Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri, PhD candidate from the LSE, will present her paper "Can female education explain the fertility decline?" Abstract: Across the world educated women tend to have fewer children than their less-educated peers. This paper provides new stylised facts about the long-run relationship between women’s education and fertility at the national, sub-national, and individual level. …
Industrial Development and Innovation Policies have made a comeback to the economic debate as Latin America is discussing about structural change to accelerate the processes of transformation of its productive structure in the post-Covid aftermath. As Latin American Working Group, we believe it is essential to discuss these central issues both at the regional and …
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In this webinar, YSI and Carlota Pérez invite Francisco Sagasti to discuss his experience as President of Peru, while coming from an academic background. In the first half, Dr. Sagasti will talk about “Knowledge, politics and policy: an outsider’s view from the inside”. In the second half, the floor will be open for the audience …
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Tentative program The program will include contributions from senior academicians, policy makers and legal professionals as well paper-presentations from selected young scholars from across the subcontinent. >>> VIEW HERE <<< Invitation to keynote: RSVP form https://ysiproject.org/jens Young Scholar Presenters Meet all young scholar presenters' here: https://ysiproject.org/participants About the conference The Institute for New Economic Thinking …
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The distributional impacts of monetary policy is receiving increased attention by policymakers and academic researchers. This interest began after the unconventional monetary policies pursued by the major central banks in an attempt to recover the economies from the negative impacts of the subprime crisis. These policies consisted of large-scale purchases of financial assets - which …
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This is the second session when we will cover Ulrich Bindseil's 2014 book "Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System". We will focus on chapters 9-12. From the bookseller's description:"Since 2007, central banks of industrialized countries have counteracted financial instability, recession, and deflationary risks with unprecedented monetary policy operations. While generally regarded as successful, these …
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Join us to listen to Dr. Manuel Gonzalo, discussing his new book "India from Latin America. Peripherisation, Statebuilding, and Demand-Led Growth." Abstract In this talk, Manuel is going to discuss India and the Indian subcontinent path of development based on his book titled "India from Latin America. Peripherisation, Statebuilding, and Demand-Led Growth". The book studies …
We are discussing the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the recent banking stresses in general. What happened? To what extent is SVB special? Do other banks face similar risks? To prompt discussion, we first have a Bloomberg article by Matt Levine from the day the FDIC shut down SVB. Startup Bank had a Startup …
In this lecture I propose to present some of the most fundamental tenets of Modern Money Theory (MMT) as a starting point to (re)articulate contemporary macroeconomic issues that have come to dominate the media post-2008 and the 2020 pandemic crises. Unfortunately, orthodox macroeconomic analysis completely circumvents the notion of modern money and modern monetary institutions. …
What would be a modern theory of uneven economic development? In this second webinar of the "Development Talks" Series, 10 April, 2023, 5:00–6:30 pm (British Summer Time). A Modern GuideJoin us for a discussion with Prof. Erik S. Reinert (TalTech) and Dr Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (King's College London) on their new book "A Modern Guide …
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The YSI Writing group centers on improving writing skills through community approach and support young scholars on their writing journey.In our Feedback Sessions, we mainly talk about texts from other young writer we looked at beforehand. Next session, we will comment and give feedbacks on the first draft of a paper.We freely organize feedback through …