Ph.D. students in economics, finance, and related fields looking for an intensive online course teaching advanced tools, the online macro-finance course offered by
@MarkusEconomist
is for you.
Find all the details on applying and outcomes at .
#PrincetonU
We are excited to have Dr. Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the Director of Opportunity Insights, join us for our next
#MarkusAcademy
webinar! We hope to see many of you tomorrow (9/8) at 12:30PM ET!
Register now!
Starting this month,
@MarkusEconomist
is offering a three-week intensive online course for Ph.D. students in economics, finance, or related fields.
Learn more about this program, the learning objectives, and applying at .
#PrincetonInitiative
#PrincetonU
Join us on Wednesday, June 14, at 12:30 pm ET for an insightful
#MarkusAcademy
webinar with Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT.
Register to watch live:
#PrincetonU
#MIT
#economics
@markuseconomist
of Bendheim Center for Finance awards the Ben Bernanke Prize in Financial & Monetary Economics to Simon Schmickler, Ph.D. student, for his paper on "How to Increase the Liquidity and Stability of Financial Markets." Congrats, Simon!
#princeton
#finance
#Economics
In early May,
#MarkusAcademy
had the pleasure of hosting John Campbell, who presented on "Mortgage Choice and Monetary Policy." Highlights from the webinar include:
1. (13:00) Campbell shares why the U.S. mortgage system is a weak monetary transmission channel.
(1/3)
Join us Monday at 12:30 PM ET (18:30 CET) for a conversation with
@HyunSongShin
, Economic Adviser and Head of Research for
@BIS_org
.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required:
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate
@ZiangLi_
on his outstanding job market paper and subsequent award of the 2023 Ben Bernanke Prize in Financial and Monetary Economics!
Learn more about this award and Li's research:
@MarkusEconomist
Oleg Itskhoki, Professor of Economics and the Venu and Ana Kotamraju Endowed Chair at University of California, Los Angeles, joins MarkusAcademy on June 23rd at 12:30PM EST for a talk on "Sanctions and Exchange Rates".
#MarkusAcademy
#Zoom
Registration:
Haven’t been able to join all of our
#COVID19
lunchtime webinars? Remember you can watch all the videos in the series on the
@PrincetonEcon
YouTube channel:
Now on the BCF YouTube channel, 9 lectures from this year's Princeton Initiative for Ph.D students, featuring
@AtifRMian
,
@MarkusEconomist
, Natalie Cox, Chris Sims, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, and more:
This week's
#MarkusAcademy
will feature Dr. Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research at BIS, who will talk about "After the Crypto Crash: The Future of CBDC".
Sign up and join us on 6/30 at 12:30PM EST!
@MarkusEconomist
@HyunSongShin
*NEW* webinar on March 24, 2022 at 12:30 ET/17:30 CET. Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy of
@StanfordGSB
joins
@MarkusEconomist
for a talk on "Quantitative Easing: What Have We Learned?"
Register for Zoom:
Youtube ⏰ :
#Econtwitter
We recently hosted the Princeton Initiative, where a global slate of Ph.D. students & faculty explore the intersection of modern finance & macroeconomics. Organized by
@markuseconomist
and Yuliy Sannikov of
@standford
. Thanks to all participants!
#princeton
#economics
#finance
Don't forget to register for this week's Markus Academy webinar with Esther Duflo. Introductory remarks by
@MarkusEconomist
follow the link to receive the Zoom info:
Join us next Tuesday, 10/17, at 11:30 AM ET for a new
#MarkusAcademy
webinar featuring
@LHSummers
and Sir Angus Deaton.
@MarkusEconomist
will provide introductions and open the discussion on "Is Economic Failure an
#Economics
Failure."
RSVP Now:
Join us next week for the annual Princeton Lectures in Finance. This year's speaker is Arvind Krishnamurthy, Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, on "The Role of Safe Assets in the International Financial System." More details at:
In a
@ft
article,
@rbrtrmstrng
takes aim at the idea of a "softish" landing: (subscription req'd) citing
@PrincetonBCF
Alan Blinder's recent talk on this topic with
@MarkusEconomist
. Access the Blinder webinar and slide deck here:
Congratulations to
@MarkusEconomist
, Edwards S. Sanford Professor at
@PrincetonEcon
and Director of BCF, on his well-deserved award of the Ludwig Erhard Prize for business journalism by
@LEStiftung
.
