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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This is the third 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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The YSI Workshop aims aims to provide young scholars (Master and PhD Students) theoretical and methodological tools to elaborate Economic Conjuncture Analysis with a policy-oriented focus. During the workshop, participants will improve their capacity to: Understand the theoretical principles of Economic Conjuncture Analysis; Identify the main methodologies used to set up an Economic Conjuncture Analysis; …
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Economics is a social science where women’s work has been mostly disregarded since its very foundation. Activities related to care, usually performed by women, are taken out of the picture or assumed as a given. Thus, necessary chores to the reproduction of the economy are taken for granted and not much discussion about it is …
The Crucial Role of Women within Heterodox economics: insights from LATAM Read More »
This session features a set of two presentations: Nov 17, 2022 at 8am Colorado (US)/ 10am Quito (EC), Bogotá (CO) New York (US)/ 3pm Lisbon (PT) and Dublin (IE)/ 4pm Berlin (DE)/ 8:30pm New Dehli (IN) PRESENTATION 1 byCarolina Curvale (FLACSO-Ecuador) & Gustavo Pérez-Arrobo (FLACSO-Ecuador & University of Colorado Boulder) AbstractWe explore the incidence of …
Theme: Engaging with Piero Sraffa’s Contributions to Economic Theory and Development: On the Occasion of the 62nd anniversary of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities Neoclassical economics continues to dominate contemporary economics teaching and research, despite the 2007 Global Financial Crisis posing a serious challenge to the Neoclassical understanding. While there have been several …
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