Professor Vasco Carvalho has picked up on Milton Friedman’s famous dictum concerning ‘long and variable lags’, that monetary actions affect economic conditions only after a lag that is both long and variable,
Charles Read, an affiliated lecturer for the Faculty, has an opinion piece in the Conversation regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
Charles Read,an affiliated lecturer for the economics faculty, has been quoted in an article about Liz Truss’ mini budget, saying he warned about the dangers of a policy that would quickly raise interest rates.
The Faculty's Victoria Bateman takes part in a new BBC Radio 4 economics series on “Understand: the economy”, presented by Tim Harford.
She details the history of everything from inflation, to interest and mortgage rates, plus economic growth and GDP.
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti has been invited to give two keynote speeches.
In the game, teams of 4 or 5 players have to run the economy for ten ‘years’ by taking a succession of decisions on income tax, value-added tax, public spending and interest rates.
Prof. Coen Teulings has just released a three part video series on "Low Interest Rates and the Introduction of the Pill". See the videos on the Cambridge-INET site.