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Challenges in Repo Markets: Financial Stability, Monetary Policy Frameworks

Federal Reserve Board Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. More than ten years after the Global Financial Crisis, despite unprecedented actions by monetary and financial stability authorities, serious problems remain in place. Among them is the emerging problems in the repo market that requires the Fed to resume purchases …

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The Political Economy of Health Economics

National Press Club 14th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussions with experts in the field. Speakers Prof. Bill Lazonick, Emeritus Professor in Economics "The political economy of the US pharmaceutical drug industry: opiods and regulatory failures" Dr. Chinazo Cunningham, physician and researcher, Prof of Medicine at Einstein/Montefiore "The effects of medical cannabis among adults with chronic pain …

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project Series Central bankers and new banking paradigms: Dialogue with Andrea Enria

Paul Volcker and the Transformation of Finance

Virtual Project Virtual Project

New date announced! The Finance, Law, and Economics, and the Political Economy of Europe working groups are happy to host the third webinar from the series in preparation to our meeting with Andrea Enria, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB (which will be rescheduled according to the developments in the Covid-19 situation).The third …

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project Series Contemporary Philosophy of Economics: A reading group

Epistemology of Economics: Kapeller (2013) ‘Model-Platonism’ in Economics

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Since November we read many papers related to the Ontology of Economics, from Evolutionary Realism to recent debates in Econometrics. The first part of the reading group during the last six months expanded my understanding of the economy. Now we move on to the Epistemology of Economics to focus on the question of how we …

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project Series YSI @ Keynesian Economics Debate Group (KEDG)

KEDG 1st Meeting

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The Keynesian Economics Debate Group (KEDG) is starting! The first meeting will be on Wednesday April 15th at 6 pm ET. In this first meeting we will discuss Felipe Cornelio's paper, "The role of effective demand in the industrial policy: an assessment based on the Sraffian Supermultiplier". We are scheduling a short presentation (15min) followed …

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project Series YSI COVID-19 Webinar Series

Andrew Sheng: New Data, New Systemic Analyses for Novel Pandemic Crises

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The COVID-19 crisis is stress-testing not just economies, but our economic paradigms and analytical tools. The 2008 crisis revealed that financial systems are networks, and COVID-19 showed how viral contagion and conventional tools (monetary creation) plus lockdowns can bring on recession, depression or conflict. Current single-minded focus on flows and monetary creation to deal with …

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project Series YSI COVID-19 Webinar Series

Zoltán Pozsár: Financial stability in the age of Covid-19

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Money is hierarchical and during crises, rules are flexible at the core and rigid at the periphery. In this crisis, the penalty rate part of Bagehot’s rule was replaced with “friendly” rates for the core – with Covid-19 there is no moral hazard in lending to the core of the system at low rates. (...) …

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project Series GIHPTE-YSI seminar series in the history of economics

Presenter: Francesco Bogliacino

Universidad de los Andes Bogota, Bogota, Colombia

Francesco Bogliacino, professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, will present his upcoming book Scienza in vendita (Science for sale), coauthored with Cristiano Codagnone and Giuseppe A. Veltri. The presentation will take place over Zoom. To participate please go to https://ysi.wisdmlabs.net/project/5e6c4e75fcb84a7fa1d60f76/event/5e6d8212fcb84a7fa1d64635

Law and Political Economy: Meeting the Challenges of Our Times

Sarah Lawrence College Mead Way, Bronxville, New York, United States

DEAR PARTICIPANTS THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO COVID19 CONTAGION - WE WILL INFORM YOU OF THE NEW DATE Questions of law, power, and economy are at the heart of contemporary challenges to democracy, environment, social solidarity, and economic security. This workshop brings together scholars and students to develop a deeper understanding of the problems …

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project Series Seminario GIHPTE-YSI (2020-21)

Francesco Bogliacino (Spanish)

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Francesco Bogliacino, profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, presentará su libro Scienza in vendita (Ciencia en venta), escrito junto con Cristiano Codagnone y Giuseppe A. Veltri. Resumen: Ciencia en venta analiza la relación entre las decisiones políticas y la evidencia, en la elaboración de políticas públicas. Es un libro que habla de narraciones y …

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