The Shifting Fronts in the Battle Over EU Trade Policy
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper "Covid-19 Fiscal Support and its Effectiveness" (joint with Alexander Chudik and Mehdi Raissi) was quoted by Martin Sandbu in his Financial Times column. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 4th March 2021
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Easing Lockdown Restrictions
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed on BBC Scotland radio, where he talked about the implications of easing the current lockdown restrictions.
Published on - Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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US GDP Drop Following Paris Accord is at Most 0.6%
The United States plans to rejoin the Paris climate accord. Faculty academics have examined what this means for the US economy & GDP. They suggest a carbon tax of 32.3% is needed for US to achieve its original Paris pledge, which might cause US GDP to fall up to 0.6%.
Published on - Friday 22nd January 2021
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Did the Office for National Statistics Really Produce ‘False Data’ on Coronavirus Infections?
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in The Independent newspaper. The article looks at the suggestion that data revisions on new coronavirus cases by the official statistics body indicate that the UK might have gone into lockdown in November unnecessarily.
Published on - Thursday 10th December 2020
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Good Health Policy Is Good Economic Policy
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has published a new blog for ProMarket (the online publication for The Stigler Center, University of Chicago Booth). Dr Toxvaerd's article "Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Good Health Policy Is Good Economic Policy" looks at the unavoidable link between health protection and wealth creation when choosing a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published on - Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Government Won’t Say How Much Tiered Restrictions Will Cost Economy
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for the Channel 4 News website, where he commented that the key difficulty in analysing the effects of the lockdown is to assess what would happen with the disease and the economy in the absence of restrictions.
Published on - Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Tags:Government Paper Offers no Assessment of Economic Impact of Tier Restrictions
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in the Independent article "Government Paper Offers no Assessment of Economic Impact of Tier Restrictions". Dr Toxvaerd says the government's COVID analysis falls well short of a full impact study and will be of limited use to justify either lockdown2 or a return to a tiered system of regional restrictions.
Published on - Tuesday 1st December 2020
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Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd gave a virtual talk for Clare College on Tuesday 24 November 2020. His talk was on "Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy", which looked at how economists think about disease control and contrast it with the traditional approach adopted in epidemiology and public health. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 26th November 2020
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Managing COVID-19 Vaccines Rationally
Flavio Toxvaerd and Miltos Makris (University of Kent) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Vaccines against COVID-19 are on the horizon; now is the time to manage the transition rationally". This column examines how the prospect of a vaccine alters individuals’ incentives to self-protect and how the social planner would prefer the individual to behave, between now and the arrival of the vaccine.
Published on - Tuesday 24th November 2020
Tags:Economics and the Epidemic
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd will give a virtual talk for Clare College about "Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy", on Tuesday 24 November 2020 at 6.00pm. His talk will look at how economists think about disease control and contrast it with the traditional approach adopted in epidemiology and public health. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 19th November 2020
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The End of Free Markets and Return of the State? - Book Event
Cambridge-INET and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, are holding an Online Event with Professor Diane Coyle and Martin Sandbu. Professor Coyle and Martin Sandbu have both published books exploring the economics relating to current policy questions. Join them for an enlightened conversation. The event will be chaired by Professor Michael Kenny. Please book your place on the Bennett Institute event page.
Event Date - Tuesday 24th November 2020
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Keynote: 2nd European Commission-JEDC Conference
TODAY Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti is delivering the keynote speech on "The exchange rate insulation puzzle" at the 2nd European Commission-JEDC conference entitled ‘Secular Stagnation, Low Interest Rates and Low Inflation: Causes and Implications for Policy’. It is being held online from 5-6 November 2020. More information here: Event details
Published on - Thursday 5th November 2020
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Do Lockdowns Simply Postpone The Pain Of Covid-19?
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou (with Ben Moll - LSE), have written a new entry for the Economics Observatory asking The Pound-of-Flesh Fallacy: Do Lockdowns Simply Postpone The Pain Of Covid-19?. This blog looks at the possibility that whatever measures are taken to reduce the spread of coronavirus, they are unlikely to reduce the ultimate death toll.
Published on - Monday 2nd November 2020
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Free School Meal Vouchers: An Opportunity to Level Nutritional Inequality?
In her recent working paper "Nutritional Inequality: The Role of Prices, Income, and Preferences", Dr Noriko Amano-Patiño suggests that the Government should look at the options for free school meals for children in the holidays, as an initiative to level nutritional inequalities.