Learn more about this prestigious prize:
This week's
#MarkusAcademy
webinar delves into the topic of utilizing GPT and LLMs for
#economics
research with a presentation by Kevin Bryan, an Associate Professor, Strategic Management Area, at the University of Toronto.
RSVP for the
#webinar
at .
Shirley Ren,
@Princeton
senior and BCF student, won the Best Undergraduate Paper Award at this year’s International Atlantic Economic Conference for her paper, titled “The distributional effects of monetary policy shocks in China.” Congratulations!
Registration is now open for Friday's conference with the
@AtlantaFed
. Keynote remarks by
@RaphaelBostic
begin at 12:00 PM ET.
Register here to join us on Zoom:
Prof. Alan Blinder will be our guest for the next edition of Markus' Academy, with opening remarks from
@MarkusEconomist
.
Join us for "Landings Hard & Soft: The Fed 1965-2020" on Feb. 11, 2022 at 12:30 pm ET. Register:
#Princeton
#Finance
#Econtwitter
This Thursday, we're thrilled to have
#PrincetonU
Professor
@HansbergRossi
join our webinar series to present on "The Economic Geography of Climate Change."
Register here to join us on Zoom:
Earlier this summer,
@MIT
's
@DAcemogluMIT
joined
#MarkusAcademy
for a
#webinar
on his new book, "Power and Progress." Revisit the timely and insightful discussion in these highlights:
1. (9:02) Acemoglu evaluates whether the "productivity bandwagon" is guaranteed.
(1/3)
Recently, in a joint event with Princeton BCF and
@PrincetonGCEPS
, Bill Dudley joined
#MarkusAcademy
to discuss "Lessons From the Banking Crisis." Highlights from the presentation include:
1. (3:56) Dudley covers what went wrong at Silicon Valley Bank.
If you weren't able to register for today's webinar with
@tylercowen
&
@MarkusEconomist
, you can watch live on YouTube here from now until 1:30 PM ET:
Registration is now open for our 8/14 conference on corporate finance and
#COVID19
, co-hosted with
@StanfordGSB
.
Agenda forthcoming. Register here in the meantime to receive conference details:
This week's
#MarkusAcademy
will feature Dr. Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research at BIS, who will talk about "After the Crypto Crash: The Future of CBDC".
Sign up and join us on 6/30 at 12:30PM EST!
@MarkusEconomist
@HyunSongShin
Over 50
#PrincetonU
undergraduate students attended Monday's "Banks in Crisis?" panel discussion with Markus Brunnermeier, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Carolyn Wilkins, and Alan Blinder. See the presentation slides and more at .
@PrincetonGCEPS
@JRCPPF
A Crash Course on Crises, the latest book from BCF Director
@MarkusEconomist
and
@R2Rsquared
, is now available from
@PrincetonUPress
! Written with students, policymakers, and other experts in mind, read the overview, introduction, praise, and more at .
This Thursday at 12:30 pm ET, Bill Dudley, a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton’s Griswold Center for Economics Policy Studies and former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will join us on
#MarkusAcademy
. Co-sponsored by
@PrincetonGCEPS
.
Please join
@MarkusEconomist
and Dani Rodrik on Monday for a webinar (12:30 PM ET/6:30 PM CET) on globalization and
#COVID19
. Sign up is available here:
This Thursday,
@ChicagoBooth
Professor
@zingales
will join us for a lecture titled "Which Capitalism?"
Sign up to join us on Zoom:
Want to sign up for the entire Markus' Academy weekly webinar series? You can do so here:
Join us on Monday at 12:30 for a webinar with
@CDDEP
Executive Director Ramanan Laxminarayan on integrating economics and epidemiology to fight COVID-19. Pre-registration is required:
JOIN US TODAY at 12:30 PM EST for
#MarkusAcademy
featuring Dr. Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research at BIS, who will talk about "After the Crypto Crash: The Future of CBDC".
Sign up and see you all soon!
