The role of central banks in the Western World has greatly evolved following the Great Financial Crisis, both in terms of the widening of their objectives (with notably the rise of macros-prudential policy) and in the conduct of monetary policy itself. Indeed, the balance-sheets' size of the most powerful central banks in the world have …
Gai, Prasanna, Andrew Haldane, and Sujit Kapadia. "Complexity, concentration and contagion." Journal of Monetary Economics 58.5 (2011): 453-470. Klimek, Peter, et al. "To bail-out or to bail-in? Answers from an agent-based model." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 50 (2015): 144-154.
*This year the YSI participation at the Trento Festival of Economics will be different. There will be no panels with talks that are too long, actually, there will be no talks at all... Welcome to The Trento Experiment! * YSI has had a program every year since 2013, but this year there will not be …
Josh W. Mason, John Jay College, CUNY.Date: Thursday, May, 30thTime: 11 AM (EDT) - 5PM (CET) - – 4PM (UK time)References: http://jwmason.org/slackwire/on-money-debt-trust-and-central-banking/ http://rooseveltinstitute.org/expanding-monetary-policy-toolkit/Profile: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/j-w-mason
Pre-Conference Workshop on “Relatedness, Knowledge Complexity and Economic Development in Cities and Regions” Santiago de Compostela, SpainJune 03-4, 2019Deadline Extended: May 10, 2019 The YSI Complexity Economics, Economics of Innovation and Urban and Regional Economics Working Groups are glad to announce a Pre-Conference Workshop on “Relatedness, Knowledge Complexity and Economic Development in Cities and Regions” …
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Emergence and configuration of the Indian National System of Innovation: historical changes and continuities by Manuel Gonzalohttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Gonzalo2 During the 2000s, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) aroused the interest of different economic analysts because they agglomerate a large portion of the world population, a significant endowment of resources and due to its increasing …
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As early as the 1920's Marshall suggested that firms co-locate in cities to reduce the costs of moving goods, people, and ideas. These 'forces of agglomeration' have given rise, for example, to the high tech clusters of San Francisco and Boston, and the automobile cluster in Detroit. Yet, despite its importance for city planners and …
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"Unravelling the forces underlying urban industrial agglomeration" With Dr. Neave O'Clery (University of Oxford) June 03 at 5 pm (GMT).
The lecture will tackle the question, how the resource-history of regions act as sea-anchors in transformation.First, the origin of the ideas behind linking relatedness and regional - urban development will be discussed and what we have learnt so far from this strand of literature. Following this, Prof. Henning will critically elaborate on the theoretical underpinning …
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"Related diversification and economic change. How the resource-history of regions act as sea-anchors in transformation" With Prof. Martin Henning (University of Gothenburg)
Inoue, H. & Todo, Y. Firm-Level Simulation of Supply Chain Disruption Triggered by Actual and Predicted Earthquakes. SSRN Electronic Journal (2017). doi:10.2139/ssrn.3074997
The Young Scholars Initiative’s Complexity Economics Working Group (YSI - CEWG) and Latin America Working Group (YSI – LAWG) in partnership with the Science and Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex Business School invite PhD students to submit their extended abstracts to the first Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Workshop at the 2019 …
Sheila Dow, University of StirlingDate: Thursday, June, 6thTime: 11AM (EDT time) - 5PM (CET time) – 4PM (UK time)The first session aims to provide a general introduction and understanding based on a historical review of the different strands of economics that are attached to endogenous money.Reference: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195390766.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195390766-e-008Profile: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/256439http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=VCHIC71
The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is thrilled to announce a new webinar from this interdisciplinary series! We are glad to have Erik Jones on board with us, who will discuss a forthcoming book contribution entitled The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union. AbstractThe purpose of this chapter is to explain why so many …
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Readings: Friedman, Daniel. "On economic applications of evolutionary game theory." Journal of Evolutionary Economics 8.1 (1998): 15-43. Whitley, Darrell. “A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial.” (http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~potter/CompIntell/ga_tutorial.pdf) Discussion Questions: What is an evolutionary game, and what do you have to define to set one up? How are evolutionary games useful for studying economics? Genetic algorithms are very efficient …
The YSI History of Economic Thought working group together with HES will organize a creative writing workshop in New York on June 19, the day before the History of Economics Society annual conference. The workshop will be led by Tiago Mata, lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at UCL, and Paul Dudenhefer, staff specialist at …
Selected young scholars, based on participation in the webinar series, academic qualifications, diversity, etc. will be given a chance to attend the PDI conference in New York.
Join us for a webinar with Professor Katharina Pistor of Columbia Law School to discuss her new book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere …
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Once more capitalism is at crossroad. The combination of persistent financial fragilities, growing income and wealth inequalities, the rise of right wing populisms, the weakening confidence in the EU integration process and the major ecological crisis that the world is about to face, represent major challenges. In this context geopolitics is changing and the results …
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YSI SPECIAL EVENT AT 2019 CHARLES GIDE WORKSHOPMontreal (QC, Canada), June 25TH, 2019“The relationship between economics and philosophy throughout the history of economic thought” The Université TÉLUQ and Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) are jointly organizing Charles Gide Workshops 2019.The theme of the 2019 Charles Gide Workshop is “Evolution …
Readings: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/) Summary of Chapter 9: Reluctant Entrepreneurs in "Poor Economics (https://web.archive.org/web/20190223030131/http://www.pooreconomics.com/chapters/9-reluctant-entrepreneurs) Farmer, J. D. "Market force, ecology and evolution." Industrial and Corporate Change 11, 895–953 (2002). (https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/publications/farmer/marketforce.pdf) <- this is long, if pressed for time please read the section introductions for qualitative understanding. Discussion questions: How do "bullshit jobs" …
The YSI Gender WG together with IAFFE is organizing the pre-conference workshop for young scholars at the 28th IAFFE Conference. The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for young scholars working on themes related to gender and economics to meet senior feminist scholars, present their work and discuss it in a forum which brings …
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No region can rely on past successes, rather constant transformation and re-invention is necessary for a region to keep developing. Many regional policies, such as smart specialization, aim to support regions in this process of re-invention. Yet, the operationalization of regional development policies has been rather limited because a coherent set of analytical tools to …
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The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is excited to announce a new call for papers. The Keynesian Economics and the Financial Stability working groups are jointly organizing a graduate session at the 16th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy that will take place in Bilbao (Spain), on the 27th and 28th of June, 2019. …
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