Job Market Seminar

This seminar series includes presentations by candidates considered for possible recruitment as CEMFI faculty.

Second term
7 January 2026	13:30	Federico Crippa (Northwestern University), Identification, Estimation, and Inference in Two-Sided Interaction Models .

8 January 2026	13:30	Fernando Ochoa (New York University), Targeting and Price Pass-Through in Housing Voucher Design.

12 January 2026	13:30	Adrien Couturier (London School of Economics), The Sentiment Channel of Fiscal Policy (joint with Marco Bellifemine and Jacopo Tozzo).

13 January 2026	13:30	Reca Sarfati (MIT), "Post" Pre-Analysis Plans: Valid Inference for Non-Preregistered Specifications (joint with Vod Vilfort).

14 January 2026	13:30	Andrea Herrera (London School of Economics), Regulating the Skyline: Evidence from London’s Protected Vistas.

15 January 2026	13:30	Eugenia Menaguale (Princeton University), Stellar Skills: Superstar Firms and the Specialization of Human Capital.

16 January 2026	13:30	Ignacio Banares-Sanchez (London School of Economics), Trading Trash on Tricycles (joint with Yoshiki Wiskamp).

19 January 2026	13:30	Bruno Fava (Northwestern University), Training and Testing with Multiple Splits: A Central Limit Theorem for Split-Sample Estimators.

20 January 2026	13:30	Cédric Huylebroek (KU Leuven), Banks, Firms, and Households: Credit Shock Amplification and Real Effects (joint with Jin Cao).

21 January 2026	13:30	Francesco Amodeo (UC San Diego), Mind the Gap: Disagreement and Credible Monetary Policy.

22 January 2026	13:30	Antonio Martner (UCLA), Aggregate Outcomes of Nonlinear Prices in Supply Chains (joint with Luca Lorenzini).

23 January 2026	13:30	Florencia Hnilo (Stanford University), RCTs, Awareness, and Assignment Effects.

26 January 2026	13:30	Johannes Matt (London School of Economics), Financial Regulation, Pension Investment, and Economic Growth.

27 January 2026	13:30	David Bruns-Smith (Stanford University), Two-Stage Machine Learning for Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression.

28 January 2026	13:30	Alex Osberghaus (University of Zurich), Synthetic, but How Much Risk Transfer? (joint with Glenn Schepens).

30 January 2026	13:30	Sophie-Dorothee Rotermund (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Capital Commitments and Private Debt Lending in Crises.

2 February 2026	13:30	Luigi Falasconi (University of Pennsylvania), Bailout Expectations, Default Risk and the Dynamics of Bank Credit Spreads.

3 February 2026	13:30	Anders Yding (U.C. Berkeley), The Macroeconomic Effects of Defense Spending News (joint with Ethan M. L. McClure).

4 February 2026	13:30	Lautaro Chittaro (Stanford University), Selection in Crisis Lending: Evidence from Chile’s Government-Guaranteed Loans (joint with Cristián Sánchez).