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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Spring 2021

YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar: Pablo Fernández Cebrián

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Pablo Fernández Cebrián, doctoral candidate from the University of Barcelona will present his paper: Withdrawal of the state: the provision of primary schooling in Mozambique under indigenato. Registration form to attend the webinar: here. AbstractAfter World War II, there was a generalised move among colonial states in Africa towards greater intervention in the provision of …

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project Series LPFMI – (Custodian) Bank Supervision

LPFMI – (Custodian) Bank Supervision 1/2 – Introduction to bank supervision

Virtual Project Virtual Project

WEBINAR INFORMATIONCustodians play a key but discrete role in the global financial market infrastructure. They are licensed as “credit institutions”, a legal requirement for European deposit-taking institutions, and therefore they face the same prudential requirements as “traditional” banks. However, their business model and risk profile are different from those of traditional banks since the core …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC

Week 2 — Lectures 2 & 3, Reading 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We're discussing the following for week 2: Lecture 2: The Natural Hierarchy of Money Lecture Notes This lecture provides an overview of the whole course. If you've done the MOOC before, it should feel familiar. Lecture 3: Money and the State: Domestic Lecture Notes We practice the balance sheet notation by using it to describe …

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project Series The 4th Price of Money and Theories of Inflation

The German Inflation 1914-1923

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This our weekly discussion of the price level as it relates to Perry Mehrling's money view. The price level is the average price of goods in terms of money or, equivalently, the price of money in terms of goods. But what determines the price level? Why is the price level important? And how does it …

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project Series Introduction to Complexity: “Complexity a Guided Tour” by Melanie Mitchell

Evolution, Complexified!

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Hey everyone! We are almost in the last chapters on of our amazing reading group sessions. This Sunday we will be discussing chapters 17 and 18 of Complexity:A Guided Tour by Dr. Melanie Mitchell. Our focus this time will be on evolution of systems and how we relate it to our previous discussion on market …

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project Series Keynesian Economics Debate Group (KEDG) 3rd edition

KEDG 2021.1 – 3rd meeting

Virtual Project Virtual Project

April 7 - Guilherme Morlin: "Growth and debt stability in a supermultiplier model with public expenditures and foreign trade" May 6 - Ana Bottega: "Kalecki meets Schumpeter: the decline of competition in a demand-led dynamic model" June 2 - Gustavo Pereira Serra: "The First Harrod Problem and Human Capital Formation" July 1 - Vinicius Curti …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Christine Desan – Making Money | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of three sessions to discuss Christine Desan's book Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism. For this session, we will begin by discussing the introduction and chapters 1-3. Book Description: "Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like …

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project Series LPFMI – (Custodian) Bank Supervision

LPFMI – (Custodian) Bank Supervision 2/2 – Custodian supervision deep-dive

Virtual Project Virtual Project

WEBINAR INFORMATIONCustodians play a key but discrete role in the global financial market infrastructure. They are licensed as “credit institutions”, a legal requirement for European deposit-taking institutions, and therefore they face the same prudential requirements as “traditional” banks. However, their business model and risk profile are different from those of traditional banks since the core …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC

Week 3 — Lectures 4 & 5, Reading 2

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We're discussing the following for week 3: Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro Lecture NotesSources and Uses. Flow of funds. Every use of funds has a corresponding source on its own balance sheet (micro) and on someone else's (macro). Assets and liabilities represent commitments of future cashflows. Lecture 5: The Central Bank as …

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project Series The 4th Price of Money and Theories of Inflation

Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich on The German Inflation 1914-1923

Virtual Project Virtual Project

As with the Great Depression, there are many theories and stories—some of them contradictory—about what caused the German inflation. Did it depend on a combination of multiple factors? Was it overdetermined? What was the role of Germany's financial policy? At what point did hyperinflation become inevitable? What insights can we draw from the German experience …

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