Seminars

Seminars

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

Seminars this week

Job Market Worskhop

26 January 2026

13:30

Johannes Matt (London School of Economics), Financial Regulation, Pension Investment, and Economic Growth .

Job Market Worskhop

27 January 2026

13:30

David Bruns-Smith (Stanford University), Two-Stage Machine Learning for Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression.

Job Market Worskhop

28 January 2026

13:30

Alex Osberghaus (University of Zurich), Synthetic, but How Much Risk Transfer? (joint with Glenn Schepens).

Job Market Worskhop

29 January 2026

13:30

Elena T. Aguilar (Princeton University), Credit Constraints, Learning, and Spatial Misallocation.

Job Market Worskhop

30 January 2026

13:30

Sophie-Dorothee Rotermund (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Capital Commitments and Private Debt Lending in Crises.
Seminars next week

Job Market Worskhop

2 February 2026

13:30

Luigi Falasconi (University of Pennsylvania), Bailout Expectations, Default Risk and the Dynamics of Bank Credit Spreads.

Job Market Worskhop

3 February 2026

13:30

Anders Yding (U.C. Berkeley), The Macroeconomic Effects of Defense Spending News (joint with Ethan M. L. McClure).

Job Market Worskhop

4 February 2026

13:30

Lautaro Chittaro (Stanford University), Selection in Crisis Lending: Evidence from Chile’s Government-Guaranteed Loans (joint with Cristián Sánchez).

Job Market Worskhop

5 February 2026

13:30

David Van Dijcke (University of Michigan), Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes.

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