project Series Credit Booms Gone Bust

Dr. Alessia De Stefani – Housing, Mortgages and the Macroeconomy

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Join us for a webinar with Dr. Alessia De Stefani (Danmarks Nationalbank). Dr. De Stefani's will discuss the cause and implication of housing booms and busts, with an emphasis on mortgages as triggers of financial crises. She will give an overview of academic discussion about the causes of boom-bust cycles in US housing markets in …

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Do Shadow Banks Create Money? with Jo Michell

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Jo Michell, University of the West of England, BristolDate: Friday, May, 10thTime: 11.00AM (EDT time) – 5:00PM (Central European Summer Time)The goal of the second session is to deepen into the theoretical concept of endogenous money against the background of the latest financial developments, in particular, the role of shadow banking in the money creation …

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Primero Congreso de Economia Critica y Administración

Facultad de Economia y Negocios, Universidad de Chile Diagonal Paraguay, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile

The project is a 4-day long congress mainly aimed at undergraduate students in Chile. Topics covered include Growth and Distribution, Inequality, Economic Teaching, International Macroeconomics, and Neoliberal Regimes in Latin America. The event is in the University of Chile, but would be open to all other students at economic faculties in Chile. We will count …

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Theory and Policy of Shadow money with Daniela Gabor

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Daniela Gabor, University of the West of England, BristolDate: May, 16thTime: 11.00AM (EDT time) – 17.00PM (Central European Summer Time)The third session constitutes the first one focusing on the policy area. It addresses the economic-financial instabilities and political problems that arise from the expansion of shadow banks for both developed and developing countries.References: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35221/ http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35731/ …

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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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Money, debt, financial system and central banking with Josh W. Mason

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Josh W. Mason, John Jay College, CUNY.Date: Thursday, May, 30thTime: 11 AM (EDT) - 5PM (CET) - – 4PM (UK time)References: http://jwmason.org/slackwire/on-money-debt-trust-and-central-banking/ http://rooseveltinstitute.org/expanding-monetary-policy-toolkit/Profile: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/j-w-mason