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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 5: The Central Bank as a Clearinghouse

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 5: The Central Bank as a Clearinghouse The lecture describes the interconnectedness of bank balance sheets that allow the payment system to operate smoothly. The central bank helps knit the payment system together to make it approximate the behavior of one big bank. We cover correspondent banking and central bank cooperation. …

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10 YEARS YSI LOCAL CELEBRATION

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

To mark 10 Years of YSI, 25 local young scholars from Kenya in collaboration with the School of Business and Economics (SBE), the School of Computing and Mathematics (SCM) and the School of Cooperatives and Community Development (SCCD) at The Co-operative University of Kenya will hold a local celebration on Wednesday May 18, 2022 from …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Spring 2022

Tancredi Buscemi

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Tancredi Buscemi, PhD Candidate from University of Perugia will present his paper Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily (1540-1830). ABSTRACT:Focusing on the Kingdom of Sicily, this study reassesses the debate on the Italian economic downturn and the Italian regional development. Tracking the early evidence on the Island in the first fifty years of the …

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YSI @ Economic and Business History Society Doctoral Workshop

Eccless School of Business, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

With generous financial support from the Young Scholars Initiative, the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS) will hold a doctoral workshop on Wednesday 18 May at the Eccles School of Business, University of Utah for up to 8 doctoral students from North America. The workshop will include: Paper development presentations by doctoral students with feedback …

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project Series Keynesian Economics Debate Group

KEDG 2nd meeting

Virtual Project Virtual Project

May 11th Nikolas Schiozer: "Price formation, income inequality and macroeconomic performance as coevolutionary phenomena in an agent-based model" May 19th Apurva Ashish Tudekar "IMPACT OF CURRENT ACCOUNT IMBALANCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT" June 8th Lilian Nogueira Rolim "The impact of international trade shocks on economic growth and income distribution in an agent-based macroeconomic model" July 6th Simon …

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project Series Dissecting capitalism: Season II

Government and grains

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The full title of the lecture is Government and grains: re-examining the historical relationship between nation states and economic security This session of the webinar series will feature Prof. Shailaja Fennell. She is Professor of Regional Transformation and Economic Security, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Abstract The provision of grain by national governments …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 6: Federal Funds, Final Settlement

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 6: Federal Funds, Final Settlement This lecture describes a stylized version of the US payment system, and how the Fed Funds market (interbank lending) allocated reserves among the banks before 2008 to allow them to meet their settlement constraints. It works just like Lecture 5 when the clearinghouse members borrowed from …

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LPFMI conference in Frankfurt and London | Financial Market Infrastructures

European Central Bank | UCL Engineering Front Building Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany

INTRODUCTIONThe Liquidity Project (LP) Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) or LPFMI is building a lasting community on issues around FMI since 2018. Thesis is, it matters how these structures are set for financial markets to do its job, namely helping economic development by allocating capital. We are set to interact with practitioners from both the public …

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“Economics and the Economic System: The Ecological Transition”

Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Economia, Ingegneria, Società e Impresa (DEIM) Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

The Inequality, Political Economy of Europe, and States and Markets Working Groups are happy to announce a call for papers to the YSI Pre-conference@ STOREP 2022. We invite you to submit your abstract to the pre-conference event organized by the Young Scholars Initiative at the STOREP annual conference. The pre-conference will take place at Università …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Spring 2022

Kai Cheng

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Kai Cheng, recently got his PhD from the University of Birmingham and will be presenting his paper The Impact of the Environment on Urbanisation During the late Qing Dynasty. ABSTRACT:In this paper we examine the relationship between environmental factors and urbanisation both theoretically and empirically. The aim is to provide additional inputs into the explanation …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Money and Empire | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of two sessions to discuss "Money and empire: The international gold standard, 1890-1914" by Marcello De Cecco. We will cover chapters 1-4 this session. From a published review: "The author, a Professor of International Economics at the University of Siena, Italy, finds highly abstract theoretical explanations of the international gold standard …

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project Series Decolonizing Economic Methodology Reading Group

Session-3: Decolonizing Economic Methodology Reading Group

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This reading group aims at exploring how the perspective of the postcolonial scholarship could open up new approaches to philosophy of economics/economic methodology. Our endeavor is inspired by the vibrant discussion on the need, possibility and promise of decolonizing economics. Once a month we will read and meet online to discuss a selection of chapters …

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