PhD Academy on Innovation, Development & Policy

HEC MONTREAL, CANADA Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Ph.D. Academy on ‘Innovation, Development & Policy’ is co-organized by The North America and Caribbean Chapter of the Globelics Academy (NACLICS, www.naclics.org), HEC Montréal, and the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University.The Academy addresses innovation, development, and policy from a multidisciplinary perspective and is relevant to the Global South and the Global …

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PhD Academy on Innovation, Development & Policy

HEC MONTREAL, CANADA Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Ph.D. Academy on ‘Innovation, Development & Policy’ is co-organized by The North America and Caribbean Chapter of the Globelics Academy (NACLICS, www.naclics.org), HEC Montréal, and the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University. The Young Scholars Initiative is an important partner in this effort as well as one of the co-sponsors. The PhD …

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Discussion — Lectures 3 & 4

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 3: Money and the State: Domestic and Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro. Lecture 3 Notes Lecture 4 Notes Lecture 3 builds on last week's Allyn Young reading in discussing the history of the US monetary system from the Civil War through the national banking system's evolution into the …

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YSI @ Turin International Festival of Economics

Turin Turin, Piedmont, Italy

“Rethinking Globalization” YSI will be attending the second Turin International Festival of Economics hosted from 1 June - 4 June 2023. We will dedicate the mornings to a variety of young scholar sessions and have ample time to enjoy the Festival, which this year runs under the theme: “Rethinking Globalization”. The festival sessions will take …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Trust Bridges

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Discussion of IMF Trust Bridges paper: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fintech-notes/Issues/2023/03/03/Trust-Bridges-and-Money-Flows-A-Digital-Marketplace-to-Improve-Cross-Border-Payments-528038

Discussion — Reading 2: Hyman Minsky

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 2: The vision of Hyman P. Minsky by Perry Mehrling. Minsky Study Questions This is an intellectual biography of Hyman Minsky written by Mehrling in 1999. Minsky put the problem of liquidity front and center. Among other things, this reading emphasizes Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis and its connection to the settlement …

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Economic Fitness and Complexity Summer School

Enrico Fermi Research Centre Via Panisperna, Roma, Lazio, Italy

Please visit the Economic Fitness and Complexity Summer School website: https://efc-school.cref.it/ Economic Fitness and Complexity (EFC) methods and metrics describe economies as evolutionary processes of ecosystems of industries, technologies and infrastructures that are globally interconnected. This data-driven approach is multidisciplinary and addresses emerging phenomena in economics from various points of view: it offers new opportunities …

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Summer School on Advanced Methods in Economics

University of Greenwich London, England, United Kingdom

Beyond The Optimising Agent Summer School in Advanced Methods for Economics and Political Economy University of Greenwich, London, 5 – 9 June 2023 This summer school provides advanced training in methods for Economics and Political Economy with practical applications. It focusses on theoretical and empirical methods beyond constrained optimisation that capture features such as uncertainty, …

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Development Talks: Why Latin American Nations Fail with Matías Vernengo

Virtual Project Virtual Project

How can different types of food be linked to development policies? In this third webinar of the "Development Talks" Series, Prof Matias Vernengo (Bucknell University) discusses his co-authored book "Why Latin American Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century ". The book brings together leading Latin Americanists from several disciplines to address the topic …

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Discussion — Lectures 5 & 6

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 5: The Central Bank as a Clearinghouse and Lecture 6: Federal Funds, Final Settlement. Lecture 5 Notes Lecture 6 Notes Lecture 5 describes the interconnectedness of bank balance sheets that allow the payment system to operate smoothly. The hierarchical structure of the US payment system emerged in the form of correspondent …

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Adam Smith tercentary week workshop

University of Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

This workshop offers young and early career scholars working on Adam Smith a unique opportunity to take part in the 2023 Tercentenary Events in Glasgow, and to get feedback on their work from world-leading Smith scholars. Introduction The YSI History of Economic Thought working group is organizing a one-day workshop on 7th June as part …

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