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FMI research initiative at OTC Deriv. & Central Clearing Symposium, Chicago

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, United States

INTRODUCTIONAs part of the Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) research initiative, YSI members with excellent academic background and proven research interest in FMI are attending the OTC Deriv. & Central Clearing Symposium by the Federal Reserve Bank Chicago in Chicago. FMI RESEARCH INITIATIVE STATUSFMI research initiative seeks to support research in FMI to the benefit of …

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project Series Credit Booms Gone Bust

Prof. Moritz Schularick – The Great Leveraging: Credit and the Macroeconomy

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We are delighted to have Prof. Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn, INET) join us for the first of our three-part webinar series on private debt and the credit cycle. This is a webinar for students with research interests in empirical macro-finance. We will study the growth of finance and ask how and why credit cycles …

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THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

University of Ibadan Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: RETHINKING AFRICA’S ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION University of Ibadan, Nigeria 10th – 12th April 2019 The debate around Africa’s development has been driven most prominently from outside the continent, preserving a de facto colonial status, while ignoring the complexity of its context. With development economics being more recently influenced by …

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Economics of Sufficiency

Pontificia Univerisdad Catolólica del Perú (PUPC) Callao Region, Peru

The workshop on "Economics of Sufficiency" will be held the day before the beginning of the 2nd Conference of the Andean Society of Ecological Economics in Lima, Peru on April, 8. This workshop is intended to deepen the debate about the sufficiency economy with presentations from senior scholars and debate sessions with participating young scholars. …

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project Series “Regional Resilience: Towards an Evolutionary Approach” with Ron Boschma

“Regional Resilience: Towards an Evolutionary Approach” with Ron Boschma

Virtual Project Virtual Project

While the concept of regional economic resilience is gaining popularity among academics and policy makers, there is no universally accepted definition of resilience. Boschma, as one of the founding scholars of Evolutionary Economic Geography, proposes an evolutionary perspective on regional resilience. He conceptualizes resilience not just as the ability of a region to accommodate shocks, …

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project Series YSI IUC Web-Seminars in Law, Economics & Finance

3rd webinar: ”Law and economics of food as commons”

Virtual Project Virtual Project

From the scientific and industrial revolution to the present day, food – an essential element of life – has been progressively transformed into a private, transnational, mono-dimensional commodity of mass consumption for a global market. But over the last decade there has been an increased recognition that this can be challenged and reconceptualized if food …

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GSU Spring Conference on Global and Economic History

Langdale Hall Peachtree Center Avenue Southeast, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

This conference is an interdisciplinary meeting aimed at bringing together graduate students, early-career scholars, and experts in the fields of economic and world history from Georgia State and other universities in the US and abroad. Our goal is to facilitate conversation among participants on research themes/topics, methodologies and approaches, archives and sources, and global connections …

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project Series Credit Booms Gone Bust

Prof. Matthew Baron – Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Matthew Baron (Cornell University, INET) join us for the second of our three-part webinar series on private debt and the credit cycle. This is a webinar for students with research interests in empirical macro-finance. We will study the overoptimism and neglect of bank equity crash risk by financial markets …

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Rethinking the State in the 21st century

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public PurposeHome London, England, United Kingdom

Call for Abstracts Countries around the world are increasingly facing societal challenges, such as growing inequality, climate change, and aging populations. Contemporary challenges require the existence of 21st century States acting as a crucial partner for innovation and structural change. Mission-oriented policies have the power to steer economic growth towards a more sustainable and innovation-friendly …

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project Series State and Capital in China

Russia’s States & Markets

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Among BRICS countries, Russia has been experiencing periods of economic stability and downturns of high magnitude and it is only next to Brazil in decreasing both economic complexity and steadily falling manufacturing exports. Moving towards political isolation, Russia has been building strategic alliances in the Middle East and Asian region, especially with China and India, …

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