Programme Area Development & Growth

Macroeconomics and Growth

The MG programme is one of the three successors to the old International Macroeconomics (IM) programme, along with International Macroeconomics and Finance (IMF) and Monetary Economics and Fluctuations (MEF).

Key areas covered are:-

economic growth
inequality
political economy
structural change

Symposia

The MG Programme has two regular events. The European Summer Symposium for International Macroeconomics (ESSIM) is held jointly with the IMF and MEF programmes, and the annual MG Symposium, which takes place in November each year, bringing together around 50 economists over two days.

Event Series

The European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics (ESSIM)

The European Summer Symposium for International Macroeconomics (ESSIM) is held jointly with the IMF, MG and MEF programmes. ESSIM, CEPR’s long-standing annual symposium for International Macroeconomics, brings together Europe's top macroeconomists with a few US-based scholars for an intensive and highly interactive four-day conference. There is no central theme for ESSIM rather researchers present their best, current research on macroeconomics.

Business Cycles
Central Banking
International Finance
Macroeconomic policy
Monetary Policy

Event Series

Macroeconomics and Growth Symposium

Programme Directors

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Chair for Macroeconomics and Development Goethe University Frankfurt; President WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Fellow, Macroeconomics and Growth / Programme Director, Macroeconomics and Growth

Research Fellows

Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor in the Department of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Philippe Aghion

Professor Collège De France; The Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD); Visiting Professor London School Of Economics And Political Science

Ufuk Akcigit

Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics University Of Chicago

Yann Algan

Dean of Pre-experience Programs and Professor of Economics HEC Paris School of Management

Ingela Alger

CNRS Senior Scientist Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Toulouse

Orazio Attanasio

Cowles Professor of Economics Yale University

David Rezza Baqaee

Research Associate National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER); Professor of Economics University Of California, Los Angeles

Lint Barrage

Associate Professor & Chair of Energy and Climate Economics Eth Zurich

Christian Bayer

Professor of Economics, Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics University Of Bonn

Sascha O. Becker

Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics Monash University; Professor of Economics University Of Warwick; Professor of Economics

Roel Beetsma

Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and Professor of Macroeconomics University Of Amsterdam

Marianna Belloc

Network member Cesifo; Full Professor of Economics Sapienza University Of Rome

Jeanet Bentzen

Associate Professor of Economics University Of Copenhagen

Graziella Bertocchi

President Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF); Professor of Economics University Of Modena And Reggio Emilia

Giuseppe Bertola

Professore ordinario University Of Turin

Francesco Bianchi

Louis J. Maccini Professor of Economics Johns Hopkins University; Research Associate National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER)

Alexander Bick

Economic Policy Advisor in the Research Department Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis

Johannes Boehm

Professor of Economics Associate Professor of Economics Sciences Po Paris

Alessandra Bonfiglioli

Professor of Economics (on leave) Queen Mary University Of London; Professor of Economics University Of Bergamo; Full Professor of Economics

Gharad Bryan

Associate Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science

Francisco Buera

Sam B. Cook Professor of Economics Washington University In St. Louis

Davide Cantoni

Ordinary Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Professor of Economics and Economic History Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU)

Francesco Caselli

Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science

Tiago Cavalcanti

Adjunct Professor, EESP-FGV Sao Paulo School of Economics; Professor in Economics University Of Cambridge

Matteo Cervellati

Research Fellow Iza Institute Of Labor Economics; Director of the Department of Economics University Of Bologna

Antonio Ciccone

Professor of Macroeconomics in the Department of Economics University Of Mannheim

Diego Comin

Professor of Economics Dartmouth College

Rosario Crinò

Professor of Economics University Of Bergamo

Carl-Johan Dalgaard

Professor of Economics University Of Copenhagen

David De La Croix

Professor of Economics IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain

Mariacristina De Nardi

Consultant Federal Reserve Board of Minneapolis; Faculty Research Fellow National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER); Thomas Sargent Professor University Of Minnesota

Julian Di Giovanni

Head of Climate Risk Studies Department Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

Matthias Doepke

Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science; Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History Northwestern University

Allan Drazen

Professor of Economics University Of Maryland

Markus Eberhardt

Associate Professor, School of Economics University Of Nottingham

Ester Faia

Professor Goethe University Frankfurt

Antonio Fatás

Vice President Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor of Economics European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)

Fellow, Macroeconomics and Growth / RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies / CEPR Vice President

