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Uploaded: Monday, 17th July 2023

The Impact of Automation and Fears of Job Displacement on Political Preferences

Large shifts towards automation, robots, and artificial intelligence have been uprooting the labour market. Computing power has grown exponentially, thus leading to great advances in artificial intelligence, with applications that span diverse tasks, from self-driving cars to cancer detection. While these advances improve the working lives and leisure activities of some, they also pose a threat to the jobs of many workers.
Uploaded: Monday, 5th June 2023

What does The Keynes Fund Do? Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Keynes Fund – Dr Toke Aidt and Principal Investigators

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Keynes Fund, Dr. Toke Aidt, the Director of the Keynes Fund, talks about the purpose and remit of the Fund and Principal Investigator's Dr Julia Shvets, Prof. Matt Elliott, Dr Alice Kuegler, Prof. Christopher Rauh, Dr Romola Davenport, Prof. Pedrp Saffi and Prof. Sriya Iyer talk about how the Keynes Fund has helped their research. 
Uploaded: Monday, 5th June 2023

What does The Keynes Fund Do? Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Keynes Fund – Dr Toke Aidt

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Keynes Fund, Dr. Toke Aidt, the Director of the Keynes Fund, talks about the purpose and remit of the Fund. He explains that The Keynes Fund is for anyone at Cambridge who has a good research project but is struggling to find the financial support to carry it out. It looks for early stage, cutting-edge research in Economics and Finance, including from Post-docs and PhD students. The Keynes Fund remit is to understand distortions and how they affect market allocation and to offer solutions to correct these distortions.

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Climate Change, Volatility, and Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. States

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes discusses his project Climate Change, Volatility, and Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. States. This project consists of two studies investigating the macroeconomic effects of climate change, one using data across 174 countries and the other using within-country and sectoral data from US states.
The Impact of Automation and Fears of Job Displacement on Political Preferences

Large shifts towards automation, robots, and artificial intelligence have been uprooting the labour market. Computing power has grown exponentially, thus leading to great advances in artificial intelligence, with applications that span diverse tasks, from self-driving cars to cancer detection. While these advances improve the working lives and leisure activities of some, they also pose a threat to the jobs of many workers.

10 Years of The Keynes Fund

What does The Keynes Fund Do? Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Keynes Fund – Dr Toke Aidt

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Keynes Fund, Dr. Toke Aidt, the Director of the Keynes Fund, talks about the purpose and remit of the Fund. He explains that The Keynes Fund is for anyone at Cambridge who has a good research project but is struggling to find the financial support to carry it out. It looks for early stage, cutting-edge research in Economics and Finance, including from Post-docs and PhD students. The Keynes Fund remit is to understand distortions and how they affect market allocation and to offer solutions to correct these distortions.
What does The Keynes Fund Do? Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Keynes Fund – Dr Toke Aidt and Principal Investigators

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Keynes Fund, Dr. Toke Aidt, the Director of the Keynes Fund, talks about the purpose and remit of the Fund and Principal Investigator's Dr Julia Shvets, Prof. Matt Elliott, Dr Alice Kuegler, Prof. Christopher Rauh, Dr Romola Davenport, Prof. Pedrp Saffi and Prof. Sriya Iyer talk about how the Keynes Fund has helped their research. 

2022 SoFiE Conference Keynote Speaker Videos

Stefano Giglio
Johanna Ziegel
Patrick Gagliardini
Jia Li
Alexei Onatski
Robin Lumsdaine

Janeway Institute Launch, Introduction and Research Videos

The Janeway Institute Launch Event
Professor Vasco Carvalho
Dr. William Janeway

The Weslie and William Janeway Institute for Economics was officially launched on Tuesday October 19th 2021, 16:00-17:45pm (BST-UK) with a series of opening speeches from: Prof. Stephen Toope, Dr. William Janeway, Tim Harper, Prof. Leonardo Felli and Prof. Vasco Carvalho. Followed by a panel conversation with Prof. Hélène Rey, Prof. Antoinette Schoar, Prof. Hyun Song Shin and Prof. Joseph Stiglitz.

