4th London Junior Macro Conference

Date: Friday 10 October 2025
Time: 11.00 - 17.00
Location: London School of Economics
Venue: SAL.1.04

This annual workshop brings together junior scholars in macroeconomics from across the Greater London departments. Everyone is welcome. Please e-mail Maarten De Ridder, to register your attendance.

Programme available here

New views on r*: are higher interest rates here to last?

Date: Monday 3 November 2025

Time: 6.00-7.00pm

Speakers: Charles Goodhart, Emeritus Professor, Financial Markets Group and Lukasz Rachel, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCL

Chair: Ricardo Reis, A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics

Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE Campus

Event Details: Charles Goodhart, Lukasz Rachel, and Ricardo Reis will discuss the contrasting views offered by their recent research on what is r* today, how it has changed relative to a few years ago, and what will it be in a few years. In the process, they will debate both what are the drivers of interest rates, and how to best use the concept of r* for monetary and fiscal policy.

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Fiscal influences over macro-financial stability

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025

Time: 6.30-7.45pm

Speaker: Pablo Hernández de Cos

Chair: Ricardo Reis, A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics

Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Campus

Event Details: In many advanced economies, large public deficits co-exist today together with the legacy public debt from the pandemic. This lecture will discuss how this situation affects macro-financial stability, how it puts strains on the financial sector, and how it constrains macroeconomic policy. There are both local and global components to this challenge, which put the international financial system at the centre of any of the possible scenarios.

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