Professor Emi Nakamura will deliver the 2024-25 C. Malim Harding Visitorship Lecture in Political Economy.
The lecture, “Natural Experiments to Guide Macroeconomic Policy,” is scheduled for September 30, 2024 from 4 to 6 pm at the Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place. Registration to attend is via Event Brite.
The lecture recognizes that macroeconomic policy debates play a central role in public discourse and raises several key questions. How should central banks set interest rates? How much fiscal stimulus should governments use in large recessions? How do macroeconomists answer these questions? An emerging literature in macroeconomics tries to provide new answers to these questions using natural experiments and big data.
Faculty of the Departments of Economics and Political Science, members of the larger policy community, graduate students, and undergraduate students enrolled in ECO419, ECO422, ECO435, ECO451, ECO482, POL419, POL474, and POL478, are among those who will benefit from listening to Professor Nakamura.
Emi Nakamura is the Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley where she co-directs the Macro Policy Lab. Investigators at the lab bring a variety of novel data sources and empirical methods, including measures of prices and economic growth at the state and local level, high frequency financial data, cross-country historical data, and granular big data on prices and individual households. Their hope is that better empirical evidence on key macroeconomic questions will increase the role of data-driven decision-making, and reduce the role of ideology, in macroeconomic policy.
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