Seminars

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

Seminars this week

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

26 February 2026

13:30

Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Underminded Social Cohesion in the US.

MadMac

27 February 2026

13:30

Todd Schoellman (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Household Labor Supply Insurance Around the World (joint with Annika Bacher, Kevin Donovan, Philipp Grübener, and Lukas Nord).

Seminars next week

Banking and Finance Seminar

2 March 2026

13:30

Giuliano Graziani (Carlos III), Time Series Reversal: An End-of-the-Month Perspective.

Econometrics Workshop

3 March 2026

13:30

joint MadMac - Julio Gálvez (CUNEF Universidad), Income Uncertainty and Non-linear Dynamics: A Subjective Expectations Framework (joint with Henrique Basso, Olympia Bover and Laura Hospido).

MadMac

3 March 2026

13:30

joint Econometrics Seminar - Julio Gálvez (CUNEF Universidad), Income Uncertainty and Non-linear Dynamics: A Subjective Expectations Framework (joint with Henrique Basso, Olympia Bover and Laura Hospido).

Firms Workshop

4 March 2026

13:30

El Hadi Caoui (Rotman School of Management), Estimating Consumer Preferences for LLMs: Evidence from LMArena .

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

5 March 2026

13:30

Alex Willén (Norwegian School of Economics), The Rise of Specialists in the Workplace: Productivity Gains, Coordination Costs, and Learning .

MadMac

6 March 2026

13:30

Diego Daruich (University of Southern California (Marshall)), TBA.


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