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. [Read more…]