The 8th Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop - Heterogeneity and Expectations in Macroeconomics and Finance

• When: 25-27 June 2026
• Where: TU Wien, Austria

Following the success of the past editions at the University of Bamberg and Heidelberg University, TU Wien hosted the 8th Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop in Austria on June 25th– 27th, 2026.

NBER East Asian Seminar on Economics (EASE 34) -  Promoting Growth and Development in a Changing World

• When: 7-8 June 2026
• Where: Beijing, China

Organised by Chong-En Bai, Binzhen Wu, Takeo Hoshi and Benjamin Faber

The East Asian Seminar on Economics (EASE) was launched in 1990 to promote academic exchange between North America–based economists, particularly those who are not experts on East Asia, and economists in East and Southeast Asia. The annual EASE conference has become a premier venue for analysis of economic issues that affect East Asia. The EASE is one of the NBER’s long-running international outreach activities, along with the International Seminar on Macroeconomics and the Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar in Europe, and annual conferences in India, Japan, and China.

Conference in Honor of Professor Alan Woodland

• When: 21–22 May 2026
• Where: UNSW, Business School Building

This event was to celebrate Emeritus Professor Alan Woodland and his remarkable contributions to economics at a conference hosted by the School of Economics in his honour. The conference ran from midday on Thursday, 21 May 2026, to lunchtime on Friday, 22 May 2026, and was held at the Business Lounge, UNSW Business School. Alan has made outstanding contributions to economics and to the School over many years through his research, teaching, leadership, and generous support of colleagues and students. This conference provided an opportunity to recognise his achievements and the lasting impact he has had on our academic community. A number of distinguished scholars spoke at the conference, including keynote speakers Avinash Dixit and Christos Kotsogiannis. The program  featured presentations by Pascalis Raimondos, Chung Tran, Chris O’Donnell, Martin Richardson, Warwick McKibbin, John Romalis, Arpita Chatterjee and others. View the program here.

Economic Modelling Under Geopolitical Fragmentation and Global Shocks

• When: 8 May 2026, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM GMT+8
• Where: online
• Hosted by: SEACEN
• Inaugural EMN Webinar Featuring Prof. Warwick McKibbin

The global economy is entering a new era of heightened geopolitical fragmentation, volatile capital flows, energy insecurity, trade realignment, and persistent policy uncertainty. In such an environment, rigorous economic modelling has become essential for understanding spillovers, stress-testing policy responses, and navigating uncertainty in real time. In this inaugural EMN webinar, Prof. McKibbin shared practical insights on how modern macroeconomic models could help policymakers analyze major global shocks including geopolitical crises, energy disruptions, inflation pressures, and financial market spillovers and why modelling matters more than ever in an increasingly multipolar and uncertain world. This webinar also marked the official launch of the SEACEN Economic Modeling Network (EMN), a new regional platform for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and applied economic modelling among SEACEN member central banks.”

The 2nd Women in Macro Workshop 

• When: 24 April 2026
• Where: Dublin, Ireland

co-organised by the International Macroeconomics (IM-TCD) group at Trinity College Dublin, the Central Bank of Ireland, and the Irish Society for Women in Economics.

This workshop aimed to provide women macroeconomists with an opportunity to present their research and receive constructive feedback. The keynote address was delivered by Hélène Rey (London Business School). The event took place in person at the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, and was supported by the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE) and the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED ECONOMETRICS.

The organisers/scientific committee overseeing this event are: Dilan Aydın Yakut, Martyna Marczak, Alessia Paccagnini, and Vitaliia Yaremko 

Warwick McKibbin on building economic projections for better policy

• When: April 23, 2026, 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
• Where: Webcast, Washington, DC
• Host: PIIE

Warwick J. McKibbin is one of the world’s top experts on global economic modeling. He has projected the outcomes of various US policy changes, including on the economic effects of different tariff levels. McKibbin joined host Anjali V. Bhatt to explain how econometric modeling works and why it is relevant for policymakers today. He also discussed new research on how economic and environmental models could help design pathways to cooperative climate policies and how Australia’s economy is weathering these turbulent geopolitical times. Watch here.

