Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has published an article in the Economics Observatory. With the worst of the pandemic now behind us, it is time to take stock of how the government dealt with the crisis and to learn important lessons for the future

Published on: Thursday 24th November 2022

COVID-19

Economic Response

Governments

Policy

VoxTalks have released a podcast based on Dr Flavio Toxvaerd's recent paper, "Epidemics in Space: Control, Targeting and Delegation".

Published on: Friday 21st October 2022

COVID-19

Epidemics

Policy

Spread

Dr Flavio Toxvaerd and Darren Hoover (Faculty of Economics, PhD student) have published an article for VOXeu that considers whether countries coordinate control measures during pandemics and should policies be locally targeted?

Published on: Wednesday 12th October 2022

COVID-19

Geography

Governments

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for The Deepness, an online dive deep into the world of science.

Published on: Thursday 22nd September 2022

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Herd Immunity

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed by Comedian Sammy Obeid, for his "Explain it to a comedian" video series.

Published on: Tuesday 24th May 2022

COVID-19

Economics

Epidemiology

Policy

The Bennett Institute for Public Policy is running an Executive Education course with IMF senior economists, Dr Reda Cherif and Dr Fuad Hasanov who will discuss a technology and innovation policy to ride the energy transition and build a prosperous future. Dr William Janeway will also join the event for the final panel session. The half-day course will take place on Monday 9th May 2022, from 9.00am - 2.15pm. 

Published on: Friday 25th March 2022

Technology

Innovation

Policy

Watch videos from the Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics: Models and Methods Workshop, hosted by Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and the Isaac Newton Institute.

Published on: Friday 4th March 2022

Behaviour

COVID-19

Models

Policy

Dr Kamiar Mohaddes's work on climate mitigation is quoted in the Boston Globe, as climate experts warn that failure to address the climate crisis will come at an even higher price.

Published on: Wednesday 22nd December 2021

Climate Change

Climate Mitigation

Fiscal

Policy

The data on the number of detected cases of the Omicron strain are not encouraging. Many European governments will need to resort to new measures against the spread of the new strain.

Published on: Wednesday 22nd December 2021

COVID-19

Policy

Restrictions

Variants

Following the announcement that antiviral treatments for Covid-19 will soon be available, will this reduce people’s incentives to avoid becoming infected, lessen their readiness to practice social distancing or even discourage them from getting vaccinated.

Published on: Friday 17th December 2021

Antivirals

Behaviour

COVID-19

Policy

A fascinating debate to celebrate the launch of the Janeway Institute discussed the future heading of research into economics, and examined the link between financial markets and the real economy.

Published on: Monday 6th December 2021

Behaviour Economics

Climate Finance

Financial Markets

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd participated in a panel event for the Economics Observatory, "A one-two punch: health and economics".

Published on: Wednesday 24th November 2021

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Policy

Vaccines

Watch videos from the Modelling Behaviour to Inform Policy for Pandemics event, that Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Newton Gateway to Mathematics organised.

Published on: Wednesday 10th November 2021

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Policy

Vaccines

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Newton Gateway to Mathematics have organised a three-day workshop on Modelling Behaviour to Inform Policy for Pandemics. The online event will run from Tuesday 2nd November 2021 to Friday 5th November 2021 and will bring together epidemiologists, economists, modelers and policy makers. Please see the site for more details and to register your interest.

Event Date: Tuesday 2nd November 2021 - Friday 5th November 2021

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Policy

Vaccines

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd chaired The Great Vaccine Rollout: Covid-19, Cooperation & Global Public Goods webinar, organised by The Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Published on: Thursday 28th October 2021

COVID-19

International

Policy

Vaccines

The Bennett Institute for Public Policy held an online webinar on Tuesday 26th October 2021, at 17:00pm - 18:15pm, where international experts in economics and public affairs discussed vaccine nationalism.

Event Date: Tuesday 26th October 2021

COVID-19

Policy

Vaccines

International

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd explains how economics can be used to inform public health policy in a new podcast recorded by the London School of Economics.

Published on: Monday 4th October 2021

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Policy

Vaccines

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has written an introduction for a special edition of National Institute Economic Review, dedicated to Economic Contributions to Infection Control.

Published on: Friday 1st October 2021

COVID-19

Economic Impact

Infection Control

Policy

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper on climate change and sovereign credit ratings, has been quoted in an article for Bloomberg News.

Published on: Thursday 23rd September 2021

Climate Change

Credit Rating

Credit Risk

Policy

In this Economics Observatory article, Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd explains that international cooperation of vaccine rollout is crucial, and asks how well are we doing?

Published on: Friday 20th August 2021

COVID-19

International

Policy

Vaccines

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes took part in a Climate Change panel discussion event on 28th March 2021, as part of the University's Cambridge Festival.

Published on: Wednesday 7th April 2021

Climate Change

Policy

Technology

Tipping Point

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper "Covid-19 Fiscal Support and its Effectiveness" (joint with Alexander Chudik and Mehdi Raissi) was quoted by Martin Sandbu in his Financial Times column.

