Events
Throughout the year, we run a range of public lectures, workshops, roundtables, press briefings and seminars to share the findings of our research, and facilitate the debate of these important issues.
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High Dimensional Forecasting and its Pitfalls – M. Hashem Pesaran
Forecasting is central to macroeconomic policy making and risk management, and it is now routine to exploit data on a large number of variables to produce forecasts. In doing so, you can use a number of techniques, such as penalized regressions, principal components, neural networks, ensemble, Bayesian and other forecast…
15:00 to 16:30
21 June, 2023
Governor Talk with Ed Conway
Our June Governor Talk will be given by Ed Conway on his new book 'Material World'. We are in the early stages of a new industrial revolution (and energy transition) – an attempt to replace fossil fuels with renewable alternatives. Around the world, many countries – most notably the US…
12:30 to 13:30
28 June, 2023
NMITE and the Political Economy of Higher Education – Jesse Norman
NMITE and the Political Economy of Higher Education Throughout its history UK Higher Education has rarely been out of the headlines. Today, it is assailed by public concerns about value for money, league tables, inclusivity, changes in technology and the nature of work. At a deeper level, there is…
15:00 to 16:00
4 July, 2023
Governor Talk with Hetan Shah
Hetan Shah will be delivering our July Governor talk on: How should policymakers be thinking about artificial intelligence? About the Speaker Hetan Shah is chief executive at the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences. He is Chair of Our World in Data, which brings…
12:30 to 13:30
13 July, 2023
Working In Economics And Research
This event is for students who are interested in possibly pursuing a career in Economics or Social Research. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research will be holding a half-day event where you are able to come and hear from some of our research staff about their journeys to…
10:00 to 13:30
18 July, 2023
Productivity Commission Evidence Session: Examining the Role of International Investment
As a medium-sized open economy, the UK depends more on trade and international investment than a number of other OECD advanced economies. This Productivity Commission evidence session examines the role of international investment in raising productivity. Specifically, it explores the relationship between international investment and productivity growth, in particular recent…
14:00 to 16:00
20 July, 2023
Summer Press Conference
Please note this event is for journalists only. If you are interested in attending, please email our press and media team.
11:00 to 12:30
8 August, 2023
Summer Members’ Roundtable
NIESR will be holding it's quarterly roundtable for members where it will be discussing our findings and predictions for the next economic quarter. This roundtable will be chaired by Ricardo Reis. Ricardo Reis is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Recent honors include the 2022…
09:00 to 10:30
9 August, 2023
Summer 2023 Economic Forum
NIESR is delighted to bring to you our latest Economic Forum where we presented our forecast for the next economic quarter. With inflation remaining stubbornly high, a labour market that is suffering from a severe labour shortage and an overall stagnation in living standards, policymakers in the UK face several…
11:00 to 12:00
11 August, 2023
NiGEM Workshop: Forecasting with NiGEM
This training workshop, designed for subscribers to NiGEM, will provide a quick introduction into the database, and cover topics such as creating a new forecast base; an introduction to the forecast suite and software; residuals; forecast analysis; adding assumptions and forecast comparison.
11:00 to 12:00
14 September, 2023
NiGEM Workshop: Expanding Country Models in NiGEM
A step-by-step guide on how to expand existing small scale models into a large scale model. The workshop will cover the addition of new variables and equations to the model, as well as testing the simulation to check the performance of the newly created model.
14:00 to 15:00
14 September, 2023