Giulio Fella

Professor of Economics Queen Mary University Of London; Professor of Economics (on leave) University Of Bologna

John Fernald

Schroders Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness and Reform and Professor of Economics European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD); Senior Research Adviser for International Economics (on leave) Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco

Raquel Fernandez

Silver Professor of Economics New York University

Marc Flandreau

Howard S. Marks Professor of Economic History University Of Pennsylvania

Raphaël Franck

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics Hebrew University Of Jerusalem; Professor

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Chair for Macroeconomics and Development Goethe University Frankfurt; President WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Fellow, Macroeconomics and Growth / Programme Director, Macroeconomics and Growth

Oded Galor

Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics Brown University

Gino Gancia

Professor of Economics

Cecilia García-Peñalosa

CNRS Professor Aix-marseille University

Manuel García-Santana

Affiliated Professor (on Leave) ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona School of Economics; Senior Economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth Team of the Development Research Group The World Bank

Nicola Gennaioli

Full Professor of Finance Bocconi University

Dimitris Georgarakos

Lead Economist, DG-Research European Central Bank; Visiting Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School University Of Glasgow

Maitreesh Ghatak

Director of the Development Economics Programme, STICERD; Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science

Francesco Giavazzi

Deputy Chair of Bocconi University International Advisory Board and Professor Emeritus Bocconi University

Douglas Gollin

Governing Body Fellow at St. Antony’s College and Professor of Development Economics University Of Oxford

Mikhail Golosov

The Homer J. Livingston Professor in Economics and the College University Of Chicago

Robert J. Gordon

Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics Northwestern University

Luigi Guiso

AXA Professor of Household Finance Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

Nezih Guner

Research Professor Barcelona School Of Economics; Professor of Economics Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI)

Casper Worm Hansen

Professor of Economics University Of Copenhagen

Tarek Hassan

Professor of Economics Boston University

John Hassler

Professor of Economics Institute For International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University

Moshe Hazan

Professor of Economics Monash University

David Hémous

Assistant Professor of Economics European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD); Associate Professor University Of Zurich

Jean Imbs

Research Director French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS); Professor of Economics New York University Abu Dhabi; Professor of Economics Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Giammario Impullitti

Professor of Economics University Of Nottingham

Sriya Iyer

Professor of Economics and Social Science University Of Cambridge

Nir Jaimovich

Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of California San Diego

Tullio Jappelli

Research Fellow Center for Studies in Economics and Finance; Director of CSEF and Professor of Economics University Of Naples Federico Ii

Leo Kaas

Professor of Economics Goethe University Frankfurt

Joseph Kaboski

David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics University Of Notre Dame

Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan

Schreiber Family Professor of Economics Brown University

Loukas Karabarbounis

Professor of Economics University Of Minnesota

Fabian Kindermann

Professor of Economics University Of Regensburg

Marc Klemp

Visiting Scholar Brown University; Associate Professor University Of Copenhagen

Miklós Koren

Professor, Department of Economics Central European University; Senior Research Fellow KRTK - Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Dirk Krueger

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics and Finance (Secondary) University Of Pennsylvania

Per Krusell

Savings Banks Foundations and Swedbank Chair in Macroeconomics, Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg chair in Economics Institute For International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University; Centennial Professor London School Of Economics And Political Science

David Lagakos

Associate Professor of Economics (with Tenure) Boston University; Lead Academic for Ghana at the International Growth Centre London School Of Economics And Political Science

Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee

Reader in Economics Queen Mary University Of London; Research Associate Toulouse School Of Economics

Miguel León-Ledesma

Professor of Economics University Of Exeter

Andrei Levchenko

John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Alexander Ludwig

Ramon Marimon

Affiliated Professor Barcelona School Of Economics; Associate Professor Centre De Recerca En Economia Internacional (CREI); Part-time Professor European University Institute; Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Pompeu Fabra University

Kiminori Matsuyama

Professor of Economics Northwestern University

Warwick Mckibbin

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University

Stelios Michalopoulos

Eastman Professor of Political Economy Brown University

Omer Moav

Professor in the School of Economics Reichman University; Professor in the Department of Economics University Of Warwick

Benjamin Moll

Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science

Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Alessio Moro

Professor of Economics University Of Cagliari

Sharun Mukand

Professor and Research Leader of Politics, Culture and Development at the CAGE Research Centre, Professor of Economics University Of Warwick

Dávid Krisztián Nagy

Senior Researcher Centre De Recerca En Economia Internacional (CREI)

