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project Series Expanding the frontiers of economics – 2.0: Evidence from South Asia

Missing in Action: Insights from Public Policymaking in India

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AbstractPublic policies are all around us. They influence our choices, behaviours, and incomes. More so in the Indian context due to the Indian State’s wide-ranging ambitions. Despite its pervasiveness, public policy is often perceived as being inaccessible, boring or both. MIA aims to change this perception with this book through vignettes that illustrate India’s tryst …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Lectures 19 & 20

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This session covers Lecture 19: Interest Rate Swaps and Lecture 20: Credit Default Swaps Lecture 19 Notes Lecture 20 Notes Part 4 of Lecture 19 is missing from Perry Mehrling's site and the YouTube playlist. Here's a direct link. Lecture 19 — Part 4: What is a Swap Part 4 of Lecture 20 is cut …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Reading 10: 1952 FOMC Report

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This session covers Reading 10: Excerpts from a 1952 report to the FOMC (parts one, two, and three) FOMC Study Questions The document is the previously secret Fed report that Mehrling mentions in Lecture 19. In 1952, the Fed is figuring out how they want to run monetary policy after the Treasury-Fed accord of 1951. …

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project Series The structural role of regional integration in a just transition in LatAm

Launch of the YSI Amazon Hub

Universidade Federal do Pará Belém, State of Pará, Brazil

The Launch of the YSI Amazon Hub in Belém aims to establish a specialized platform for young scholars in the Amazon region, tailored to the specific needs and challenges of the area. This project seeks to cultivate a vibrant ecosystem where aspiring researchers, innovators, and intellectuals can collaborate and develop impactful solutions to pressing issues …

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YSI Special Session at 4th Unicamp International School

YSI Special session - Unicamp International School on Development Challenges. Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil

YSI Special Session - UNICAMP International School on Development Challenges The YSI Latin America Working Group happily announces a special session to be held on August 7 during the 4th Unicamp International School on Development Challenges – Changes in contemporary capitalism and impacts on the global south. We invite students of previous editions of Unicamp …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Lecture 21 & Reading 11: Shadow Banking

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 21 Shadow Banking, Central Banking, and Global Finance and Reading 11: Bagehot Was a Shadow Banker: shadow banking, Central Banking, and the Future of Global Finance by Mehrling, Pozsar, Sweeney, and Neilson (2014) Lecture 21 Slides Shadow Banking Study Questions NOTE: The above link is the final published 2014 version of …

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1st UFPR Winter School on Economic Development: The Feminist economics

Federal University of Paraná Avenida Prefeito Lothário Meissner, Jardim Botânico, Paraná, Brazil

We are happy to invite you to submit your work to the “1st UFPR Winter School on Economic Development: Feminist and Gender Economics”, which will be held on 9 August in Curitiba, Brazil. The 1st UFPR Winter School on Economic Development is organized by the Graduate Program in Economic Development (PPGDE) of the Federal University …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Currency of Politics | Session 3

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This is the third of three sessions on Stefan Eich's 2022 book The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. https://www.amazon.com/Currency-Politics-Political-Theory-Aristotle/dp/0691191077/ From the Description: Stefan Eich examines six crucial episodes of monetary crisis, recovering the neglected political theories of money in the thought of such figures as Aristotle, John Locke, …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Lecture 22

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This session covers Lecture 22: Touching the Elephant: Three Views Lecture 22 Notes The lecture ties the money view into the "economics view" and "finance view" of money and banking. The economics view says that past investments and commitments result in cash flows today—the past determines the present. The finance says expectations of the future …

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YSI Germany Hub

JFKI Freie Universität Berlin Lansstraße, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The second meeting of the YSI Germany Hub will take place on 10 August at the JFKI at Freie Universität in Berlin from 15:00 to 19:00. YSI Hubs are a space in which YSI members, regardless of Working Group affiliation, can meet, get to know each other, and brainstorm project ideas. The meeting will be …

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project Series Global Debtscapes: A YSI Webinar Series on Sovereign Debt Sustainability

🌍 Invitation to Global Debtscapes: YSI Catchup – Mark Your Calendar!

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We are excited to invite you to the "Global Debtscapes: Post-YSI Debt Sustainability Conference Networking Catchup." We'll meet online on Friday, August 11, 2023 for an informal session to discuss, reflect and continue the conversation from last April's conference in Boston. Whether you were a part of the original conference or not, we warmly welcome …

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