CEMAP Macroeconomics Conference

The Centre for Macro Economic Policy (CEMAP) at Durham University Business School (DUBS) is organizing a workshop on Macroeconomics scheduled for 22-23 June. The conference will cover a diverse range of topics, including inflation, productivity, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, health, and climate change. We are pleased to announce our impressive line-up of distinguished speakers.

If you are interested in attending, please reach out to us at business.researchhub@durham.ac.uk. Please note that spaces are limited, so early registration is recommended.

List of speakers

Franck Portier (UCL) (Keynote): “Some Inference Perils of Imposing a Taylor Rule”

Roman Sustek (QMUL): “Global House Prices Since 1950s”

Arpad Abraham (Bristol): “Tax Wedges, Financial Frictions and Misallocation”

Christine Braun (Warwick): “Measuring the Productivity of Working from Home”

Miguel Faria e Castro (Fed, St Louis): “Evergreening”

Anthony Savagar (Kent): “Returns to Scale and productivity in the Macroeconomy”

Raffaele Rossi (Manchester): “Taxing Consumption in Unequal Economies”

Oliver De Groot (Liverpool): “Bank Heterogeneity, Deep Habits, and the Pass-Through of Monetary Policy”

Max Gillman (UMSL, USA): “A Human Capital Explanation of Real Business Cycles”

Giovanni Covi (BoE): “Climate Stress Network of UK Banks and UK Insurers”

Jonathan Thomas (Edinburgh): “Implicit contracts and asymmetric pass-through of productivity shocks to wages"

Aditya Goenka (Birmingham): “Health and economic inequality during pandemics: A heterogeneous agent perspective”