Projects Search and Views Navigation

Project Views Navigation

Today

project Series Money View Reading Group

Central Bank Cooperation 1924-31 | Stephen Clarke | Part 2

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This we discuss the remaining chapters of Stephen Clarke's monograph. Access it here: https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/meltzer/clacen67.pdf?utm_source=direct_download 6. The Defense of a Key Currency:1926-28 108Introduction 108Payments Surpluses ComplicateMonetary Policy 109Germany 109France 110The Shift toward Gold 112Germany 112France 115British-French Accommodation 119The Central Bankers' Meeting ofJuly 1927 123The Easing of Federal ReservePolicy 124The Payments Balance Shifts inFavor of Europe 127The …

Central Bank Cooperation 1924-31 | Stephen Clarke | Part 2 Read More »

project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 9: The World that Bagehot Knew

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 9: The World That Bagehot Knew From the nineteenth-century international gold standard, we can draw insights that apply to the globally financialized world of today. We learn about the origins of monetary policy in the discount mechanism and the manipulation of the discount rate. This lecture connects up with the Walter …

Discussion — Lecture 9: The World that Bagehot Knew Read More »

project Series Dissecting capitalism: Season II

Indianizing Indian Thought

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session of the webinar series will feature Prof. K V Subramanian. He is Professor of Finance at Indian School of Business. He was the Chief Economic Advisor to Government of India (2018-21). Abstract The separation of religion and state—a foundational feature of the protestant ethic—has been central to the western conception of liberalism. The …

Indianizing Indian Thought Read More »

YSI @ Central Banks and its Discontents

Heinrich Böll Conference Centre Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The Young Scholars Initiative’s Financial Stability and States and Markets Working Groups invite young scholars to submit abstracts to our sessions within the Central Banks and its Discontents: The Role of Monetary Policy in Contemporary Capitalism Conference to take place in Berlin, on July 11-13. More information about the conference here. We welcome submissions on …

YSI @ Central Banks and its Discontents Read More »

YSI @ Agent-Based Models in Economics Seasonal School 2022 | Sant’Anna

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

The economy is a complex evolving system, thus its analysis requires tools that can take into account all dimensions relevant for such a complex world. As young researchers, we often question ourselves how to take into account heterogeneity, interactions, non-linearities, path-dependency, tipping points to name a few. In this project, we will learn and discuss …

YSI @ Agent-Based Models in Economics Seasonal School 2022 | Sant’Anna Read More »

ICA-YSI Young Scholars Workshop at the ICA CCR EU in Athens

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences Athens, Greece

The ICA CCR European Research Conference is an opportunity to bring researchers in the cooperative sector together to share resources and provide an opportunity to foster new connections for potential future collaborations. For early career researchers in this field, this is an invaluable opportunity to connect with others who face similar challenges in conducting research …

ICA-YSI Young Scholars Workshop at the ICA CCR EU in Athens Read More »

project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 10: Dealers and Liquid Security Markets

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 10: Dealers and Liquid Security Markets This lecture is all about dealers. It emphasizes the concept of "market liquidity" as distinct from "funding liquidity" and introduces the Treynor model of the economics of the dealer function. We're starting by looking at security dealers, but we'll be using this model for the …

Discussion — Lecture 10: Dealers and Liquid Security Markets Read More »

project Series Health Economics and Policy in South Asia

Working towards universal health access in India

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Speaker: Prof. Shamika Ravi About the speaker Dr. Shamika Ravi is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C. She was the former Director of Research at Brookings India and her research focuses on economics of development including areas of finance, health, urbanization and gender inequality. Dr. Ravi …

Working towards universal health access in India Read More »

project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Reading 5: John Hicks

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 5: Three chapters from A Market Theory of Money by John Hicks (1989) In these three chapters, Hicks starts with the idea that the primary function of money is to serve as a "standard of value" for the market. From there, he argues that the institution of banking as market making …

Discussion — Reading 5: John Hicks Read More »

Pre-WEHC Young Scholars Workshop

Salle 50, Centre des colloques Aubervilliers, Île-de-France, France

The YSI Economic History (EH) and YSI Africa Working Groups will lead a young scholar workshop at the occasion of the World Economic History Congress in Paris this summer. The WEHC is the major international event for our international community. The workshop offers a one-day experience for early-career researchers with mentorship from the YSI EH …

Pre-WEHC Young Scholars Workshop Read More »