Prof Martin Weale, CBE, was Director of NIESR from 1995 to 2010 and subsequently a Fellow whilst he sat on the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. He was appointed Honorary Fellow of the Institute in 2016 and took up the Chair of Economics at King's College London in the same year. The Conference will include papers from colleagues reflecting the breadth of his intellectual interests.
You can listen to the Conference podcast here.
9.45-10.00am |
Introduction and Opening Remarks Jagjit Chadha (NIESR)
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10.00-11.00am |
Session 1 – Human Capital and the Population Justin van de Ven (University of Melbourne and NIESR) – LINDA: A dynamic microsimulation model for analysing policy effects on the evolving population cross-section James Sefton (Imperial College London) – Economic Fluctuations, Human Capital and Life-Cycle Asset Allocation
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11.00-11.30am |
Coffee
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11.30am-1.00pm |
Session 2 – Econometrics and Forecasting James Mitchell (Warwick Business School) – National Institute Density Forecasts Andrew Harvey (University of Cambridge) – Co-integration and control: seat belts, German re-unification and Brexit George Kapetanios (King’s College London) – A One-Covariate at a Time, Multiple Testing Approach to Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Linear Regression Models
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1.00-2.00pm |
Lunch
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2.00-3.00pm |
Session 3 – Employment and Labour Markets Alex Bryson (University College London) –The Case for Personnel Economics Mary O’Mahony (King’s College London) – Beyond Wages: The Impact of Employment Protection on International Comparisons of Earnings, with Ana Rincon-Aznar and Stanley Siebert
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3.00-3.30pm |
Coffee
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3.30-5.00pm |
Session 4 – Macroeconomic Policy Andrew Blake (Bank of England) – Can we escape our certain fate? Jagjit Chadha (NIESR) – Mapping the Monetary and Financial Sectors, 1790-1850, with Ryland Thomas David Vines (University of Oxford) – The Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policy: 28 Years on from the Weale-Blake-Christodoulakis-Meade-Vines Book
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5.00-5.15pm |
Closing Remarks Martin Weale (King’s College London) |
Attendance is by invitation only and for further information please contact:
Luca Pieri
j.chadha [at] niesr.ac.uk