Hopes for the Janeway Institute
Dr. William Janeway

Bill Janeway explains his hopes for the new Janeway Institute, in this interview with the Julian Lorkin.

Janeway Institute – Establishment of the Institute
Professor Vasco Carvalho

Professor Vasco Carvalho, the Director of The Janeway Institute, discusses the establishment of the Janeway Institute at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

Janeway Institute – International Macroeconomics
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti, a former Coordinator at the Janeway Institute, University of Cambridge, discusses his research in international macroeconomics, what the new Institute aims to do and the new opportunities it brings.

Janeway Institute – Global Transmissions
Professor Meredith Crowley

Prof. Meredith Crowley, a Coordinator at the Janeway Institute, University of Cambridge, discusses her research which focusses on global transmissions and the important role the new Institute will play in bringing together leading researchers from around the world and supporting new opportunities for young scholars.

Janeway Institute – Microeconomics and Networks
Professor Sanjeev Goyal

Prof. Sanjeev Goyal, a Coordinator at the Janeway Institute, University of Cambridge, discusses his research in microeconomics and Networks. He also outlines how the Janeway Institute will be supporting young economists and working across micro, macro and econometrics, with insights from mathematics, sociology and computer science.

Videos from our co-sponsor, the Keynes Fund Research Day 2021

Dan Bogart - Research Day Video

Organisation and Efficiency in Lighthouses: the English Case Revisited. The objective of this project was to produce the empirical foundations for a new analysis of the debates around the public vs. private provision of coastal lighting.
Maarten De Ridder - Research Day Video

Maarten talks about his "Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy" project
Matthew Elliott - Research Day Video

Matthew talks about his "Changing Opinions is Hard" project
Pedro Saffi - Research Day Video

Pedro talks about his "Individual Trades and the Impact on Return and Risk" project
Sanjeev Goyal - Research Day Video

Sanjeev talks about his "Learning in Canonical Networks" project
Salvatore Lattanzio - Research Day Video

Salvatore talks about his "Sorting Robots: How Automation Shapes the Allocation of Workers Across Firms" project
Tiago Cavalcanti - Research Day Video

Tiago talks about his "Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Aggregate and Distributional Effects" project

52nd Annual Money, Macro & Finance Society Conference

Keynote 1 – Sydney Ludvigson

52nd Annual Money, Macro & Finance Society Conference: Sydney Ludvigson presents the Keynote on "Markets and Monetary Policy"
Keynote 2 – Jordi Gali

52nd Annual Money, Macro & Finance Society Conference: Jordi Gali presents the Keynote on "The New Keynesian Perspective on Economic Fluctuations"
Keynote 3 – Linda Goldberg

52nd Annual Money, Macro & Finance Society Conference: Linda Goldberg presents the Charles Goodhart Lecture on Volatile International Capital Flows
Keynote 4 – Marcel Fratzscher

52nd Annual Money, Macro & Finance Society Conference: Marcel Fratzscher presents the Keynote on "Prospects for the economic recovery from the pandemic and implications for macroeconomics and social policies"
Keynote 5 – Olivier Blanchard

52nd Annual Money, Macro & Finance Society Conference: Olivier Blanchard presents the Keynote on "Fiscal Policy Under Low Rates"

COVID-19 Economic Research Videos

The Great Vaccine Rollout: Covid-19, Cooperation & Global Public Goods Video
Dr Flavio Toxvaerd

Dr Toxvaerd talks to Scott Barrett, Professor C. Jessica E. Metcalf, and Ramanan Laxminarayan about the challenges of ‘vaccine nationalism’.

Rational Epidemic Theory and Game Theoretic Models
Dr Flavio Toxvaerd

Dr Toxvaerd presented at the workshop Bridging Disciplinary Divides for Behaviorally Modulated Mathematical Models in Human Epidemiology.

