Macroeconomics Brown Bag: Directed Factor-Augmenting Technical Change with Fixed Land

Marla Ripoll is presenting at the Macroeconomics Brown Bag on Thursday, October 22, in Wesley W. Posvar Hall. The talk is titled Directed Factor-Augmenting Technical Change with Fixed Land, and it runs from 12 PM to 1 PM.

If you're not familiar with the format, a brown bag is exactly what it sounds like: a midday session where you bring your own lunch and listen to a researcher walk through their work. Ripoll is based here at the University of Pittsburgh, so this is a local presentation rather than a visiting lecture. The topic sits in the intersection of macroeconomics and technical change, and the title gives you the gist of the focus—how technical progress shifts when it's directed toward specific factors, with land held fixed in the model. It's the kind of session that works well if you're already following the department's research or if you've got a particular interest in how technical change is modeled in macro.

Finding the room is the only part that takes a second. The talk is in Posvar Hall, and the specific location is listed as 4419, with the note to enter via 4400 Posvar. If you've spent time in the building, you know it can be a bit of a maze, so that entry point is a helpful detail to keep in mind before you head over. The session runs for an hour, from 12 PM to 1 PM, so it fits right into a lunch break.

It's a straightforward setup: a local economist presenting her work to the campus community in the middle of the day. If you're around the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday, it's an easy one to drop into.