The Ends of Thirty Big Depressions

GEAR Quarterly Lecture organised by the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading, Department of Economics.

The Ends of Thirty Big Depressions, Professor Martin Ellison, University of Oxford.

We are delighted to invite you to participate in our upcoming GEAR Quarterly Lecture organised by the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading (GEAR) at the Department of Economics of the University of Reading. GEAR covers the core topics in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, as well as modern extensions, with particular application to policymaking at global, national or local level. This lecture will be presented by Professor Martin Ellison from the University of Oxford, who will be discussing his paper “The Ends of 30 Big Depressions”, exploring how countries recovered from the Great Depression.

Martin Ellison is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Nuffield College, a consultant at the European Central Bank and a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has also recently finished a term as a member of the Finnish Economic Policy Council. His research interests cover many areas of theoretical and applied macroeconomics, with recent papers concentrating on the management of the UK National Debt and the economic value of increases in longevity.