Global Perspectives: Challenges for the 21st Century Entrepreneur

Dr Mohaddes discussed the economic consequences of Covid-19 and the implications for entrepreneurs, at the King's College special ‘Global Perspectives’ webinar.
Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy
Dr Flavio Toxvaerd

Dr Toxvaerd gave a Clare College talk, which looked at how economists think about disease control and contrast it with the traditional approach adopted in epidemiology and public health.

Economics of Covid-19 and Brexit, revisited
Professor Meredith Crowley

Dr Crowley was a panelist at the UK in a Changing Europe Isolation Insight Webinar, "Economics of Covid-19 and Brexit, revisited".

Female Researchers and Publications During COVID-19

Dr Amano-Patiño was interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for International Research's Ideas & Innovation Talk Series.

Climate-Macroeconomics Mini Conference

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University)
Felipe Schwartzman (Richmond Fed)
Lint Barrage (UC Santa Barbara)

Videos from our co-sponsor, the Keynes Fund

Keynes Fund Research
Experts’ Opinions and Persuasion – M. Elliott, P. Ortoleva, M. Agranov
Professor Matthew Elliott

Prof. Elliott proposes an online experiment to study how a representative sample of US citizens react to the opinions of experts and test theories on how to best disseminate this information. This is part of his Experts Opinions and Persuasion in Times of Uncertainty project.

Behaviour of Managers — J. Shvets, D. Huffman, C. Raymond

In this film, Dr Shvets summarizes the findings from her joint paper “Persistence overconfidence and biased memory: evidence from managers”, which is part of her Understanding Differences in Performance of Managers project.

Religion and Covid-19 - Sriya Iyer

Dr Sriya Iyer discusses religion, mental health and the spread of Covid-19 in her research project, Religion and Covid-19, sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
The Effect of Affirmative Action on Workers’ Outcomes – Noriko Amano-Patiño

Dr. Noriko Amano-Patiño examines US affirmative action in employment which aims to equalize labour market outcomes across racial groups in her research project entitled The Effect of Affirmative Action on Workers’ Outcomes and sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
Experts’ Opinions and Persuasion in Times of Uncertainty - Matt Elliott

Dr. Matt Elliott and co-authors propose an online experiment to study how a representative sample of US citizens reacts to experts’ opinions and to test theories on how the release of government information should be designed so that it is most persuasive in their research project, Experts’ Opinions and Persuasion in Times of Uncertainty, sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
Monetary Networks – Eduardo Gallo

Dr. Edoardo Gallo discusses how money and social networks sustain cooperation in his research project, Monetary Networks, sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.The project investigates how the monetary system emerges in a society where cooperation is sustained through informal networks and specifically looks at whether a monetary system replaces or enhances the role of informal networks in enabling exchange.
Sorting Robots: How Automation Shapes the Allocation of Workers – Salvatore Lattanzio

Salvatore Lattanzio discusses the impact of automation on labour market sorting in his research project, Sorting Robots: How Automation Shapes the Allocation of Workers Across Firms, sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Using Italy as a case study and rich administrative data, this project aims address the following questions: Does automation affect labour market sorting? Are high-wage workers more likely to be employed by high-wage firms? And how is inequality affected?
Persistence & Forecasting in Climate & Environmental Econometrics – Andrew Harvey

Prof. Andrew Harvey asks what econometric tools are suited to studying climate change and its adverse consequences in his research project, Persistence and Forecasting in Climate and Environmental Econometrics, sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
Impact of Robots & Job Displacement Fears on Political Preferences – Chris Rauh

Dr. Chris Rauh asks how automation is affecting political preferences and looks at whether the rise of fringe parties and populism can be traced back to the perceived threat of being replaced by a robot in his research project, The Impact of Automation and Fears of Job Displacement on Political Preferences, sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
Lighthouses in Economics Redivivus – Leigh Shaw-Taylor

L. Shaw-Taylor’s Keynes Fund research is summarised in this short video, narrated by joint researcher Dr. Oliver Buxton Dunn. Sponsored by the Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, the project is called Lighthouses in Economics Redivivus and is also joint with Dr. Alexis Litvine and partners Prof. Dan Bogart and Dr Eduard Alvarez-Palau.

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