Published on: Thursday 4th March 2021

COVID-19

Fiscal Support

Trade

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for BBC News Scotland, where he talked about the implications of easing the current lockdown restrictions and the differences in approach between the UK Government and Scottish Parliament, for the easing the restrictions.

Published on: Wednesday 3rd March 2021

COVID-19

Lockdown

Social Distancing

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in The Independent newspaper. The article looks at the suggestion that data revisions on new coronavirus cases by the official statistics body indicate that the UK might have gone into lockdown in November unnecessarily.

Published on: Thursday 10th December 2020

COVID-19

Lockdown

Policy

Public Health

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has published a new blog for ProMarket (the online publication for The Stigler Center, University of Chicago Booth). Dr Toxvaerd's article "Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Good Health Policy Is Good Economic Policy" looks at the unavoidable link between health protection and wealth creation when choosing a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published on: Wednesday 9th December 2020

COVID-19

Health

Economic Growth

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for the Channel 4 News website, where he commented that the key difficulty in analysing the effects of the lockdown is to assess what would happen with the disease and the economy in the absence of restrictions.

Published on: Wednesday 2nd December 2020

COVID-19

Economic Impact

Policy

Tier System

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in the Independent article "Government Paper Offers no Assessment of Economic Impact of Tier Restrictions". Dr Toxvaerd says the government's COVID analysis falls well short of a full impact study and will be of limited use to justify either lockdown2 or a return to a tiered system of regional restrictions.

Published on: Tuesday 1st December 2020

COVID-19

Economic Impact

Policy

Tier System

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd gave a virtual talk for Clare College on Tuesday 24 November 2020. His talk was on "Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy", which looked at how economists think about disease control and contrast it with the traditional approach adopted in epidemiology and public health.

Published on: Thursday 26th November 2020

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Policy

Public Health

Flavio Toxvaerd and Miltos Makris (University of Kent) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Vaccines against COVID-19 are on the horizon; now is the time to manage the transition rationally". This column examines how the prospect of a vaccine alters individuals’ incentives to self-protect and how the social planner would prefer the individual to behave, between now and the arrival of the vaccine.

Published on: Tuesday 24th November 2020

COVID-19

Social Distancing

Policy

Vaccines

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd will give a virtual talk for Clare College about "Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy", on Tuesday 24 November 2020 at 6.00pm. His talk will look at how economists think about disease control and contrast it with the traditional approach adopted in epidemiology and public health.

Published on: Thursday 19th November 2020

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Policy

Public Health

Cambridge-INET and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, are holding an Online Event with Professor Diane Coyle and Martin Sandbu. Professor Coyle and Martin Sandbu have both published books exploring the economics relating to current policy questions. Join them for an enlightened conversation. The event will be chaired by Professor Michael Kenny. Please book your place on the Bennett Institute event page.

Event Date: Tuesday 24th November 2020

Inequalities

Free Markets

Policy

State

TODAY Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti is delivering the keynote speech on "The exchange rate insulation puzzle" at the 2nd European Commission-JEDC conference entitled ‘Secular Stagnation, Low Interest Rates and Low Inflation: Causes and Implications for Policy’. It is being held online from 5-6 November 2020. More information here: Event details

Published on: Thursday 5th November 2020

Monetary Policy

Interest Rates

Secular Stagnation

Policy

Theme: transmission

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou (with Ben Moll - LSE), have written a new entry for the Economics Observatory asking The Pound-of-Flesh Fallacy: Do Lockdowns Simply Postpone The Pain Of Covid-19?. This blog looks at the possibility that whatever measures are taken to reduce the spread of coronavirus, they are unlikely to reduce the ultimate death toll.

Published on: Monday 2nd November 2020

COVID-19

Lockdown

Policy

Women in Economics

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd will guest edit (co-edited with Cecile Aubert, University of Bordeaux and TSE) the European Economic Review Journal's Special Section on economics of infectious diseases and epidemics. This Section will collect accepted articles at the European Economic Review that pertain to Covid-19 and similar epidemics, and will allow for a faster average handling of submissions on this topic.

Published on: Wednesday 28th October 2020

COVID-19

Infectious Disease

Policy

Epidemics

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti has been invited to give two keynote speeches. The first is at the 23rd Annual Research Conference of De Nederlandsche Bank, "Monetary Non-Neutrality: The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the Short and Long Run", on the 29th October 2020 and the second is the 2nd European Commission-JEDC conference "Secular Stagnation, Low Interest Rates and Low Inflation: Causes and Implications for Policy", on the 5th-6th November 2020.

Published on: Tuesday 27th October 2020

Monetary Policy

Interest Rates

Secular Stagnation

Policy

Theme: transmission

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for Cheddar News Network on Friday 23rd October 2020, where he discussed the reimplementation of lockdowns across Europe, due to the rise in COVID-19 cases and the global economic impact of this.

Published on: Tuesday 20th October 2020

COVID-19

Lockdown

Policy

Social Distancing

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes, with Alexander Chudik (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), M. Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California), Mehdi Raissi (IMF) and Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Economic Consequences of Covid-19: A Counterfactual Multi-Country Analysis".

