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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘'Modelling the I
 mpacts of Brexit on Low-Income Households' by Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewne
 y & Laurie Heykoop  - Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewney & Laurie Heykoop
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:*Date:* Wednesday 30 May 2018 \n*Time:* 18:00 -19:30\n*Speaker
 :* Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewney and Laurie Heykoop  \n*Talk Title:* 'Mode
 lling the Impacts of Brexit on Low-Income Households'\n*Location:* Ramsden
  Room\, St Catharine's College\n\n*Speakers*\nSophie Heald is a project ma
 nager and economist in the macroeconomic modelling team at Cambridge Econo
 metrics. She specialises in the application of large-scale econometric mod
 els for scenario analysis and has several years’ experience modelling po
 licy scenarios using E3ME\, an econometric model of the global economy. In
  recent months Sophie has contributed to the European Commission’s impac
 t assessment on the macroeconomic effects of measures to improve work-life
  balance and\, for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)\, she
  managed a project to assess the wider macroeconomic effects of measures t
 o improve gender equality. Sophie led on the economic modelling and contri
 buted to the scenario design for this study into the impacts of Brexit on 
 low-income households.\n\nRichard Lewney is Chairman of Cambridge Economet
 rics where he has worked since 1988. He specialises in the application of 
 economic modelling to policy analysis\, policy evaluation and forecasting\
 , and he directed the study on which this seminar draws. He recently compl
 eted a two-year project for DG Energy to improve the treatment of innovati
 on and finance in the macroeconomic modelling of decarbonisation policies.
  He led the macroeconomic modelling for DG Employment’s study on the fea
 sibility of a pan-European unemployment benefit system. He is currently di
 recting a project to extend and upgrade the economic modelling capability 
 of Malta’s Ministry for Finance. He was the lead economist for the North
 ern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. He is a Trustee of the Cambrid
 ge Trust for New Thinking in Economics which owns Cambridge Econometrics.\
 n\nLaurie Heykoop is an economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. His c
 urrent areas of research include analysis of potential impacts of Brexit o
 n low-income households\, and monitoring the impact of inflation on the li
 ving standards of low-income households. Having graduated BA Economics and
  Politics at Manchester University in 2012\, prior to his current post Lau
 rie spent over three years as a government economist. \nHis work included 
 producing official gas price projections\, advising on options to reform a
 gri-environment schemes\, and producing models to enhance targeting of fue
 l poverty programmes. His other research interests include the economics o
 f land\, housing\, and inequality.\n\n*Talk Overview* \nSeveral organisati
 ons across government\, academia\, and think tanks have modelled the poten
 tial economic impacts of post-Brexit trading arrangements. These have prim
 arily focussed on economy-wide impacts.  The research presented in this se
 minar focuses on analysis of impacts on low-income households. The researc
 h models a range of potential post-Brexit trading arrangements\, producing
  estimates for impacts on prices\, wages\, and employment and then assesse
 s the particular implications for low-income households.\n\nPlease contact
  the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitso
 n (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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