Markus' Academy

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...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/brazils-perfect-storm Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On July 13, 2020, Arminio Fraga joined Markus' Academy for a discussion of Brazil’s economy leading up to COVID-19. Fraga is a member of the Group of Thirty and the former president of the Central Bank of Brazil. Download t...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/narrative-economics-and-covid-19 Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ On July 10, 2020, Robert J. Shiller joined Markus' Academy for a discussion of narrative economics in light of the COVID-19 epidemic. Shiller is a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a 2013 recipient of...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/tracking-the-global-pandemic-recovery   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive   On July 6, 2020, Michael Spence joined Markus' Academy for a webinar to discuss new data from a Luohan Academy study that tracks the economic recovery from COVID-19 across several countries. Spence is a Profe...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/corporate-debt-overhang-and-covid   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On June 29, 2020, Arvind Krishnamurthy joined the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss a new paper co-authored with Markus Brunnermeier on COVID credit policy. Krishnamurthy is a Professor of Finance at the...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/the-us-labor-market-during-the-beginning   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On June 26, 2020, Erik Hurst joined the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss a new paper on labor market conditions during COVID-19. Hurst is the Frank P. And Marianne R. Diassi Distinguished Service...

Follow the link for the full summary: https://markusacademy.substack.com/p/understanding-the-ecbs-pandemic-emergency   Explore the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/archive On June 22, 2020, Philip Lane joined the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss the ECB's pandemic emergency purchase program (PEPP). Lane is the Chief Economist of the ECB, a member of the ECB Ex...