2024-2025
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 25, 2025 | 15:30 | Pavel Brendler | University of Nottingham | Optimal Income Redistribution | Semih Koray Seminar Room |
| April 11, 2025 | 15:30 | Remzi Kaygusuz | Durham University Business School | A Different World: Drivers of Household Earnings Inequality 1980-2020 | Semih Koray Seminar Room |
| March 21, 2025 | 15:30 | Fabian Seyrich | Frankfurt School of Finance and Management | A Behavioral Heterogenous Agent New Keynesian Model | Semih Koray Seminar Room |
| February 21, 2025 | Giovanni Ricco | Ecole Polytechnique | Monetary policy and information effects: Taking a second look | ||
| December 27, 2024 | Özer Karagedikli | Asian School of Business | Policy, News and Noise: Do Funds Rate Surprises Matter Anymore? | ||
| December 20, 2024 | Moritz Kuhn | Mannheim University | To Have or Not To Have: Understanding Wealth Inequality | ||
| October 4, 2024 | T. Niklas Kroner | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | Monetary Policy without Moving Interest Rates: The Fed Non-Yield Shock |
2023-2024
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2024 | Altan Pazarbaşı | Bilkent University | Cash Heterogeneity and the Payout Channel of Monetary Policy | ||
| May 3, 2024 | Haluk Yener | Bilgi Üniversitesi | A New Look at Financial Networks, Contagion and Crises | ||
| April 26, 2024 | Lea Steninger | University of Vienna and the ECB | The Distributional Impact of Monetary Policy at the Firm Level | ||
| April 19, 2024 | Gergely Ganics | Bank of Spain | Credit Market Sentiment and Stock Returns | ||
| March 1, 2024 | Giovanni Ricco | Ecole Polytechnique | Monetary Policy, Information, and Country Risk Shocks in the Euro Area | ||
| January 18, 2024 | Michael Mcmahon | University of Oxford | Tough Talk: The Fed and the Risk Premium | ||
| December 18, 2023 | Jeffrey R. Campbell | University of Notre Dame | Consumer Inflation Expectations: Daily Dynamics | ||
| November 24, 2023 | Yoon Joo Jo | Texas A&M University | Managing Household Inflation Expectations via Salient Prices: Using State-level Gas Tax Holidays | ||
| October 30, 2023 | Mehmet Caner | North Carolina State University | Deep learning non linear factors |
2022-2023
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2022 | Dr. Cosmina Dorobantu | Alan Turing Institute | Rethinking Government with AI | ||
| October 7, 2022 | Ju Hyun Pyun | Bilkent and Korea Universities | Capital Account Policy, Firm-Dynamics, and Export-led Growth | ||
| September 30, 2022 | Refet S. Gürkaynak | Bilkent University | Exchange Rate and Inflation under Weak Monetary Policy: Turkey Verifies Theory |
2021-2022
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 17, 2022 | Sang Seok Lee | Bilkent University | Why is Consumption so Seasonal? | ||
| March 9, 2022 | Giovanni Ricco | Warwick and CEPR | A Discussion of Central Bank Information Effects | ||
| December 16, 2021 | Victoria Ivashina | Harvard Business School | Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru | ||
| November 11, 2021 | Eric Leeper | University of Virginia | Recovery of 1933 | ||
| November 4, 2021 | Francesco Bianchi | Johns Hopkins and Duke | Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Times of Large Debt: Unity is Strength | ||
| October 20, 2021 | Veronica Guerrieri | Chicago Booth | Monetary Policy in Times of Structural Reallocation | ||
| October 14, 2021 | Mark W. Watson | Princeton | Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends | ||
| October 13, 2021 | Luciano Pomatto | Caltech | Monotone Additive Statistics | ||
| October 7, 2021 | Valerie A. Ramey | UCSD | The Macroeconomic Consequences of Infrastructure Investment | ||
| September 30, 2021 | Yuriy Gorodnichenko | Berkeley | Unbundling of Quantitative Easing: Taking a Cue from Treasury Auctions |
2020-2021