The Realities of Economic Security

• When: April 15, 2026, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
• Where: Webcast, Washington, DC
• Host: PIIE

• Moderator: Anjali V. Bhatt
• Speakers: Cullen S. Hendrix, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard and Warwick J. McKibbin

The Peterson Institute for International Economics  (PIIE) presented a high-level analytical discussion of the realities of economic security, examining real-world trade-offs and vulnerabilities in today's geopolitically fractured world. Anjali Bhatt, host of PIIE Insider Live, moderated a candid discussion with PIIE experts: Warwick McKibbin, who presented global macroeconomic scenarios of the impact of the Middle East conflict; Cullen Hendrix, who discussed vulnerabilities of the global economy to the disrupted supply of commodities including food, fuel, and industrial inputs; and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, who explored Europe's strategic economic policy choices between resilience and autonomy. A moderated discussion and Q&A session followed. Watch here.

Demographic Change and Korea’s Growth Prospects: The Role of AI and Human Capital

• When: 5 March 2026
• Where: Webinar
• Speaker: Jong-Wha Lee
• Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

This seminar examined Korea’s current growth challenges in the context of rapid demographic change, including declining fertility and population aging, alongside slowing productivity and the limits of export-led growth. It discussed the economic roles of artificial intelligence and human capital, offering a brief assessment of Korea’s current capabilities in both areas. The central argument was that demographic decline does not mechanically determine long-run growth trajectories. Instead, Korea’s future performance will depend on how effectively AI adoption, human capital investment, and industrial transformation are combined into a coherent growth strategy. AI alone will not raise productivity without complementary skills, and technological progress must be linked to sectoral upgrading through appropriate policies. Watch the webinar here.

EGROW Webinar Series: Impact of US Tariffs on India and Asian Countries

• When: 20 February 2026, 12pm IST
• Where: online
• Speakers: Rakesh Mohan Joshi, Warwick J McKibbin and Biswajit Nag

US tariff policies have significantly reshaped trade flows across India and Asia. In 2025, US duties on Indian goods rose to about 50 percent, contributing to a reported 22 percent fall in India’s exports to the US in early 2026 and widening trade pressures, before being reduced to roughly 18 percent under a new interim deal. Across Asia, differential tariff treatment has altered competitiveness. These shifts highlight supply chain diversification, regional competition, and the growing strategic role of trade diplomacy in shaping Asia-US economic relations. In the webinar the panelists discussed how U.S. tariffs may reshape trade flows, alter global value chains, and influence export competitiveness across the region. Watch the webinar here.

The Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference (SBFC)

• When:  15-16 December 2025
• Where:  University of Sydney

They primary objective in organising this annual conference was to provide a platform where international academics could gather, interact, and exchange their latest insights in Banking, Financial system stability, and other topics within the traditional and emerging fields of Finance. By facilitating this forum, the event aimed to prioritise collaborative endeavours to address the most pressing and contemporary issues concerning banking and financial stability. Furthermore, it aspired to contribute to public policy discussions on enhancing our collective framework and fortifying the financial system’s resilience for the future.

Crawford PhD Seminar: Financial shocks and inflation expectations: Implications for modern central banking

by Thuy Hang Duong

Supervisory panel: Warwick McKibbin, Renee Fry-McKibbin, Larry Liu

Discussant: Khresna Satriyo

• When:  11 am–12:15 pm, Friday 12 December 2025
• Where: Miller Theatre and Zoom Link: Meeting ID: 889 6498 4041; Password: 612222

The amplified macroeconomic shocks following the freeze in global credit markets during the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis made clear that financial-market stabilisation is integral to macroeconomic stability. Understanding macro–financial interactions is therefore essential for managing systemic risk and achieving policy objectives. This paper examines how such interactions shape the anchoring of inflation expectations, a key channel of monetary-policy transmission.  Using state-dependent local projections with Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca decompositions, we estimate the responses of U.S. consumer inflation expectations to financial shocks from 1990 to 2024 across monetary stances and forecast horizons. Three findings emerge. First, financial shocks affect expectations asymmetrically: loosening raises short-term expectations more persistently and significantly than tightening lowers them. Second, monetary stance conditions transmission strength—contractionary policies amplify demand-side reactions, while expansionary policies dampen them. Policy effectiveness in anchoring expectations is also itself asymmetric, more effective in response to adverse financial conditions than easing.