Liwa Rachel Ngai

Professor, Department of Economics London School Of Economics And Political Science

Kevin O'Rourke

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, and Professor of Economics Sciences Po Paris

Elias Papaioannou

Academic Co-Director LBS Wheeler Institute for Business and Development; Professor of Economics London Business School

Torsten Persson

Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Michael Peters

Associate Professor of Economics Yale University

Thomas Philippon

Max L. Heine Professor of Finance Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

Josep Pijoan-Mas

Professor of Economics Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI)

Luigi Pistaferri

Professor of Economics Stanford University

Giovanni Prarolo

Professor at the Department of Economics University Of Bologna

Giorgio Primiceri

Eugenio Proto

Alec Cairncross Professor of Applied Economics and Econometrics University Of Glasgow

Romain Ranciere

Professor and Chair University Of Southern California

Veronica Rappoport

Associate Professor London School Of Economics And Political Science

Sérgio Rebelo

Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance, Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University

Michelle Rendall

Associate Professor Monash University

José V Rodríguez Mora

Professor of Economics CUNEF University; Professor of Economics University Of Edinburgh

Dani Rodrik

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University

Gilles Saint-Paul

Professor of Economics École Normale Supérieure; PSE Chaired Professor Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Virginia Sánchez-Marcos

Professor of Economics Universidad de Cantabria

Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis

Bent E Sørensen

Lay Professor of International Economics University Of Houston

Antonio Spilimbergo

Deputy Director, IMF Research Department International Monetary Fund

Mara Squicciarini

Associate Professor Bocconi University

Stefanie Stantcheva

Founder of the Social Economics Lab; Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy Harvard University

Kjetil Storesletten

Richard and Beverly Fink Professor of Economics University Of Minnesota; Professor II University Of Oslo; Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Economics University Of Surrey

Paolo Surico

Professor of Economics London Business School

Nathan Sussman

Professor and Pictet Chair in Finance, Development and International Economics Geneva Graduate Institute (iheid)

Guido Tabellini

Professor of Economics, Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics and Vice President Bocconi University

José Tavares

Full Professor Nova School Of Business And Economics

Alan M. Taylor

Professor Columbia University

Jonathan Temple

Freelance editor and researcher

Silvana Tenreyro

External Monetary Policy Committee Member Bank Of England; Professor London School Of Economics And Political Science

Michèle Tertilt

Professor of Economics University Of Mannheim

Andrea Tesei

Professor of Economics Queen Mary University Of London

David Thesmar

Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics MIT Sloan School of Management

Mathias Thoenig

Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics HEC Lausanne; Centenary Visiting Professor of PPE at the Department of Economics University Of Oxford

Ragnar Torvik

Professor of Economics Norwegian University Of Science And Technology

Akos Valentinyi

Research Fellow Corvinus University Of Budapest; Professor of Macroeconomics in the School of Social Sciences University Of Manchester

Frederick Van Der Ploeg

Professor of Economics University Of Oxford

Sweder van Wijnbergen

Professor University Of Amsterdam

Liliana Varela

Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance London School Of Economics And Political Science

Laura Veldkamp

Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance & Economics Columbia University

Jaume Ventura

Research Professor Barcelona School Of Economics; Senior Researcher and Director Centre De Recerca En Economia Internacional (CREI); Professor Pompeu Fabra University

Giovanni Violante

Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics Princeton University

Hans-Joachim Voth

Scientific Director, UBS Center for Economics in Society; UBS Foundation Professor of Economics University Of Zurich

Johanna Wallenius

Professor Stockholm School Of Economics

Philippe Weil

Professor of Economics, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Business ECARES, Université Libre De Bruxelles

Charles Wyplosz

Professor Emeritus of International Economics Geneva Graduate Institute (iheid)

Joseph Zeira

Professor of Economics Hebrew University Of Jerusalem

Fabrizio Zilibotti

Fellow, Pauli Murray College; Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics Yale University

Research Affiliates

Zsofia Barany

Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Business Central European University

Salomé Baslandze

Research Economist and Assistant Adviser Federal Reserve Bank Of Atlanta

Antonin Bergeaud

Associate Professor in the Economic Department Hec Paris; Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Performance London School Of Economics And Political Science

Christine Binzel

Full Professor of Economics, Economy and Society of the Middle East University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Timo Boppart

Associate Professor Associate Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University; Professor for International Economics University Of St Gallen; Professor in Macroeconomics and Political Economy University Of Zurich