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 4, 2020 | Ricardo Reis | LSE | The People versus the Markets: A Parsimonious Model of Inflation Expectations | ||
| November 6, 2020 | Ali Özdağlı | FRB Dallas | Interest Rates and Insurance Company Investment Behavior | ||
| October 16, 2020 | Alp Şimşek | MIT and Chicago Booth | Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets | ||
| October 8, 2020 | Kenneth Rogoff | Harvard University | Will the Secular Decline in Exchange Rate and Inflation Volatility Survive COVID-19? | ||
| September 25, 2020 | Ben Bernanke | Brookings Institution | A Conversation with Ben Bernanke | ||
| September 2, 2020 | Sang Seok Lee | Bilkent University | The Ends of 30 Big Depressions |
2019-2020
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 20, 2019 | Kamil Yılmaz | Koç University | Bond Market Connectedness and Monetary Policy in the New Normal | ||
| December 10, 2019 | Ambrio Cesa - Bianchi | Bank of England | Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Spreads, and Monetary Policy | ||
| October 15, 2019 | Mark KerBenfischer | Economist at Deutsche Bundesbank | What do a Billion Trades say About the Effect of Monetary Policy on Financial Markets | ||
| September 4, 2019 | Sang Seok LEE | Bilkent University | A Modest Proposal for Sharing Consumption Risk |
2018-2019
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2019 | Simon Gilchrist | NYU | The Real Effects of Credit Booms and Busts | ||
| May 23, 2019 | Martin Uribe | Columbia University | The Neo-Fisher Effect: Econometric Evidence from Empirical and Optimizing Models | ||
| May 3, 2019 | Stephen Hansen | University of Oxford | Policymakers’ Uncertainty | ||
| April 26, 2019 | Pol Antras | Harvard University | Venting Out: Exports During a Domestic Slump | ||
| April 12, 2019 | Carlo Favero | University of Bocconi | Austerity | ||
| March 27, 2019 | Philippe Weil | ||||
| March 15, 2019 | Bill English | Yale University | Money-Financed Fiscal Programs: A Cautionary Tale | ||
| December 25, 2018 | Yıldız Akkaya Blake | Uncertainty of Interest Rate Path as a Monetary Policy Instrument | |||
| December 21, 2018 | Daron Acemoğlu | MIT | Demographics and Automation | ||
| December 14, 2018 | Eric T. Swanson | University of California at Irvine | Implications of Labor Market Frictions for Risk Aversion and Risk Premia | ||
| December 11, 2018 | Burcu Duygan-Bump | Federal Reserve Board | The Fed's Inaugural Financial Stability Report: The need, the framework, the outcome | ||
| November 30, 2018 | Barbara Rossi | ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE | Alternative Tests for Correct Specification of Conditional Forecast Densities | ||
| November 9, 2018 | Luca Brugnolini | Central Bank of Malta | Forecasting Deflation Probability in the Euro Area: A Combinatoric Approach | ||
| November 2, 2018 | Burcin Kısacikoglu | Bilkent University | Real Term Structure and New Keynesian Models | ||
| October 26, 2018 | Marek Jarocinski | European Central Bank | International spillovers of the Fed and ECB monetary policy surprises | ||
| October 9, 2018 | Refet S. Gürkaynak | Bilkent University | Measuring Euro Area Monetary Policy | ||
| October 5, 2018 | Anna Cieslak | Duke University | Non-Monetary News in Central Bank Communication |
2017-2018
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 14, 2018 | Ufuk Akçiğit | University of Chicago | Declining Business Dynamism: Some Lessons from the Modern Growth Theory and Patent Data | ||
| August 14, 2018 | Sang Seok Lee | Bilkent University | Stock Market's Assessment of Monetary Policy Transmission: The Cash Flow Effect | ||
| August 14, 2018 | Selman Erol | Carnegie Mellon | Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act | ||
| August 14, 2018 | Burçin Kısacıkoğlu | Bilkent University | The Information Content of News Announcements | ||
