Dr. Michael Mcmahon

Biography

Michael McMahon is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College. He previously worked at Warwick University and has taught courses at INSEAD, New York University, Chicago Booth, London Business School, and the London School of Economics. Michael has delivered capacity-building courses throughout Asia at the IMF’s Singapore Training Institute and has worked at the Bank of England for several years. In April 2019, he became a member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Director of the Research Policy Network on Central Bank Communication. Additionally, he serves as Deputy Director of the Nuffield Centre for Applied Macro Policy (NuCaMP) and is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Macroeconomics at the LSE. Michael co-edited the CfM Survey and is a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society (RES), where he currently serves as Conference Secretary. He has served as Deputy Programme Chair for the 2017 RES Annual Conference, and was an advisory board member of the Economics Network from 2006 to 2011, as well as Treasurer of the MMF Research Group from 2016 to 2018. His research interests include macroeconomics, fiscal policy, business cycles, monetary economics, inventories, and applied econometrics. Recent research emphasizes the use of interdisciplinary data science techniques to understand central banks' communication and deliberation processes. His publications appear in prominent journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economic Studies.

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