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

3 November 2026

13:30

Loriana Pelizzon (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE), Technology, Online Banks, and Credit Market Segmentation (joint with Laura Bottazzi, Chiara Farronato, and Rachel J. Nam).

Firms Workshop

4 November 2026

15:30

Hyuk-soo Kwon (Harris School of Public Policy - University of Chicago), Designing Electric Vehicle Subsidies for Equity and Efficiency (joint with Hunt Allcott, Levi Kiefer and Tess Snyder).

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

5 November 2026

13:30

Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick and Monash University), Political Fragmentation, Forced Mobility, and Knowledge Accumulation in Europe before 1800 (joint with David de la Croix, Sebastian Ottinger, and Nico Voigtländer).

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

6 November 2026

13:30

Eduardo Gutiérrez (Banco de España), The End of Coal: Labor Market Transitions in Coal-Dependent Regions.
Seminars next week

Banking and Finance Seminar

9 November 2026

13:30

Vladimir Asriyan (CREI, UPF), Innovate to Borrow: How Intangibles Shape Finance and Growth (joint with Alberto Martin, Guillermo Ordoñez and Victoria Vanasco).

Econometrics Workshop

10 November 2026

13:30

Brendan Beare (University of Sydney), Autoregressive Modelling of Persistent Change on a Sphere, with Application to Global Near-surface Air Temperature (joint with Massimo Franchi and Anna Vidotto).

Firms Workshop

11 November 2026

13:30

Nick Ryan (Yale University), Plugging in the Wind and Sun: Grid Integration with Cost Externalities and Uncertainty (joint with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Ashley Langer).

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

12 November 2026

13:30

Rachel Heath (University of Washington), Characterizing Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Low and Middle Income Countries (joint with Tyler McCormick and Houjie Wang).

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