| August 14, 2018 | Daron Acemoğlu | MIT | Endogenous Production Networks | ||
| August 7, 2018 | Sina Ateş | Federal Reserve Board | Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World | ||
| May 4, 2018 | Ebru Voyvoda | METU | On Barriers to Technology Adoption, Appropriate Technology and Deep Integration (with implications for the European Union) | ||
| April 20, 2018 | Taisuke Nakata | The Risky Steady State and the Interest Rate Lower Bound | |||
| March 30, 2018 | Dante Amenguel Baez | CEMFI | Normality tests for latent variables | ||
| March 23, 2018 | Michael Mc Mahon | University of Oxford | The Long-Run Information Effect of Central Bank Narrative | ||
| December 28, 2017 | Burcu Duygan-Bump | Federal Reserve Board | Unconventional Monetary Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy: A Perspective from the U.S. in the 1920s | ||
| December 27, 2017 | Fatih Karahan | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Demographic Origins of the Startup Deficit. | ||
| December 22, 2017 | Özer Karagedikli | Reserve Bank of New Zealand | Quantitative or qualitative forward guidance: Does it matter? | ||
| December 1, 2017 | Ethan Ilzetski | LSE | Measuring Productivity Dispersion: Lessons From Counting One-Hundred Million Ballots | ||
| November 17, 2017 | Gökçe Karasoy | Bilkent University | Stock Market's Assessment of Monetary Policy transmission: The Cash Flow Effect | ||
| November 17, 2017 | Cem Çakmaklı | Koç University | Modeling and Estimation of Synchronization in Size-Sorted Portfolio Returns | ||
| November 3, 2017 | Paul Hubert | OFCE | Central Bank information and the effects of monetary shocks | ||
| October 20, 2017 | Silvia Miranda Agrippino | Bank of England | Unsurprising Shocks: Information, Premia, and the Monetary Transmission. | ||
| October 20, 2017 | Giovanni Ricco | University of Warwick | The Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks | ||
| October 13, 2017 | Jean Paul Renne | University of Lausanne | Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Area Comparison | ||
| October 6, 2017 | Lars Svensson | Stockholm School of Economics | Cost-Benefit Analysis of Leaning Against the Wind |
2016-2017
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 16, 2016 | Benjamin Born | Does Austerity Pay Off? | |||
| November 25, 2016 | Julien Labonne | Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying | |||
| November 4, 2016 | Galip Kemal Ozhan | Financial Intermediation, Resource Allocation, and Macroeconomic Interdependence |
2015-2016
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 18, 2015 | Enes Sunel | External Shocks, Banks and Optimal Monetary Policy in an Open Economy | |||
| November 27, 2015 | Michael Weber | Inflation Expectations and Consumption Expenditure | |||
| October 16, 2015 | Ngoc-sang Pham | Intertemporal equilibrium with heterogeneous agents, endogenous dividends and borrowing constraints. | |||
| October 13, 2015 | Serdar Özkan | University of Toronto | What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Say About Life Cycle Labor Income Risk? | ||
| October 9, 2015 | Raffaella Giacomini | Models, Information and Expectation Updates | |||
| October 6, 2015 | Lutz Kilian | Michigan Department of Economics | A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices With an Application to Crude Oil |
2014-2015
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2015 | Karim Abadir | Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics? Examples From Finance and Economics | |||
| April 17, 2015 | Diaa Noureldin | The American University in Cairo | Volatility Prediction Using A High-Frequency-Based Component Model | ||
| April 10, 2015 | Erinç Yeldan | Bilkent University | Impact Analysis of the Turkish Employment Subsidization Measures, 2008–2013: An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis | ||
