For a few decades, it was clear that whatever needed to be settled was best done by the market. But what is valid today, when the old leitmotif no longer applies? And what if the alternative cannot be that instead of the market, the state now regulates everything and always? Dani Rodrik and Mariana Mazzucato …
Targeted to young scholars working on these topics that want to participate in the 6th Workshop of the Politics of Money network, entitled “The Politics of Money in the 2020s: W(h)ither Global Finance?” In this session on “Frontiers of finance: fintech, crypto and green finance”, we will explore the specificities and continuities of new developments …
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In the context of the 2023 banking turmoil, we are discussing Zoltan Poszar's 2011 IMF working paper, "Institutional Cash Pools and the Triffin Dilemma of the U.S. Banking System". https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Institutional-Cash-Pools-and-the-Triffin-Dilemma-of-the-U-S-25155 Nathan Tankus recently blogged about this paper. We can compare his interpretation with our own. https://www.crisesnotes.com/the-night-they-reread-pozsar-in-his-absence/ This blog post also sparked a discussion in the …
Join us for this reading group session which will be held on 20 April 2023 at 11:00ET. Jay Pocklington and Jakob Sparn will be facilitating a discussion on The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear.
Sibulele Ngomane, YSI and LPFMI Spring 2022 participant will recap her experience from last year (more information here). This will also be ideal for anybody, who is looking to ask more questions about our community, we have been building since 2018. Come tune in and shoot us your questions! FYI, we are also organizing an …
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Chi 驰 (David) Zhang 张 (PhD, Economist NDB) will lay the groundwork for his LPFMI interaction on Wed. 21. Jun. 2023 by presenting on China Development Strategy & Development Financing via Emerging Market Currencies in A High-Interest US Dollar Environment. Discussant is going to be Aleksandar Stojanović (PhD, Assistant Professor NYU SH). Key points David …
Chi 驰 (David) Zhang 张 (PhD, Economist NDB) on RMB for dev. financing & more Read More »
Alexandru-Stefan Goghie (independent researcher) and Matteo Giordano (PhD candidate SOAS) are part of paper collaboration around Steffen Murau (Post-doc, Research Associate, LMU). Steffen is a well-known researcher in the Money View community with an equally well-known series of studies on today's offshore US-Dollar system as a hierarchical web of interlocking balance sheets. Published by the …
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Guillaume Vuillemey (Associate Professor of Finance, HEC) is a well recognized scholar in financial market infrastructure. He often takes an economic history lens to make sense of liquidity issues. A well discussed paper on this includes "The Failure of a Clearinghouse: Empirical Evidence" (Review of Finance, February 2020) where Guillaume studies the failure of a …
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This is the first of two sessions on Michael J. Howell's 2020 Book Capital Wars: The Rise of Global Liquidity. https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Wars-Rise-Global-Liquidity/dp/3030392902/ From the Description: Global Liquidity is a much-discussed, but narrowly-researched and vaguely-defined topic. This book deeply explores the subject by clearly defining and measuring liquidity worldwide and by showing its importance for investors. The …
Join us for an exciting workshop with renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang!Workshop will take place in-person only. *PLEASE NOTE: this event has been updated to take place between 2-4pm * The workshop is a unique interactive opportunity to practise your economics knowledge and learn how to explain economics without the jargon. This is an essential skill …
The YSI Conference on Debt Sustainability hosted at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center on 28-30 April 2023 will discuss the key conceptual and policy themes for sovereign debt sustainability, the characteristics of the existing frameworks under which debt decisions and policies occur, and possible avenues for reform. It will, furthermore, explore the crucial …
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This webinar will capacitate young scholars interested in participating in the workshop on how to write a wining abstract. The 30 minutes webinar will be facilitated by Dr. Claudia Sanchez Bajo. Dr Sanchez Bajo is Fellow Researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Economics, and was, in 2018, Guest Professor at the University …