Looking for Causality

• Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

Please join the May Max Weber Programme Lecture

This lecture will be an exploration of ideas of causality, with illustrations taken primarily from economic history and applied economics. It will try to discuss the role of the dominant causality-based paradigms for research in applied economics and econometrics and to ask whether more traditional 'time-series' based methods remain important for policy and forecasting.

About the speaker:

Professor Anindya Banerjee joined the Department of Economics in January 2008 as Professor of Econometrics. Before coming to Birmingham he was Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He received his PhD. from the University of Oxford. His interests lie in time-series econometrics, including factor models, and the econometrics of integrated panel data. From 2021-2025, he served as head of the Department of Economics in Birmingham. His website is available here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/banerjee-anindya