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African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty: How to Delink?

Dakar, Senegal Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal

This YSI workshop will bring young scholars together to discuss new ways of thinking about epistemologies, methods and networks that we need for strategic delinking in Africa including debates on economic and monetary sovereignty as well as reparations. In Africa, debates around the idea of delinking date back to the early 1980s with the implementation …

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Young Talents in Law & Finance

Amsterdam Law School Nieuwe Achtergracht, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

The Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) and the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) welcome submissions from young talents carrying out high-quality interdisciplinary research in the fields of Law & Finance, broadly construed. The conference will take place on 27 and 28 October 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. We welcome a broad range of …

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project Series REPLICATE REPLICATE – HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART

S6: Questionable research practices outside of the lab

Virtual Project Virtual Project

WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 6: Questionable research practices outside of the lab Social scientists are increasingly interested in questionable research practices and their role in producing false and misleading results. Many scientists are prescribing open practices (e.g., open data, prospective registration) as a way to restore the credibility of academic …

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project Series YSI Community Call

October Community Call | Ft. Aleksandar Stojanović

Virtual Project Virtual Project

YSI Community Call Whether you're brand new to the community or a long time YSI'er, the monthly community call is a chance to (re)connect with other members, and let yourself be inspired by your peers. *This month's alumni highlight: Aleksandar Stojanović *Aleksandar Stojanović is Assistant Professor of Practice in Economics at New York University Shanghai. …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 19: Interest Rate Swaps

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 19: Interest Rate Swaps NOTE: Part 4 of this lecture is missing from Perry Mehrling's site and the YouTube playlist. Here's a direct link.Part 4: What is a Swap This week and next week's lectures describe two important building blocks for shadow banking: interest-rate swaps (this week) and credit default swaps …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

A Financial History of Western Europe | Part 2 — Banking

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the second of five sessions on Charles P. Kindleberger's 1993 (1984) book A Financial History of Western Europe. From the Dust Jacket: Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to …

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I YSI Workshop on Agent-Based Models @ Unicamp

Institute of Economics, University of Campinas Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Agent-based models (ABM) are a powerful and growing tool that can address the complexity of the economy. As this field grows, we see an increasing number of master and Ph.D. students using this tool in their research on a wide range of topics. This event will be a one-day workshop in which participants will present …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Reading 10: 1952 FOMC Report

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 10: Excerpts from a 1952 report to the FOMC (parts one, two, and three) The document is the previously secret Fed report that Perry Mehrling mentions in Lecture 19. The Fed is figuring out how they want to run monetary policy after the Treasury-Fed accord of 1951. The report gives us …

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Rentier capitalism: contemporary forms of rent and its effects on capital

City, University of London London, England, United Kingdom

New date: November 7th and 8th. City, University of London. The rise of intangible over tangible assets, real estate bubbles and financialisation are among the stylized facts of what could be called rentier capitalism. An era within capitalism where capital accumulation is increasingly driven (and hampered) by rent-seeking and predation. Everywhere in the economy we …

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project Series Keynesian Economics Debate Group

KEDG – 5th meeting

Virtual Project Virtual Project

May 11th Nikolas Schiozer: "Price formation, income inequality and macroeconomic performance as coevolutionary phenomena in an agent-based model" May 19th Apurva Ashish Tudekar "IMPACT OF CURRENT ACCOUNT IMBALANCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT" June 8th Lilian Nogueira Rolim "The impact of international trade shocks on economic growth and income distribution in an agent-based macroeconomic model" August 3rd Jose …

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project Series REPLICATE REPLICATE – HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART

S7: Reopening After Covid: A Replication and Extension

Virtual Project Virtual Project

WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE - HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 7: Reopening After Covid: A Replication and Extension of Chetty et al. (2020) "The Economic Impacts of COVID-19." Presentation by Annais Gangolf, Devansh Goyal, and Samuel Ross (Haverford College) November 10, 2022 at 11am Bogotá/ 12am Pennsylvania, USA/ 5pm Lisbon/ 6pm Berlin/ 9:30pm New Dehli …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 20: Credit Default Swaps

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 20: Credit Default Swaps NOTE: Part 4 of this lecture is cut short on Perry Mehrling's site and the YouTube playlist. For the full segment, watch through the Coursera site. Here's a direct link.Part 4: What is a Credit Default Swap (CDS)? Credit default swaps (CDS) were famously implicated in the …

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