Name: Webinar with Bill Janeway: a special Q&A session
Start: 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00

March 2020

Tue 3

March 3, 2020 @ 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Blurred frontiers b/w states and markets for pharmaceutical technologies

Small Pharma: hyper-specialization in India’s pharmaceutical industry

Virtual Project

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, …

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Tue 3

March 3, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Central bankers and new banking paradigms: Dialogue with Andrea Enria

Digital Banking Ecosystem: The Challenges Ahead

Virtual Project

The Finance, Law, and Economics and the Political Economy of Europe working group are glad to host the second webinar in preparation for our meeting with Dr Enria in Frankfurt, on April 27. This second session "Digital Banking Ecosystem: The Challenges Ahead" will be presented by Giuseppe Colangelo (Jean Monnet Professor of European Innovation Policy), …

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Wed 4

March 4, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:20 pm Contemporary Philosophy of Economics: A reading group

Seventh reading session: Angus Deaton and Nancy Cartwright (2018) on RCTs

Virtual Project

The third reading session on the causality and econometrics. Paper: Deaton, A., Cartwright, N. (2018). Understanding and misunderstandingrandomized controlled trials. Social Science & Medicine, pp. 2-21Key words: RCTs, balance, Bias, Precision, External validity, Transportation of results, Health, Economic developmentLink to the paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zpJScoD25RaL32d5YTS1itQigMOTpysK/view?usp=sharingDate: 4. March 2020, 21:00 (CET, Berlin) Besides, it is mandatory to read …

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Fri 13

March 13, 2020 GIHPTE-YSI seminar series in the history of economics

Presenter: Stephan Gruber

Universidad de los Andes Bogota, Bogota, Colombia

The seminar was cancelled. We will be rescheduling it for next week on Zoom. Professor Gruber, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, will present the recently published "Historia del Pensamiento Económico en el Perú. Antología y selección de textos" (Contreras & Gruber, Eds. 2019. PUCP). This is currently the only available book on the …

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Tue 17

March 17, 2020 @ 2:15 am - 3:45 am Women’s paid and unpaid care work and time-use survey data

WOMEN’S PAID AND UNPAID CARE WORK AND TIME-USE SURVEY DATA

Virtual Project

Decent work for both men and women have been promoted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for several years along with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recently, a special attention on the care work and care jobs for the future of decent work has become intensified because such care work, both paid and unpaid, is …

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Wed 18

March 18, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:20 pm Contemporary Philosophy of Economics: A reading group

Econometrics reading session: Athey and Imbens (2017)

Virtual Project

Fourth session on causality and econometrics. This time we read Athey and Imbens (2017) The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation. In the paper, authors discuss "recent developments in econometrics that they view as important for empirical researchers working on policy evaluation questions". They cover three major discussions i) identification strategies in program …

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Fri 20

March 20, 2020 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Seminario GIHPTE-YSI (2020-21)

Stephan Gruber (Spanish)

Virtual Project

Tuvimos problemas con Zoom y tuvimos que hacer el seminario en otra plataforma. La grabación está disponible en el canal de YouTube del GIHPTE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asIesjlndcQ El profesor Stephan Gruber (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) presentará el libro "Historia del pensamiento económico en el Perú. Antología y selección de textos," (Contreras y Gruber, Eds. 2019. PUCP). …

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Sun 22

March 22, 2020 - March 23, 2020

African Young Scholars Workshop on Cooperatives 2020

The Cooperative University of Kenya Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

IntroductionCooperatives are unique models as they are guided by the principles of voluntary and open membership, economic cooperation and democratic control. This means that any individual regardless of wealth and gender can participate in a cooperative. It is these principles that raise questions on the sustainability of the cooperative business model in the modern world. …

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Mon 23

March 23, 2020 @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Seminario GIHPTE-YSI (2020-21)

Test

Virtual Project

Zoom test.

Fri 27

March 27, 2020 @ 5:00 am - 6:30 am GIHPTE-YSI seminar series in the history of economics

Presenter: Ramiro Coviello

Universidad de los Andes Bogota, Bogota, Colombia

The in-person seminar is canceled but it will still take place via Zoom. You can join the Zoom meeting by following this link: https://ysi.wisdmlabs.net/project/5e6c4e75fcb84a7fa1d60f76/event/5e6d81b0fcb84a7fa1d645f9. Ramiro Coviello (IIEP-Conicet/FCE-UBA) will present a paper titled "Los saberes expertos en desarrollo económico y la normalización de la conducta del empresariado en la Argentina de los años sesenta."

Fri 27

March 27, 2020 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Seminario GIHPTE-YSI (2020-21)

Ramiro Coviello (Spanish)

Virtual Project

Ramiro Coviello (IIEP-Conicet/FCE-UBA) presentará un artículo titulado "Los saberes expertos en desarrollo económico y la normalización de la conducta del empresariado en la Argentina de los años sesenta." Ramiro Coviello (IIEP-Conicet/FCE-UBA) will present a paper titled "Los saberes expertos en desarrollo económico y la normalización de la conducta del empresariado en la Argentina de los …

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Mon 30

March 30, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Webinar with Bill Janeway: a special Q&A session

Virtual Project

Are you a theorist or practitioner of the economics of innovation, financial economics or political economy? Are you interested in the political and financial economics of transformational technology? On March 30th, ask anything to Bill Janeway ! Laurène Tran (Coordinator of the Economics of Innovation WG in YSI) will moderate the session. She will open …

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March 2020

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