The 90th International Atlantic Economic Conference held virtually, 15-18 October 2020 brought together economists and finance experts from all around the world to discuss the changing economic landscape of the past, present and future. This year’s conference featured a lineup of speakers, including Philippe Martin, Chairman, Council of Economic Analysis of the Prime Minister of France; who delivered the 2020 William S. Vickrey Distinguished Address, Professor Andrew W. Lo who delivered the 2020 Presidential Address “Can Financial Economics Cure Cancer?” and the Plenary Panel comprised of Robert McCauley, Brendan Brown, Gylfi Zoega and Robert Aliber.
Conference Registrants can login to the full online program using their conference username and password to view recordings.
Slides are also available in the links below which do not require a username and password.
A Recap of the workshops can be viewed here
Highlights Included:
Philippe Martin 2020 William S. Vickrey Distinguished Address:
“The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts, and the Eurozone Crisis”
Philippe Martin was appointed as Chairman of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique in January 2018 by the French Prime Minister. The Conseil d’Analyse Economique is an independent advisory body that reports directly to the French Prime Minister on economic issues. The CAE’s mission is “to inform the government’s choices on economic affairs through the exchange of viewpoints and its analyses”. He is Professor, Department of Economics at Sciences Po, since its creation and was its first Chair from 2009 to 2013. He is also a CEPR Research Fellow and Co-director of the Macroeconomics Program at CEPREMAP. Philippe Martin’s research focuses on international trade and macroeconomics and has been widely recognized at both the national and international levels. He is a co-author on a book “Economic Geography and Public Policy” published by Princeton University Press as well as two books published by Éditions de la rue d’Ulm/CEPREMAP. He is a regular participant to the radio show « L’Economie en question » on France Culture. Prior to joining the Department, he was Professor at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Paris School of Economics and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Before teaching in France, he was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and assistant professor in Geneva. He also taught at Ecole Polytechnique and the London School of Economics.
Andrew W. Lo, 2020 Presidential Address:
“Can Financial Economics Help Cure Cancer”
Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering; Principle Investigator, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, U.S.A. His current research spans five areas: evolutionary models of investor behavior and adaptive markets, systemic risk and financial regulation, quantitative models of financial markets, financial applications of machine-learning techniques and secure multi-party computation, and healthcare finance. Along with earned fellowships and awards, Lo has also published numerous articles in finance and economics journals and has authored several books.
Plenary Panel: “CHALLENGES TO THE U.S. DOLLAR”
Chair and Organizer: Robert Z. Aliber, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
Robert Z. Aliber, University of Chicago, U.S.A., Why the United States Morphed from the World’s Largest Creditor Country to the Largest Debtor?
Robert Z. Aliber is Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago. He has consulted for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and testified before Congress. He has written extensively about currency pricing shock, exchange rates, financial crises, and international banking relationships. He is probably best known for predicting the Icelandic financial crisis several years before it occurred.
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Brendan Brown, Macrohedge Advisors, United Kingdom, One Hundred Years of Dollar Hegemony
Brendan Brown founding partner of Macro Hedge Advisors LLP. He was previously Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International and an associate scholar at the Mises Institute. He is a monetary economist specializing in the Austrian School, European monetary integration, and the global flow of capital and has written several books on contemporary finance and financial history. Dr. Brown has also developed unique tools for market analysis including insights from behavioral finance.
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Robert McCauley, Corte Real Advisors, Switzerland, The Domain of the Dollar: Eight Questions
Robert N McCauley is Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, and Senior Research Associate, the Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford Centre for Global History, University of Oxford. He previously worked at the Bank of International Settlements and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Recent work includes “Safe assets and reserve management”, “Central bank swaps now and then” (with Catherine Schenk), “Currency composition of foreign exhange reserves” (with Hiro Ito) and “Triffin: Dilemma or myth?” (with Micahel Bordo)
Gylfi Zoëga, University of Iceland—Iceland and University of London, United Kingdom, Monetary Autonomy and the Hazards of Zero Interest Rates
Gylfi Zoëga is University of Iceland Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck College University of London. His areas of specialization are macroeconomics and labor economics. He is affiliated with the Monetary Policy Committee–Central Bank of Iceland as an External Member. Among his numerous articles, several are co-authored with Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps, in particular a book on structural slumps. He has been an active contributor to economic policy debates in Iceland.
2020 Best Undergraduate Paper Award Competition Winner and Finalists:
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Eliza A. Brodie, (Finalist)
Davidson College, U.S.A.
When the Men Left the Mines: Examining a Labor Demand Shock to a Male-Specific Industry & Its Consequence on Women’s Education and Labor Force Participation (Click to View Slides)
Eliza recently graduated from Davidson College in May 2020. Throughout the course of her senior year, she worked on an honors thesis in economics, aided with the generous help of faculty mentors. While at Davidson she had experience working as an Econometrics teaching assistant and holds interest in gender, family, and behavioral economics, all topics which she now follows at her leisure. Since graduation she has started a career in management consulting and continues to use the skills she gained from studying economics as an undergraduate.
Hema Shah, (Finalist)
University of Virginia, U.S.A.
A Glass Escalator for Female UVA Graduates? Gender Gaps Across the Starting Salary Distribution (Click to View Slides)
Hema Shah is currently a first year economics PhD student at Duke University. Originally from Chesapeake, Virginia, she recently graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia where she double majored in mathematics and economics and was an Echols Scholar. Hema’s research interests lie in labor economics and the economics of education. In particular, Hema is interested in studying gender differences in educational investment decisions and the resulting labor market outcomes. Hema hopes to pursue a career in academia after completing her doctoral degree.
Zhaoyu Xu, Xinyue Cui, and Yue Zhou, (Finalists)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Using Machine Learning to Forecast Future Earnings (Click to View Slides)
We are Edward, Clair, and Ashlley, graduates from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Ashlley is currently pursing a Master’s degree of Risk Management and Financial Engineering in Imperial College London, and Edward is now pursuing a Master’s degree of Finance in London School of Economics and Political Science, and Clair is now working at PricewaterhouseCoopers. We are all interested in finance research related to asset pricing and the application of machine learning and deep learning in accounting, economics and financial fields.