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

COVID-19

Policy

Europe

Heterogeneity

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

COVID-19

Debt

EU

Policy

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

COVID-19

Policy

Theoretical Research

Empirical

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

Growth

Policy

Economic History

Women in Economics

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

Policy

Reforms

Land Market

Ukraine

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

Policy

Reforms

Growth

Ukraine

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

Economic History

Policy

Women in Economics

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

Institutions

Macroeconomics

Policy

Resource-Rich

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

Institutions

Macroeconomics

Policy

Resource-Rich

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

Public Policy

Policy

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

Policy

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

Policy

Economic History

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

International Economics

Monetary Policy

Economy

Policy

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

Financial Markets

Policy