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Events and Recordings
Upcoming Events
Joint conference with the IMF: Legal Aspects of Central Bank Digital Currency: Central Bank and Monetary Law Considerations [Video here]
Social Macroeconomics in the Era of COVID-19
The Global Production Networks and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Post - Covid Jobs and the Quest for Better Work
Monetary Finance in the Age of Corona Virus: MMT and the Green New Deal
Should Private Sector Debt Relief be Part of the Exit Strategy?
Helicopter Money: a Necessary Response in a COVID-19 World
International Trade in a Post Covid-19 World
Panel 1: Central Bank Independence
Panel 2: Central Bank's Objectives
Panel 3: Central - Bank Macro Instruments
Social Macroeconomic Hub
Macroeconomic Instability Hub - Ergodicity: Six Different Viewpoints
Session 1: Macroprudential Policy
Session 2: Industrial and Regional Strategy
Session 3: Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Session 1: Macroeconomic Instability Hub
Session 2: Sustainable Growth Hub
Session 3: Macroeconomic Institutions Hub
Session 4: Study Group and General Call Project
Session 5: Central - Bank Macro Instruments
Session 6: Social Macroeconomics Hub
Session 7: Panel Discussion
Session 8: Macroeconomic Finance Hub
Session 1: Perspectives from Sociology and Anthropology
Session 2: Perspectives from Psychology and Cognitive Science
Session 3: Macroeconomics with new assumptions about expectation generation
Session 4: How Human Actors Co-Operate and Organise
Session 5: Making Intimate Economies Visible in a Global System
Session 6: Neuroscience & Mathematics
Session 7: Methodological Perspectives if we Accept Knightian Uncertainty
Past Events and Recordings
Conferences 2022/2023
Agent Based Modelling for Macroeconomics
13 June
Welcome and opening remarks - Angus Armstrong (Rebuilding Macroeconomics, UCL) and Arzu Uluc (Bank of England)
Session 1: Innovation as an evolutionary process
Professor Giovanni Dosi, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Discussant - Professor David Soskice, LSE
Session 2: Heterogeneity, Interaction and Macroeconomic Implications
Professor Giovanni Dosi, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Discussant I - Professor Beatrice Cherrier, CNRS & CREST, ENSAE-Ecole Polytechnique
Discussant II - Professor Muriel Dal Pont Legrand, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG
Closing remarks - Marc Hinterschweiger (Bank of England)
Festschrift for Alan Kirman
Event summary here.
Full programme available here.
16 March
Welcome and opening remarks - Henrietta Moore (Director of Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
Session 1: Allan's Intellectual Journey
Chair: William Hynes, OECD
James Heckman, University of Chicago
Robert Axtell, George Mason University
Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School
Session 2: How Science can Improve Understanding of the Economy
Chair: Rachana Shanbhogue, The Economist
Alan Kirman, EHESS
Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University
17 March
See full programme above.
16 March 2023
17 March 2023
Conferences 2020/2021
Women in Macroeconomics: Who is the 'Individual' in Macroeconomics?
Full programme available here.
Introduction to Conference - Angus Armstrong (Rebuilding Macroeconomics, UCL) and Henrietta Moore (Director of Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL)
Session 1: Positionality in Social Science and Gender
Chair: Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge
- S. Charusheela, University of Washington, Bothell
- Jana Bacevic, University of Durham
Session 2: Identity in Economics and ‘Economic Man’
Chair: Sue Himmelweit, Open University, Women’s Budget Group
- John Davis, Marquette University
- Julie A Nelson, University of Massachusetts – Boston
Session 3: How can Macroeconomics do Better?
Chair: Erin Hengel, UCL, Social Research Institute
- Alan Kirman, OECD NAEC and EHESS
- Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Closing Remarks - Angus Armstrong (Rebuilding Macroeconomics, UCL) and Henrietta Moore (Director of Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL)
A Celebration of Complexity in Macroeconomics: Research Prize Announcement
Introduction: Dr Angus Armstrong, Director, Rebuilding Macroeconomics
Presentations:
Sebastian Poledna, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Economic Forecasting with an Agent-based Model
Valentina Semenova, University of Oxford: Reddit’s Self-Organised Bull Runs Anton Pichler, University of Oxford: In and out of lockdown: Propagation of supply and demand shocks in a dynamic input-output model
Joint conference with the OECD's Initiative New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) and the Fields Institute
Systemic Resilience: What is it and how can it be enhanced?
Women in Macroeconomics: Diversity and Representation at 2020 ESRC Festival of Social Science (FOSS)
Chair: Susan J. Smith, Girton College Mistress
Arun Advani: Assistant Professor in the Economics Departmant and Impact Director of the CAGE Research Centre at the University of Warwick. Co-chair of the Discover Economics campaign, aiming to increase the diversity of people who study and work in economics. On the Editorial Board of the Economics Observatory.
Felicia Odammten: Founder and Director of The Black Economists Network (T-BEN), a UK based organisation with global footprint that seeks to connect, support and inspire Black Economists while challenging the lack of diversity in the field. She is also a Fast-stream Economist in the UK Civil Service
Joint Conference with Reading University:
Macroeconomics and Reality: Where Are We Now?
Opening and welcome remarks –Robert Van de Noort (Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading)
Session 1: Climate Change and Pandemics - [12:57]
Chair: Uma Kambhampati (University of Reading)
- “Climate Change and Macroeconomics”, Per Krusell (Stockholm University)
- “Macroeconomics and Pandemics”, Mathias Trabandt (Free University Berlin)
Session 2: Beyond the Representative Firm and Consumer - [1:47:45]
Chair: Mark Guzman (University of Reading)
- “Optimal Policy If Equality Also Matters”, Alexander Mihailov (University of Reading)
Session 3: Information and Big Data - [3:11:07]
Chair: James Reade (University of Reading)
- “Information, VARs and DSGE Models”, Paul Levine (University of Surrey)
- “A Growth Model of the Data Economy”, Laura Veldkamp (Columbia Business School)
Session 4: Computational Advances - [4:40:00]
Chair: Carl Singleton (University of Reading)
- “Solving Heterogeneous-Agent Models by Deep Learning”, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
- “Macroeconomies as Locally Constructive Sequential Games”, Leigh Tesfatsion (Iowa State University)
Session 5: Politicsand Society - [6:09:14]
Chair: Marina Della Giusta(University of Reading) - “Macroeconomic Origins and Consequences of Political Identity”, Steven Bosworth (University of Reading) - “Social Macroeconomics”, Angus Armstrong (Rebuilding Macroeconomics)
Data for Policy Conference 2020:
Google Economics: Data - Complex Models - Well-Informed Policy Making
Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford,
Claire Connelly, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Rebuilding Macroeconomics
Carla Coburger, Rebuilding Macroeconomics, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Covid-19 Workshops
Exit Strategy Workshop No 8:
Social Macroeconomics in the Era of COVID-19
The COVID pandemic raises social and economic issues of profound importance. It reminds us that we cannot live as we cannot live in a world of individualism. At the simplest level, your health depends on your neighbours health and neither can be observed.
Chair & Speakers:
Dennis Snower: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Paul Collier: University of Oxford
Sonja Vogt: University of Bern & Nuffield College, University of Oxford
David Tuckett: University College London
Bridget Rosewell: Experienced board member and chair, project developer, economist
Colin Mayer: University of Oxford