Seminars

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

Seminars this week

MadMac

17 April 2026

13:30

Nuno Paixão (Bank of Canada), Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Aging and Depopulation (joint with Elisa Giannone, Yuhei Miyauchi, Xinle Pang and and Yuta Suzuki ).

Seminars next week

Firms Workshop

21 April 2026

13:30

joint Econometrics Seminar - Joao Granja (University College London), Recursivity and the Estimation of Dynamic Games with Continuous Controls (joint with Giuseppe Forte).

Econometrics Workshop

21 April 2026

13:30

joint FIRMS - Joao Granja (University College London), Recursivity and the Estimation of Dynamic Games with Continuous Controls (joint with Giuseppe Forte).

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

23 April 2026

13:30

Martin Fiszbein (Boston University), Directed Technical Change: Evidence from U.S. Rural Electrification (joint with Jeanne Lafortune, Josefa Lavandero, Ethan Lewis and José Tessada).

MadMac

24 April 2026

13:30

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago), Human Capital Accumulation Across Space (joint with Klaus Desmet and Dávid Krisztián Nagy).


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