Macroeconomics Seminar with Simon Mongey (Minnneapolis Fed)

Simon Mongey is a monetary advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed). Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and a junior scholar at the Minneapolis Fed. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and Senior Research Fellow at e61 Institute, and adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota. Among his editorial duties, he is Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics.

His research focuses on macroeconomics, labour economics, and market structure. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. In 2026, he was the first economist in the Federal Reserve System to be awarded the prestigious Frisch Medal for co-authoring Firm and Worker Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market. He was the recipient of a substantial grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2022 for his project Macroeconomic Implications of Economic Policy in Imperfectly Competitive Labor Markets.

Simon Mongey's website

He will present a paper, joint with Michael E. Waugh, at the next Macroeoconomics Seminar on the topic:

Pricing Inequality (read paper, PDF 1.9 MB)

This is our final Macroeconomics Seminar of the year - we look forward to seeing you next Fall !