Women’s employment in Public Sector-An untapped opportunity
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Post discussions of Covid-19 on female employment, Dr. Dipa Sinha talks on the untapped potential of public sector in India for female employment.
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Evolution, Complexified!
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Hey everyone! We are almost in the last chapters on of our amazing reading group sessions. This Sunday we will be discussing chapters 17 and 18 of Complexity:A Guided Tour by Dr. Melanie Mitchell. Our focus this time will be on evolution of systems and how we relate it to our previous discussion on market …
KEDG 2021.1 – 3rd meeting
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April 7 - Guilherme Morlin: "Growth and debt stability in a supermultiplier model with public expenditures and foreign trade" May 6 - Ana Bottega: "Kalecki meets Schumpeter: the decline of competition in a demand-led dynamic model" June 2 - Gustavo Pereira Serra: "The First Harrod Problem and Human Capital Formation" July 1 - Vinicius Curti …
Christine Desan – Making Money | Session 1
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This is the first of three sessions to discuss Christine Desan's book Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism. For this session, we will begin by discussing the introduction and chapters 1-3. Book Description: "Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like …
LPFMI – (Custodian) Bank Supervision 2/2 – Custodian supervision deep-dive
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WEBINAR INFORMATIONCustodians play a key but discrete role in the global financial market infrastructure. They are licensed as “credit institutions”, a legal requirement for European deposit-taking institutions, and therefore they face the same prudential requirements as “traditional” banks. However, their business model and risk profile are different from those of traditional banks since the core …
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Week 3 — Lectures 4 & 5, Reading 2
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We're discussing the following for week 3: Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro Lecture NotesSources and Uses. Flow of funds. Every use of funds has a corresponding source on its own balance sheet (micro) and on someone else's (macro). Assets and liabilities represent commitments of future cashflows. Lecture 5: The Central Bank as …
Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich on The German Inflation 1914-1923
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As with the Great Depression, there are many theories and stories—some of them contradictory—about what caused the German inflation. Did it depend on a combination of multiple factors? Was it overdetermined? What was the role of Germany's financial policy? At what point did hyperinflation become inevitable? What insights can we draw from the German experience …
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Women’s labor force participation in Sri Lanka
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Dr. Ramani Gunatilaka talks about the low number of female employment in Sri Lanka, discussing the factors behind it.
The 3rd PE-DPS: Sattwick Dey Biswas on Utilitarianism and Quantification
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“In this 3rd session of the series, Sattwick Dey Biswas (Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University) will present some of his work and will invite us for a critical discussion on utilitarianism and quantification. Come join us in this challenge! Title:** "Reflections on utilitarianism and quantification" ** Abstract” There are inherent …
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YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar: André Lanza
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André Lanza, doctoral candidate from the University of São Paulo will present his paper: FROM “ARMS TO THE FARM” TO LANDOWNERS? IMMIGRATION AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY IN SÃO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL (1886-1905). Registration form to attend the webinar: here. Abstract: During the age of mass migration, São Paulo state, Brazil, received over 2,5 million immigrants. Attracting …
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Week 4 — Lectures 6 & 7, Reading 3
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We're discussing the following for week 4: Lecture 6: Federal Funds, Final Settlement Lecture NotesThis lecture describes a stylized version of the US payment system, and how the Fed Funds market (interbank lending) used to allocate reserves among the banks before 2008. Lots of great balance-sheet practice for understanding how a credit-based payment system can …
Why do people hate inflation?
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This our weekly discussion of the price level as it relates to Perry Mehrling's money view. The price level is the average price of goods in terms of money or, equivalently, the price of money in terms of goods. But what determines the price level? Why is the price level important? And how does it …