Markus’ Academy
Markus’ Academy is hosted on most Thursdays at 12:30 PM ET live via zoom as Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance Director Markus Brunnermeier hosts a conversation with an acclaimed academic or thought leader on critical issues facing the global economy. Stay in the loop on the latest webinars by subscribing.
Upcoming Webinars:
- Anton Korinek on AI Scaling Laws and Market Structure – November 26, 2024
- Bertin Martens on The Incongruent Economics of AI – December 5, 2024
- Simona Paravani – December 19, 2024
- Sendhil Mullainathan – January 2025
Recent Webinars:
- Torsten Slok on U.S. Fiscal Policy and Long-term Interest Rates – November 15, 2024
- Justin Wolfers on An Econ Educator’s Guide to our AI-Powered Future – October 11, 2024
- Roberto Campos Neto on The Future of Financial Intermediation – October 3, 2024
- Richard Baldwin on The Big Shift in Globalization – June 27, 2024
- Ernest Liu on Industrial Policy – June 20, 2024
Most Watched Webinars:
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Inflation Debate between Paul R. Krugman and Lawrence H. Summers – Part II – January 21, 2022
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A Conversation with Lawrence H. Summers and Paul Krugman – February 12, 2021
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Sergei Guriev on The Implications of Sanctions on the Russian Economy – March 3, 2022
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Hyun Song Shin on After the Crypto Crash: The Future Role of CBDC – June 30, 2022
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Martin Wolf on What’s the Matter with Britain? – December 1, 2022
Webinars by Topic:
AI & GPT
- Justin Wolfers on An Econ Educator’s Guide to our AI-Powered Future – October 11, 2024
- Luis Videgaray on The Race to Regulate AI – April 25, 2024
- Sergio A. Correia on Unlocking Economic Data with LLM – March 28, 2024
- Chad Jones on The A.I. Dilemma: Growth versus Existential Risk – May 26, 2023
- Kevin Bryan on A User’s Guide to GPT and LLMs for Economics Research – May 11, 2023
Capitalism
- Martin Wolf on The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism – December 7, 2023
- Lawrence H. Summers & Sir Angus Deaton on Is Economic Failure an Economics Failure? – October 17, 2023
- Luigi Zingales on Which Capitalism? – October 8, 2020
Climate Change
- Markus Brunnermeier on Finance, Money, and Climate Change – December 10, 2021
- William Nordhaus on Climate Compacts to Combat Free Riding in International Climate Agreements – January 28, 2021
- James Stock on Macroeconomics, Carbon Pricing, and Climate Policy – January 21, 2021
- Esteban Rossi-Hansberg on The Economic Geography of Climate Change – October 1, 2020
- Richard Zeckhauser on Climate Policy: Moving Beyond Ostriches and Pollyannas – July 17, 2020
COVID-19
- Viral Acharya on COVID Lessons from India for Other Emerging Economies – July 1, 2021
- Monica de Bolle on A Chronic Pandemic? Vaccine Geopolitics – February 25, 2021
- Esther Duflo on Encouraging Social Distancing: Evidence from Several Randomized Controlled Trials – February 11, 2021
- Raj Chetty on the Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Real-time Evidence from Private Sector Data – June 17, 2020
- Lawrence H. Summers on COVID-19 and the Global Economy – May 22, 2020
- Dani Rodrik on the Future of Globalization After the COVID Crisis – May 4, 2020
Crisis & Financial Stability
- Bill Dudley on Lessons From the Banking Crisis – March 30, 2023
- Martin Wolf on What’s the Matter with Britain? – December 1, 2022
- Anil Kashyap on Rising Interest Rates and Financial Cracks – October 13, 2022
- Sir Paul Tucker on Is the UK Suffering a Sovereign Debt Crisis? – October 6, 2022
- Jeremy Stein on an Evaluation of the Fed-Treasury Credit Programs – May 11, 2020
Development
Emerging Markets
- Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba on Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity – May 23, 2024
- Ivan Werning on Argentina at a Crossroads: Perils of Dollarization – November 21, 2023
- Chang-Tai Hsieh on Two Strong Hands: China’s Vision for the Private Sector – May 26, 2022
- Viral Acharya on COVID Lessons from India for Other Emerging Economies – July 1, 2021
- Robin Brooks on Emerging Markets: Taper Tantrum Redux? – April 1, 2021
- Raghuram Rajan on COVID-19: A View from Outside the Industrialized World – July 24, 2020
- Arminio Fraga on Brazil’s Perfect Storm – July 13, 2020
FinTech, Digital Money, & Crypto
- Roberto Campos Neto on The Future of Financial Intermediation – October 3, 2024
- Hyun Song Shin on After the Crypto Crash: The Future Role of CBDC – June 30, 2022
- Jonathan Payne on Token, Defi, and Smart CBDC – June 9, 2022
- Antoinette Schoar on Bitcoin Adoption: What Regulators Need to Consider – June 10, 2021
