YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar: Anil Menon

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Anil Menon, doctoral candidate from the University of Michigan will present his paper: Refugees and the Radical Right: Evidence from Post-WWII Forced Migrations Registration form to attend the webinar: here. Abstract: Do refugees reshape long-term political behavior in receiving areas? To investigate this question, I examine how the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe …

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Digital Currency and the Blockchain & China’s Multi-Level Capital Markets

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Speaker:Zhang YunfengVenue: Hosted via ZoomDate & Time:Friday, April 30, 2021 | 18:00 - 20:00 China Standard TimeFriday, April 30, 2021 | 6:00 - 8:00 Eastern Time Mr. Zhang Yunfeng is currently the General Manager and Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Equity Exchange (上海股权托管中心). Zhang Yunfeng also serves as a member of the Securities …

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Inflation? It’s Import Prices and the Labor Share!

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In their recent Working Paper Inflation? It’s Import Prices and the Labor Share! Lance Taylor and Nelson Barbosa argue that inflation should be analyzed as a dynamical macroeconomic process instead of the micro-oriented approach used by monetarist analysis. After a critical presentation of the Phillips Curve and inflation targeting history, the authors build on contemporary …

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India’s Vaccine Crisis and the Need for Free Vaccines

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Amidst the second wave of Covid-19 in India, Prof.R. Ramakumar discusses on India's vaccine crisis and why Covid vaccines should be free. Are vaccines a public good? Is the different vaccine pricing for Centre and State governments in line with the principle of universal vaccination?

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The Art of Central Banking – Ralph Hawtrey (1933) | Session 2

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Welcome to our discussion of Chapter IV - The Art of Central Banking (from Ralph Hawtrey's book with the same title). For this session, we will be focusing on the following sub-chapters (pages 174 - 302): The Gold StandardExternal InvestmentInternational Short-term InvestmentThe Financing of International TradeThe Value of GoldGold ReservesLondon and the Trade CycleStabilisation in …

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YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar: Karolin Süß

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Karolin Süß, doctoral candidate from Ruhr Graduate School in Economics will present her paper: *On the origins of historical inheritance customs,gender norms and economic performance∗ Registration form to attend the webinar: here. Abstract: Equal inheritance customs in agriculture have been found to contribute to the persistence of more egalitarian gender norms and higher average incomes. …

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KEDG 2021.1 – 2nd meeting

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April 7 - Guilherme Morlin: "Growth and debt stability in a supermultiplier model with public expenditures and foreign trade" **May 6 - Ana Bottega: "Kalecki meets Schumpeter: the decline of competition in a demand-led dynamic model" June 2 - Gustavo Pereira Serra: "The First Harrod Problem and Human Capital Formation" July 1 - Vinicius Curti …

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Reading Group Recurring Meeting

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The price level is the average price of goods in terms of money. As Perry Mehrling's money view emphasizes, the price level also implies a price of money in terms of goods. But what determines the price level? Why is the price level important? And how does the price level fit into the rest of …

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Chapter 11- 12 – Computing with particles and Information Processing in Liv

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We meet again this week to discuss computation in living systems. Mary Kaltenberg will be rescheduled to a later date due to personal issues.Looking forward to continue our discussion :) Please fill this doodle about what dates would work for you to have our session with Melanie Mitchell: https://doodle.com/poll/8gqnvc9akvw5zdee?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link All the best, Oindrilla & Valentin