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This is an exclusive opportunity to hear from one of the country’s leading economists, Professor Jonathan Haskel. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge shock to the UK economy, the scale of which has not been seen since the early 18th Century. What will our recovery look like?
Hear from Professor Jonathan Haskel, renowned British economist & Bank of England Monetary Policy committee Member. Jonathan will talk through the economic modelling of the initial recession and the lessons for the recovery. He’ll set out how economists model the interrelations between sectors and how lockdown cascaded falls in demand from closed sectors to the rest of the economy. He’ll then set out how to model the recovery: what types of workers will be affected and how consumers will respond to unemployment and the fears of further infection.
Speaker
Jonathan Haskel
Jonathan is a Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London. He is also an external committee member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England. He has a number of publications in academic Economics journals on productivity, growth, and the intangible/knowledge economy, and his recent book is Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2018 for services to economics.