The conference was cancelled because of the pandemic

The workshop was cancelled because of the pandemic

This workshop was cancelled because of the pandemic.

The current macroeconomic situation indicates a growing possibility of the next recession. Economic growth has slowed down in Europe and China and is likely to slow down in the US once the stimulative effect of tax cuts passes. Combined with tariff war between US and China, erratic economic policies in some countries and financial markets …

10th RCEA Macro-Money-Finance Conference – Is a Recession Coming? Read More »

Laurence M. BallAngelo MelinoJohns Hopkins Universityand NBERUniversity of Toronto, RCEAand C.D.Howe Institute The current macroeconomic situation will make it more difficult than ever for policymakers to stimulate economies in the next recession.  Policy interest rates cannot be reduced much  since they are at record lows; public debt is, in most countries, at record high, and …

Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Next Recession Read More »

Innovation, Growth, Governance and Development Elhanan HelpmanCharles (Chad) JonesMalcom D. KnightJames RobinsonHarvard UniversityStanford UniversityLondon School of EconomicsUniversity of Chicago While papers related to the four topics of innovation, growth, governance and development and their interrelationships are of particular interest to the organizers, we invite papers in other areas of economics, including business cycles analysis, international …

The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance – RCEF 2016 Read More »

On the occasion of honorary degree from Wilfrid Laurier University Peter HowittLyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University Innovation Through Growth and Creative Discussion