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We, the members and associate members<\/strong><\/span>, agreed in late 2021 to rename our EARG = Economic Analysis Research Group (or, rather, reshuffle\/update EARG\u2019s name\/acronym) into GEAR = Group for Economic Analysis at Reading<\/strong><\/span>, an acronym that is easier to pronounce and to remember, as well as more meaningful. Formally, this took place at the inaugural GEAR Quarterly Lecture<\/span><\/strong> on 31 March 2022. We shall, henceforth, hold these GEAR Quarterly Lectures every quarter, with a flexible date within a quarter (and, perhaps, as a hybrid event). As EARG earlier (i.e., since its founding in 2005<\/span><\/strong>), GEAR continues to cover the core topics in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, as well as modern extensions, with particular application of the analysis to policymaking at global, national or local level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(1) 2022Q1<\/span><\/strong> – The inaugural lecture<\/strong><\/span> (poster<\/a>) was held on 31 March 2022, 2:00-3:30 pm BST (London time)<\/strong><\/span>, and our 1st speaker was Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma, University of Kent, CEPR and MaGHiC<\/strong><\/span>, who is also one of our GEAR Associate Members and the originator of the GEAR acronym<\/span><\/strong>. His talk\u2019s title was\u00a0\u201cGrowth Volatility and Trade: Diversification vs Specialisation\u201d<\/strong><\/span>. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

(2) 2022Q2<\/span><\/strong> – Our 2nd lecture<\/strong><\/span> (poster<\/a>) was held on 23 June 2022, 2:00-3:30 pm BST (London time)<\/strong><\/span>, and our speaker was Professor Martin Ellison, University of Oxford, CEPR and NuCamp<\/span><\/strong>. His talk’s title, and underlying paper<\/a>, was “The Ends of 30 Big Depressions”<\/strong><\/span>. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

(3) 2022Q3 – <\/strong>Our <\/span>3rd lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on<\/span>15 September 2022, 4:00-5:30 pm BST (London time)<\/strong>, and our speaker was <\/span>Professor Chryssi Giannitsarou, University of Cambridge, CEPR and CfM<\/strong><\/span>. Her talk was under the title of \u201cMultinationals, Investment and Stock Market Comovement\u201d<\/strong><\/span> and was based on a paper<\/a> just accepted at the Journal of Monetary Economics<\/strong><\/span><\/em> (and some additional results in a work-in-progress spin-off paper). The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

(4) 2022Q4 –<\/strong>Our <\/span>4th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on<\/span> 10 November 2022, 2:00-3:30 pm GMT (London time)<\/strong>, and our speaker was <\/span>Professor Kalina Manova, University College London, CEPR and CEP<\/strong>. The talk presented her work on \u201cFirm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks\u201d<\/strong><\/span> based on an underlying paper<\/a>. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(5) 2023Q1<\/strong>– Our <\/span>5th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 28 March<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>2023<\/strong>, 2:00-3:30 pm GMT (London time)<\/span><\/strong>, and our speaker was<\/span> Professor Mark Casson, University of Reading<\/strong><\/span>. His talk was on “The Entrepreneur: A \u2018Missing Person\u2019 in Mainstream Economic Theory”<\/strong><\/span> and was based on a forthcoming book. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(6) 2023Q2<\/strong> – Our <\/span>6th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 29 June<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a02023<\/span><\/strong>, 2:00-3:30 pm BST (London time)<\/span><\/strong>, and our speaker was Professor Paul Levine, University of Surrey<\/strong><\/span>, who is also one of our GEAR Associate Members<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. His talk was on \u201cInformation Assumptions in Macroeconomics: Implications for Modellers and Applied Econometricians\u201d<\/span><\/strong>, drawing from an underlying paper<\/a>. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(7) 2023Q3<\/strong><\/span> – Our 7th lecture<\/span><\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 13 September <\/span>2023, 3:30-5:00 pm BST (London time)<\/span><\/strong>, and our speaker was Professor H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Rey, London Business School and CEPR<\/span><\/strong>. Her talk was on “Granular Credit Risk”<\/strong><\/span>, drawing on an underlying paper<\/a>. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(8) 2023Q4<\/strong><\/span> – Our 8th lecture<\/span><\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 23 November 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm GMT (London time)<\/span><\/strong>, and our speaker was Professor Wendy Carlin, University College London<\/span><\/strong>. Her talk is entitled “It\u2019s time for a COherent and RElevant new benchmark model for teaching economics”<\/span><\/strong>. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(9) 2024Q1 <\/strong>– Our <\/span>9th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 12<\/strong><\/span><\/span> March 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm GMT (London time)<\/strong>, and our speaker was Professor Michael Clements, University of Reading<\/strong><\/span>. His talk on \u201cUncertain Data\u201d<\/strong><\/span> will draw on research over the last decade or so to explain some of the implications of revisions to official statistics for econometric modelling and forecasting. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(10) 2024Q2 <\/strong>– Our <\/span>10th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on <\/span>15 May 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm BST (London time)<\/strong>, and our speaker was Dr Jennifer Castle, University of Oxford<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>. Her talk was entitled \u201cEconometric Forecasting of Climate Change\u201d <\/strong><\/span>(slides<\/a>). The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(11) 2024Q3<\/strong>\u00a0– Our<\/span> 11th lecture<\/strong> (poster to be added) that was initially scheduled for Q3 of <\/strong><\/span><\/span>2<\/span>024 (3rd week of September)<\/strong>, has recently been postponed<\/strong><\/span>. We still hope to be able to welcome in the near future our confirmed speaker, Professor Kerry Patterson, University of Reading, the founder of GEAR as EARG in 2005<\/strong><\/span> (<\/span><\/span>date, time and details to be circulated). As usual, the lecture will be synchronously recorded and available for viewing ex post<\/em> from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel. Here is the MS Teams link to join (to be added) – but do try to come in person!<\/p>\n

