MacCaLM Principal Investigator, Professor John Moore and Co-Investigator Professor Nobuhiro Kiyotaki have won the prestigious 2020 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. They win the award jointly with Professor Ben Bernanke, Distinguished...
This is a video recording of John Moore’s Keynote Lecture “Credit Horizons” — based on joint research with Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton) and Shengxing Zhang (LSE) — delivered at the CESifo Area Conference on Money, Macro, and International Finance...
The Fraser of Allander Institute based at the University of Strathclyde published its latest Economic Commentary featuring a diverse range of expert views on the current economic outlook including the MacCaLM Executive Director, Robert Zymek. The...
MacCaLM Co-investigator, Michèle Belot, and co-authors have collected data on representative samples across 6 countries on variables related to Covid-19 to be used by the wider research community. This new data set is collected on representative...
On Tuesday 16th of June the MacCaLM project hosted an online workshop titled “Economics of Covid-19”. The workshop brought together members of the MacCaLM research team and beyond to discuss their latest research on the Covid-19 pandemic...
MacCaLM Co-investigator David Miles has published a recent paper assessing how far the COVID-19 virus might have spread – and the inherent uncertainty about such estimates. The paper “Assessing the Spread of the Novel Coronovirus in The...
We warmly invite you to join the MacCaLM research team for our online workshop “Economics of Covid-19” on Tuesday 16th June. The Workshop consists of a full day of talks from the MacCaLM team and beyond on the latest in Covid Economics...
Congratulations to MacCaLM Co-investigator, Maia Guell, who has been elected to the the Royal Economic Society Council for 2020-2025. The Royal Economic Society (RES) is one of the oldest and most prestigious economic associations in the world...
The MacCaLM Project’s Executive Director, Robert Zymek, has published a new short paper (forthcoming in the Centre for Economic Policy Research’s Covid Economics series) on how modelling tricks from trade economics can be used to analyse...
MacCaLM co-investigator Philipp Kircher has co-authored a new study investigating the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic which indicates strong stay-at-home policies must remain in place sufficiently close to when a vaccine...
MacCaLM researcher Sevi Mora and coauthors have published a study using almost one and a half billion bank transactions to track the economic impact of Spain’s coronavirus lockdown in real time. The study, conducted by the universities of...
MacCaLM Co-Investigator, David Miles, has recently written for VoxEU on economic policies being undertaken during the global coronavirus pandemic and the affects they may have on future economies. With much of the worlds economy coming to a halt...
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and to be compliant with current government advice, many of our upcoming seminars and events will be postponed or cancelled. This includes the MacCaLM Summer Programme 2020. Please check our website and...
We have had a fantastic year in 2019 at MacCaLM, with a busy schedule of seminars and events, as well as new leading researchers joining the team to contribute to our goal to find out how malfunctions in labour and financial markets contribute to...
We’re thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated paper from MacCaLM researcher Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and the MacCaLM Principle Investigator, John Moore, has been published in the Journal of Political Economy and is now available for download...
On Thursday 28 November, Professor Nobuhiro Kiyotaki will visit Edinburgh to present his recent paper Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation. This paper examines how aggregate output and income distribution interact with accumulation of intangible...
Congratulations to Mike Elsby on his appointment as a Director of The Review of Economic Studies, one of the most prestigious economic journals in the world. The Review was founded in 1933 by a group of young British and American Economists. It is...
We are delighted to announce that Professor Philipp Kircher has been awarded the 2019 IZA Young Labour Economist Award. Professor Kircher, who shares the honour with Leah Platt Boustan (Princeton University), was awarded the prize for his work on...