Macro Finance Research Program
@MFRProgram
Faculty Director: Lars Peter Hansen (@UncertainLars). The MFR Program operates under the auspices of the @BeckerFriedman (BFI) at @UChicago.
It was my privilege today to speak at the Growth Academy to an audience of scholars, many of whom are engaged in policy advice. I spoke about integrating uncertainty formally into policy assessment. The audience asked great questions and probed ways to extend the insights to a…
LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @UncertainLars (@UChi_Economics) examines “Uncertainty, Social Valuation, and Climate Change Policy”—a deep dive into how different types of uncertainty shape the sense of urgency and direction of climate action. #Uncertainty
To wrap up our conference, we have @ManuelMenkhoff (LMU) and Ian Dew-Becker (FRB Chicago) discussing macroeconomic tail risk expectations of firms. Many thanks to all speakers and guests for your participation! #EconTwitter
We’re delighted to have @luigi_bocola (Stanford/NBER) and Anna Cieslak (Duke) discuss the working paper, “Bond Market Views of the Fed.” Thanks to our participants for the engaging questions! #EconTwitter
“Heterogenous Innovations and Growth under Imperfect Technology Spillovers” presented by @_seulakim (Penn State) and discussed by @MartaPrato (Bocconi) #EconTwitter
Day 2 of our Frontier Topics in Macro-Finance conference begins with a presentation by Hao Xing (BU) followed by discussant Bryan Seegmiller (Northwestern Kellogg). #EconTwitter
We have an exciting panel session on climate with speakers @UncertainLars (UChicago), @sewonhur (FRB Dallas), Kelly Shue (Yale), and moderator Yueran Ma (Booth). Many thanks to our audience for the engaging questions. #EconTwitter
Kicking off Day 1 of our @MFRProgram Frontier Topics in Macro-Finance Conference—organized by my @UChicago colleagues, Yueran Ma, @CarolinPflueger , and myself—with an exciting first session on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets. #macroeconomics #macrofinance #econtwitter…
Prof. John List has been appointed director of UChicago’s world-renowned Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. Learn more about List and his field-defining research: ms.spr.ly/6019qgER9
Join us on November 12 at the @ChicagoBooth London campus for a lecture by @UncertainLars, "Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Policy: Conceal or Confront?" Register now to attend this special event: uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dn… #ClimatePolicy #EconLecture #London #ChicagoBooth
ICYMI: Watch a replay of the #Purdue Presidential Lecture Series event with Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen on YouTube. On Oct. 17, Hansen shared his insights on uncertainty’s influence on policymaking with @PurduePresident. purdue.university/3zVmNs0
@UChi_Economics Professor Lars Hansen (@UncertainLars) is hiring an RP to support projects in the Macro Finance Research Program! You can find full details at: bit.ly/3zKNuPR Apply before November 19! For related postings, go to: predoc.org/opportunities
VIDEOS: 2024 Uncertainty, Climate Change, and Policy Challenges Conference hosted by University of Chicago Macro Finance Research Program (@MFRProgram) & Imperial College Business School, Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis (BHC). Watch here: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/u…
Photos from our recent 2024 MFR Summer Session for Young Scholars are now available on the MFR Flickr account here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBCS6c We already miss our exceptional young scholar and faculty participants and look forward to engaging them in future MFR events!
Great to present my research with @winstonxu4 at @MFRProgram Summer Session for Young Scholars. Got many great feedback and questions. Thank you @UncertainLars & @MFRProgram for putting together a great program where I connect with top scholars and amazing peers in macro finance!
Day 2 of our Summer Session for Young Scholar poster presentations featuring Carlos Bolivar (Minnesota), Giovanni Bonfanti (Columbia), Naomi Cohen (Sciences Po), Luigi Falasconi (UPenn), Mian Liu (HEC Paris), Tianshu Lyu (Yale), Clara Chi Xu, (UPenn) #EconTwitter
What a great pleasure it was to be back at @UChi_Economics for the @MFRProgram this week, where I could get feedback on my research, learn from top scholars, and connect with fantastic PhD students! Thank you @UncertainLars and the @MFRProgram team for this amazing event!
Had a terrific week meeting with a cohort of 30+ promising young scholars working on their dissertations at the intersection of macro and finance as part of our @MFRProgram Summer Session for Young Scholars. It was a pleasure to learn about their interesting research ideas. These…
Thrilled to have presented my work with Christopher Rauh (@CambridgeINET & @CamEcon) at the @MFRProgram Young Scholars session here at UChicago. Thanks for all the insightful questions and feedback!
Had a terrific week meeting with a cohort of 30+ promising young scholars working on their dissertations at the intersection of macro and finance as part of our @MFRProgram Summer Session for Young Scholars. It was a pleasure to learn about their interesting research ideas. These…
The final presenter of our Summer Session for Young Scholars program is Fernando Alvarez (UChicago) who is presenting his research on “Mean Field Games in Macroeconomics” #meanfieldgames #macroeconomics #EconTwitter
Our first speaker of the final day of the 2024 MFR Summer Session for Young Scholars is @profsufi (UChicago) presenting his research on “Inequality in Finance and Macroeconomics” #EconTwitter #inequality #finance #macroeconomics
After a long day of rigorous research presentations and fruitful discussions on macroeconomics, our Summer Session young scholar participants got to enjoy a relaxing dinner coupled with live jazz! #EconTwitter
