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Adam Tooze – Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

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We are delighted to have Adam Tooze, Cathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, join us for our final webinar of our webinar series on the Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath. Professor Adam Tooze teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in …

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Inclusive or Exclusive Global Development?

Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York, United Kingdom York, England, United Kingdom

Microfinance and then financial inclusion have become buzzwords in international development. Such initiatives have mobilised and generated large amounts of development funding, despite substantial amount of critique. Such critiques call for a more impartial assessment of the effectiveness of financial inclusion on the grounds that funds for microfinance, they argue, displaced development spendings on healthcare, …

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The effects of trade on business cycle synchronization

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The aim of the study which will be presented during this webinar is to investigate whether trade promotes countries to follow similar growth cycles. Convergence in business cycles is thought to be one of the desired components of an optimal currency area.By looking at data from the years 2001 to 2017 (for all of the …

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Human capital migration and regional development: some reflections

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Webinar "Human capital migration and regional development: some reflections" with Alessandra Faggian (GSSI, Italy)Friday - November 23, 2018 The analysis of human capital has taken on a progressively more central role in discussions regarding the growth and success of nations and regions. This is primarily because advanced societies have increasingly evolved towards what has been …

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YSI @ Energy Innovation Academy

Florence School of Regulation Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy

The FSR Energy Innovation Area and the Complexity Economics Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the 1st Energy Innovation Academy. - Call for Papers Energy transitions imply disruptive innovations. This drives the Academy’s topics. We aim at discussing industries as complex and evolving systems. …

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Summer School on Computational Methods and Agent Based Modelling in Economi

Universidade Federal do Paraná (Federal University of Paraná) Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil

The Summer School consists in a week-long full-time intensive course to teach PhD and young scholars how to implement and best exploit agent-based simulation models in Economics for research purposes. It will provide students with both the technical and methodological skills required to successfully develop and analyze simulation models in a research project, which may …

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project Series Historical epistemology

Historical epistemology

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The theme of this first meeting will be historical epistemology. Discussion will be based on the following references: Feest, Uljana, Thomas Sturm. 2011. "What (good) is historical epistemology." Erkenntnis 75 (3), 285-302. Stapleford, Thomas. 2017. "Historical Epistemology and the History of Economics: Views Through the Lens of Practice." Research in the History of Economic Thought …

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Towards a Call for Problems Approach: Strengthening NGO-Academic Collaborat

The International Auditorium Koning Albert II-Laan, Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Towards a Call for Problems Approach: Strengthening NGO-Academic Collaborations Session Proposal for Change Finance Forum 6th-7th December 2018 Increasingly, academic researchers are concerned to ensure that their research will find its way out of the ivory tower and shape law and policy-making processes. Equally, many NGOs are keen to produce cutting-edge research on particular social …

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States and Market WG 2019 Planning Meeting

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We are already involved in many projects, thus we will meet just between coordinators and organizers to overview our year plan and set goals for our WG in 2019.

Innovation systems and policies: An African perspective

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Promoting innovation has become common practice across the world due to its social and economic transformative power. As innovation becomes recognised as part of the development agenda, a key challenge is to better understand innovation in a development context and how policy can support it. Nevertheless, considerations of innovation in Africa remain disconnected to some …

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Central Bank Digital Currency – Webinar Ulrich Bindseil (ECB)

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The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is thrilled to welcome Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of Market Operations at the European Central Bank, to discuss "Central Bank Digital Currency". With the digitalisation of finance, Fintech, and cryptocurrencies, central banks and academics have started to wonder if central banks should not also offer a digital currency, …

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Webinar: De-dollarization and monetary policy with Prof. Ernesto Sheriff

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Dear young scholars, The Latin America Working Group invites you to the webinar "De-dollarization and monetary policy in Bolivia: the role of inflationary memory" with Prof. Ernesto Sheriff. The webinar will take place on Friday, Dec 14th, 11:00 am EST. A part of the webinar will consist on Sheriff's article (2011) "Memoria inflacionaria e histéresis …

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