Third, conditioning on the monetary policy stance reveals substantial heterogeneity across expectation percentiles, both in the magnitude and the direction of their responses. These results show that financial disturbances transmit to inflation expectations in nonlinear, state-dependent, and distributionally heterogeneous ways, underscoring the need to integrate financial-stability considerations into modern monetary frameworks.

Crawford PhD Seminar: Dominant currencies and financial channel of exchange rate: Is export growth elusive?

By Abyaya Neopane

Supervisory panel: Yixiao Zhou (Chair), Ligang Song, Renée Fry-McKibbin

Discussant: Banna Banik

• When: 11 am–12:15 pm, Wednesday 10 December 2025
• Where:  Miller Theatre and Zoom Link: Meeting ID: 889 6498 4041; Password: 612222

The outsized role of the USD in international trade and finance has prompted a reassessment of how global markets are interconnected. On the trade front, the dominant currency paradigm argues that exchange rate depreciation has a muted effect on exports; however, while this is true from the demand side, exports can increase through the supply side. Exploring this claim, I find supporting evidence at the product-extensive margin. Additionally, as trade relies heavily on finance, credit availability and exports are interlinked. By capturing the foreign currency exposure of banks, I find that when the net foreign asset is positive, an appreciation attenuates exports while a depreciation has an augmenting effect only for lower levels of exposure. This asymmetry is associated with the global financial cycle. Furthermore, by examining the variation in financial dependence of products, I demonstrate how the financial channel dampens the trade channel of the exchange rate.

International Economics Workshop: Geoeconomics and the Future of Globalisation

• When:  4 December 2025
• Where: University of Auckland

This workshop aimed to bring together leading scholars and policymakers from New Zealand and abroad to discuss how global economic integration is being reshaped by strategic competition, industrial policy, and shifts in trade, finance, and climate governance. The programme featured sessions on the geoeconomics of the new world order, strategic industrial policy, macro-financial spillovers, and the geopolitics of trade, climate, and critical minerals. Each session opened with brief presentations followed by a moderated roundtable discussion under the Chatham House Rule. Speakers were leading academics and policymakers from New Zealand, including the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. The event was sponsored by the Sir Douglas Myers Foundation, the Centre for Inclusive Capitalism at the University of Auckland, and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at the Australian National University. Register here.

WAMS 2025 - Worshop of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society

• When:  19-21 November 2025
• Where: Monash University

Monash Business School hosted the 10th Workshop of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society (WAMS) in Melbourne from the 19th to the 21st of November 2025. The event focused on macroeconomics — encompassing theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented perspectives.  Keynote speakers included

• Marco del Negro (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and
• Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics, CEPR, IZA, STEG, CFM)

SEACEN Workshop on Economic Modelling for Policy: A Practitioner’s Primer

• When:  11-12 November 2025
• Where: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

As economic challenges grow in complexity, there is a rising demand for robust economic modelling tools to support policymaking. This workshop aimed to equip central bankers with practical insights and applications of frontier economic and econometric models relevant to monetary and financial stability policy.  Designed as an immersive introduction, the workshop offered participants a broad exposure to diverse empirical methodologies, highlighting their strengths, limitations, and practical applications. This workshop also served as a strategic primer—a chance to explore the landscape of modern modelling approaches and how they could support evidence-based policymaking. The programme brought together leading scholars and practitioners to demonstrate models such as the G-Cubed model, structural VAR, and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) approaches. Applications included trade and tariff scenarios, climate-related risks, and regional integration frameworks. The workshop was complemented by case-based discussions and opportunities for one-on-one engagement with experts. The workshop was conducted by SEACEN faculty and invited experts from academia and policymaking institutions, including Prof. Warwick McKibbin and Prof. Renee Fry-McKibbin. More Information here.

IMF outreach 2025 - Recruitment Programs and Careers virtual session for Australia

•  When:  8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Eastern Time (New York/Washington, DC), Thursday, November 6, 2025
•  Where: Online

IMF invited students, graduates, and economists from the Australian and Oceania Region to join our Virtual Information Session on November 6 at 8:30 PM Eastern Time (New York/Washington, DC) to learn more about our recruitment opportunities for undergraduates, graduates, and senior-level economists. They had detailed information on recruitment programs at the IMF, IMF careers, paths to success as an interviewee and an introspective view of the organization by IMF economists. The session included live Q&A with participants. IMF welcomed students of all levels and majors, although the majority of information will be of most interest to students of economics.