| April 3, 2015 | Andrei A. Levchenko | University of Michigan | TFP, News, and “Sentiments:” The International Transmission of Business Cycles | ||
| March 27, 2015 | Ayse Kabukcuoglu | KOÇ University | What helps forecast U.S. inflation? - Mind the gap! | ||
| February 20, 2015 | Matteo Luciani | Dynamic Factor Models, Cointegration, and Error Correction Mechanisms | |||
| February 11, 2015 | Engin Kara | Inflation, Oil Prices and the Great Recession | |||
| February 9, 2015 | Sina Ates | UPENN | Beyond Cash: Venture Capital, Firm Dynamics, and Economic Growth | ||
| February 6, 2015 | Kirill Shakhnov | EUI | The Allocation of Talent: Finance versus Entrepreneurship | ||
| January 22, 2015 | Debborah J. Lucas | MIT | Evaluating the Cost of Government Credit Support: The OECD Context | ||
| December 26, 2014 | Yalin Gunduz | Bundesbank | Impacts of the Financial Crisis on Eurozone Sovereign CDS Spreads | ||
| December 10, 2014 | Seda Köymen | Wage Inequality, Skill-Specific Unemployment and Trade Liberalization | |||
| November 28, 2014 | Peter Karadi | European Central Bank | Monetary Policy Surprises, Credit Costs And Economic Activity | ||
| November 7, 2014 | Philippe Andrade | Banque de France | Fundamental Disagreement | ||
| October 17, 2014 | Agustin Perez-Barahona | INRA & Ecole Polytechnique | Environmental Pollution and Biodiversity: Light Pollution and Sea Turtles in the Caribbean | ||
| October 9, 2014 | Paolu Surico | LBS | Federal Transfer Multipliers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Brazil | ||
| September 26, 2014 | Bilin Neyaptı | Bilkent University | The Nexus of Economic and Institutional Evolution | ||
| September 19, 2014 | Secil Yıldırım | Bilkent University | Uncertainty in Financial Markets and Business Cycles |
2012-2013
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2013 | Emanuel Ornelas | LSE | Institutions and Export Dynamics | ||
| May 16, 2013 | Zvi Eckstein | Herzliya | How does education affect marriage and employment? | ||
| May 9, 2013 | Kursat Onder | TCMB | Collateralized Sovereign Debt in a Model of Equilibrium Default | ||
| April 26, 2013 | Veronica Rappoport | LSE | Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data | ||
| April 19, 2013 | Shin Kanaya | Aarhus University | Are University Admissions Academically Fair? | ||
| April 18, 2013 | Girorgio Primiceri | Nortwestern and Bocconi | Credit Supply and the Housing Boom | ||
| April 12, 2013 | Tommaso Monacelli | Bocconi | Tax Cuts vs Government Spending: Welfare and the Zero Lower Bound | ||
| April 11, 2013 | Helene Rey | LBS | Financial integration and growth in a risky world | ||
| April 5, 2013 | Philippe Martin | Sciences Po | Time To Ship During Financial Crises | ||
| April 4, 2013 | Lars Svensson | IIS Stockholm | “Leaning Against the Wind” Leads to a Higher (Not Lower) Household Debt-to-GDP Ratio | ||
| March 28, 2013 | Sergey Slobodyan | CERGE-EI | Adaptive learning and survey expectations of inflation | ||
| March 22, 2013 | Hakki Yazici | Sabanci University | Machines, Buildings, and Optimal Dynamic Taxes | ||
| March 21, 2013 | Beata Javorcik | Oxford University | Accession to the World Trade Organization and Tariff Evasion | ||
| March 15, 2013 | Kevin Sheppard | Oxford University | Ambiguity and the historical equity premium | ||
| March 14, 2013 | Nicolas Coeurdacier | Sciences Po | The One-Child Policy and Household Savings | ||
| December 23, 2012 | Dirk Krueger | Upenn | Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession | ||
| December 14, 2012 | Talha Yalta | Small Sample Bootstrap Inference of Level Relationships in the Presence of Autocorrelated Errors: A Large Scale Simulation Study and an Application in Energy Demand | |||
| December 13, 2012 | Mirko Wiederholt | Frankfurt | Dispersed Inflation Expectations and the Zero Lower Bound | ||
