Seminars

Seminars

CEMFI is a very active institution in terms of organizing research seminars and invited lectures throughout the year.

Seminars this week

Banking and Finance Seminar

18 May 2026

13:30

Alireza Aghaee (Imperial College Business School), Corporate Debt Structure Around the World.

Firms Workshop

20 May 2026

13:30

Robert Metcalfe (Columbia University), A Demand-Side Alternative to Renewable Curtailment: Natural Field Experimental Evidence from Two Countries .

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

21 May 2026

13:30

Libertad Gonzalez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Maternity Benefits, Consumption and Labor Supply. Estimating Causal Effects with Bank Transaction Data.

MadMac

22 May 2026

13:30

Pete Klenow (Stanford University), Misallocation versus Inequality.
Seminars next week

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

28 May 2026

13:30

Maddalena Ronchi (Northwestern University), Gender Diversity and Decision-Making in Teams .

MadMac

29 May 2026

13:30

Michael Peters (Yale University), A Theory of Endogenous Degrowth and Environmental Sustainability (joint with Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Matthew Schwartzman, and Fabrizio Zilibotti).

Seminars series

  • Banking and Finance Workshop In this seminar series reputed specialists in financial economics and banking present their research papers.
  • Econometrics Workshop This seminar series is concerned with current research topics in the theory and applications of econometrics.
  • Empirical Microeconomics Workshop This seminar series is concerned with current research topics in empirical microeconomics, including (but not restricted to) development economics, political economy, labor economics, and urban economics. This series is jointly organized with the Economics Department of Universidad Carlos III. Its current organizers are Yarine Fawaz, Monica Martinez-Bravo, Diego Puga and Tom Zohar.
  • Firms, Innovation, Regulation, Markets, and Strategy Workshop (FIRMS) This seminar series is concerned with current research topics in theoretical and applied microeconomics.
  • Job Market Workshop This seminar series includes presentations by candidates considered for possible recruitment as CEMFI faculty.
  • Madrid Macroeconomics Workshop (MadMac) This seminar series focuses on macroeconomics. Its current organizers are Sebastián Fanelli (Cemfi), Nezih Guner (Cemfi), and Josep Pijoan-Mas (Cemfi). We have set up this web page http://madmac.cemfi.es with details on other MadMac events.
  • Other seminars