Forthcoming Events
IIMR Money Webinar Series - Autumn term 2022
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Wednesday 5th October |
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18:00-19:00 UK time |
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On-line via Zoom |
- Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School
Does the Fed need a tighter monetary policy rule and Congress scrutiny to restore price stability?
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Wednesday 2nd November |
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18:00-19:00 UK time |
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On-line via Zoom |
- Pedro Schwartz,
Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid
Monetarism in an historical perspective: why is it not fashionable any more?
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ECB Talk: 'The ECB’s monetary policy strategy'
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Wednesday 19th October 2022 |
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2.30pm |
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On-line via Zoom |
Leopold von Thadden is Senior Lead Economist in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division of the European Central Bank. His research interests include dynamic general equilibrium models, monetary economics and the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy challenges specific to monetary unions.
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IIMR Annual Public lecture: 'The widespread failure of central banks to control inflation'
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Tuesday 25th October, 2022 |
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Doors open 18.00; lecture starts 18.30 |
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RAC Club Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HS |
Speaker: Willem Buiter.
You can register for this event here.
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IIMR Annual Monetary Conference: 'Did central banks react correctly to the Covid-19 pandemic?'
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Thursday 27th October, 2022 |
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09.30-16.30 |
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Vinson Building Auditorium, University of Buckingham, Buckingham MK18 1EG |
Register to attend at the University of Buckingham: https://forms.office.com/r/tMS0Xq6cBz
To join us online (via Zoom) please register using this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0i9qLvi2Ttu97rOyAAPM5Q
Order of the day
9.30 am Coffee and welcome
9:50 am Welcome – Juan Castañeda (University of Buckingham), Director of IIMR
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Session 1 – Macroeconomic models and central bank inflation projections in 2020-21
Chairperson: Juan Castañeda, Director, IIMR
10.00 am – Ricardo Reis, LSE - ‘An assessment of major central banks’ inflation forecasts during and in the aftermath of Covid-19’
10.25 am – Paul De Grauwe, LSE - ‘Trust and Monetary Policy’
10.50 am – Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan - ‘A snapshot of central bank (two-year) forecasting: a mixed picture’
11.15 am – Discussion
11.45 am – Coffee
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Session 2 – The determinants of the current inflation episode
Chairperson: Gabriel Stein, Stein Brothers (UK)
12.15 pm – Tim Congdon (IIMR) – ‘Why Keynes' General Theory, via Samuelson's Economics, was to blame for the Covid-19 money explosion and the current inflation episode’
12.40 pm – Juan Castañeda (IIMR) and José Luis Cendejas (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria) – ‘Money, inflation and monetary equilibrium: the effects of the surge in money growth in 2020 and 2021 in the USA’
13.05 pm – Discussion
13:25 - Lunch
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Session 3 – The conditions to return to price stability
Chairperson: Andrew Dowie, IIMR
14.30 pm – Michael Oliver - ‘Nonmonetary and monetary explanations for inflation: the UK in the 1970s’
14.55 pm – John Greenwood – ‘The flaws in the monetary policy strategy of the Bank of England in 2020-21. What policies can we expect in 2022-23?’
15:20 pm – James Ferguson, MacroStrategy – ‘A discussion on the policy options for the Bank of England to rein in inflation’
15.45 pm – Discussion
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Conclusion
16.15 pm – Tim Congdon and Juan Castañeda – Closing remarks and thanks to contributors
16.30 pm – Soft drinks available
End of formal proceedings of the conference
Register to attend at the University of Buckingham: https://forms.office.com/r/tMS0Xq6cBz
To join us online (via Zoom) please register using this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0i9qLvi2Ttu97rOyAAPM5Q
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IIMR Money Webinar Series - Autumn term 2022
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Wednesday 2nd November |
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18:00-19:00 UK time |
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On-line via Zoom |
- Pedro Schwartz,
Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid
Monetarism in an historical perspective: why is it not fashionable any more?
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Talk: 'The relationship between money and inflation'
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Wednesday 9th November 2022 |
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TBC |
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University of Warwick, Oculus building |
The director of the IIMR, Dr Juan Castañeda, will visit the Warwick Central Banking Society to give a talk on the relationship between money and inflation. Co-organisers are the Warwick Business School Society and the Warwick European Society.