@MarkusEconomist
@HyunSongShin
Two weeks ago, David Autor joined
#MarkusAcademy
for a
#webinar
examining the current wage compression in the US. Interestingly, the data shows that lower-income wages are rising more than higher-income wages, leading to the compression. Here are a few highlights:
(1/3)
In our most recent
#MarkusAcademy
#webinar
,
@lugaricano
joined
@MarkusEconomist
to discuss the current situation in Europe, its causes, and potential next steps. Highlights from the presentation include:
1. (25:58) Garicano describes the NextGen program and its implications.
#MarkusAcademy
is back this Thursday, December 1, at 12:30 PM EST with a new
#webinar
featuring Martin Wolf, the associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. Get in on the discussion by commenting your questions!
Register now:
Duffie: Historically, Treasury market is THE safe haven for investors around the world. But in March, it didn't function as it normally does and the Fed had to rescue it. We should design the Treasury market so that the frequency of Fed intervention is very small.
#PrincetonBCF
In honor of the 50th anniversary of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," Princeton’s GCEPS, BCF, and JRCPPF are hosting a virtual book talk with Malkiel on January 24, 2023, from 1 to 2 p.m. Register for the event at and read more at .
If you weren't able to register for today's talk on
#COVID19
with Paul Romer and
@MarkusEconomist
, you can watch a livestream on YouTube from now until 1:30 PM ET:
It's been a busy week for our incoming Master in Finance students. They met with top firms in the field, including AQR, Citadel, Cubist Systematic, DRW, and Squarepoint Capital, as part of Career Boot Camp and finished the first week of Math Camp. Fall term here we come!
Please join us Friday for a webinar on
#COVID19
and vaccines with
@Harvard
Professor Michael Kremer. The webinar is fully open to the public, but space is limited and pre-registration is required:
In his job market paper, Ph.D. candidate Ziang Li (
@ZiangLi_
) examines how long-term interest rates affect corporate bond credit spreads.
Li received the 2023 Ben Bernanke Prize in Financial and Monetary Economics and is advised by
@MarkusEconomist
.
In last week's
#MarkusAcademy
#webinar
,
@LHSummers
joined
@MarkusEconomist
to discuss the SVB Bank failure, its causes, the response, and what can be learned from the event. Highlights from the presentation include:
1. (4:20) Summers details factors that led to failure.
(1/2)
Speaking to
@MarkusEconomist
about the future of globalization,
@rodrikdani
outlined three questions to help nations determine "the dividing line between what’s global and what’s national."
Watch the full webinar here:
Join us Thursday, 3/16, at 12:30 pm ET for a new
#MarkusAcademy
#webinar
featuring
@LHSummers
. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, will share his insight on the SVB Bank failure. Register now to watch live .
Please join us tomorrow for a Q&A with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Register here:
This is the last webinar in our
#COVID19
series until the fall semester begins. We'll resume in September.
New
#MarkusAcademy
#webinar
this Friday, July 14, at 12:30 pm ET featuring Veronika Grimm, professor of economics and Head of the Chair of Economic Theory at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
RSVP to watch live:
#PrincetonBCF
Tomorrow at 12;30 PM ET,
@ecb
Chief Economist Philip Lane joins
@MarkusEconomist
to discuss the ECB’s pandemic emergency purchase program (PEPP). Register and watch here:
Next Thursday 12/3, BCF is hosting Agustín Carstens of
@BIS_org
for a talk on the payments system,
#digitalmoney
, and the role of central banks. Can’t attend in-person? Learn how to watch online and tweet your questions:
If you missed yesterday's webinar on global financial markets and
#COVID19
with Deutsche Bank's Torsten Slok and
@MarkusEconomist
, the full video is now available (slides, too!):
On this week's
#MarkusAcademy
webinar, David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, will join us at 12:30 PM EST for a discussion on "The Unexpected Compression: Competition at Work in the Low Wage Economy." Comment with your questions and register at .
Anil Kashyap's
#MarkusAcademy
webinar on "Rising Interest Rates and Financial Cracks" had so many highlights, we'll be sharing them over the next few days. View this excerpt of Kashyap covering interest rate movements and bid-ask spreads on YouTube,