| December 7, 2012 | Jordi Gali | Notes for a New Guide to Keynes (I): Wages, Aggregate Demand, and Employment | |||
| December 5, 2012 | Egon Zakrajsek | Uncertainty, Financial Frictions, and Irreversible Investment | |||
| November 29, 2012 | Francesco Giavazzi | Bocconi | The output effect of fiscal consolidation plans | ||
| November 23, 2012 | Andrea Ichino | The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use | |||
| November 22, 2012 | Roberto Pancrazi | Warwick | Participation Costs and Consumption Smoothing: Theory and Empirical Evidence | ||
| November 16, 2012 | Thomas Chaney | The Gravity Equation in International Trade: An Explanation | |||
| November 15, 2012 | Domenico Giannone | ECARES/LUISS | Prior Selection for Vector Autoregressions | ||
| November 14, 2012 | Harald Uhlig | The Dynamics of Sovereign Debt Crises and Bailouts | |||
| November 9, 2012 | Bartosz Mackowiak | Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention | |||
| November 8, 2012 | Marcel Fratzscher | DIW | Bubble Thy Neighbor: Portfolio Effects and Externalities from Capital Controls | ||
| November 1, 2012 | Wouter Den Haan | LSE | Inventories and the Role of Goods-Market Frictions for Business Cycles | ||
| October 12, 2012 | Zeynep Kantur | Aging and Monetary Policy | |||
| October 8, 2012 | Peter Diamond | MIT | Interpreting the Beveridge Curve | ||
| October 5, 2012 | Refet Gurkaynak | Judging the DSGE Model by Its Forecast | |||
| October 4, 2012 | Selin Sayek Boke | Bilkent University | Banking Crisis Lessons from History: Learning from Emerging Economies’ Experiences | ||
| September 27, 2012 | Yildiz Akkaya | Bilkent University | The Uncertainty of Interest Rate Path as a Monetary Policy Tool | ||
| September 26, 2012 | Gauti Eggertsson | Deficits; Public Debt Dynamics and Tax and Spending Multipliers | |||
| September 20, 2012 | Ander Perez | Pompeu Fabra University | Is Bank Debt Special for the Transmission of Monetary Policy? Evidence from the Stock Market | ||
| September 10, 2012 | Linda Tesar | University Of Michigan | Saving Europe? The Unpleasant Arithmetic of Fiscal Austerity in Integrated Economies |
2011-2012
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 6, 2012 | Hakan Yetkiner ve Bahar Sağlam | İzmir Ekonomi Uni. and Hacettepe Uni. | A Romerian Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth | ||
| March 30, 2012 | Thomas Seegmuller | Greqam | Rational Bubbles and Macroeconomic Fluctuations: The (de-)Stabilizing Role of Monetary Policy | ||
| March 16, 2012 | Peter Robinson | London School of Economics | Gaussian Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Fractional Time Series Models | ||
| February 3, 2012 | Cuong Le Van | General Equilibrium and Growth | |||
| January 13, 2012 | Mehmet Ali Ulubaşoğlu | Deakin University | Romes without Empires: Urban Concentration, Political Competition, and Economic Growth | ||
| December 23, 2011 | Temel Taşkın | Bank of Canada | Unemployment Insurance and Home Production | ||
| December 16, 2011 | Erem Ateşağaoğlu | Skill-Biased Technological Change and Homeownership | |||
| December 6, 2011 | Filiz Ünsal | Capital Flows and Financial Stability: Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Responses | |||
| December 2, 2011 | Murat Koyuncu | Growth and Income Inequality under Progressive Taxation | |||
| November 21, 2011 | Sahibe Meral Çakıcı | Default Risk Premium and Aggregate Fluctuations in a Small Open Economy | |||
| November 18, 2011 | Hande Küçük | Portfolio Allocation and International Risk Sharing | |||
| October 27, 2011 | Brendan McCabe | University of Liverpool | Testing for Parameter Constancy in Non Gaussian Time Series | ||
| October 14, 2011 | Çağaçan Değer | Ege University | An Overlapping Generations Analysis of Social Security Reform in Turkey |