Seminar schedule - 2017/18

Autumn Term

Date	Name	Title
12th October 2017	Professor Simon van Norden, HEC Montréal	Fiscal Surprises At The FOMC
16th November 2017	Leif Anders Thorsrud, Norges Bank	Words are the new numbers: A newsy coincident index of business cycles
23rd November 2017	Professor Valentina Corradi, University of Surrey	Improved Tests for Robust Forecast Comparison
30th November 2017	Professor James Taylor, University of Oxford	Probabilistic Forecasting for Temperature Extremes and Financial Risk Measurement
7th December 2017	Michele Modugno, Federal Reserve Board	This seminar has been cancelled.

Spring Term

Date	Name	Room	Title
6th February 2018 *12.30 - 1.45pm	Professor André Lucas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	2.005, 2nd Floor, WBS	Genralized Autoregressive Method of Moments (co-authored with Drew Creal, Siem Jan Koopman and Marcin Zamojski)
20th February 2018 *12.30 - 1.45pm	Dr Francesco Ravazzolo, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano	1.015, 1st Floor, WBS	Comparing the Forecasting Performances of Linear Models for Electricity Prices with High RES Penetration
27th February 2018	Dr Laura Coroneo, University of York	3.007, 3rd Floor, WBS	European spreads at the interest rate lower bound
6th March 2018 12.00 - 1.30pm	Dr Helen Etchanchu, Montpellier Business School	1.015, 1st Floor, WBS	The roles of framing and legitimacy struggles in enabling and hindering institutional change towards sustainable energy
13th March 2018	Dr Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, Bank of England	1.015, 1st Floor, WBS	The Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks
18th April 2018	Professor James D. Hamilton, University of California San Diego (Special Seminar in conjunction with the Economics Department)	M2 Lecture Theatre, WBS Teaching Centre	Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions When the Identifying Assumptions are Not Fully Believed: Re-evaluating the Role of Monetary Policy in Economic Fluctuations