Register here: [Registration Link] 

Melbourne Annual Macro Policy Meeting

• When:  30-31 October 2025
• Where: University of Melbourne

The annual Melbourne Macro Policy Meeting  gathered academics and researchers in policy institutions, and policy analysts to discuss the latest research and thinking about macroeconomic issues and policies. This event was co-hosted by the Department of Economics and the Melbourne Institute. This year our theme is: "Macroeconomic policy and global uncertainty".  Please view the program here.

2025 RSE General Seminar - Sergey Slobodyan (CERGE-EI & CAMA Visiting Fellow)

Title: Professional Survey Forecasts and Expectations in DSGE Models

by Sergey Slobodyan, Yuliya Rychalovska and Raf Wouters 

• When: 11:00 – 12:30, Thursday, October 30, 2025
• Where:  Fred Gruen Economics Seminar Room (H.W. Arndt Bldg 25A)

Abstract:  This paper investigates the connection between the predictability of forecast errors and the expectations formation mechanism. We show that in a simple model of NK Phillips curve with Adaptive Learning a variety of under- and over-prediction patterns is possible, including the switch as in Angeletos et al. (2020), depending on the information set used by the agents for forecasting. We then investigate whether the expectations of the estimated model of Rychalovska et al. (2023) under adaptive learning could replicate the time varying patterns of predictability observed in a variety of SPF variables. Finally, we compare and contrast two expectations formation mechanisms, Diagnostic Expectations and Adaptive Learning, and argue that AL could mimic DE in a state-dependent manner.

Flash Forum: Trump tariffs and global markets

• When:  28 October 2025
• Where: Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

The Melbourne Institute, in partnership with the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, hosted a Flash Forum on Trump Tariffs and Global Markets on Tuesday 28 October. The event was moderated by ABC Finance presenter Alan Kohler  and feature expert speakers each presenting for five minutes, followed by a Q&A session. Speakers included Professor Allan Fels, Eliza Chaney, Distinguished Professor Renée Fry-McKibbin, Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Professor Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, Professor Michael Wesley. Dr Sunny Kim Nguyen and Emeritus Distinguished Professor Warwick McKibbin. This was a hybrid event, with the in-person component held at the University of Melbourne from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. More information on the forum can be viewed on the event webpage.

Consilium 2025

• When:  23-25 October 2025
• Where: Gold Coast, Australia

Consilium was back for its 24th edition in October 2025. Over 3 days, leaders of business, politics, academia and the wider community are drawn together for intensive deliberation on major economic, social and cultural issues facing Australia. The conference promoted free choice, individual liberty, defends cultural freedom, and the open exchange of ideas which exemplified the CIS mission. It debated a wide range of policy ideas and intellectual arguments to help Australia remain a prosperous and free nation. See all 2025 speakers.

Kautilya Economic Conclave (KEC) 2025

• When:  3-5 October 2025
• Where: New Delhi

The Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) organised the 4th Kautilya Economic Conclave (KEC 2025) under the theme “Seeking Prosperity in Turbulent Times.” The three-day event (3–5 October 2025, New Delhi) brought together global experts and policymakers, concluding with reflections by the External Affairs Minister. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the conclave on 3 October 2025. Emeritus Distinguished Professor Warwick McKibbin participated as a panel member in the interactive session “Navigating Geopolitical Turbulence for Asian Growth” on 4 October 2025. 

The 1st Workshop of the East and South-East Asian Macroeconomic Society

• When:  13-14 September 2025
• Where: The University of Tokyo 

The University of Tokyo hosted the 1st Workshop of the East and South-East Asia Macroeconomic Society on 13-14 September 2025.  Keynote speakers included Eric Swanson (University of California, Irvine) and Michael Zheng Song (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Visit the event site for more details.

The Global Economic Impacts of Tariff Wars 

• Speaker: Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Warwick McKibbin
• Organiser: The Society of Government Economists
• When: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. E.T.
• Where: Zoom webinar

This seminar presented an overview of how tariffs affect macroeconomic activity, inflation, sectoral output, employment, and the trade balance in the United States and globally. It focused on both trade and financial effects of tariff policy.  Drawing on recently published research from the Peterson Institute of International Economics, utilizing the G-Cubed multi-country model, the seminar presented quantitative estimates of how the global trade and financial systems would be likely to adjust in response to the tariff war between the US and its trading partners.