal Banking and Deposit Insurance with Delegated Monitoring |
| March 4, 2022 9:00-10:30 |
Randall WRIGHT University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation |
| February 25, 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Shengxing ZHANG London School of Economics |
Credit Horizons |
| November 19, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Alp SIMSEK Yale School of Management |
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets |
| November 11, 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Jon FROST Bank for International Settlements (BIS) |
Rise of the Central Bank Digital Currencies: Drivers, Approaches and Technologies |
| October 29, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Vincent GLODE University of Pennsylvania |
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Debt Chains |
| October 22, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Martin SCHNEIDER Stanford University |
Credit Lines, Bank Deposits or CBDC? Competition & Efficiency in Modern Payment Systems |
| October 15, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Simon MAYER University of Chicago |
Token-Based Platforms and Speculators |
| October 8, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Jason Roderick DONALDSON Washington University in St. Louis |
Collateral Reallocation |
| September 24, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Roger FARMER University of California, Los Angeles, University of Warwick |
The Importance of Beliefs in Shaping Macroeconomic Outcomes |
| September 10, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Athanasios GEROMICHALOS University of California, Davis |
Asset Safety versus Asset Liquidity |
| September 2, 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Maarten VAN OORDT Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
Best Before? Expiring CBDC and Loss Recovery |
| August 13, 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Thorsten BECK City, University of London |
Liquidity Creation, Investment, and Growth |
| August 6, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Nadya MALENKO University of Michigan |
Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment |
| July 8, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Katya MALINOVA McMaster University |
Tokenomics: When Tokens Beat Equity |
| June 18, 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Rafael REPULLO Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) |
Interest Rates, Market Power, and Financial Stability |
| June 1, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Boyan JOVANOVIC New York University |
Idea Diffusion and Property Rights |
| May 28, 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Alexander CUKIERMAN Tel Aviv University |
COVID-19, Seignorage, Quantitative Easing and the Fiscal-Monetary Nexus |
| May 14, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Briana CHANG University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Risk Concentration and Interconnectedness in OTC Markets |
| April 29, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Jiri CHOD Boston College |
Platform Tokenization: Financing, Governance, and Moral Hazard |
| April 22, 2021 16:00-17:30 |
David SKEIE University of Warwick |
Digital Currency Runs |
| April 16, 2021 9:00-10:30 |
Pablo KURLAT University of Southern California |
Investment Externalities in Models of Fire Sales |
| April 15, 2021 15:00-16:30 |
Dirk NIEPELT University of Bern |
Monetary Policy with Reserves and CBDC: Optimality, Equivalence, and Politics |


