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Why Should We Care About Macroeconomic Puzzles? - Professor Jagjit Chadha

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Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education

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Understanding Macroeconomic puzzles like the flow of Capital is key to understanding macroeconomics, but what application could it have beyond academia?:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/commerce-lecture-series-2015-16-an-introduction-by-professor-jagjit-chadha
Professor Chadha, the Gresham Professor of Commerce, explains why the macroeconomic puzzles that he will be discussing this year are important. To take one example, the flow of capital around the world, he explains how understanding this transit could provide insight into the financial crisis, and also to explain the disparity in development between countries, in his own words “the most important problem facing economics”. 
Jagjit Chadha is the Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College and Professor of Economics at the University of Kent. He has also acted as an academic adviser to HM Treasury, the Bank of England and many policy-making institutions around the world. His main interests lie in macroeconomics, with a particular focus on monetary issues. Professor Chadha has been at the University of Kent since 2007, where holds the position of Professor and Chair in Money and Banking at the Department of Economics and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is also Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group and a specialist adviser to the Treasury Committee.
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-jagjit-chadha
Professor Chadha will be delivering six lectures on the macroeconomic puzzles caused by the difference between economic theory and practice. From the Carry Trade to the Equity Premium, these real world phenomena are discussed and dissected to see what we might need to add to the theory and how we might improve our understanding. These talks are sure to delight the enthusiast and the student of economics alike.
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/some-macroeconomic-puzzles-conjectural-refutations
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