Monetary policy in a world of radical uncertainty

by Lord Mervyn King

This paper was delivered on the 23rd of November 2021, as part of IIMR's Annual Lecture series, in the Royal Automobile Club in London.

Mervyn King served as Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to June 2013. He was knighted (GBE) in 2011, made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by The Queen to be a Knight of the Garter in 2014.

Lord King is the Alan Greenspan Professor of Economics and Professor of Law at New York
University and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

In 2016 he published The End of Alchemy. With a new preface, it appeared in paperback in 2017, and has been translated into many languages. His new book (with John Kay) Radical Uncertainty was published in
March 2020.

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What should central banks do in a great financial crisis?

by Professor Forrest Capie

This paper was delivered in two parts on 24th September and 1st October as part of the Institute of International Monetary Research's Autumn 2020 lecture series. Professor Capie  is a member of the IIMR Academic Advisory Council and Emeritus of Economic History at the Cass Business School City University, London.

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The case for fiscal policy restated

by Lord Robert Skidelsky

This paper was delivered on 12th November 2019 as part of the fourth conference held by the Institute of International Monetary Research. Lord Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick and is the author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes.

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What have we learnt about money and banking during and since the Great Recession?

by Professor Charles Goodhart

This paper was delivered on 2nd November 2016 as part of the first conference held by the Institute of International Monetary Research. Professor Goodhart is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics and was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from 1997 until 2000. He has written six books on the subject of money and banking.

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