Nemmers Prize Conference
"Conference in Honor of MICHAEL WOODFORD"
Friday and Saturday, November 7-8, 2025
Kellogg Global Hub
White Auditorium
Free registration required by noon on October 30
Conference schedule
| Friday November 7, 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Time | Title |
| 9:00 | Welcome - George-Marios Angeletos and Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) |
| 9:05 | Mark Gertler (New York University): Micro and Macro Cost-Price Dynamics in Normal Times and During Inflation Surges (joint with Luca Gagliardone -Yale University, Simone Lenzu - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University, and Joris Tielens - National Bank of Belgium) |
| 9:50 | Jón Steinsson (University of California, Berkeley): Beyond the Taylor Rule (joint with Emi Nakamura and Venance Riblier - both University of California, Berkeley) |
| 10:35 | Break |
| 11:00 | Gauti Eggertsson (Brown University): When do Deficits Create Inflation? |
| 11:45 | Christian Wolf (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Fiscal Inaction as Monetary Support (joint with George-Marios Angeletos - Northwestern University, and Chen Lian - University of California, Berkeley) |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Jennifer La’O (Columbia University):Sectoral Salience (joint with Hassan Afrouzi - Columbia University, Benjamin Hebert - Stanford University and John Leahy - University of Michigan) |
| 2:45 | Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago): Strategic Complementarity = Persistence in Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Games (joint with David Argente - Yale University and Thomas J. Sargent - New York University) |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 4:00 | Nemmers Prize lecture
Michael Woodford (Columbia University): Modeling Agents with (Limited) Foresight |
| 5:00 | Reception |
| Saturday November 8, 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Time | Title |
| 9:00 | Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics): Negative Rates and the Effective Lower Bound (joint with Michael McLeay and Lukas von dem Berge - both Bank of England) |
| 9:45 | Guido Lorenzoni (University of Chicago): Tâtonnement and Price Setting in General Equilibrium (joint with Ivan Werning - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Adrien Auclert (Stanford University): Heterogeneous Agents and the New Keynesian Model |
| 11:45 | Gianluca Violante (Princeton University): Inclusion vs Inflation: Stabilization Policy in the Wake of the Pandemic (joint with Felipe Alves - Bank of Canada) |
| 12:30 | Adjournment and lunch |
Registration
Free registration by October 30 at Eventbrite.
Directions
- Directions to campus
- Public paid parking in North Campus Garage on Friday. Parking is free in most campus lots on Saturday.
- Information for non-Northwestern participants on guest wireless access on campus
Read more about the Nemmers Prize and the current and past winners