Avner Offer – The Market Turn: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism

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Speaker: Avner Offer (Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College and of the British Academy)Date and timing: 14 november 09:00-10:00am EDT / 14:00 - 15:00 GMT About:The YSI Economic History Working Group have the great pleasure to invite you to our next webinar in the series …

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Webinar 3 Financialization in the Periphery: Esteban Pérez Caldentey

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The Financial Stability Working Group is delighted to announce a new webinar series on “Financialization in developed and emerging economies”. The objective of the webinar series is to discuss some of the effects of the financialization process on the economic activity. The third webinar will be on Financialization in the periphery (part II): patterns of …

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Introduction to Data Management and Econometrics with STATA

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This skills webinar will provide a brief, general introduction to STATA followed by applications to causal inference econometrics and impact evaluation methods. Already prepared "do-files" and data sources will be provided at the beginning of the webinar for all participants. Requirements:Have your laptops ready with STATA13 or versions above already installed. Instructors: Francesco Iacoella and …

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Meeting to read chapters 5 and 6

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Hi all,This is just a remainder that next Monday November 19th we will meet at 12:00 NYC, 14:00 Buenos Aires and 18:00 Central Europe to keep the discussions, this time on chapter 5 and 6. As always, if could not participate on the previous sessions but you want to join, you are more than welcome …

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Adam Tooze – Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

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We are delighted to have Adam Tooze, Cathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, join us for our final webinar of our webinar series on the Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath. Professor Adam Tooze teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in …

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Inclusive or Exclusive Global Development?

Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York, United Kingdom York, England, United Kingdom

Microfinance and then financial inclusion have become buzzwords in international development. Such initiatives have mobilised and generated large amounts of development funding, despite substantial amount of critique. Such critiques call for a more impartial assessment of the effectiveness of financial inclusion on the grounds that funds for microfinance, they argue, displaced development spendings on healthcare, …

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The effects of trade on business cycle synchronization

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The aim of the study which will be presented during this webinar is to investigate whether trade promotes countries to follow similar growth cycles. Convergence in business cycles is thought to be one of the desired components of an optimal currency area.By looking at data from the years 2001 to 2017 (for all of the …

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