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Past Visitors

Abigail Adams-Prassl

University of Oxford

Hassan Afrouzi

Columbia University

Nikhil Agarwal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark Aguiar

Princeton University

David Ahn

Washington University St. Louis

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Princeton University

Mohammad Akbarpour

Stanford University

David Yves Albouy

University of Illinois

Lee Alston

Indiana University

Dmitry Arkhangelsky

Center for Monetary and Financial Studies
Visiting Scholar

Carolina Arteaga

University of Toronto

Adrien Auclert

Stanford University

Sophie Bade

Royal Holloway College, University of London

Yuehao Bai

Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia

Natalia Bailey

Monash University

Felipe Balmaceda

Andres Bello University

David Baqaee

University of California, Los Angeles

Ceren Baysan

University of Toronto

Martin Beraja

University of California, Berkeley

Sonia Bhalotra

University of Warwick

Adrien Bilal

Harvard University

Corina Boar

New York University

Nina Bobkova

Rice University

Job Boerma

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Nicolas Bonneton

University of Mannheim

Serguey Braguinsky

University of Maryland

Jesse Bruhn

Brown University

Ariel Burstein

University of California, Los Angeles

Ricardo Caballero

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Romaine Campbell

Cornell University

Maria Carreri

University of California San Diego

Luisa Cefala

University of California, Berkeley

Christopher P. Chambers

Georgetown University

Yeon-Koo Che

Columbia University

Hui Chen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rob Collinson

University of Notre Dame

Jonathan Colmer

University of Virginia

Daniele Condorelli

University of Warwick

Francesco Decarolis

Bocconi University

Jan De Loecker

Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

Maarten De Ridder

London School of Economics

Tomasso Denti

Cornell University

Tatyana Deryugina

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ian Dew-Becker

Northwestern University

Thomas Drechsel

University of Maryland

Chloe East

University of Colorado at Denver

Alex Eble

Columbia University

Fabian Eckert

University of California San Diego

Niklas Engbom

New York University

Andreas Engert

Freie Universität Berlin

Alice Evans

King's College London

Maryam Farboodi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emmanuel Farhi

Harvard University

Maxwell Farrell

University of California, Santa Barbara

Naomi Feldman

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Frederico Finan

University of California Berkley

Xavier Gabaix

Harvard University

Juan Galan

Universidad de los Andes

Diego Gambetta

Collegio Carlo Alberto

Cecile Gaubert

University of California Berkley

Mark Gertler

New York University

Simon Gilchrist

New York University

Julia Gilman

Massachusetts Institute Technology

Wenxi Jiang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thomas H. Jørgensen

University of Copenhagen

Ingrid Haegele

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Rema Hanna

Harvard University

Tarek Hassan

Boston University

Benjamin Hébert

Stanford University

Rawley Heimer

Arizona State University

Thomas Holmes

University of Minnesota

Ingrid Huitfeldt

Norwegian Business School

Alessia Isopi

University of Manchester

Clément Imbert

University of Warwick

Ravi Jagadeesan

Stanford University

Chuqing Jin

Toulouse School of Economics

Loukas Karabarbounis

University of Minnesota

Patrick Kehoe

Stanford University

Maxwell Kellogg

University of Oslo

Jin Yeub Kim

Yonsei University

Pete Klenow

Stanford University

Felix Koenig

Carnegie Mellon

Scott Kominers

Harvard Business School

Amanda Kowalski

University of Michigan

Elena Pastorino

Stanford University

Steven Puller

Texas A&M University

Samuel Kortum

Yale University

Mariano Kulish

University of Sydney

Jennifer La’O

Columbia University

Chen Lian

University of California Berkley

Jiasun Li

George Mason University

Jing Li

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Huiyu Li

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Xiao Lin

University of Pennsylvania

Elliot Lipnowski

Columbia University

Ernest Liu

Princeton University

Hamish Low

University of Oxford

Sara Lowes

University of California San Diego

Katrine Loken

Norwegian School of Economics

Sydney Ludvigson

New York University

Hanno Lustig

Stanford University

Matteo Maggiori

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Hannes Malmberg

University of Minnesota

Arnaud Maurel

Duke University

Tamara McGavock

Grinnell University

Rachael Meager

University of New South Wales

Idione Meneghel

Australian National University.

Michele Modugno

Chief Financial and Macroeconomic Stability Studies Section, Federal Reserve Board

Alexander Monge-Naranjo

European University Institute

Benjamin Moll

London School of Economics, Princeton University

Ismael Mourifié

Washington University in St. Louis

Ellen Muir

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abdoulaye Ndiaye

New York University

Pierre Nguimkeu

Georgia State University

Afshin Nikzad

University of Southern California

Lukas Nord

University of Pennsylvania

Suannah Oh

Paris School of Economics

Stephen O’Connell

Emory University

Cormac O’Dea

Yale University

Florian Oswald

SciencesPo Paris

Jennifer Peck

Swarthmore College

Noémie Pinardon-Touati

Columbia University

Dina Pomeranz

University of Zurich

Tommaso Porzio

Columbia University

Vitor Possebom

Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV

Benjamin Pugsley

University of Notre Dame

Meijun Qian

Australian National University

Gautam Rao

Harvard University

Lindsay Relihan

Purdue University

Pascual Restrepo

Boston University

Jonathan Roth

Brown University

Scott Rozelle

Stanford University

Leena Rudanko

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Claudio Sapelli

Universidad Católica

Florian Scheuer

University of Zurich

Antoinette Schoar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Benjamin Schoefer

University of California, Berkeley

Linda Schilling

Washington University

Daphné Skandalis

University of Copenhagen

Carolyn Sloane

University of California, Riverside

Frank Smets

European Central Bank

Christopher Snyder

Dartmouth University

Aradhya Sood

University of Toronto

Ludwig Straub

Harvard University

Bruno Strulovici

Northwestern University

Christopher Taber

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chidi Ugwu

University of Nigeria

Milan Van Den Hewvel

Ghent University (Belgium)GJuhent

Diana Van Patten

Yale University

Shoshana Vasserman

Stanford University

Andrea Vedolin

Boston University

Laura Veldkamp

Columbia University

Gregory Veramendi

Royal Holloway, University of London

Daniel Waldinger

New York University

Torsten Walter

New York University, Abu Dhabi
UChicago Scholar

Christopher Walters

Daniel Gressel Professor of Economics in the Wallman Society of Fellows, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

Mike Waugh

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Ivan Werning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Francis Wong

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Visiting Scholar

Yanhui Wu

University of Hong Kong

Jasmine Xiao

University of Notre Dame

Chenggang Xu

Stanford University

David Yanagizawa-Drott

University of Zurich

Kai Hao Yang

Yale University

Noam Yuchtman

London School of Economics

Basit Zafar

University of Michigan

Dongchen Zhao

University of Cincinnati

Kaspar Zimmermann

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Ulf Zölitz

University of Zurich

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