Economic Policy online panel discussion of a new research report by 
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
 

Covid, School Closures And Children’s Futures
Long-term distributional effects of lost learning in Germany and the US

Join us on 7 April at 17:15 (CET) for an Economic Policy panel discussion of a new research report by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln.

As the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world in the spring of 2020, schools were closed and millions of children faced major learning losses while their parents struggled to combine work, childcare and home education. A new study of the likely long-term impact of those closures on children’s future livelihoods and wellbeing will be launched at an online panel discussion hosted by Europe’s leading economic policy journal on Thursday 7 April 2022.

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln of Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR will present comparative empirical evidence on the considerable heterogeneity of school closures in Germany and the US – related to school type, pupil age and local income levels. She will examine likely variations in long-term effects across the income and wealth distribution. And she will consider policies that may address some of the educational damage to the most disadvantaged children from the missed opportunities caused by the pandemic and lockdowns.

Her presentation will be followed by a discussion with Andreas Schleicher and Monica Costa-Dias, moderated by Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor for the Financial Times.

Email [email protected] for further details and to request access to the press room. 

Finance, money and climate change

As fighting climate change becomes the world’s top post-pandemic priority, financial intermediaries, their regulators and central banks have all been called to contribute. A major new research report exploring the scope and limits of green finance and the possibility of ‘greening’ monetary policies will be launched at an online panel discussion hosted by Europe’s leading economic policy journal on Thursday 21 October 2021 at 17:00 CEST.

Markus Brunnermeier of Princeton University and CEPR, who has co-authored the study with former top French and international policy-maker Jean-Pierre Landau of Sciences Po, will present a new framework for thinking about finance, money and climate change – identifying the trade-offs and key choices to be made.

His presentation will be followed by a discussion with Anna Breman, deputy governor of Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, and Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, moderated by Tim Phillips, presenter of CEPR’s Vox Talks Economics podcast.

For more information visit the Economic Policy journal website.

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Date: Tuesday, 23 and 30 June and 7, 14 and 21 July 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 (BST), 14:00 - 15:00 (CET), 8:00-9:00 (EST).

At the end of March CEPR launched a new online (lightly) peer-reviewed publication, Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, to disseminate emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic. Very quickly after the onset of the epidemic a large number of policy papers were produced by economic scholars, many of which have appeared on VoxEU. This was enormously helpful in improving our understanding of policy options, but the next step requires more formal investigations, based on explicit theory and/or empirical evidence. Covid Economics aims to collate some of the best economic research on Covid-19 so that it might inform the academic and policy debate in an acute crisis when results have to circulate fast. It has been extremely well received by both the academic and policy-making communities. 
Building on this success, CEPR and the Graduate Institute, Geneva are launching a weekly online seminar series which will present selected papers published in Covid Economics.

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TVg00oXuQ7SiSrrx8OjlwQ

23 June
Paper presented: "Mitigating the work-security trade-off "
Presenter(s): Tito Boeri, Bocconi University and CEPR
Moderator: Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR

30 June
Paper presented: A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
Presenter(s): Francesco Lippi, LUISS University, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and CEPR
Moderator: Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR

Dates: Tuesday 7, 14 and 21 July 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 (BST), 14:00 - 15:00 (CET), 8:00-9:00 (EST).

7 July
Paper presented: How did the 2003 SARS epidemic shape Chinese trade?
Presenters(s): Heiwai Tang, HKU, Johns Hopkins University and CESIfo
Moderator: Yi Huang, IHEID and CEPR

14 July
Paper presented: How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World?
Presenter(s): Titan Alon, University of California San Diego
Moderator: TBA

21 July
Paper presented: Pandemic Lockdown: The Role of Government Commitment
Presenter(s): Pierre Yared, Columbia Business School
Moderator: Beatrice Weder de Mauro, The Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR

FRAME, project funded by the European Commission, has developed models and empirical evidence to better understand a wide set of issues related to technology, macroeconomics, innovation, asset prices, labour markets and unemployment. The project has developed new Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models and has generated new data in both multi-sector and multi-country settings that will allow for realistic estimates of the impact of public research and innovation activities on innovation, productivity growth and employment. New results have also been generated in terms of TFP estimators with the aim of being of help to academics and policymakers in understanding the impact on monetary and fiscal policy, technological adoption, asset pricing and innovation policy. Through this conference we will aim to understand how monetary and fiscal policymaking and the development of innovation policy for the diffusion of technology are interdependent in the short, medium and long-term.

The following questions will be addressed in the webinar:

• How is the economic recovery in CESEE proceeding and what are the main growth drivers?
• Can the region converge to Western European income levels any time soon?
• Should additional countries from EU-CEE join the euro?
• How well are countries in the region positioned to deal with higher yields on hard currency sovereign debt?

Further information can be found here: https://wiiw.ac.at/wiiw-autumn-forecast-2017-webinar-e-367.html and registration can be done here: https://wiiw.ac.at/er-367.html 

The conference aims to bring together academic and central bank economists, financial market practitioners and policy makers to stimulate debate and research on this important topic. Both theoretical and empirical papers are invited on frameworks, channels and instruments pertaining to the implementation and transmission of U.S. and foreign monetary policy since the end of the global financial crisis.

Topics of interest:

New dynamics in money, currency and fixed income markets
Optimal monetary policy frameworks and tools at negative interest rates, near zero rates, or in the longer run
New perspectives on monetary policy transmission channels
Financial stability and monetary policy near or above the zero lower bound
The implications of regulatory reform on monetary policy transmission and financial intermediation
Rethinking policy target rates and other financial benchmark rates
The role of global banks in international propagation of monetary policy shocks

Alexander Mihailov and Kerry Patterson, University of Reading, and Fabio Rumler, Austrian National Bank, are delighted to present this one-day international workshop as part of a British Academy Small Research Grant.

Confirmed speakers:

• Michael Clements, University of Warwick
• Domenico Giannone, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Eleonora Granziera, Bank of Canada
• Alexander Mihailov, University of Reading
• Simon Price, Bank of England and City University London
• Fabio Rumler, Austrian National Bank
• Timo Teräsvirta, Aarhus University

There is no fee for conference registration or attendance, but places are limited. The programme and further logistical information can be found on the website link below.