Description:

The University of Essex has announced the creation of a new Centre to be based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.

The Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA) brings together the expert team at ISER with colleagues from specialisms across the University of Essex, including Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Sociology and Economics. They will be joined by colleagues from leading institutions around the world.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-microsimulation-policy-and-analysis-launch-webinar-tickets-108439858536

CeMPA research on distributional issues, from tax and benefit systems to family, gender, health, wellbeing, and population change, focuses around two tools developed over the years and that are offered open source to the scientific community, with a wide range of models and applications: the static microsimulation platform EUROMOD, now jointly developed with the European Commission, and the dynamic microsimulation platform JAS-mine. Together, they cover all areas in microsimulation, from tax-benefit to dynamic microsimulation and agent-based modelling.

Introduced by Professor Matteo Richiardi, Director of CeMPA, this launch webinar will showcase some of the current research being undertaken by the core team, with opportunities for discussion and questions.

Programme:

2.00pm Introduction (Matteo Richiardi, CeMPA Director, University of Essex)

2.05pm CeMPA and the University of Essex (Chris Greer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research Designate, University of Essex)

2.10pm CeMPA for the Social Sciences (John Preston, Deputy Dean (Research), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Essex)

2.20pm The EUROMOD legacy (Holly Sutherland, Emeritus Professor, former Director of EUROMOD, University of Essex)

2.30pm COVID-19 research at CeMPA (Matteo Richiardi)

2.35pm Welfare resilience in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy (Francesco Figari, Professor of Economics, University of Insubria)

2.50pm Modelling the distributional impact of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland (Cathal O’Donoghue, Professor of Public and Social Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway)

3.05pm The UK policy response at the onset of the crisis (Iva Tasseva, Senior Research Officer, ISER, University of Essex)

3.20pm The COVID-19 crisis in the UK: yearly projections (Diego Collado, Senior Research Officer, ISER, University of Essex)

3.35pm Economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdown policies and government economic rescue packages: application of global macro-net input-output model (Sheri Markose, Professor of Economics, University of Essex)

3.50pm Closing remarks (Matteo Richiardi)