Published on: Tuesday 20th October 2020

COVID-19

Global Economics

Recession

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in The Telegraph article "Fears Wet Weather Could Fuel Covid 19 Spread." and also commented on a recent No. 10 briefing where Boris Johnson shifted emphasis from blanket lockdowns to the use of regional and local measures for Science Media Centre "Expert Reaction to No. 10 Press Briefing on 30th September "

Published on: Tuesday 6th October 2020

COVID-19

Infectious Disease

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in the Independant "What is the Data Driving the UK’s New Coronavirus Restrictions?" and Daily Mail "Projection versus Reality – Experts say Britain Falls Short." in which Dr Toxvaerd claims that projections often rely ‘on behavioural assumptions that are unlikely to be borne out in practice and so the projections often look too gloomy in retrospect'.

Published on: Wednesday 23rd September 2020

COVID-19

Infectious Disease

Policy

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd spoke recently about ‘Future Challenges for Economic Epidemiology’ at the COVID-19 Symposium of the European Economic Association. A video of Dr. Toxvaerd's talk is available to watch on the EEA youtube channel.

Published on: Monday 7th September 2020

COVID-19

Infectious Disease

Policy

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti will be speaking at the D-DebtCon Webinar entitled ‘Sovereign Debt in the European Union’ on 8 September 2020 at 3.30PM CEST on ‘Debt Crises Fast and Slow’. See the Programme and Registration details.

Published on: Tuesday 1st September 2020

COVID-19

Economy

Policy

Debt

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd will be speaking at the Covid 19 Symposium on August 28th 2020 at 15.30 CEST organised by the EEA Congress and will look at future challenges for the epi-economics literature. Prof. Oriana Bandiera Prof. Oriana Bandiera will discuss the impact on lower-income countries and appropriate policy responses while Prof. Daron Acemoglu Prof. Daron Acemoglu looks at the political ramifications of the crisis.

Published on: Friday 28th August 2020

COVID-19

Infectious Disease

Policy

Professor Vasco Carvalho and Professor Andrea Galeotti (London Business School) have published an article for Economics Observatory on "How Can Production Network Analysis Inform Policy on COVID-19?". This article looks at how production network analysis can provide insights into the effects of imposing and lifting lockdowns, which in turn can lead to policies to support recovery.

Published on: Tuesday 25th August 2020

COVID-19

Networks

Policy

Production Networks

Theme: none

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Joao B. Duarte (Nova School of Business and Economics) and Samuel Mann (IMF) have published an article for VOXeu titled "The Heterogeneous Transmission of ECB Policies: Lessons for a Post-COVID Europe". This column suggests that the disruption to market integration brought about by the COVID-19 crisis may create further challenges to conducting monetary policy in the euro area.

Published on: Friday 7th August 2020

COVID-19

Policy

Europe

Heterogeneity

Theme: transmission

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Aitor Erce and Antonio Garcia Pascual's article "Perpetual bonds are not the best way to finance the European Recovery Fund" has been featured by VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal. This column looks at the potential gains of using European borrowing and lending as two separate policy levers, instead of financing the ERF using joint perpetual debt.

Published on: Monday 18th May 2020

COVID-19

Debt

EU

Policy

Theme: transmission

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti joins the editorial board promoting, "Covid Economics: A Real-Time Journal (CEJ)". The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) has decided to launch this new online peer-reviewed review to disseminate emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic. CEPR have just published Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers Issue 1.

Published on: Saturday 28th March 2020

COVID-19

Policy

Theoretical Research

Empirical

Join Shanta Deverajan (Georgetown University and former acting Chief Economist at the World Bank), Adeel Malik (Oxford University) and Kamiar Mohaddes (University of Cambridge) as they discuss their recent work published in the new Oxford University Press volume Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, edited by Kamiar Mohaddes (University of Cambridge), Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California) and Hoda Selim (International Monetary Fund).

Event Date: Tuesday 5th November 2019

Institutions

Macroeconomics

Policy

Resource-Rich

Theme: none

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's edited volume "Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies", joint with Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California) and Hoda Selim (International Monetary Fund), has just been published by Oxford University Press.

Published on: Friday 31st May 2019

Institutions

Macroeconomics

Policy

Resource-Rich

3rd - 4th September 2015 at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. The invited speakers are Gauti Eggerston (Brown), Bob Hall (Stanford) and Alp Simpsek (MIT)

Event Date: Thursday 3rd September 2015

Policy

Theme: transmission

A debate around the latest book by Professor Barry Eichengreen. 15th April 2015 - King's, College, Cambridge.

Event Date: Wednesday 15th April 2015

Policy

Economic History

Theme: none

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will deliver three public lectures in "International Economics" at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday 25th March - Thursday 26th March 2015.

Published on: Sunday 1st March 2015

International Economics

Monetary Policy

Economy

Policy

Understanding Financial Markets: Professor Maureen O'Hara (Cornell) and Elroy Dimson (Judge Business School) will give talks on "Understanding Financial Markets: Research, Practice and Policy" at the British Academy, London on 30th April 2014, from 6.30 - 8.00 pm.

Event Date: Wednesday 7th May 2014

Financial Markets

Policy

Theme: empirical