2023 Conference

PROGRAMME

54th MMF Conference Programme (PDF)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Paul Mizen
  (King's College London)
  "Firming up price inflation"  (Charles Goodhart Lecture)
  (Slides) - (Publication)
• Antonella Trigari
  (Bocconi University)
  “Temporary layoffs, loss-of-recall, and cyclical unemployment dynamics”
  (Slides)
• David Miles
  (Imperial College London, Office for Budget Responsibility)
  “The UK’s fiscal challenge – taxes, spending and sustainability”
  (Slides)
• Lawrence Christiano
  (Northwestern University)
  “Slow learning and rational expectations” (Harry Johnson Lecture)
  (Slides)

SPECIAL SESSIONS

National Institute of Economic and Social Research Special Session:

Session Title: Nominal price rigidity and the choice of target inflation measure

Session Chair: Stephen Millard (NIESR)

Session Speakers:

• Huw David Dixon (Cardiff): Have prices become more flexible during the cost-of-living crisis? Evaluating frequency and age as measures of rigidity
• Claudio Morana (Milano-Bicocca): Euro-Area inflation and a new measure of core inflation
• Paula Bejarano Carbo (NIESR): The distributional consequences of a central bank’s price index choice

Bank of England Special Session:

Session Title: Global banks and non-bank financial intermediaries: Heterogeneities and vulnerabilities

Session Chair: Dennis Reinhardt (BoE)

Session Speakers and Discussants:

• Danny Walker (BoE) and Iñaki Aldasoro (Discussant, BIS): Hedging, market concentration and monetary policy: a joint analysis of gilt and derivatives exposures
• Vania Stavrakeva (LBS) and Simon Lloyd (Discussant, BoE): Risk-on, Risk-off episodes and spillovers into currency markets: The role of asset managers
• Daniel Ostry (BoE) and Dmitry Muhkin (Discussant, LSE): Granular banking flows and exchange-rate dynamics

Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance Special Session:

Session Title: Addressing the UK’s record of weak productivity, stagnant living standards and high inequality”

Session Chair: James Smith (RF)

Session Speakers:

• John Muellbauer (Oxford): The Thatcher legacy: Lessons for the future of the UK economy
• Shania Bhalotia (LSE): Trading Up

LOCAL ORGANISING PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Eun Young (EY) Oh

Scott Mahadeo

Georgios Magkonis

Joe Cox

Stephen Millard