Research Project

The Scientific and the Political: Modelling and Forecasting the Economy in Policymaking Institutions

The objective of the project is to map the different channels through which economics influences the Bank and to understand how economic ideas impact (or do not impact) policy-making

ESHS Symposium proposal: “The Scientization of Central Banks”

In the last decades, central banks have become crucial institutions in the management of many countries’ economies. This evolution has been accompanied by a rising ‘scientization’ of central banks. Scientization can designate different dynamics:

Mapping Macroeconomics

Building an online interactive platform displaying bibliometric data on a large set of macroeconomic articles. Our goal is to settle the basis for a broad and long-run project on the history of macroeconomics, as well as to bring to historians tools to run quantitative inquiries to support their own research work.

Excavating the Academia/Policy Pipeline - Economic Analysis at the Bank of England Pre and Post-Crisis

The objective of the project is to map the different channels through which economics influences the Bank and to understand how economic ideas impact (or do not impact) policy-making