Markus' Academy

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/international-currency-competition Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On March 4, 2021, Jean-Pierre Landau joined  Markus’ Academy  for a lecture on International Currency Competition: The Digital Dimension. Landau is an affiliated Professor of Economics at Sciences Po. A former Depu...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/a-chronic-pandemic-vaccine-geopolitics Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On February 25, 2021, Monica de Bolle joined  Markus’ Academy  for a talk A Chronic Pandemic? Vaccine Geopolitics. de Bolle is a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a adjunct...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/gamestop-and-predatory-trading Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On February 18, 2021, Lasse Pedersen joined  Markus’ Academy  for a talk on GameStop and Predatory Trading. Pedersen is a Professor of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School and a principal at AQR Capital Management...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/a-krugman-summers-inflation-debate Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On February 12, 2021, Paul Krugman and Lawrence H. Summers joined Markus’ Academy for a conversation on whether the Biden stimulus will lead to inflation. Krugman is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, the...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/encouraging-social-distancing-evidence Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On February 11, 2021, Esther Duflo joined Markus’ Academy to present RCT evidence on encouraging social distancing. Duflo is a Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT and a 2019 recipi...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/new-funding-models-for-biomedical Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On February 4, 2021, Andrew Lo joined  Markus’ Academy  for a talk on new funding models for biomedical innovation. Lo is a Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan. Download the slides here . Biomedicine is currently at a...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/climate-compacts-to-combat-free-riding Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On January 28, 2021, William Nordhaus joined  Markus’ Academy  for a lecture on climate compacts to combat free riding in international climate agreements. Nordhaus is a Professor of Economics at Yale Universit...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/macroeconomics-carbon-pricing-and Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On January 21, 2021, James Stock joined Markus’ Academy for a talk on macroeconomics, carbon pricing, and climate policy. Stock is a Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Download the slides...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-federal-reserve Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On January 14, 2021, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell joined Markus' Academy for a conversation. Powell and Brunnermeier discussed the following: The new flexible average inflation targeting framework T...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/less-lower-for-longer-more-higher Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On January 7, 2021, Charles Goodhart, CBE, joined Markus’ Academy for a lecture on "Less lower for longer; more higher and sooner." Goodhart is a Professor at the London School of Economics. Download the s...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/covid-19-economic-lessons Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On December 16, 2020, Markus Brunnermeier joined Markus’ Academy for a summary lecture on economic lessons from COVID-19 on resiliency. Markus is the host of Markus’ Academy, a Professor of Economics at Princeton, and Direc...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/international-economic-challenges   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On December 9, 2020, Adam Posen joined Markus' Academy to discuss international economic challenges for the President-elect: trade, China, the dollar, and pandemic recovery. Posen is the President of the Peterson Insti...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/working-from-home-will-it-persist   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On December 3, 2020, Nick Bloom joined Markus' Academy to discuss labor market trends around working from home before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Bloom is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University....

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/when-if-ever-should-we-worry-about   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On November 19, 2020, Jason Furman joined Markus' Academy to discuss U.S. debt and a framework for fiscal policy moving forward. Furman is a Professor of Economics at Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Fellow at PIIE,...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/pandemics-and-the-future-of-globalization   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On November 12, 2020, Stephen Redding joined Markus' Academy for a talk on recent work studying the relationship between pandemics and globalization. The research is joint work with Harvard's Pol Antras...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/covid-19-school-dashboard-reopen   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On November 5, 2020, Emily Oster joined Markus' Academy for a talk on her COVID-19 school dashboard and evidence around reopening schools. Oster is a Professor of Economics at Brown University. Download the slides h...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/the-natural-behavior-of-unemployment Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On October 29, 2020, Robert Hall joined Markus’ Academy for a talk on the natural behavior of unemployment. Hall is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Download the slides here.

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/the-seasonality-of-covid-19 Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On October 22, 2020, Bengt Holmstrom joined Markus’ Academy for a lecture on the seasonality of COVID-19. Holmstrom is a Professor of Economics at MIT and one of the 2016 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Downlo...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/how-to-worry-about-government-debt Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On October 15, 2020, Christopher Sims joined Markus’ Academy for a lecture on “how to worry about government debt.” Sims is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University and one of the 2011 recipients of the Nob...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/which-capitalism Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On October 8, 2020, Luigi Zingales joined Markus’ Academy for a conversation on “Which Capitalism?” Zingales is a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Download the slides here .

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/the-economic-geography-of-climate Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On October 1, 2020, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg joined Markus’ Academy for a lecture on the economic geography of climate change. Rossi-Hansberg is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He presented  joint wo...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/public-and-private-spheres-and-the Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On September 24, 2020, Jean Tirole joined Markus’ Academy for a lecture on public and private spheres and the authentic self. Tirole is honorary chairman of the Foundation JJ Laffont at the Toulouse School of Econo...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/a-q-and-a-on-digital-innovation-privacy Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On July 27, 2020, Eric Schmidt, Princeton Class of ‘76, joined Markus' Academy for a Q&A on digital innovation, privacy, and cybersecurity. Eric Schmidt is the former chairman and CEO of Google and co-...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/covid-19-a-view-from-outside-the Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On July 24, 2020, Raghuram Rajan joined Markus' Academy. Rajan is Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth, a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and a former Chief Economist of the IMF. Download the slide...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/climate-policy-moving-beyond-ostriches Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On Friday, July 17, 2020, Richard Zeckhauser joined Markus' Academy for Finance to discuss recent research on prudent climate policy. Zeckhauser is a Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy Sc...