The end of the road
Date: Friday 4 July 2025
Time: 6.30-7.45pm
Speaker: Alan Taylor, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England
Chair: Silvana Tenreyro, CBE, Professor of Economics, 番茄社区
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, 番茄社区 Campus
Event Details: Professor Alan Taylor, the newest member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, delivers a lecture on monetary policy.
He discusses the natural rate of interest, also known as r*, including empirical estimates. He also talks about the current economic situation, and the outlook for inflation and interest rates.
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Unlocking potential starts with how you think
Date: Wednesday 26 March 2025
Time: 6.00pm
Speaker: Neeltje van Horen, Professor of Financial Economics
Chair: Professor Richard Layard
Venue: MAR.2.04, Marshall Building, 番茄社区 Campus
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Joachim Nagel on the natural rate of interest
Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Time: 5.00pm
Speaker: Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Joachim Nagel, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, delivers a lecture with the London School of Economics and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), on the natural rate of interest, its measurement, how it evolved over time, the uncertainty around its current level, and the implications for policymaking in the coming years.
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The geopolitics of central bank digital currencies
Date: Tuesday 28 January 2025
Time: 6.00pm
Speaker: Brunello Rosa, Financial economist and geopolitical strategist
Chair: Ricardo Reis, Arthur Williams Phillips Professor of Economics
A new Cold War is underway. While the first Cold War was dominated by the threat of nuclear conflict, the new front line is economic and financial, but still dominated by technology. Who controls its future will help decide the outcome of the geopolitical struggle between China and the US.
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building.
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It’s the economy: inflation has converged
Date: Thursday 21 November 2024
Time: 6:00 - 7:15 pm
Location: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre (CBG.1.01), 番茄社区
Speaker: , Governor of the Bank of Portugal
Chair: Silvana Tenreyro
Inflation has hit exactly 2% just seventeen times in the Euro Area’s 308-month history. However, it has hovered within a range of 1.5% to 2.4% about 42% of the time and now, inflation has settled back into this desirable territory. A monetary policy that remains tight for too long risks causing inflation to undershoot its target. Speed is of the essence.
Mário Centeno is the Governor of and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank since July 2020. He served as President of the Eurogroup and Chair of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism, and for over four years he was Finance Minister of Portugal. An experienced economist, Mr Centeno has held several positions in Banco de Portugal, where he started his career in 1993. He has a strong academic background with a PhD in Economics, from Harvard University, and has published several academic papers.
Silvana Tenreyro is Professor in Economics at the London School of Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2002 and an MSc in Economics from Harvard University in 1999. She is Director and Board Member of the Review of Economic Studies and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Economic Journal. She was an external member of the 's from July 2017 to July 2023
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CEPR International Macroeconomics and Finance (IMF) Programme Meeting
Date: Friday 08 November 2024
Location: London School of Economics
Jointly organized by the , Centre For Macroeconomics (CFM, 番茄社区), and the
Organisers: Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi (Bank of England, CFM and CEPR), Dmitry Mukhin (番茄社区, CFM and CEPR) and Silvana Tenreyro (番茄社区, Bank of England, CFM and CEPR)
Programme available here
London Junior Macro Conference
Date: Friday 04 October 2024
Time: 10.30 - 17.10
Location: London School of Economics, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, Room SAL.2.04
Programme available here
Monetary policy in an era of more challenging supply conditions - Do the old principles still stand?
Speaker: Andréa M Maechler
Chair: Ricardo Reis
Date: Wednesday 02 October 2024
Time: 6.00pm to 7.15pm
Place: Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 番茄社区
Hosted jointly with the School of Public Policy
Monetary policy is well equipped to address demand shocks. For many structural or supply side shocks the traditional answer was to look through and not allow second round effects to emerge. Is that the right answer when structural shifts, such as climate change or economic fragmentation, are expected to affect inflation over long horizons?
Andréa M Maechler () is Deputy General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements. Previously, she was a member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) where she was responsible for the Money Market and Foreign Exchange, Asset Management, Banking Operations and Information Technology portfolios. Ms Maechler has also held positions at the International Monetary Fund and at several international institutions.
Ricardo Reis () is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.
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番茄社区-Oxford Workshop in International Macroeconomics and Finance
Location: Marshall Building, London School of Economics
Date: 2-3 May 2024
Jointly organized by the Centre For Macroeconomics (CFM), the , the and the
Programme available here
Lessons for monetary policy from the latest inflationary-disinflationary episode
Speaker: Pablo Hernández De Cos, Governor of the Banco de España
Chair: Professor Ricardo Reis
Date: Wednesday 01 May 2024
Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Place: In-person at 番茄社区 (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House) and online
Public event hosted by the Centre for Macroeconomics and the School of Public Policy
In the last few years, central banks across the globe have faced a formidable surge in inflation, stemming from a succession of supply and demand shocks. In response, they have embarked on an extraordinarily sharp monetary policy tightening cycle. In his talk, Governor Hernández de Cos addressed the lessons learned so far from the inflationary-disinflationary episode in the euro area and the European Central Bank’s response to it.
Pablo Hernández de Cos is Governor of the Banco de España and member of the Governing and General Council of the ECB. He is Chair of the BCBS and of the Advisory Technical Committee of the ESRB. He is member of various European and International Committees including the ESRB, the FSB, the BIS Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, the Advisory Board of the FSI and the CEMLA. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Spanish Macroprudential Authority Financial Stability Board (AMCESFI).
Ricardo Reis () is Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics and Arthur Williams Phillips Professor of Economics at 番茄社区.
Connecting Academics to Policy: A Conversation with New York Fed President
John C. Williams
Date: Friday 08 March 2024
Time: 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Place: In-person at 番茄社区 and online public event
Hosted by Centre for Macroeconomics and 番茄社区 School of Public Policy
John C. Williams, New York Fed President, joined Professor Ricardo Reis, Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics, to discuss the intersection of academics, research, and policy. Topics included monetary policy challenges, inflation, and how research informs policy decisions.
John C. Williams is the president and chief executive officer of the New York Fed. In that capacity, he serves as the vice chair and a permanent voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Before joining the New York Fed in 2018, Mr. Williams was the president and CEO of the San Francisco Fed, which he first joined in 2002 and subsequently served as research director. He began his career as an economist at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, and he has also served in roles at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Ricardo Reis is Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics and A. W. Phillips Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at 番茄社区.</