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CATEGORIES:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series
SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘'Model
 ling the Impacts of Brexit on Low-Income Household
 s' by Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewney &amp\; Laurie 
 Heykoop  - Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewney &amp\; La
 urie Heykoop
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180530T193000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/104353
DESCRIPTION:*Date:* Wednesday 30 May 2018 \n*Time:* 18:00 -19:
 30\n*Speaker:* Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewney and L
 aurie Heykoop  \n*Talk Title:* 'Modelling the Impa
 cts of Brexit on Low-Income Households'\n*Location
 :* Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College\n\n*Speak
 ers*\nSophie Heald is a project manager and econom
 ist in the macroeconomic modelling team at Cambrid
 ge Econometrics. She specialises in the applicatio
 n of large-scale econometric models for scenario a
 nalysis and has several years’ experience modellin
 g policy scenarios using E3ME\, an econometric mod
 el of the global economy. In recent months Sophie 
 has contributed to the European Commission’s impac
 t assessment on the macroeconomic effects of measu
 res to improve work-life balance and\, for the Eur
 opean Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)\, she m
 anaged a project to assess the wider macroeconomic
  effects of measures to improve gender equality. S
 ophie led on the economic modelling and contribute
 d to the scenario design for this study into the i
 mpacts of Brexit on low-income households.\n\nRich
 ard Lewney is Chairman of Cambridge Econometrics w
 here he has worked since 1988. He specialises in t
 he application of economic modelling to policy ana
 lysis\, policy evaluation and forecasting\, and he
  directed the study on which this seminar draws. H
 e recently completed a two-year project for DG Ene
 rgy to improve the treatment of innovation and fin
 ance in the macroeconomic modelling of decarbonisa
 tion policies. He led the macroeconomic modelling 
 for DG Employment’s study on the feasibility of a 
 pan-European unemployment benefit system. He is cu
 rrently directing a project to extend and upgrade 
 the economic modelling capability of Malta’s Minis
 try for Finance. He was the lead economist for the
  Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. 
 He is a Trustee of the Cambridge Trust for New Thi
 nking in Economics which owns Cambridge Econometri
 cs.\n\nLaurie Heykoop is an economist at the Josep
 h Rowntree Foundation. His current areas of resear
 ch include analysis of potential impacts of Brexit
  on low-income households\, and monitoring the imp
 act of inflation on the living standards of low-in
 come households. Having graduated BA Economics and
  Politics at Manchester University in 2012\, prior
  to his current post Laurie spent over three years
  as a government economist. \nHis work included pr
 oducing official gas price projections\, advising 
 on options to reform agri-environment schemes\, an
 d producing models to enhance targeting of fuel po
 verty programmes. His other research interests inc
 lude the economics of land\, housing\, and inequal
 ity.\n\n*Talk Overview* \nSeveral organisations ac
 ross government\, academia\, and think tanks have 
 modelled the potential economic impacts of post-Br
 exit trading arrangements. These have primarily fo
 cussed on economy-wide impacts.  The research pres
 ented in this seminar focuses on analysis of impac
 ts on low-income households. The research models a
  range of potential post-Brexit trading arrangemen
 ts\, producing estimates for impacts on prices\, w
 ages\, and employment and then assesses the partic
 ular implications for low-income households.\n\nPl
 ease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis
  (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jb
 s.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
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