Pan-Asian Macro/Finance Seminar Series

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