The Latin America Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is supporting the Program for Advanced Studies on Latin American Economies (ELADES, in Spanish) and will organize activities during the School, which include: (1) An Alumni Seminar, (2) Feedback activities on Students' final work, (3) a post-ELADES workshop in which students from the current …
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Introduction Recent improvement in data availability have put input-output analysis back on the top of research agendas of economists: contemporary challenges, such as climate change, economic growth and natural resources, economic crisis and inequalities, require a systemic view and input-output (I-O) analysis represents an important tool for economists to understand the complexity of our economies. …
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The Keynesian Economics WG is happy to announce a workshop taking place at the 19th Diamantina Seminar. During the two days preceding the main conference (August 29 and 30) participants will have the opportunity to participate in four YSI workshops (listed below). Authors of approved papers will receive accommodation in addition to transportation between Belo …
This session covers Reading 7: A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century by Robert Mundell The reading forms the basis for Lecture 14 (next week). In it, Mundell tells a story of the evolution (devolution?) of the international monetary system over the course of the 20th century. He wants to address exchange rate stability through domestic …
Axel Leijonhufvud Advanced School Facing the Faultlines: Rethinking the Economy After Covid and the Ukraine Conflict 7-11 September, 2022 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO AUGUST 7 The Advanced School honors Axel Leijonhufvud legacy and is jointly organized by the University of Trento and INET. The school will take place online. The School is intended for …
This is the second out of three sessions devoted to Stafano Ugolini's book "The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History". We will be discussing Chapter 2 (Lender of Last Resort and Supervision) and Chapter 3 (Issuing Money). Book's description: This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices …
This session covers Lecture 14: Money and the State: International The lecture builds on the Robert Mundell reading from last week in an attempt to extend the money view to international monetary systems. We add balance sheets to Mundell's story of the 20th century, and continue the story into the early 21st century. We can …
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Webinar REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 1 discusses the basics of replication addressing: Why is the topic of replication relevant to promoting a renewed approach to Economics and other social sciences What is Philosophy of Economics, and how does it relate to replication Which purposes can it serve to replicate in the …
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South African YSI'ers, where are you? Let's get together and say cheers to YSI.
The economy is a complex evolving system, thus its analysis requires tools that can take into account all dimensions relevant to such a complex world. As young researchers, we often question how to take into account heterogeneity, interactions, non-linearities, path-dependency, tipping points to name a few. If that wasn't enough, reality keeps imposing to us …
In academia as well as in the global economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated old inequalities. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by March 2020 also magnified the plethora of challenges faced by scholarly research in the humanities. Despite the postmodernist call to deprovincialize regions considered “peripheries” of the western world, only few African scholars …
SESSION THREE: CONTROLLING MONEYAND MONETARY TRANSACTIONS SESSION FOUR: BUT MONEY KNOWS NO BORDERS
IMPORTANT: we are re-opening the applications for this event. Those who already applied before do not need to re-apply. The 2008 subprime crisis forced Central Banks to lower interest rates to zero in an attempt to stimulate an economic recovery. This tool was quickly exhausted, and the authorities have since then turned to the longer-term …
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This session covers Lecture 15: Banks and Global Liquidity The lecture uses the context of a 19th-century gold-standard world to introduce the Treynor model to foreign exchange markets. We flesh out the international dimension to what we covered in Lecture 9. Gold parity must hold within that narrow band or you're off the gold standard. …
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WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 2: Two Sides of the Replication Coin: Ex Post Reproduction and Ex Ante Documentation We will begin by drawing a distinction between two distinct, but complementary, activities: ex post reproduction and ex ante documentation.Ex post reproduction refers to reproduction by an independent investigator of empirical results …
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ENGLISH BELOW A pesar de que las discusiones en torno a género han ganado espacio y reconocimiento dentro de la disciplina económica en los últimos tiempos, cuestiones vinculadas a política industrial han recibido relativamente escasa atención. A su vez, preguntas en torno al rol de las mujeres y diversidades en el sistema productivo cobran aún …
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Red Pymes Mercosur Conference gathers researchers from MERCOSUR countries engaged in development studies, focused on SMEs, according to regional specificities. The conference has a strong territorial focus and more than 25 years of experience. It is characterised by being a space of knowledge generation and a permanent link between SMEs' reality and their environment. In …
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This is the final session devoted to Stafano Ugolini's book "The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History". We will be discussing Chapter 4: Monetary Policy and the conclusion. Book's description: This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices in Western countries from the Middle Ages to today. …
This session covers Reading 8: The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View, a 1966 article by Charles Kindleberger, Walter Despres, and Walter S. Salant, which originally appeared in The Economist. Perry Mehrling says: "This reading contrasts with Mundell, and much of the contemporary economic debate, by taking a banking view of international money and …
Just over a decade ago, the global economy was plunged into its worse crisis since the Great Depression. Today, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the already long-standing tension between the US and Chinese states have disrupted global value chains and fostered price increases throughout developed economies. Lingering in the …
The aim of this workshop is to bring together for the first time young and experienced researchers who are working on themes related to data-driven economic agent-based models (ABMs). ABMs are mathematical and computational models that explicitly represent the dynamics of units of a system, without imposing any ex-ante equilibrium constraint. ABMs have never existed …
This discussion will focus on the article The Crypto Banking System, which dives into the required foundations to build a financial system on top of decentralized finance (DeFi). The work illustrates through balance sheets how institutions would be interconnected, building on Zoltan Pozsar’s mapping of the Shadow Banking System (see here and here) We will …
WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 3: Replication in Quantitative Macroeconomics Macroeconomics differs from other fields in Economics in both the sources of data used and in the style of computation involved. In particular, data most often comes from reputable existing datasets, such as various IMF datasets, or those run by large …
This session covers Lecture 16: Foreign Exchange The lecture gives us a framework for reasoning about the foreign exchange dealer market in the context of a flexible-exchange-rate system. In typical money-view fashion, we look at foreign exchange market making through a lens of trading money for money, while pushing the trade of commodities and non-financial …
