About one billion people are involved in co-operatives either as members, customers or employees. Co-operatives employ about 100 million people worldwide and are a source of livelihoods for about half of the world’s population. In Africa particularly, more than 40% of households are members of a co-operative society. Thus, cooperatives provide an important channel for …
Instructors: Asgeir B. Torfason and Elham SaeidinezhadTeaching Assistants: Jack Krupinski, Andrew McVayTeaching Assistants with YSI focus: Nathalie Marins, Adam Kerenyi Prospective start date: 27 October, 2020Deadline to sign up: 20 October, 2020 Overview of the course This course develops the 'money view' of economic activity for modern times, building on the intellectual traditions of British …
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VIII Seminário de Desenvolvimento e Políticas Públicas Conhecimento, Inovação e Desenvolvimento Regional Palestra 2 “Complexidade Econômica e Desigualdade a Nível Nacional e Local” Prof. Dominik Hartmann (UFSC)
VIII Seminário de Desenvolvimento e Políticas Públicas Conhecimento, Inovação e Desenvolvimento Regional Palestra 2 “Complexidade Econômica e Desigualdade” Prof. Dominik Hartmann (UFSC) Professor no Departamento de Economia e Relações Internacionais da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Possui doutorado em Economia pela Universidade de Hohenheim, Alemanha (2014). Foi pós-doutorando no MIT Media Lab do Massachusetts Institute …
Young Scholars Workshop Knowledge, Innovation and Regional Development WG Session 4: Economic Complexity. Mentor: Prof. Dominik Hartmann (UFSC) Bianca Vasconcelos (UFRJ) ” Complexidade produtiva como caminho para o desenvolvimento: observações a partir dos dados de exportação e emprego” Margarida Bandeira Morais (London School of Economics) “Economic Complexity and Services: The Case of Mexican Regions”
WEBINAR INFORMATIONIn June 2020, we welcomed Prof. Dan Awrey (Cornell) to the Liquidity Project Financial Market Infrastructure (LPFMI) conversation in a panel discussion on the implications of the law on CCPs for OTC derivatives with Robert Steigerwald (Chicago Fed). We have now the pleasure to further explore the legal and regulatory framework that applies to …
How will Work be Different?27 October, 10.30am ETErik Brynjolfsson, Kai-fu LeeDiscussant in follow-up session: Teresa Farinha Session detailsIn the future, how will work be different, what jobs are most at risk, what jobs are likely to grow? Please follow this link to join the follow-up discussion! The start time is ca. 2pm ET after the …
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Katherine Hauck, PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona, will present her work: *Farm Production in Purchased and Homesteaded Farms in Kansas, circa 1870 * Abstract:The Homestead Act of 1862 greatly reduced the cost of federal land in the United States. Farm productivity is a function of settler characteristics at the individual level and land …
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Young Scholars Workshop Knowledge, Innovation and Regional Development WG Session 5: Innovation Agents and Regional Development: Firms and Universities. Mentor: Prof. Harley Silva (UFPA) Anna Hehenberger (Momentum Institut) “Regional development by a lead firm in Austria: An analysis of economic, social and political factors” Ronara Reis (UNIFEI) “UNIVERSIDADE E TERRITÓRIO: UM AGENTE DA INFORMAÇÃO, DO …
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Young Scholars Workshop Knowledge, Innovation and Regional Development WG Session 6: Absorptive Capacity and Diffusion of Technology. This session will be held in an External Link ACESSE AQUI / ATTEND HERE Mentor: Prof. Janaína Rufoni (UNISINOS) Beatriz Pereira de Almeida (UFJF) “Determinantes da capacidade de absorção sob a ótica dos dados de citações de patentes” …
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Get you DAGs ready! In this meeting, we will discuss the utilization of DAGs in the context of Instrumental variables. The paper we are going to DAGify is: TBD
Now it's time to get our hands dirty! The objective of this session is to dagify the following paper:TBD Following the presentation of the possible DAGs, we will discuss whether the inclusion of the DAG would have made the assumptions made in the paper easier to understand and why.