Curitiba Summer School on Computational Methods and Agent Based Modelling

Federal University of Paraná Avenida Prefeito Lothário Meissner, Jardim Botânico, Paraná, Brazil

The Summer School consists in a week-long full-time intensive course to teach PhD and young scholars how to implement and best exploit agent-based simulation models in Economics for research purposes. It will provide students with both the technical and methodological skills required to successfully develop and analyze simulation models in a research project, which may …

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Researching Remunicipalisation: Strategies, Design and Methods

Amsterdam Kraaiennest, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

High profile cases like the remunicipalisation of water delivery in Paris and Berlin have moved the perception of the phenomenon away from a mere question of market management processes towards a much broader object of research, embedded in an extended institutional, geographical and political context. New scholarly interest in remunicipalisation resulted in a comprehensive survey …

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Second Reading Session: Science and Ideology

Virtual Project Virtual Project

First reading session enriched our knowledge while delighting us with its distinctive perspective. It left us with many questions that we will try to cover in the upcoming reading sessions. Second reading session is about Science and Ideology on the 4th of December at 21:00 CET. Paper : Schumpeter, J. (1949), Science and Ideology, American …

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Regional economic resilience: which local factors matter? with Tasos Kitsos

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Anastasios (Tasos) Kitsos is a research fellow at City-REDI (University of Birmingham) where he currently holds an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship.Tasos’ research interests cover a wide spectrum of regional inequalities in economic resilience, productivity and growth, the presence and impact of digital and creative economies, the electoral considerations in the distribution of public resources and the …

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Young Scholars Workshop at the ICA-CCR AP Research Conference

NeW Space, University of New Castle, Australia University Drive, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Framing research to be relevant to the current economic and academic climate can be challenging for Young Scholars. Particularly when research areas are different in their cultural and economic contexts to current literature. This Young Scholars Workshop is designed to bridge the gap between doing and presenting research. Workshop Program:Each workshop participant (maximum of 6) …

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Publishing Co-operative Research: A panel discussion

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Publishing Co-operative Research- how to avoid getting lost in the inter-disciplinary shuffle and embark on a publication worthy research path Panel Discussion: Professor Morris Altman (Dundee University) Professor Branka Krivokapic-skoko (Southern Cross University) Asst. Prof. Olivera Marjanovic,(University of Technology Sydney) Professor Paul Thamba (Monash University Melbourne) Co-operative scholars, particularly those early in their academic career, …

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Sustainability and policy intervention

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Erik Gómez-Baggethun and José Manuel Naredo, 2015, In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy Erik Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010, The history of ecosystem services in economic theory and practice: From early notions to markets and payment schemes Arnim Scheidel et al., 2017, Ecological distribution conflicts …

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LPFMI: The importance of blockchain technology to settle finality

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Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) play a key role in enabling financial operations, covering the clearing and settlement of payments, currencies and other financial transactions or instruments by centralizing these functions and helping to protect participants from the financial risks that can arise during transactions.Settlement finality is reached when the account of the recipient in a …

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YSI @Minsky at 100: Revisiting Financial Instability

http://minskyat100.univpm.it/ Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Call for Papers YSI at International Conference Minsky at 100 - 2019 - Milan The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is glad to announce a new initiative. The Keynesian Economics working group and the Political Economy of Europe working group are organizing two graduate panel sessions at the International Conference Minsky at 100: Revisiting Financial Instability …

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Third reading session: The Work of Economics

Virtual Project Virtual Project

After a session on Evolutionary Realism, the second reading session was remarkably illuminating concerning how the economic reality is perceived or established thorough the light of scientific ideology and vision. Although the Ontology of Economics is still not well analyzed field of research, we continue our journey with supplementary readings to guide us and continue …

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Pluralistic Teaching in Economics – YSI at the ICAPE conference

University of San Diego San Diego, California, United States

YSI at the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) at the University of San Diego. Title: Pluralistic Teaching in Economics Organizers: Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen and Surbhi Kesar Theme: Workshops on pluralistic teaching, designing curriculum and a course pluralistically, and publication process for pluralists. The 2008 global financial crisis has had a …

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