Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Behavioural Public Policy

University of Nice, France Avenue François Mitterrand, Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Location: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est (MSHS), Nice, FranceDates: 20-21 May 2019 BACKGROUNDSince the publication of Nudge by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler in 2008, a growing number of governments and international organisations see in behavioural sciences a new way to design public policies. This evolution gave birth to the …

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2019 Pre-ESHET workshop

Sciences Po Lille Lille, Hauts-de-France, France

Interdependencies, Causation, and Synergies between Economic History and History of Economics A Workshop of the YSI History of Economic Thought and Economic History Working Groups. How do economic history and the history of economics complement but also constrain each other? To what degree should historians of economics care about recent research in economic history and …

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YSI @ Future of Central Banking Conference

Abbaye de Talloires Chemin des Moines, Talloires-Montmin, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The role of central banks in the Western World has greatly evolved following the Great Financial Crisis, both in terms of the widening of their objectives (with notably the rise of macros-prudential policy) and in the conduct of monetary policy itself. Indeed, the balance-sheets' size of the most powerful central banks in the world have …

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The Trento Experiment

University of Trento Via Tommaso Gar, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

*This year the YSI participation at the Trento Festival of Economics will be different. There will be no panels with talks that are too long, actually, there will be no talks at all... Welcome to The Trento Experiment! * YSI has had a program every year since 2013, but this year there will not be …

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Pre-Conference Workshop @ RSA Annual Conference 2019

University of Satiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Pre-Conference Workshop on “Relatedness, Knowledge Complexity and Economic Development in Cities and Regions” Santiago de Compostela, SpainJune 03-4, 2019Deadline Extended: May 10, 2019 The YSI Complexity Economics, Economics of Innovation and Urban and Regional Economics Working Groups are glad to announce a Pre-Conference Workshop on “Relatedness, Knowledge Complexity and Economic Development in Cities and Regions” …

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project Series State and Capital in China

Emergence and configuration of the Indian National System of Innovation

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Emergence and configuration of the Indian National System of Innovation: historical changes and continuities by Manuel Gonzalohttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Gonzalo2 During the 2000s, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) aroused the interest of different economic analysts because they agglomerate a large portion of the world population, a significant endowment of resources and due to its increasing …

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“Unravelling the forces of urban industrial agglomeration” – Neave O’Clery

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As early as the 1920's Marshall suggested that firms co-locate in cities to reduce the costs of moving goods, people, and ideas. These 'forces of agglomeration' have given rise, for example, to the high tech clusters of San Francisco and Boston, and the automobile cluster in Detroit. Yet, despite its importance for city planners and …

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“Related diversification and economic change” – Prof. Martin Henning

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The lecture will tackle the question, how the resource-history of regions act as sea-anchors in transformation.First, the origin of the ideas behind linking relatedness and regional - urban development will be discussed and what we have learnt so far from this strand of literature. Following this, Prof. Henning will critically elaborate on the theoretical underpinning …

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