Published on - Thursday 29th October 2020
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European Economic Review Special Section
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd will guest edit (co-edited with Cecile Aubert, University of Bordeaux and TSE) the European Economic Review Journal's Special Section on economics of infectious diseases and epidemics. This Section will collect accepted articles at the European Economic Review that pertain to Covid-19 and similar epidemics, and will allow for a faster average handling of submissions on this topic. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 28th October 2020
Tags:European Commission and De Nederlandsche Bank Conference Keynotes
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti has been invited to give two keynote speeches. The first is at the 23rd Annual Research Conference of De Nederlandsche Bank, "Monetary Non-Neutrality: The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the Short and Long Run", on the 29th October 2020 and the second is the 2nd European Commission-JEDC conference "Secular Stagnation, Low Interest Rates and Low Inflation: Causes and Implications for Policy", on the 5th-6th November 2020. Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 27th October 2020
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Effect on Global Economy of Reimposed EU Lockdowns
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for Cheddar News Network on Friday 23rd October 2020, where he discussed the reimplementation of lockdowns across Europe, due to the rise in COVID-19 cases and the global economic impact of this. Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 20th October 2020
Tags:Economic Consequences of Covid-19
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes, with Alexander Chudik (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), M. Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California), Mehdi Raissi (IMF) and Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Economic Consequences of Covid-19: A Counterfactual Multi-Country Analysis". Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 20th October 2020
Tags:Pandemic Fears and Reactions
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in The Telegraph article "Fears Wet Weather Could Fuel Covid 19 Spread." and also commented on a recent No. 10 briefing where Boris Johnson shifted emphasis from blanket lockdowns to the use of regional and local measures for Science Media Centre "Expert Reaction to No. 10 Press Briefing on 30th September " Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 6th October 2020
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The Master And The Prodigy
There is little doubt that John Maynard Keynes fundamentally shaped economics and policymaking in the twentieth century. Less appreciated is that he owes some of his central insights to a brilliant Cambridge polymath who died in 1930 at age 26. Want to know more? Read Dr. Bill Janeway’s essay.
Published on - Wednesday 30th September 2020
Tags:What Data is Driving the UK’s New COVID-19 Restrictions?
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in the Independant "What is the Data Driving the UK’s New Coronavirus Restrictions?" and Daily Mail "Projection versus Reality – Experts say Britain Falls Short." in which Dr Toxvaerd claims that projections often rely ‘on behavioural assumptions that are unlikely to be borne out in practice and so the projections often look too gloomy in retrospect'. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 23rd September 2020
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Appointed to Board of Economists, São Paulo
We are pleased to announce that Dr Tiago Cavalcanti has been appointed to join the Board of Economics of the State of São Paulo in Brazil. The group will provide external expert economic analysis, current and future financial outlooks, and advice to the governor of São Paulo and state secretaries. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 16th September 2020
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COVID-19 Symposium of the EEA
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd spoke recently about ‘Future Challenges for Economic Epidemiology’ at the COVID-19 Symposium of the European Economic Association. A video of Dr. Toxvaerd's talk is available to watch on the EEA youtube channel. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 7th September 2020
Tags:D-DebtCon Webinar
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti will be speaking at the D-DebtCon Webinar entitled ‘Sovereign Debt in the European Union’ on 8 September 2020 at 3.30PM CEST on ‘Debt Crises Fast and Slow’. See the Programme and Registration details.
Published on - Tuesday 1st September 2020
Tags:EEA Congress Covid 19 Symposium
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd will be speaking at the Covid 19 Symposium on August 28th 2020 at 15.30 CEST organised by the EEA Congress and will look at future challenges for the epi-economics literature. Prof. Oriana Bandiera Prof. Oriana Bandiera will discuss the impact on lower-income countries and appropriate policy responses while Prof. Daron Acemoglu Prof. Daron Acemoglu looks at the political ramifications of the crisis.
Published on - Friday 28th August 2020
Tags:Production Network Analysis and COVID-19 Policy
Professor Vasco Carvalho and Professor Andrea Galeotti (London Business School) have published an article for Economics Observatory on "How Can Production Network Analysis Inform Policy on COVID-19?". This article looks at how production network analysis can provide insights into the effects of imposing and lifting lockdowns, which in turn can lead to policies to support recovery.