(12) 2024Q4<\/strong>\u00a0– Our<\/span> 12th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 27 November 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm GMT (London time)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>, and our speaker was Professor Gulcin Ozkan, King’s College London<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>. Her talk, entitled “Footprints of Global Shocks in Emerging Economies: Sources of Exposure and International Spillovers”<\/strong><\/span> (slides<\/a>), drew on several papers, in particular a recent ECB working paper<\/a>.\u00a0The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(13) 2025Q1<\/strong>\u00a0– Our<\/span> 13th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 19 March 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm GMT (London time)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>, and our speaker was Professor Roger Farmer, University of Warwick and UCLA<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>. His talk, entitled “Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Finite Lives”<\/span><\/strong>, was based on a joint paper<\/a> with Pawel Zabczyk (IMF). The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(14) 2025Q2<\/strong>\u00a0– Our<\/span> 14th lecture<\/strong> (poster<\/a>) was held on 28 May 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/span>, 2:00-3:30pm BST (London time)<\/span><\/strong>, and our speaker was Professor Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>. His talk, entitled “The Demand and Supply of Paternalism”<\/strong><\/span>, was based on joint work with Andrea Isoni, Axel Ockenfels and Jiwei Zheng. The synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture is available for viewing from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(15) 2025Q4<\/b><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 Our 15th lecture<\/b><\/span> (poster<\/a>) was held on 26 November, 2:00-3:30pm (London time)<\/b><\/span>, and our speaker was Dr Gharad Bryan, London School of Economics<\/b><\/span>. His talk is entitled \u201cNo Place Like Home? The Causal Effect of Forced Relocation from Central Addis Ababa\u201d<\/b><\/span> and is based on joint work with Simon Franklin (Queen Mary University), Tigabu Getahun (Policy Studies Institute Ethiopia), and Sarah Winton (LSE). Upon request from the speaker, this lecture was not synchronously recorded.<\/p>\n

(16) 2026Q2<\/b><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 Our 16th lecture<\/b><\/span> (poster<\/a>) was held on 20 May, 2:00-3:30pm (London time)<\/b><\/span>, and our speaker was Professor Monica Costa Dias, University of Bristol<\/b><\/span>. Her talk is entitled \u201cLabor Supply and Wages over the Life Cycle: Human Capital, Health, and Disability Benefits\u201d<\/b><\/span>. Monica is Deputy Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. She is also managing editor of Fiscal Studies<\/em>, the academic journal of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Monica’s primary research interests are in labour, family and public economics, and applied microeconometrics. Due to a technical problem, there was no synchronous MS Teams recording of the lecture.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(17) 2026Q4<\/b><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 Our 17th lecture<\/b><\/span> (poster to add) will be held on 25 November, 1:00-2:30pm (London time)<\/b><\/span>, and our speaker is Professor Britta Augsburg, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)<\/b><\/span>. Her talk is TBC<\/i>. Britta is Associate Director at the IFS. She is a development and public economist studying how early-life environments shape child development and human capital formation. Her work focuses on identifying the constraints to effective service delivery and designing policies and programmes that can be implemented and sustained at scale. As is the tradition of our hybrid GEAR Quarterly Lectures, the talk will be synchronously recorded and a link to the recording will be posted on the University of Reading Research YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

(18) 2027Q1<\/b><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 Our 18th lecture<\/b><\/span> (poster to add) will be held on 5 March, 1:00-2:30pm (London time)<\/b><\/span>, and our speaker is Professor Juan Pablo Rud, Royal Holloway University<\/b><\/span>. His talk\u00a0is TBC<\/i>. Juan has interests in development economics, environmental and resource economics, and labour markets in developing countries. As is the tradition of our hybrid GEAR Quarterly Lectures, the talk will be synchronously recorded and a link to the recording will be posted on the University of Reading Research YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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