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Michael McMahon
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Macro Prof @ Oxford Econ. Member of Ireland’s Fiscal Council and otherwise spend my work time thinking about central banks, communication and inventories!
Looking forward to having Jordi on the webinar on Thursday.

Sign up details in the links below! 👇🏻
Virtual Seminar on Monetary Economics
A monthly series joint with the Center for Monetary Research at the SF Fed
6 Nov 17:00 CET
Join us this week for a seminar with Jordi Galí presenting “Rethinking the New Keynesian Model (I): The Monetary Policy Block”

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#EconSky #EconConf
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
🚨CEPR webinar 🚨

Thursday 3pm UK/ 4pm CET / 10am EST

Carola Binder will talk about “Partisan Trust in the Federal Reserve”

Register here:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Central Bank Communication RPN Seminar Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
With the growing importance of central bank communication, both with markets and with a wider audience, there remain important questions regarding the channels through which communication has effects,...
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July 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🚨 Excited to be welcoming Ellen Meade (Duke University) to the CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research Webinar on Central Bank Communication on Thursday June 12th at 15.00 UK time / 16.00 CET / 10.00 EST.

Interested in joining? Register here:

cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Central Bank Communication RPN Seminar Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
With the growing importance of central bank communication, both with markets and with a wider audience, there remain important questions regarding the channels through which communication has effects,...
cepr-org.zoom.us
June 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Excited to restart the CB communication webinars by speaking with Loretta Mester, ex-FOMC member and someone who has both studied CB comms and been at the policy frontier of it.

It will be Thurs May 1, 15:00 UK time and promises to be a wonderful 74 mins.

Register:
cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Central Bank Communication RPN Seminar Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
With the growing importance of central bank communication, both with markets and with a wider audience, there remain important questions regarding the channels through which communication has effects,...
cepr-org.zoom.us
April 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Today marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of great Irish/Oxford economist Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.

Most remembered now by students for the Edgeworth Box, he was the founding editor of the Economic Journal and is buried less than 400 feet from the Economics Dept with a beautiful Celtic cross.
February 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Another great converts to #EconSky

@jagjitchadha.bsky.social - give him a follow.
January 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Michael McMahon
🚨PRE-DOC OPPORTUNITY🚨
If you are
🔸considering a future in #econ research, via a PhD or other paths (thinktanks, civil service);
🔸interested in studying Qs abt tax, growth & ineq;
then come work w/me, @andy-summers.bsky.social + @centaxuk.bsky.social team
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#econ_ra
January 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Michael McMahon
Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
December 30, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Are you hiring on the Econ Job market seeking someone who does macro and applied experimental? Look no further than my @oxfordecondept.bsky.social student Alena Wabitsch. She works on expectation formation, mon policy, and labour. She has already published some papers and won awards.

bit.ly/499n7QK
December 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Great group hiring RAs / pre-docs.
December 5, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Expect the productivity of #EconSky to rise impressively - TFP legend @johnfernald.bsky.social has entered the mix. 😁

Especially after the earlier hit from @overleaf.com going down!

(Actually lots of great economists continue to join.)
December 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I haven't said anything on the Chancellor's CV discussion (I was travelling and not paying deep attention). I spoke to Jagjit Chadha but now non-economist friends have mentioned it to me so I wanted to say publicly what I have said to them privately: This is a ridiculous attack.
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Clare Lombardelli’s first speech as Deputy Governor @bankofengland.bsky.social delivered at the Bank of England watchers conference.

www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2024/...
Managing the present, shaping the future - speech by Clare Lombardelli
Given at the Bank of England Watchers Conference, London
www.bankofengland.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Off to @cambridgeuni.bsky.social today to give a talk with Matt Naylor and to speak on a panel at the Isaac Newton Institute discussing communication. What an exciting honour.

Full programme is here:
gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm143...
Communicating Mathematical and Data Sciences – What does Success Look Like? - Programme | Newton Gateway to Mathematics
gateway.newton.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Reposted by Michael McMahon
2/5 This larger deficit was a result of higher-than-expected expenditure. As the Council noted in it’s recent Fiscal Assessment Report, known overruns were not adequately factored into the Budget 2024 forecasts, resulting in this higher-than-expected expenditure.
January 4, 2024 at 8:54 PM
The @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social reaction to the recent Exchequer returns for November.

A little fiscal amuse-bouche ahead of the Fiscal Assessment Report released on Thursday.
1/6 Today’s fiscal monitor shows corporation tax receipts rebounding in November, reversing some of the weakness in recent months. Receipts in November alone were €6.3 billion, €1.3 billion more than last November. The receipts are on track to meet Budget 2024 forecasts.
December 5, 2023 at 5:55 PM
I just wrote a referee report and I have enjoyed the thought process involved and learned something useful for my own research. This happens often when I teach and almost always when supervising students/speaking with mentees. Our job tasks can be complementary to research.

But I don’t need more. 😁
December 4, 2023 at 2:08 PM
🚨CEPR RPN Webinar🚨

Dec 7th 15.00 UK: Ryan Rholes will present experimental evidence on how central bank forecast errors affect inflation expectation formation. And, particularly importantly, the role communication can play to help CBs after errors.

Come along:
cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Central Bank Communication RPN Seminar Series. After reg...
With the growing importance of central bank communication, both with markets and with a wider audience, there remain important questions regarding the channels through which communication has effects,...
cepr-org.zoom.us
November 30, 2023 at 3:23 PM
PhD students in econ and finance take note…

1st PhD Conference at Imperial College Business School happening on April 25-26. Submit your papers (or extended abstract) by January 25, 2024.

Details here:
sites.google.com/view/icbs-ph...
November 8, 2023 at 8:45 AM
🚨Webinar🚨

November’s CEPR RPN webinar will feature the wonderful Refet Gurkaynak speaking on “Consequences of Weak Monetary Policy: Learning from the Turkish Experience”.

Thursday 9th November at 3pm UK time. Not to be missed.

Register here:
cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Central Bank Communication RPN Seminar Series. After reg...
With the growing importance of central bank communication, both with markets and with a wider audience, there remain important questions regarding the channels through which communication has effects,...
cepr-org.zoom.us
October 28, 2023 at 8:18 AM
Thanks to @t0nyyates.bsky.social for the invite - I’m finally off the waiting list.

Not fully off the other place, but happy to be here now too and have already found some friends and follows here.
October 24, 2023 at 8:55 PM