In academia as well as in the global economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated old inequalities. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by March 2020 also magnified the plethora of challenges faced by scholarly research in the humanities. Despite the postmodernist call to deprovincialize regions considered “peripheries” of the western world, only few African scholars …
DEBATING MONETARY ISSUES IN AFRICA
SESSION THREE: CONTROLLING MONEYAND MONETARY TRANSACTIONS SESSION FOUR: BUT MONEY KNOWS NO BORDERS
IMPORTANT: we are re-opening the applications for this event. Those who already applied before do not need to re-apply. The 2008 subprime crisis forced Central Banks to lower interest rates to zero in an attempt to stimulate an economic recovery. This tool was quickly exhausted, and the authorities have since then turned to the longer-term …
YSI @ Monetary Policy and Income Distribution Conference Read More »
SESSION FIVE: AND MONEY IS NOT ALWAYSAS WE PERCEIVE IT TO BE
This session covers Lecture 15: Banks and Global Liquidity The lecture uses the context of a 19th-century gold-standard world to introduce the Treynor model to foreign exchange markets. We flesh out the international dimension to what we covered in Lecture 9. Gold parity must hold within that narrow band or you're off the gold standard. …
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WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 2: Two Sides of the Replication Coin: Ex Post Reproduction and Ex Ante Documentation We will begin by drawing a distinction between two distinct, but complementary, activities: ex post reproduction and ex ante documentation.Ex post reproduction refers to reproduction by an independent investigator of empirical results …
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Red Pymes Mercosur Conference gathers researchers from MERCOSUR countries engaged in development studies, focused on SMEs, according to regional specificities. The conference has a strong territorial focus and more than 25 years of experience. It is characterised by being a space of knowledge generation and a permanent link between SMEs' reality and their environment. In …
Young Scholars’ Academy on SMEs and Territorial Development Read More »
ENGLISH BELOW A pesar de que las discusiones en torno a género han ganado espacio y reconocimiento dentro de la disciplina económica en los últimos tiempos, cuestiones vinculadas a política industrial han recibido relativamente escasa atención. A su vez, preguntas en torno al rol de las mujeres y diversidades en el sistema productivo cobran aún …
Gender and Industrial Policy – A Feminist Economics Perspective Read More »
This is the final session devoted to Stafano Ugolini's book "The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History". We will be discussing Chapter 4: Monetary Policy and the conclusion. Book's description: This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices in Western countries from the Middle Ages to today. …
This session covers Reading 8: The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View, a 1966 article by Charles Kindleberger, Walter Despres, and Walter S. Salant, which originally appeared in The Economist. Perry Mehrling says: "This reading contrasts with Mundell, and much of the contemporary economic debate, by taking a banking view of international money and …