The FSR Energy Innovation Area and the Complexity Economics Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the 1st Energy Innovation Academy. - Call for Papers Energy transitions imply disruptive innovations. This drives the Academy’s topics. We aim at discussing industries as complex and evolving systems. …
The Summer School consists in a week-long full-time intensive course to teach PhD and young scholars how to implement and best exploit agent-based simulation models in Economics for research purposes. It will provide students with both the technical and methodological skills required to successfully develop and analyze simulation models in a research project, which may …
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The theme of this first meeting will be historical epistemology. Discussion will be based on the following references: Feest, Uljana, Thomas Sturm. 2011. "What (good) is historical epistemology." Erkenntnis 75 (3), 285-302. Stapleford, Thomas. 2017. "Historical Epistemology and the History of Economics: Views Through the Lens of Practice." Research in the History of Economic Thought …
Towards a Call for Problems Approach: Strengthening NGO-Academic Collaborations Session Proposal for Change Finance Forum 6th-7th December 2018 Increasingly, academic researchers are concerned to ensure that their research will find its way out of the ivory tower and shape law and policy-making processes. Equally, many NGOs are keen to produce cutting-edge research on particular social …
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We are already involved in many projects, thus we will meet just between coordinators and organizers to overview our year plan and set goals for our WG in 2019.
Promoting innovation has become common practice across the world due to its social and economic transformative power. As innovation becomes recognised as part of the development agenda, a key challenge is to better understand innovation in a development context and how policy can support it. Nevertheless, considerations of innovation in Africa remain disconnected to some …
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The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is thrilled to welcome Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of Market Operations at the European Central Bank, to discuss "Central Bank Digital Currency". With the digitalisation of finance, Fintech, and cryptocurrencies, central banks and academics have started to wonder if central banks should not also offer a digital currency, …
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Dear young scholars, The Latin America Working Group invites you to the webinar "De-dollarization and monetary policy in Bolivia: the role of inflationary memory" with Prof. Ernesto Sheriff. The webinar will take place on Friday, Dec 14th, 11:00 am EST. A part of the webinar will consist on Sheriff's article (2011) "Memoria inflacionaria e histéresis …
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Professor Zdravka Todorova (Wright State University – http://www.wright.edu/~zdravka.todorova/) is going to present the general aspects of gender studies in economics. You find some reading suggestions about the topic in this folder, but remember they are only suggestions, everyone is invited to join us regardless of being able to read it or not:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rajB7a6_f9i0hLWS52H99AuOa2DlwjpF This webinar is …
Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) ASSA Pre-Conference Workshop at the Annual Conference of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) Atlanta, Georgia, January 3, 2019.​The global financial crisis of 2008 was a transformative event not only in the world economy, but also in the world of economic policy. Facing this apparently unprecedented crisis, …
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We invite members to discuss a proposal to host a meeting of the Africa Working Group in 2019/2020 at the Doha Graduate Institute in August/September. Please see the rough concept note below: Slowing global growth in 2018 and 2019 has called into question whether the upturn in African economic growth since 2000 is structural or …
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Isabela Nogueira de Morais. Assistant Professor (Instituto de Economia - Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro)Coordinator LabChina (Studies in Chinese Political Economy) - http://www.ie.ufrj.br/labchina/ In the last four decades, the Asian Giant went from being a periphery economy to compete globally the first places in terms of economic wealth, geopolitical influence, technological development and militar …