MMCN Webinar Series on Macroeconomic Modelling and Pandemics

The MMCN Webinar Series was launched under the auspices of the CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison (MMCN) and the Macroeconomic Model Comparison Initiative supported by the IMFS at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

May 4, 2020
8:00-9:00 am Pacific Time
5:00-6:00 pm Central European Summer Time
Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic
Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D. (jointly with Dirk Krueger, Taojun Xie)
University of Chicago
Paper | Slides | Video (Youtube)

May 6, 2020
7:00-8:00 am Pacific Time
4:00-5:00 pm Central European Summer Time
The Macroeconomics of Epidemics
Prof. Dr. Mathias Trabandt (jointly with Martin S. Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo)
Freie Universität Berlin
Paper | Slides

May 11, 2020
8:00-9:00 am Pacific Time
5:00-6:00 pm Central European Summer Time
Strategies for Controlling the Medical and Socio-economic Costs of the Corona Pandemic
Daniel Gros, Ph.D. (jointly with Claudius Gros, Roser Valenti, Killian Valenti)
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Paper | Slides I | Slides II | Video (Youtube)

May 13, 2020
8:00-9:00 am Pacific Time
5:00-6:00 pm Central European Summer Time
The COVID19-Pandemic in the EU: Macroeconomic Transmission and Economic Policy Response
Werner Roeger, Ph.D. (jointly with Jan in't Veld and Philipp Pfeiffer)
European Commission
Paper | Slides | Video (Youtube)

May 18, 2020
2:00-3:00 pm Pacific Time
11:00 pm-12:00 am Central European Summer Time
The Global Macroeconomic Impacts of COVID-19: Seven Scenarios
Prof. Warwick McKibbin, Ph.D. (jointly with Roshen Fernando)
Australian National University
Paper | Slides | Video (Youtube)

May 25, 2020
8:00-9:00 am Pacific Time
5:00-6:00 pm Central European Summer Time
The Corona Stimulus Package: How Large is the Transfer Multiplier?
Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller (jointly with Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke)
University of Tübingen
Paper | Slides | Video (Youtube)

May 27, 2020
8:00-9:00 am Pacific Time
5:00-6:00 pm Central European Summer Time
Social Distancing and Supply Disruptions in a Pandemic
Luca Guerrieri, Ph.D. (jointly with Martin Bodenstein and Giancarlo Corsetti)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Paper | Slides | Video (Youtube)

June 3, 2020
8:00-9:00 am Pacific Time
5:00-6:00 pm Central European Summer Time
Health vs. Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling an Epidemic
Prof. Dirk Krueger, Ph.D. (jointly with Andrew Glover, Jonathan Heathcote and José-Victor Rios-Rull)
University of Pennsylvania
Paper | Slides | Video (Youtube)