Keynote Speakers

Dr Michele Lenza

European Central Bank

Michele Lenza is head of the Monetary Policy Research Division at the European Central Bank. His research covers monetary policy and macroeconometric modelling and methods.

He is a Fellow of International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Michele’s research has been published in journals such as Econometrica, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.

Professor Jianjun Miao

Zhejiang University

Jianjun Miao is a Tsingshan Chair Professor of Economics at Zhejiang University. His research covers macroeconomics and finance, including topics such as the implications of asset price bubbles and rational inattention.

He is a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. Jianjun is an associate editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Theory and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Jianjun’s research has been published in journals such as Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Finance.