New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18197 Government Debt Management and Inflation with Real and Nominal Bonds Lukas Schmid USC USC Marshall School of Business Vytautas Valaitis University of Surrey Economics at Surrey Alessandro Villa Alessandro T. Villa ChicagoFed ow.ly/OcWs50OLKfp #CEPR_MEF, #CEPR_AP

“You buy from the lowest bidders, and they might turn out to be low quality.” Prof. Giuseppe Lopomo, Kellogg School's Nicola Persico and ChicagoFed's Alessandro T. Villa propose a new auction system with a minimum floor price when quality concerns are high. dukefuqua.com/3NTk4Ca

Very happy to see that what started as a second-year project is finally getting published! Me and Alessandro T. Villa are grateful to all the people who helped along the way.

Priceless Tom Sargent. ht @mvazcar

.ChicagoFed Workshop on International Economics We are bringing back a workshop series on International Economics! Our revival edition features great papers by Matthias Hoelzlein (University of Notre Dame), Fernando Leibovici (St. Louis Fed St. Louis Fed Economic Research), @lyd_cox (UW–Madison), Javier Cravino

Vytautas Valaitis and I are happy to see this paper out in The Review of Economic Studies! See the thread below for a summary.

DP19099 Investment-Goods Market Power and Capital Accumulation cepr.org/publications/d… # via CEPR with Andrea Lanteri and Fabio Bertolotti

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19099 Investment-Goods Market Power and #Capital Accumulation Fabio Bertolotti Banca d'Italia Ufficio Stampa della Banca d'Italia, Andrea Lanteri Duke University Duke Economics, Alessandro T. Villa ChicagoFed ow.ly/nqRk50S0nFn #CEPR_MEF #CEPR_MG

The 3rd LAEF Junior Macro Conference ends at Hot Springs Canyon Trail. Thank you to the organizers!

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19795 On-the-Job Search and #Inflation under the Microscope Saman Darougheh Danmarks Nationalbank, Renato Faccini Danmarks Nationalbank Centre For Macroeconomics, Leonardo Melosi University of Warwick Economics at EUI De Nederlandsche Bank, Alessandro T. Villa ChicagoFed ow.ly/37Yr50UucYZ #CEPR_MG #EconTwitter

A fantastic session asking whether there is a “core of usable Macroeconomics we should all believe in” with contributions from Adrien Auclert, Martin S Eichenbaum, Jonas Fisher, Bart Hobijn, Alessandro T. Villa, and Ayse Imrohoroglu. Worth reading and rereading the papers!

Macro Fluctuations with Micro Frictions (MFMF) at the Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum andres blanco Jan Eeckhout Simon Mongey