UNSW Macro Lunch

  !!! NEW WEEKLY MEETINGS !!! 

Setup

The new Macro Lunch meetings will be held every Tuesday at noon and they will alternate between a "brownbag" seminar and a "reading group". The brownbag is meant as a platform for faculty and students to present their ongoing (early/middle/late stage) research. The reading group will bring together faculty and students to explore recent research on a pre-selected topic.

Rules

Brownbag

• Presentations are at most 45mins (+15mins discussion afterwards)
• Email me if you want to present

Reading Group

• Compulsory for students writing dissertations in macroeconomics!
• Students choose a paper/slot to present (email me)
• Presenters provide a 15min overview of the paper
• This can invlove slides, or simply working key ideas out on the board
• All other students come prepared to lead the discussion
• This requires careful reading of the paper and preparing a set of questions and comments
• The person leading the discussion will be picked randomly

Time and place

When: Every Tuesday in term (see schedule below).
Where: QUAD 2063
Time: 12-13

Term 2, 2025

Reading Group topic: The Macroeconomics of Tariffs
Students, select a paper and time slot in which you would like to present and email me.

Schedule

• June 3, Brownbag: Petr
• June 10, Brownbag:
• June 17, Reading Group: Max - Amiti, Redding, Weinstein (2018). "The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare," Journal of Economic Perspectives
• June 24, Brownbag: Bruce
• July 1, Reading Group: Dan - Cavallo, Gopinath, Neiman and Tang (2021). "Tariff Pass-through at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy," AER: Insights
• July 8, Brownbag:
• July 15, Reading Group: Jacky - Auclert, Rognlie ad Straub (2025). "The Macroecnomics of Tariff Shocks," unpublished manuscript.
• July 22, Brownbag: Jiu Lian - "Wealth Tax and Wealth Mobility: A Quantitative Analysis"
• July 29, Reading Group: Joanna - Werning, Lorenzoni and Guerrieri (2025). "Tariffs as Cost-push Shocks: Implications for Optimal Policy," unpublished manuscript
• August 5, Reading Group: Sydney - Furceri, Hannan, Ostry and Rose (2019). "Macroeconomic Consequences of Tariffs," IMF Working Paper

Presentation schedule T1, 2025

• March 4:
• March 18:
• April 1 (no joke!): Yunpeng Deng: "Portfolio Choice in an Optimal Monetary-Fiscal Policy Model"
• April 15:

Presentation schedule T3, 2024

• September 10: Bruce Preston, "Asset Prices with Non-Rational Expectations: Macroeconomic Implications"
• September 24: Dan Robbins
• October 15:
• October 29: German Cubas
• November 12: Geni Dechter

Presentation schedule T2, 2024

• May 28: TBA
• June 11: TBA
• June 25: TBA
• July 9: Fernando Martin
• July 23: TBA

Presentation schedule T1, 2024

• February 20: Yongs Shin (TBA)
• March 5: Tom Phelan: "Time use and the efficiency of heterogeneous markups"
• March 19: Luba Petersen: "Communicating Inflation Uncertainty and Inflation Expectations"
• March 26: Dennis Novy: "Urban-Biased Structural Change"
• April 9: Girish Bahal: "The Effect of Supply Base Diversification on the Propagation of Shocks"
• April 16: Matt Nolan: "Wage consequences of job loss in Australia: Evidence from mass layoffs"

Presentation schedule T3, 2023

• September 12: NA
• September 26: Han: "Labor Market Sorting and Social Security in Developing Countries",
• October 10: Yue: "The Long-Run Effects of Federal Student Loans on Fertility and Social Mobility"
• October 24: Nicholas Chang: TBA
• November 7: Petr: "Scars of Entrepreneurship"

Presentation schedule T2, 2023

• May 30: Pratiti: "The Sentiment Channel of Monetary Policy"
• June 13: TBA
• June 27: TBA
• July 11: TBA
• July 25: Han Gao: TBA

Presentation schedule T1, 2023

• February 14: TBA
• February 28: Chris Phelan
• March 14: TBA
• March 28: Benoit - "On wage dispersion"
• April 11: Akshay Shanker - "Existence, computation and identification of recursive dynamic equilibrium in incomplete market economies"
• May 2 (April 25 is a holiday): Yue Hua - "Life-cycle effects of Ausralian student loans with income-contingent repayments"

Presentation schedule T3, 2022

• September 13: PC
• September 27: Cancelled
• October 11: Geni/Gonzalo
• October 25: Han
• November 8: PC

Presentation schedule T2, 2022

• June 7: Nalini - "The Effect of Investor Credit Supply on Housing Prices"
• June 21: Stanley - "TBA" & Tran - "TBA"
• July 5: Arpita - "Food, Fuel and Facts: Distributional Effects of External Shocks, joint with Saroj Bhattarai and Gauham Udupa"
• July 19: TBA
• August 2: TBA