The fifth workshop of the Macroeconomics Network in the South West will focus on a variety of topics in the field of macroeconomics and monetary economics. These include:
- digital currency
- Re-skilling and the advent of AI
- optimal climate policy and redistribution
Workshop programme
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10am - 10.30am | Coffee and Registration | |
| 10.30am - 12pm | Contributed session 1 | |
| Central bank digital currency and the instruments of monetary policy | Dr Laura Povoledo, University of the West of England (UWE) | |
| Re-skilling and the advent of AI | Dr Andreas Schaefer, University of Bath | |
| 12pm - 1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30pm - 3pm | Contributed Session 2 | |
| Exporters and currency risk premia | Professor Paulo Santos Monteiro, University of York | |
| So alike, yet so different: A non-parametric variance decomposition of unstable employment cycles | Dr Cristina Lafuente Martinez, University of Bath | |
| 3pm - 3.30pm | Coffee Break | |
| 3.30pm - 5pm | Contributed Session 3 | |
| Optimal redistribution via income taxation and market design | Dr Pawel Doligalski, University of Bristol | |
| Optimal climate policy in a global economy | Dr Tasos Karantounias, University of Surrey | |
| 5pm - 5.15pm | Coffee break | |
| 5.15pm - 6.15pm | Keynote lecture: Growth and redistribution with heterogeneous attitudes toward risk | Professor Tim Kehoe, University of Minnesota |
| 6.15pm onwards | Workshop dinner |
