Yuriy Gorodnichenko, a native of Ukraine, is Quantedge Presidential professor at the Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley. He is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and holds positions and NBER, CEPR, and IZA. Yuriy’s research has been published in top economics journals and concerns monetary policy (effects, optimal design, inflation targeting), fiscal policy (countercyclical policy, government spending multipliers), taxation (tax evasion, inequality), economic growth (its long-run determinants, globalization, innovation, financial frictions), and business cycles.  He regularly comments on topical global issues.

In his keynote address, Professor Gorodnichenko will talk about new causal macroeconomics of surveys and experiments.