Research Chair : Macroeconomic Risk Chair

Objectives

The contemporary macroeconomic environment is particularly uncertain. Unconventional monetary strategies, high levels of private and public debt, political uncertainty in many countries and uncertainty about the future of productivity and growth all contribute to this. Similarly, the risk of rare but extreme shocks, such as climate change or the rise of terrorism, raises a number of societal issues.

The Macroeconomic Risk Chair aims to address a range of issues, including

• taking account of the possibility of rare events in macroeconomic and financial modeling ;
• the macroeconomic effects of uncertainty ;
• the financial and macroeconomic contagion effects of crises;
• long-term risks.

Activities

The Chair’s program includes a number of activities:

• organizing events to present and discuss work at the frontier of international research;
• developing and promoting research work via a newsletter and a dedicated series of working papers;
• inviting researchers from other internationally recognized disciplines to take part in teaching and/or research activities;
• the organization of workshops and specific meetings between members of the SCOR Foundation and PSE;
• the development of high-level training courses;
• the award of an annual prize to a young researcher for the excellence of his or her work;
• the drafting of an annual activity report.

Steering commitee

PSE partner