The lockdown continues and so does our research, but you are not alone in this! The Finance, Law and Economics Working Group is ready to start with its first meetup on Wednesday, April 8th at 5 pm CET.During our first meetup, we will discuss with Dr. Orkun Saka about his last paper "Financial Policymaking after …
This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview Feminist economics offers a way to reimagine what it means to think like an economist. By offering new perspectives, it not only challenges the predominant economic models, but also offers pointed revisions. Today's key research topics in feminist economics …
Feminist Approaches to Economics: Current Discussions Within the Field Read More »
This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview The average global temperature keeps rising. And carbon pollution is just one element of a general environmental crisis which also includes pollution of water, ocean plastic contamination, soil exhaustion and much more. The environmental emergency is now an undeniable …
This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field Overview The year of 2019 marked the 75th anniversay of the agreement that shaped the global monetary system. Last year at the Jackson Hole meeting, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, claimed that "The deficiencies of the international …
75 Years After Bretton Woods: Does the World Need a New Global System? Read More »
This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, major economies have entered a cycle of slow growth and rising government deficits, to which economists have responded with public expenditure cuts. Such austerity measures tend to reorganize the institutional …
Governing through austerity: the (il)logics of neoliberal urbanism Read More »
This workshop will provide young scholars and policy makers the opportunity to hear from and discuss with senior experts. Overview Since gaining their economic independence, the less-developed economies (LDEs) of the Global South have invested heavily in their economic development. This process has largely been understood as a restructuring of the LDEs, so they would …
A 30 Year Re-evaluation of Structural Adjustment Policies Read More »
This workshop will feature paper presentations by young scholars and policymakers, as well as a discussion with a senior level expert in the field. Overview During the 1990’s and the first decade of the 2000’s there was a hope that the rapid development of the internet and new communication technology would empower and free individuals …
New Challenges to Civil Rights in the Digital Era Read More »
This workshop will include poster presentations, as well as an interdisciplinary town-hall style discussion, with input from K. Ali Akkemik, an expert in the field. Overview Rapidly growing elderly populations is quietly changing the demographic composition of the worlds developing economies. By 2050, the world’s population aged 60 years and older is expected to total …
This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview The literature on how to finance Africa’s development long centered around Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). To attract FDI, it was argued, Africa needs to sway the international community with financial liberalisation. In later years, the debates changed. Scholars explored …
This workshop will feature paper presentations by young scholars and policymakers, as well as a discussion with Mark Carlson, an expert in the field. Overview During the 2007-08 financial crisis, economists and policy makers looked to the Great Depression for historical examples of how to respond to severe economic turmoil. A decade later, what historical …
Macro-, Monetary-, and Financial History—Lessons from the Past Read More »
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 …
Challenges in Repo Markets: Financial Stability, Monetary Policy Frameworks Read More »
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 …