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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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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 …
This project is the second series on "Women's Work in South Asia", the first one having been organized in May- June 2021. In this series, we have panel sessions on women's work with experts discussing various aspects of women's work and a moderator putting out a summary.
The Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales (Escuela IDAES) of the Universidad Nacional de San MartÃn (UNSAM) stands out as a Social Sciences epicenter with emphasis in Cultural and Economic studies. It is a young institution with a great projection. Most of its professors studied abroad, which allowed it to build research networks across Latin …
The YSI workshop will bring young scholars together to discuss new ways of thinking on cooperatives and other SSE organizations’ potential for SDGs realization and survival strategies to short-term and long-term shocks, as was the case with the Covid-19 pandemic. The event will also facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas among youth, promote networking …
How much coding should an economist learn?Can coding help your research?What language is useful? Latex? Stata? Python? R?Are we all becoming data analysts and computer programmers? Join us to get answers to these questions and more, with help from panelists: Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant Pier-André has a bachelors in mathematics, a masters, PhD and a Post-Doc …
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