Webinars
Since 2020, the Institute has produced webinars from renowned economists, covering a broad range of topics including government debt, banking and inflation.
These webinars are held online and available free of charge to all. A recording is made available on the IIMR YouTube channel shortly after each event and can be viewed using the link below.
2025
Winter Term
- Wednesday October 1st: Tim Congdon and Ewen Stewart: Money and inflation at the time of Covid
2024
Summer Term
- Wednesday July 24th: Kent Matthews (Cardiff Business School): Inflation expectations vs money
Spring Term
- Wednesday 1st May: George Selgin (Cato Institute): Free banking
- Wednesday 17th April: Gabriel Stein (Stein Brothers (UK)): When £1 is not £1
Winter Term
- Tuesday 5th March: Lawrence H White (George Mason University): Digital Payment Media
- Tuesday 20th February: Steve Hanke (Johns Hopkins university): Dollarization in Argentina: Necessary and feasible
2023
Autumn Term
- Tuesday 14th November: Lars Christensen (Markets and Money Advisory): Where is inflation going?
- Tuesday 5th September: Daniel Lacalle (Tressis): The importance of sound money for economic progress
Spring Term
- Tuesday 23rd May: Geoffrey Wood (University of Buckingham): Financial stability and what causes banking crises
- Wednesday 19th April: Brandon Davies (formerly of Barclays Bank): Banking liquidity vs bank solvency: Interest rate risk in the banking book
Winter Term
- Wednesday 15th March: Lawrence Goodman (Center for Financial Stability): How Money Metrics would improve Fed policy
- Wednesday 8th March; John Greenwood (International Monetary Monitor): The case for implementing a monetary agenda at the Bank of England
2022
Autumn Term
- Wednesday 2nd November: Pedro Schwartz (Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid): Monetarism in an historical perspective: Why is it not fashionable any more?
- Wednesday 5th October: Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business School): Does the Fed need a tighter monetary policy rule and Congress scrutiny to restore price stability?
Summer Term
- Wednesday 20th July: Alexander Salter (Texas Tech University): The return to price stability. As assessment of the US Fed average inflation targeting rule
Spring Term
- Wednesday 1st June: Lars Christensen (Markets and Money Advisory/University of Copenhagen): Who is the blame for the current inflation episode?
- Wednesday 25th May: Charles Goodhart (Former member of Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and Emeritus Professor of banking and finance, LSE): Government debt accumulated since March 2020
- Wednesday 18th May: Bill Robinson (KPMG): The current inflation episode in the UK - lessons from the 1970s
Winter Term
- Wednesday 16th March: Professor David Llewellyn (Loughborough University): Has the regulation pendulum swung too far in the baking industry?
- Wednesday 23rd February: Tim Congdon (IIMR): Banking in a free society
- Wednesday 9th February: Mark Skousen (Chapman University): The implications of using Gross Output for the making of monetary decisions
2021
Autumn Term
- Wednesday 13th October: James Ferguson (Macro Strategy): Will inflation be temporary or an embedded phenomenon
Summer Term
- Wednesday 14th July: Tim Congdon (IIMR) Geoffrey Wood (University of Buckingham) and Brandon Davies (formerly of Barclays): Round table discussion on inflation outlook for 2021 and 2022.
Spring Term
- Wednesday 28th April: Lawrence White (George Mason University): The Hong Kong monetary system: temporary fix of long term solution?
- Wednesday 14th April: John Greenwood (International Monetary Monitor, formerly at Invesco): Bitcoin and gold standards: similarities and differences
Winter Term
- Wednesday 24th February: Gabriel Stein (Stein Brothers): The economic and inflation outlook for 2021 and 2022
- Wednesday 10th February: Dimitrios Tsomocos (Said Business School, Oxford University): The role of money and default in macroeconomic modelling
- Wednesday 27th January: Steve Hanke (Johns Hopkins University): Alternative monetary regimes to fight inflation in emerging economies: Dollarisation, monetary boards and monetary competition
2020
Autumn term
- Wednesday 11th November: Ryland Thomas (Bank of England): The Bank of England as lender of the last resort in the 19th century
- Wednesday 4th November: Alberto Musso (ECB): Inflation cycles, money cycles and credit cycles: Evidence from the Euro area
- Wednesday 21st October: Hans-Werner Sinn (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich): The economics of target balances
- Wednesday 14th October: Christopher Neely (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis): Differences in unconventional policy across central banks
- Thursday 1st October: Forrest Capie (Cass Business School): The role of central banks in great financial crises: Part 2
- Thursday 24th September: Forrest Capie (Cass Business School): The role of central banks in great financial crises: Part 1
- Thursday 10th September: Charles Goodhart (Financial Markets Group, LSE): The evolution of central banks: Part 2
- Thursday 10th September: Charles Goodhart (Financial Markets Group, LSE): The evolution of central banks: Part 1
- Wednesday 26th August: Marcel Magnus (European Parliament): Banks' capital ratios: minimum requirements vs. supervisory requirements
Summer Term
- Wednesday 19th August: Diego Zuluaga (Cato Institute): New means of payment and monetary policy
- Wednesday 29th July: Lars Christensen (Market and Money Advisory/University of Copenhagen): Will the Covid-19 crisis be inflationary?
- Wednesday 15th July: Geoffrey Wood (University of Buckingham): Debt, central banks and inflation
- Tuesday 19th May: Maria Nieto (Banco de España): Banks, Climate Risk and Financial Stability
- Tuesday 12th May: Pedro Schwartz (Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid): The Quantity Theory