Events 2024
An overview of events held by the IIMR in 2024. To see our forthcoming events, please go to Forthcoming Events.
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IIMR Annual Public lecture
Money and Inflation in the 2020s: explaining the recent success of the quantity theory of money
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Monday 18th November, 2024 |
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Doors open 18.00; lecture starts 18.30 |
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RAC Club Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HS |
Speaker: Professor Tim Congdon. Tim Congdon is one of the world's leading monetary analysts. He advised the UK's 1979-97 Conservative government on economic policy, serving as a member of the Treasury Panel (the so-called 'Wise Men' ) from 1992 to 1997. In 2005 he published a long pamphlet on Money and Asset Prices in Boom and Bust and in 2009 a critique of the Bank of England's conduct in the Northern Rock affair called Central Banking in a Free Society. In 2007 a collection of essays on Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism appeared in the UK and in 2011 another collection with the title Money in a Free Society was published by Encounter Books in New York.
Watch the 2024 public lecture on our YouTube channel.
IIMR webinar summer 2024 series
Inflation expectations vs money
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Wednesday 24th July, 2024 |
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15.00 BST |
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Online via Zoom |
Speaker: Kent Matthews. Kent is the Sir Julian Hodge Professor of Banking and Finance at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, and Professor in Banking at Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He took the PhD in economics at University of Liverpool under Patrick Minford, and MSc (Econ) at Birkbeck University of London, and BSc (Econ) at the London School of Economics. He has held academic positions at Liverpool John Moore’s University, and University of Liverpool, and visiting academic positions at Fudan University (China), University of Western Ontario (Canada), Clemson University (USA), Humbolt University (Germany), and Leuven University (Belgium). He has also held visiting professional positions at the Bank of England (under Charles Goodhart), Lombard Street Research Ltd (under Tim Congdon), and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
Watch Kent Matthews on our Youtube channel.
Professor Tim Congdon at the Vinson Centre
Seminar: How are we to explain economists’ “collective failure” to forecast inflation correctly in the 2020s?: the quantity theory of money and the transmission mechanism from money to the economy
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Wednesday 12th June, 2024 |
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17.00 BST |
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IEA, Lord North St, SW1 |
Speaker: Professor Tim Congdon. Watch the seminar on the Vinson Centre YouTube channel.
IIMR webinar spring 2024 series
Webinar 2: Free banking
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Wednesday 1st May, 2024 |
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15.00 BST |
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Online via Zoom |
Speaker: George Selgin will be speaking on the topic of free banking. He is senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics from the University of Georgia.
Watch the George Selgin webinar on YouTube
Webinar 1: When £1 is not £1
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Wednesday 17th April, 2024 |
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15.00 BST |
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Online via Zoom |
Speaker: Gabriel Stein from Stein Brothers (UK) joins us to discuss a potential but hitherto ignored problem with CBDCs.
Watch the Gabriel Stein webinar on YouTube.
IIMR Webinar winter series
Webinar 2: Digital Payment Media
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Tuesday 5th March, 2024 |
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18.00 GMT |
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Online via Zoom |
Speaker: Lawrence H White from George Mason University joins us to discuss this topic.
Watch the Lawrence H White webinar on YouTube.
Webinar 1: Dollarization in Argentina: desirable and feasible
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Tuesday 20th February, 2024 |
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18.00 GMT |
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Online via Zoom |
Speaker: Steve Hanke from Johns Hopkins University joins us to discuss the topic of dollarization in Argentina.