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Very happy to have my colleague Florian Scheuer Economics at Zurich walking across street UZH Department of Finance to present "Putting the ‘Finance’ into ‘Public Finance’: A Theory of Capital Gains Taxation" (with Ben Moll & Mark Aguiar). Key takeaway: tax realized capital gains from asset price changes!

very happy to have made it to Zurich for the brilliant and fun Inaugural lecture by Yucheng Yang UZH Department of Finance on AI for Economics: Heterogeneous Agent Macro-Finance

Very happy to host Moritz Kuhn in Zurich this week with UZH Department of Finance Economics at Zurich colleagues! Moritz presented "To Have or Not to Have: Understanding Wealth Inequality" (with Pavel Brendler & Steins). To participate in asset markets, or not, that is the question for wealth inequality!

The University of Zurich Faculty of Business features our faculty in an interview about their career, research, and more - in their favorite local restaurant. Check out this recent conversation with my colleague Felix Kubler! oec.uzh.ch/en/current/mag…

Each year The Econometric Society Quantitative Economics organize a special topic session at ASSA. In #ASSA2025: "Computation Methods for Challenging Macro Models" w J Fernandez-Villaverde, L Maliar, M Rognlie & me. Thanks Morten O. Ravn James Hamilton & Jesus for the invite! Join us at 10 on Jan 3.

The U of Zurich hosts its inaugural Workshop on Real Estate Finance and Economics on June 12-13 in beautiful Zurich. The Call for Papers is now out. Submission deadline is February 16. Feel free to share. df.uzh.ch/en/news-events…

Looking forward to presenting at #AMLEDS Webinar this week! Since 2020, #AMLEDS has featured an amazing series of talks on Machine Learning for Economics by many leading scholars. Check out recordings & slides of past presentations sites.google.com/view/amleds/pa…

I have a new working paper on solving complex life-cycle models with deep learning. Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1txCSkw… Python toolbox: github.com/NumEconCopenha…

Honored and excited to co-teach this summer school alongside pioneers of this emerging field! Apply by March 30: sites.google.com/carloalberto.o…

Meet the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton! They are recognized for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Please join us in congratulating the two recipients! bit.ly/4hpdsbD

📢 Join us tomorrow for the Seminar in Macroeconomics featuring Yucheng Yang from University of Zurich and SFI. He'll discuss: "Deep Learning for Search and Matching Models". Don't miss this engaging session!🌟 #UNILEcon #ThisIsEconomics 👉 Details: bit.ly/41RW8Ht

Big congratulations to my great colleague D. Yanagizawa-Drott for sharing this prestigious award! We're proud this is the second time the award goes to Economics at Zurich, after Fabrizio Zilibotti won it in 2009.

Great thread about deep learning in macroeconomics!

🚨Paper🚨 "Scalable Global Solution Techniques for High-Dimensional Models in Dynare" (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…), code: https://nvls. co/Dynare/GlobalMethods/SparseGrids (@HECLausanneEconwith N. Rion DynareTeam Michel Juillard Banque de France Aryan Eftekhari)

Important discussion of the missing intercept problem. Ben Moll has excellent slides on the topic: benjaminmoll.com/wp-content/upl… This is why looking at time-series variation, although harder to identify, is useful!

On Friday, April 11, I’m co-hosting a conference at Penn on Quantum Computing Applications in Economics and Finance: 🔗 sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/QC.pdf If you’re around Penn, join us at the PCPSE Auditorium! Curious why quantum matters for econ? 🧵 A quick thread on why we should care.

Very excited to co-host the 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 in Zurich this week! Looking forward to learning from leading economists pushing the frontier of new methods to tackle big questions of our time.

Wrapped up an exciting workshop on cutting-edge methods in macro & trade! Great talks using deep learning, combinatorial optimization, LLMs, and beyond to study tariffs, tech wars, sanctions, monetary/fiscal/climate policies, and many other important questions!

🚨Two weeks remaining to apply to the summer school on "Deep Learning for Dynamic Stochastic Models", and to submit papers to the subsequent conference!🚨 Deadline: April 30th, 2025 Here is the link: sites.google.com/carloalberto.o…