Tehreem Husain, PhD Candidate from University College London (UCL) will present her paper Time-varying Relationship between Returns on Government and Railway Securities 1880-1913: An Empirical Analysis. ABSTRACT:Investment guides and newspaper reports published during the first era of globalisation refer to ‘railway securities being more lucrative in the long-run’ and ‘all British stocks subject to the …
INTRODUCTIONThe Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Cooperatives Working Group together with the Helper (a humanitarian arm of the Midlands State University, Department of Development Studies) is hosting a workshop on the 5th and 6th of May 2022. The workshops brings together development practitioners/co-operators with academics in an endeavour to craft strategies for cooperatives post- Covid 19 …
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Between MARCH and JUNE 2022, the Philosophy of Economics WG will conduct four sessions to discussing CHINA’S LAND USE PLANNING AND POLICY. SESSION 2 will focus on two articles by Fulong Wu on the impact of neoliberalism in China’s economic reform and cities. How does neoliberalism impact the planning of cities? The session will feature …
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Coordinators meeting
In this webinar session the panel discusses their view on the second new economic question posed by His Holiness Pope Francis:*"Taking into account that the administration of household goods requires its rules, its laws: what could be those laws that put the economy at the service of fragility? What should the relationship between economics and …
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Our first meeting! Join us to set the course for our writing journey.
This session covers Reading 2: The vision of Hyman P. Minsky by Perry Mehrling Minsky put the problem of liquidity front and center. This reading is very much tied to the content of Lecture 4, which emphasizes the survival constraint: At any given point in time, every economic agent must ensure it has sufficient cash …
This is the second of two sessions to discuss "Fighting Financial Crises: Learning from the Past" by Gary Gorton and Ellis Tallman. We will cover chapters 7-12 this last session. From the back cover:"If you’ve got money in the bank, chances are you’ve never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there …
May 11th Nikolas Schiozer: "Price formation, income inequality and macroeconomic performance as coevolutionary phenomena in an agent-based model" May 19th Apurva Ashish Tudekar "IMPACT OF CURRENT ACCOUNT IMBALANCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT" June 8th Lilian Nogueira Rolim "The impact of international trade shocks on economic growth and income distribution in an agent-based macroeconomic model" July 6th Simon …
For the past decades the USD dollar has been the dominant currency and the centerpiece of financial globalization. Recent events have put the future of the globalized economy into question. Of particular interest is the rise of China, the conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions, and the rise of cryptocurrency. From a geopolitical perspective …
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Join us to celebrate YSI at 10 in Ibadan, Nigeria. Both old and new members of YSI are welcome to join. Address: The Venue is the Law Hub, Olujinmi and Akeredolu.The address is No9 Iyaganku Round About, Ring Road, Ibadan. Note that the address does not show correctly on the below map.
This session covers Lecture 5: The Central Bank as a Clearinghouse The lecture describes the interconnectedness of bank balance sheets that allow the payment system to operate smoothly. The central bank helps knit the payment system together to make it approximate the behavior of one big bank. We cover correspondent banking and central bank cooperation. …
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