- Gary Gorton on Recent Changes and the Future of the US Financial System – April 15, 2021
- Amit Seru on The Rise of Fintech Intermediaries – March 18/19, 2021
- Jean-Pierre Landau on International Currency Competition: The Digital Dimension – March 4, 2021
Globalization
- Richard Baldwin on The Big Shift in Globalization – June 27, 2024
- Lawrence H. Summers on Rethinking Multilateralism – December 17, 2021
- Adam Posen on International Economic Challenges for the President-Elect: Trade, China, the Dollar, and Pandemic Recovery – December 10, 2020
- Stephen Redding on Pandemics and the Future of Globalization – November 12, 2020
- Dani Rodrik on the Future of Globalization After the COVID Crisis – May 4, 2020
- Hyun Song Shin on Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies and “Original Sin Redux” – April 20, 2020
Government Debt
- Torsten Slok on U.S. Fiscal Policy and Long-term Interest Rates – November 15, 2024
- Barry Eichengreen on His Latest Book, “In Defense of Public Debt” – October 7, 2021
- Olivier Blanchard on Rethinking Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Post-COVID – June 2, 2021
- Jason Furman on When, If Ever, Should We Worry About the Debt? – November 19, 2020
- Christopher Sims on How to Worry About Government Debt – October 15, 2020
- Kenneth Rogoff on Global Sovereign Debt and the Dollar Post-COVID – June 12, 2020
Inequality & Social Mobility
- Raj Chetty on Social Capital and Economic Mobility – September 8, 2022
- Leah Boustan on Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success – June 16, 2022
- Motohiro Yogo on Financial Inclusion in the US – January 27, 2022
- Agustín Carstens on Central Banks and Inequality – May 6, 2021
- Lisa Cook on The Economic and Social Implications of Racial Disparities – June 8, 2020
- Angus Deaton on What COVID-19 Means for Inequality and ‘Deaths of Despair’ – April 13, 2020
Inflation
- Austan Goolsbee on Monetary Policy at an Unusual Time – February 29, 2024
- Loretta Mester on A Diligent Return to Price Stability – November 10, 2022
- James Bullard on The U.S. Economy and Monetary Policy – April 21, 2022
- Arvind Krishnamurthy on QE: What Have we Learned? – March 24, 2022
- Yuriy Gorodnichenko on Inflation Expectations – February 25, 2022
- Ricardo Reis on Inflation Risks – February 17, 2022
- Alan Blinder on Landings Hard and Soft: The Fed, 1965-2020 – February 11, 2022
- Inflation Debate between Paul R. Krugman and Lawrence H. Summers – Part II – January 21, 2022
- Lord Mervyn King on Central Banking – January 14, 2022
- Charlie Evans on Experience with Monetary Policy in a Low r* World – September 30, 2021
- Alberto Cavallo on COVID Inflation: Evidence from Real-Time Data – June 17, 2021
- Markus Brunnermeier on Inflation, Safe Assets, and Debt Sustainability – May 27, 2021
- Agustín Carstens on Central Banks and Inequality – May 6, 2021
- Emi Nakamura on Is the Phillips Curve Getting Flatter? – April 22, 2022
- A Conversation with Lawrence H. Summers and Paul Krugman – February 12, 2021
- A Conversation with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell – January 14, 2021
- Charles Goodhart on Less Lower for Longer; More Higher and Sooner – January 7, 2021
Innovation
- Daron Acemoglu on Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity – June 14, 2023
- Philippe Aghion on The Power of Creative Destruction – June 24, 2021
- Andrew Lo on New Funding Models for Biomedical Innovation – February 4, 2021
- Eric Schmidt: A Q&A on Digital Innovation, Privacy, and Cybersecurity – July 27, 2020
Investing
- Elizabeth Myers on Finance from the Front Lines – May 21, 2021
- Barry Ritholtz on Market Values, Cycles, & Bubbles – April 29, 2021
- Lasse Pedersen on GameStop and Predatory Trading – February 19, 2021
Resilience
- Benjamin Golub on Networks in Contagion and Resilience – March 21, 2024
- Bruce Greenwald on Long Term Resilience – November 30, 2023
- Markus Brunnermeier on COVID-19 Economic Lessons – December 17, 2020
Sanctions/Ukraine
- Yuriy Gorodnichenko on The Ukrainian War Economy – February 2, 2024
- Harold James on Reconstructing Ukraine: Lessons from the Marshall Plan – September 29, 2022
- Oleg Itskhoki on Sanctions and Exchange Rate – June 23, 2022
- Sylvain Chassang on Strategic Energy Purchases: Keeping Oil Prices Manageable – June 2, 2022
- Elina Ribakova on Russia Sanctions: Diving into the Details – April 14, 2022
- David Baqaee and Ben Moll on What if Germany is Cut Off from Russian Oil and Gas? – April 7, 2022
- James Hamilton on Sanctions, Energy Prices, and the Global Economy – March 17, 2022
- Sergei Guriev on The Implications of Sanctions on the Russian Economy – March 3, 2022
Spacial Economics
- Edward Glaeser on Survival of the City – October 28, 2021
Working from Home
- Nick Bloom on Working from Home: Will it Persist – December 3, 2020