The Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town invites submissions for an inaugural Western Cape Graduate Students’ Conference in Historical Studies, to be held at UCT on 20 and 21 November 2023. The conference gives students at any stage of their postgraduate journey in History – Masters or PhD – the opportunity …
This is the second of three sessions on Scott Skyrm's 2023 book The Repo Market: Shorts, Shortages, and Squeezes. https://www.amazon.com/Repo-Market-Shorts-Shortages-Squeezes/dp/1952991285/ From the description: The Repo market is the most important market few people know about. It's a pillar of the financial system that's often misunderstood yet plays a vital role in the industry. If the …
We will introduce the topic, the structure and the readings
Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 (Standford University Press, 2023) About the Book For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war …
In this first out of three webinar sessions, we invite you to join us - the YSI Members attending COP28 - for a conversation with our guests on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties session number 28 (UNFCCC COP28) convening from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in Dubai, …
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The States & Markets and History of Economic Thought Working Groups are happy to invite you to participate in a two-day workshop on the practice of teaching and researching the history of economic thought. This workshop, organized in collaboration with the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) and the “Wealth of Notions” …
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During the off week between our final two discussions of Scott Skyrm's The Repo Market, we're going to discuss a July 2020 paper entitled "Basis Trades and Treasury Market Illiquidity" By Daniel Barth and Jay Kahn published by the Office of Financial Research. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12950&context=ypfs-documents At the beginning of the Covid pandemic in March of 2020, …
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The purpose of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP) of the of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to convened member countries every year to determine ambition and responsibilities, and identify and assess climate measures. The 21st session of the COP (COP21) led to the Paris Agreement, which …
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The outbreak of COVID-19, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and the slowdown of significant global economies such as the USA and China have brought unforeseen economic difficulties to all countries in the world, but especially to developing countries. Do these ongoing difficulties intensify or bring new possibilities for catch-up strategies for developing countries? Conventional economic theory has …
The Pos-Keynesian Conference to take place in Lille in December 2023 has as the main theme a discussion of Keynes' essay "Economic Possibilities for our Children". In that paper, written more than 90 years ago, the author tried to anticipate which economic situation would prevail 100 years latter. Nevertheless, to help us think about current …
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This is the last of three sessions on Scott Skyrm's 2023 book The Repo Market: Shorts, Shortages, and Squeezes. https://www.amazon.com/Repo-Market-Shorts-Shortages-Squeezes/dp/1952991285/ From the description: The Repo market is the most important market few people know about. It's a pillar of the financial system that's often misunderstood yet plays a vital role in the industry. If the …
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