Birkbeck’s Centre for Applied Macroeconomics (BCAM) holds 3rd Annual Workshop.
A review of the 2016 Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics (BCAM) Workshop
The Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics (BCAM) held its 3rd Annual Workshop on the 20th May, bringing together academics, students, economists and policy makers for a day of talks, debate and discussion to consider the latest issues in the field of Macroeconomics.
The event saw academics from Oxford, Cambridge, Birkbeck and many other institutions assemble to discuss developments in the study and application of Macroeconomics, with topics ranging from new Keynesian behavioural models to Japanese household portfolios.
With last year’s event looking at the ramifications of the global financial crash of 2008, this year the focus turned to Macroeconomics in practice, with case studies from around the globe attesting to the diversity of contemporary study in the discipline.
Plenary talks from Wouter J. Den Haan (London School of Economics) and Paul Levine (University of Surrey) invited an engaged audience to consider recent developments in the subject and saw the speaker’s field questions from the podium.
After whittling down 40+ paper submissions, the Workshop considered eleven working papers and saw the work of two Birkbeck PhD students presented to the audience.
Speaking after the event, BCAM Director and Programme Director for Birkbeck’s MPhil/PhD course in Economics and Finance, Dr Yunus Aksoy, said “The Workshop was a great opportunity to bring together those interested in the discipline, provided a platform for an informed debate in macroeconomics and really got to the centre of issues fundamental to macroeconomics, such as rationality, heterogeneity in human and firm behaviour and the intersection of theory and practice.”
The day’s talks are now available to watch online at the BCAM webpage. You can browse related courses offered by Birkbeck on the Economics, Maths and Statistics departmental homepage. You can still catch the talks and working papers from the 2015 Workshop online.