Seminars

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

11 May 2026

13:30

Edward Glaeser (Harvard University), How Reform Happens (joint with Simeon Djankov and Andrei Shleifer).

Firms Workshop

14 May 2026

13:30

Jasdeep Mandia (MIT CEEPR), Pollution, Population, and Production: A Structural Analysis of Wildfire Smoke and Spatial Sorting (joint with Christopher Knittel).

MadMac

15 May 2026

13:30

Yan Bai (University of Rochester), Financing from Workers: Can Labor Market Power Mitigate Financial Frictions? .
Seminars next 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 .

MadMac

22 May 2026

13:30

Pete Klenow (Stanford University), Misallocation versus Inequality.

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