Published on - Tuesday 25th August 2020
Tags:The Heterogeneous Transmission of ECB Policies in a Post-COVID Europe
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Joao B. Duarte (Nova School of Business and Economics) and Samuel Mann (IMF) have published an article for VOXeu titled "The Heterogeneous Transmission of ECB Policies: Lessons for a Post-COVID Europe". This column suggests that the disruption to market integration brought about by the COVID-19 crisis may create further challenges to conducting monetary policy in the euro area.
Published on - Friday 7th August 2020
Tags:Perpetual Bonds are not the Best Way to Finance the European Recovery Fund
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Aitor Erce and Antonio Garcia Pascual's article "Perpetual bonds are not the best way to finance the European Recovery Fund" has been featured by VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal. This column looks at the potential gains of using European borrowing and lending as two separate policy levers, instead of financing the ERF using joint perpetual debt.
Published on - Monday 18th May 2020
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Covid Economics: A Real-Time Journal
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti joins the editorial board promoting, "Covid Economics: A Real-Time Journal (CEJ)". The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) has decided to launch this new online peer-reviewed review to disseminate emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic. CEPR have just published Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers Issue 1.
Published on - Saturday 28th March 2020
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Growth: Cautionary Tales from History - Cabinet Office Blog
The Cabinet Office blog has published an essay by Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie on her 2019 Thought Experiment Lecture at the Treasury. Prof. Ogilvie's Open Innovation essay presents highlights of her lecture, with accompanying video interview on working with policymakers, and a link to a full-length summary of her lecture.
Published on - Friday 24th January 2020
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Ukraine’s Land Market Reform
Dr. Alex Rodnyansky was quoted in the Reuters article "Ukraine Adviser: Excluding Foreigners From Buying Land Will Hurt Growth", which looks at the Ukraine’s land market reform. Dr. Rodnyansky is the Chief Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Published on - Tuesday 26th November 2019
Tags:Chief Economic Adviser to Ukraine
Dr. Alex Rodnyansky has been appointed as Chief Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine from September 2019. Dr Rodnyansky is responsible for drafting and monitoring the overall economic reform agenda in Ukraine, devoting particular attention toward its internal consistency. Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Video - What Policymakers Can Learn From Economic History
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie gave the Thought Experiment Lecture at the Cabinet Office on 18 October to officials from the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, and other government departments. The lecture emphasized, on the basis of European economic history, that policymakers should regard institutions as an integrated system rather than a menu from which one or two items can be chosen. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies: Book Launch and Panel Discussion 
Join Shanta Deverajan (Georgetown University and former acting Chief Economist at the World Bank), Adeel Malik (Oxford University) and Kamiar Mohaddes (University of Cambridge) as they discuss their recent work published in the new Oxford University Press volume Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, edited by Kamiar Mohaddes (University of Cambridge), Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California) and Hoda Selim (International Monetary Fund).
Event Date - Tuesday 5th November 2019
Tags:Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's edited volume "Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies", joint with Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California) and Hoda Selim (International Monetary Fund), has just been published by Oxford University Press. Read More>>
Published on - Friday 31st May 2019
Tags:Major Policy Challenges Explored
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has been made a visiting fellow of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. Along with two other visiting fellows, Dr. Toxvaerd will be exploring major policy changes over the next year.
Published on - Tuesday 20th November 2018
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Persistent Output Gaps: Causes and Policy Remedies Workshop
3rd - 4th September 2015 at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. The invited speakers are Gauti Eggerston (Brown), Bob Hall (Stanford) and Alp Simpsek (MIT)
Event Date - Thursday 3rd September 2015
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Economics and Policy in a Historical Mirror: The 'Thirties and the Noughties'
A debate around the latest book by Professor Barry Eichengreen. 15th April 2015 - King's, College, Cambridge.
Event Date - Wednesday 15th April 2015
Tags:Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti to give three Public Lectures on "International Economics"
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will deliver three public lectures in "International Economics" at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday 25th March - Thursday 26th March 2015. Read More>>
Published on - Sunday 1st March 2015
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Understanding Financial Markets Event, at the British Academy
Understanding Financial Markets: Professor Maureen O'Hara (Cornell) and Elroy Dimson (Judge Business School) will give talks on "Understanding Financial Markets: Research, Practice and Policy" at the British Academy, London on 30th April 2014, from 6.30 - 8.00 pm.
Event Date - Wednesday 7th May 2014
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