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YSI @ Agent-Based Models in Economics Seasonal School 2022 | Sant’Anna

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

The economy is a complex evolving system, thus its analysis requires tools that can take into account all dimensions relevant for such a complex world. As young researchers, we often question ourselves how to take into account heterogeneity, interactions, non-linearities, path-dependency, tipping points to name a few. In this project, we will learn and discuss …

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ICA-YSI Young Scholars Workshop at the ICA CCR EU in Athens

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences Athens, Greece

The ICA CCR European Research Conference is an opportunity to bring researchers in the cooperative sector together to share resources and provide an opportunity to foster new connections for potential future collaborations. For early career researchers in this field, this is an invaluable opportunity to connect with others who face similar challenges in conducting research …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 10: Dealers and Liquid Security Markets

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 10: Dealers and Liquid Security Markets This lecture is all about dealers. It emphasizes the concept of "market liquidity" as distinct from "funding liquidity" and introduces the Treynor model of the economics of the dealer function. We're starting by looking at security dealers, but we'll be using this model for the …

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project Series Health Economics and Policy in South Asia

Working towards universal health access in India

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Speaker: Prof. Shamika Ravi About the speaker Dr. Shamika Ravi is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C. She was the former Director of Research at Brookings India and her research focuses on economics of development including areas of finance, health, urbanization and gender inequality. Dr. Ravi …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Reading 5: John Hicks

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 5: Three chapters from A Market Theory of Money by John Hicks (1989) In these three chapters, Hicks starts with the idea that the primary function of money is to serve as a "standard of value" for the market. From there, he argues that the institution of banking as market making …

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Pre-WEHC Young Scholars Workshop

Salle 50, Centre des colloques Aubervilliers, Île-de-France, France

The YSI Economic History (EH) and YSI Africa Working Groups will lead a young scholar workshop at the occasion of the World Economic History Congress in Paris this summer. The WEHC is the major international event for our international community. The workshop offers a one-day experience for early-career researchers with mentorship from the YSI EH …

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The Role of Worker Cooperatives in the Post Covid-19 Recovery

The Co-operative University of Kenya Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Introduction In this moment of crisis, worker cooperatives are a reliable, proven solution to address the loss of jobs and income inequality. COVID-19 has devastated the small business community, and the clock is ticking on permanent shutdowns of small businesses. 45 percent of businesses believe they have less than six months until a permanent shutdown …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Money Problem | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of two sessions for reading and discussing Morgan Ricks' book The Money Problem. In this session we will cover the Introduction and Part 1 (through chapter 4). From the jacket:"Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 11: Banks and the Market for Liquidity

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 11: Banks and the Market for Liquidity This lecture generalizes the Treynor model from security dealers to money dealers and explores the question of why it's profitable for banks to run the payment system at par when prices can't adjust and there's no bid/ask spread. We also talk about how the …

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