Writing Effectively in Economics - Virtual Workshops Three online workshops workshops designed to help you improve your academic writing. Join us to improve your syntax and style in academic writing, understand how to frame your arguments, and learn strategies for clear and simple writing. You're welcome to attend any one of the workshops, but the …
Background: The healthcare sector faces resource scarcity, leading decision-makers and providers to operate under constraints. Distortionary practices like corruption and lobbying divert limited resources, impacting patients' welfare. Corruption's far-reaching consequences affect provider-patient relationships and overall trust in the healthcare system. While often studied in low- and middle-income settings, similar distortionary effects occur in high-income settings …
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OUR FORMAL DEADLINE HAS PASSED, AS WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING THE SCHEDULE YOU CAN STILL SEND YOUR ABSTRACT AND CREDENTIALS AT: as14902@nyu.edu Recent years have proven to be significant for the development of the global financial system. In the aftermath of Covid-19, the monetary and fiscal response that followed and the current …
Topics in international political economy of money, GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Read More »
The Keynesian Working Group is happy to announce a call for papers to the YSI Pre-conference @ ASTRIL 2024. We invite you to submit your abstract to the pre-conference event organized by the Young Scholars Initiative at the 7th ASTRIL annual conference. The pre-conference will take place at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy on January …
The Ph.D. Workshop in Networks and Political Economy @ Paris 1 aims to create a platform for young researchers across diverse fields of economics. The workshop provides a unique opportunity for researchers to discuss their projects. Members from the faculty of Paris 1, and potentially external scholars from other Paris universities, will offer their feedback …
PhD Workshop on Networks and Political Economy @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Read More »
Over the last decades, innovation has gained increasing importance, both in academia and in public discourse, due to its relevance in promoting catch-up, economic growth, and productivity, among other factors. However, the approaches to how innovation is promoted and diffused vary significantly, not only across different schools of thought that address this issue but also …
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*TOPIC * Since the Industrial Revolution and especially after World War II, the Great Powers have invested heavily in military technology to maintain superiority and elicit innovation spin-offs. Consequently, state defense sectors have emerged as pioneers and primary drivers of global technological innovation. Innovations initially crafted for defense purposes later permeated into the civilian realm, …
Defense Industries in Small and Medium States:Drivers and Policy Challenges Read More »
The YSI Urban and Regional Economics Working Group and the RSA - KIRDSA Network invite Graduate Students and Early Career researchers based in South America to submit their research for the Young Scholars Sessions of the International Conference on regional development in South America: empowering knowledge flows and collaboration networks that is going to happen …
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In a decoupling world, where inequality continues rising and enduring challenges like poverty and environmental degradation reaching critical points, it is imperative to reevaluate the developmental paradigms and strategies for the future. For this purpose, the YSI Working Groups on Development and Inequality invite young scholars working on the fields of inequality and development to …
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Young Scholars Initiative and Figuerola Institute invite you to the Economic History Workshop of Developing Regions at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M). There has been recent growth in the economic history literature on developing countries, backed by quantified evidence. However, this expansion lags significantly behind the well-established corpus of literature centered on the core …
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Piero Sraffa’s pathbreaking book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (1960) inspired several reviews and books by Indian economists. The notable ones are by Krishna Bharadwaj, P. R. Brahmananda, Gautam Mathur, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Arun Bose, A. K. Dasgupta. Sraffa’s ideas were variously employed to understand agriculture, economic growth, and development. An Indian edition of …
After Sraffa: The Indian Understanding of Economic Theories and Development Read More »
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