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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In March, MacCaLM Principal Investigator, John Moore, took part in the School of Economics’ first ‘An Evening with’ series. Moore presented his paper ‘Evil is the Root of all Money’ to 180...
A recent publication by MacCaLM Investigators Michele Belot and Philipp Kircher, along with MacCaLM Fellow, Paul Muller explores whether job seekers can be assisted in search for jobs more effectively. The most common...
You can find the programme for the 2019 Summer Programme below. Should you be interested in attending, please get in touch. Monday 17 June, 1.06, 50 George Square 11:15 Welcome Coffee 11:30 Chris Busch...
The MacCaLM project is delighted to welcome Dr Yulia Moiseeva as a new MacCaLM Annual Fellow. Yulia is Assistant Professor at the University of St Andrews and completed her PhD in Edinburgh under the supervision of...
The 2018 Annual Conference was held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 20 June. Pieter Gautier (VU University of Amsterdam) ‘Search, Screening and Sorting’ Martin Scheffel (University of Mannheim) ‘Financial...
The 2018 Summer Workshop took place in Edinburgh on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 June. The workshop began with a talk from José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (University of Pennsylvania) discussing the forces that drive wage dispersion...
In May 2018, the project co-hosted the 4th annual joint Macro-Finance Workshop with the Centre for Central Banking Studies at the Bank of England. The theme of the workshop was the interaction between financial markets...
In May 2018, the project is delighted to welcome Pau Pujolas as a visiting fellow. Pau is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at McMaster University. Pau’s research interests focus on productivity...
In May and June 2018, the project is delighted to welcome Ronald Wolthoff as a visiting fellow. Ronald is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labour Economics...
The project is delighted to welcome Martin Scheffel to Edinburgh in June 2018 as a visiting fellow. Martin is Professor of Applied Political Economy at the University of Mannheim. His research interest is macroeconomics...
