November 30, 2020 (16:00 - 17:00)
The 2020 Coase-Phillips Lecture to be delivered by Rohini Pande - Theory and Practise: designing anti-poverty programs when power matters
Hosted by Economica and the Department of Economics
This online public event is free and open to all but pre-registration is required. Registration will open after 10am via Zoom on Monday 16 November. For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk.
September 1 - 3, 2020
The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA)
The meeting began on Tuesday, 01 Sept, 13.30-18.30 (London time) with welcome remarks from Minouche Shafik (LSE). There was a high-level policy discussion on Digital Currencies, Payments Systems, and the Future of the International Money and Financial System. Speakers included: Gita Gopinath (IMF), Philip Lane (ECB), Ricardo Reis (LSE), Hélène Rey (LBS), Hyun-Song Shin (BIS), and Andrès Velasco (LSE).
On Wednesday & Thursday 02-03 Sept, from 11.00-19.15 (London time), the main conference took place, featuring 36 contributed sessions and a poster session on a wide variety of policy-relevant topics, assembled from over 700 high-quality submission. The scientific committee was chaired by Charlie Bean (LSE), Michael Kumhof (BoE), and Ricardo Reis (LSE).
On the afternoon of Wednesday September 2nd, Ben Broadbent (BoE) delivered a keynote talk, and the Bank of England will further organize a high level policy panel chaired by Andrew Haldane (BoE).
July 15, 2020
Public lecture by Silvana Tenreyro - Covid-19 and the Economy: What are the lessons so far?
Silvana Tenreyro gave a public lecture as part of the LSE's public event series - COVID-19: The Policy Response.
The event was organised by the Department of Economics and the Centre For Macroeconomics.
Title: COVID-19 and the Economy: what are the lessons so far?
Date: Wednesday 15 July 2020
Time: 9:00am to 10:00am
May 28, 2020
Carmen M. Reinhart - Economica Phillips Lecture Capital Flow Cycles: a long global view.
Event podcast here
Carmen M. Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. She was Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund and Chief Economist the investment bank Bear Stearns in the 1980s.
Francesco Caselli, Event Chair, is Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE.
March 10, 2020
Mervyn King and John Kay Public Event
Radical Uncertainty: decision making for an unknowable future
John Kay is Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England until 2013 and is currently Professor of Economics, LSE.
Two leading economists discuss decision making in conditions of radical uncertainty, where we can neither imagine all possible outcomes nor assign probabilities to future events.
This event is hosted by LSE Ideas.
February 28, 2020
Income Distribution, Wealth Distribution and Central Bank Policies Conference
The Bank of England, the Centre For Macroeconomics and London School of Economics are organizing a conference bringing together researchers studying the two-way relationship between central bank policies and heterogeneity in agents’ incomes and wealth.
A copy of the programme for this event is available here [PDF].
February 25, 2020
CFM and LSE Department of Economics Public Event
Supply Chain Economics and the Next Phase of the Anti-Modern Slavery Movement: John Studzinski will speak on the next phase of the anti-slavery movement. He will set out what must be done to keep the eyes of the world on this human rights crisis, and how the frontline and business communities can become more unified in the abolitionist effort. This event will be chaired by the LSE's Director, Minouche Shafik.
February 25, 2020
CFM, Financial Markets Group Research Centre, and School of Public Policy, European Institute Public Event
The State of European Banking Union: two proposals to resurrect it: with Luis Garicano and chaired by Andrés Velaso.