This is an event which will conclude our discussion of Stefano Ugolini's book "The Evolution of Central Banking". It will take a form of an one-hour Q&A session with professor Ugolini himself.
This session covers Lecture 17: Direct and Indirect Finance Until now, we haven't been talking as much about banks as intermediaries. The lecture will help us think about next week's Gurley and Shaw reading, which emphasizes indirect finance and intermediation. Mehrling tells a story about how the money market and capital market became intertwined, why …
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YSI Africa Pre-Conference Mentorship Workshop at 15th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) Theme: North-South Relations and Pandemic Politics: Geopolitics or Scientific Responses to COVID-19? Botswana first alerted the world of the existence of a new COVID-19 variant. Shortly thereafter, South Africa followed suite providing more details on the distinctive features of …
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WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 4: Advice and Information on Computational Reproductions: Students May Find Them Messier Than Expected Drawing on experience teaching and conducting replications this talk focuses on the most basic form of replication: the computational reproduction. This means simply trying to reproduce the numerical results of a previous …
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This session covers Reading 9: the first part of Chapter 5 of Money in a Theory of Finance by Gurley and Shaw (1960) Reinforcing some of what we learned in Lecture 17, Gurley and Shaw present a model that emphasizes funding over payments. "Primary debt" is any debt that directly funds a real investment—direct investment. …
The Keynesian Economics, Complexity Economics and Financial Stability Working Groups are glad to announce a new partnership with the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics Policy. As part of this partnership, YSI will offer partial travel stipends to young scholars who will present at the 26th FMM Conference. The YSI stipend selection in mid-August (more details …
This is the first of five sessions on Charles P. Kindleberger's 1993 (1984) book A Financial History of Western Europe. From the Dust Jacket: Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to …
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This workshop is for anyone who wants to know more about the work of economists outside of academia, in particular working in the public sector. This workshop addresses the questions: • What do you do as a government economist?• What tools do you use?• Is there a place for alternative economics? It is open to …
Working as a Government Economist – What’s it like?! Read More »
SESSION 5: Student Replication Presentation by Franziska Strunz (PhD student at the Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich, DE) ARTICLE BEING REPLICATED:Auerbach and Gorodnichenko (2016) “Effect of Fiscal Shocks in a Globalized World”, published in the IMF Economic Review (available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/imfer.2015.15). Also: data series extended with data from 2014 to 2022. ABSTRACT:"Although theoretical models consistently …
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This session covers Lecture 18: Forwards and Futures The lecture is somewhat of a sequel to Lecture 8, which talked about lining up the timings of cashflows and cash commitments. People can use forwards and futures to match up the time pattern of their cash inflows with their cash commitments. Our exploration of forward contracts …
Ft. Mariana Mazzucato, Joe Stiglitz, and Martin Guzmán Pre-conferenceMore information forthcoming Round table: What challenges do Latin American countries face in trying to apply economic development theories?2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, Buenos Aires timeSpeakers: Leopoldo Tornarolli (CEDLAS-UNLP), Florencia Kohon (MECON) and Estanislao Malic (CCC / UNQUI)Note: will be held in Spanish Conference: Strategies for economic …
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This YSI workshop will bring young scholars together to discuss new ways of thinking about epistemologies, methods and networks that we need for strategic delinking in Africa including debates on economic and monetary sovereignty as well as reparations. In Africa, debates around the idea of delinking date back to the early 1980s with the implementation …
African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty: How to Delink? Read More »