Coordinator: Gideon Bornstein
Fall 2026 Macro Lunch Seminars
Thursdays 12:00-1:00 pm
Room: SHDH 211
The Macro Lunch Group
The mission of the Macro Lunch Group (MLG) is to provide a forum for a cohesive group of researchers to meet regularly to discuss each other’s ongoing research. All faculty in the Finance Department, as well as other faculty and researchers in the local Economics/Finance research community (including, but not limited to, the Penn Economics Department and the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), are invited to be members of the MLG, subject to the following guidelines:
1. Members of the MLG must attend the Thursday lunches regularly. Regularly does not mean every session, but as a guideline, participation in at least half of the sessions is expected.
2. Only members of the MLG will make presentations. An exception is that short-term distinguished visitors to the department, or other such unusual targets of opportunity, will be invited to give presentations.
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Link |
| 10-Sep | Andy Abel | "A Normative Case for Positive Capital Income Taxes" (joint with Stavros Panageas) |
| 17-Sep | Joachim Hubmer | "Innovation and Competition in Production Networks" (joint with Salvatore Lo Bello, Claudio Michelacci, and Lukas Nord) |
| 24-Sep | 3rd Year Presentation - Jiacheng Li | "The Banking Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy" |
| 1-Oct | No Macro Brown Bag - Fall Break | |
| 8-Oct | Tom Sargent | |
| 15-Oct | Lukasz Drozd | |
| 22-Oct | Andre Kurmann | |
| 29-Oct | Gideon Bornstein | |
| 5-Nov | Tim Landvoigt | |
| 12-Nov | Sean Myers | |
| 19-Nov | Victor Orestes | |
| 3-Dec | Sergio Salgado | |
Finance Department
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2300 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6367
Phone: (215) 898-7622 / (215) 898-7623
Fax: (215) 898-6200