The Functional Unity of ‘Liquid Assets’ Liquidity is a property that opens the possibility to devise a taxonomy of assets (e.g., ‘liquid assets’ versus ‘illiquid assets,’ or ‘money’ versus ‘non-money’). The aim of the paper is to philosophically discuss the legitimacy of liquidity-based asset classification. There is a type of classification that is scientifically precious …
Private test webinar, to help Entropy Fox debug 'start webinar' issue'
Replacing GDP by 2030
During the last four reading sessions, we covered certain discussions within the Ontology of Economics. Now it is time to move to the analysis of causality within economic, more specifically Econometrics. In the upcoming four sessions, we will dive into the causality's inquiry within Economics. In the first part of the analysis of Econometrics, we …
Fifth reading session: Christopher Sims (1980) Macroeconomics and reality Read More »
Webinar from Dr. Francesco Lamperti
The Finance, Law, and Economics and Political Economy of Europe working groups are thrilled to announce the first webinar in our series in preparation for our meeting with Dr Andrea Enria, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB. This kick off session is entitled "Identifying and Remedying Deferential Norms in the Prudential Cultures for …
Identifying and Remedying Deferential Norms in Prudential Cultures Read More »
Professor Tobón, of the Universidad de Antioquia, will present a paper titled "Jean Tirole y la nueva identidad de la ciencia económica (Jean Tirole and the new identity of economic science." The seminar will take place at the Universidad Nacional (auditorio 401, edificio 311) at 12:30.
YSI is delighted to support the Solve Climate by 2030. We opened a call for YSI members to organizer webinars in their own University (on April 7, 2020) discussing ambitious solutions to fight climate change.The goal is to make them in a simultaneous fashion, then increasing the reach of this action. We invited Prof Eban …
The second reading session on the causality and econometrics. Paper: Angrist, J., Pischke, J.-S.(2010). "The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24 (2): 3-30.Key words: econometrics; macroeconomics; reality; causalityLink to the paper: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZJXrUvNOQqSLWrgNcuZ84frqtEN6TMLDDate: 19. February 2020, 21:00 (CET, Berlin) Besides, it …
Sixth reading session: Angrist & Pischke (2010) The Credibility Revolution Read More »
Overview of the event Date:Feb. Mon. 24th, 2020 arrival to Frankfurt and welcome dinnerFeb. Tue. 25th, 2020 • Welcome, LPFMI introduction • CCP, CSD, Blockchain • YSI LPFMI participants present heir research ideas • Mapping exercise • Prepare & review ECB / BuBa/ Chicago Fed conference schedule • DinnerFeb. Wed. 26th, 2020 • Full day …
More than a decade after the subprime crisis many economies are still struggling to recover from its effects and current policy prescriptions have not been enough to deal with the scale and complexity of the new economic conditions. Central Banks policies of massive stimulus, historically low interest rates for an unprecedented length and other non-conventional …
YSI Pre-event @ the 46th Eastern Economics Association Conference Read More »
India counts 12477 companies (MoCA 2016) for 5099 factories (ASI 2016). This statistical gap cannot be solely explained by registration tactics or data errors; it illustrates how India’s firms are not only restricted to manufacturing activities. Some firms do not possess any manufacturing unit, yet they are actively involved in the design, packaging, branding, promotion, …
Small Pharma: hyper-specialization in India’s pharmaceutical industry Read More »