2025

MMF joint workshop of the Macro and Finance Research Networks

8th October 2025,
University of Birmingham

University House, Birmingham Business School

Please register for the Max Fry Lecture at this registration link.

12:30 Registration and coffee

13:00 – 13:15 : Welcome: Gulcin Ozkan (King’s College London and MMF)

13:15 – 13:45 : Li Tang (University of Reading)

Disagreement under Imperfect Memory: Theory and Evidence

13:45 – 14:15 : Haomin Wang (University of Cardiff)

Working Hours and the Child Penalty in an Equilibrium Household Search Model

15 minutes break

14:30 – 15:00 : Sara Eugeni (University of Durham)
Silicon Valley and the Greenback: Does US Innovation Fuel the Dollar's Global Dominance?

15:00 – 15:30 : Stefano Fasani (University of Lancaster)

Belief Distortions and Uncertainty about Inflation

30 minutes break

16:00 – 17:00 : Maxwell Fry Lecture by Huw Pill (Bank of England)
Uncertainty, Structural Change, and Monetary Policy

17:00 – 18:00 : Drinks Reception