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 feedback activities on Students' final work and a post-ELADES workshop in which students from the current program will be able to …
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This session covers Lecture 19: Interest Rate Swaps and Lecture 20: Credit Default Swaps Lecture 19 Notes Lecture 20 Notes Part 4 of Lecture 19 is missing from Perry Mehrling's site and the YouTube playlist. Here's a direct link. Lecture 19 — Part 4: What is a Swap Part 4 of Lecture 20 is cut …
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This session covers Reading 10: Excerpts from a 1952 report to the FOMC (parts one, two, and three) FOMC Study Questions The document is the previously secret Fed report that Mehrling mentions in Lecture 19. In 1952, the Fed is figuring out how they want to run monetary policy after the Treasury-Fed accord of 1951. …
The Launch of the YSI Amazon Hub in Belém aims to establish a specialized platform for young scholars in the Amazon region, tailored to the specific needs and challenges of the area. This project seeks to cultivate a vibrant ecosystem where aspiring researchers, innovators, and intellectuals can collaborate and develop impactful solutions to pressing issues …
YSI Special Session - UNICAMP International School on Development Challenges The YSI Latin America Working Group happily announces a special session to be held on August 7 during the 4th Unicamp International School on Development Challenges – Changes in contemporary capitalism and impacts on the global south. We invite students of previous editions of Unicamp …
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This session covers Lecture 21 Shadow Banking, Central Banking, and Global Finance and Reading 11: Bagehot Was a Shadow Banker: shadow banking, Central Banking, and the Future of Global Finance by Mehrling, Pozsar, Sweeney, and Neilson (2014) Lecture 21 Slides Shadow Banking Study Questions NOTE: The above link is the final published 2014 version of …
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We are happy to invite you to submit your work to the “1st UFPR Winter School on Economic Development: Feminist and Gender Economics”, which will be held on 9 August in Curitiba, Brazil. The 1st UFPR Winter School on Economic Development is organized by the Graduate Program in Economic Development (PPGDE) of the Federal University …
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This is the third of three sessions on Stefan Eich's 2022 book The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. https://www.amazon.com/Currency-Politics-Political-Theory-Aristotle/dp/0691191077/ From the Description: Stefan Eich examines six crucial episodes of monetary crisis, recovering the neglected political theories of money in the thought of such figures as Aristotle, John Locke, …
This session covers Lecture 22: Touching the Elephant: Three Views Lecture 22 Notes The lecture ties the money view into the "economics view" and "finance view" of money and banking. The economics view says that past investments and commitments result in cash flows today—the past determines the present. The finance says expectations of the future …
The second meeting of the YSI Germany Hub will take place on 10 August at the JFKI at Freie Universität in Berlin from 15:00 to 19:00. YSI Hubs are a space in which YSI members, regardless of Working Group affiliation, can meet, get to know each other, and brainstorm project ideas. The meeting will be …
We are excited to invite you to the "Global Debtscapes: Post-YSI Debt Sustainability Conference Networking Catchup." We'll meet online on Friday, August 11, 2023 for an informal session to discuss, reflect and continue the conversation from last April's conference in Boston. Whether you were a part of the original conference or not, we warmly welcome …
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After having read Stefan Eich's The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes we host a discussion with the author. Stefan Eich is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University and currently Richard B. Fisher Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton. …
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The Young Scholars initiative-YSI (Co-operative Working Group) in collaboration with the International Centre for Co-operative Management (St. Mary’s University, Canada) is organizing the Young Scholars Co-operative Law Summer School hosted at the J. Dobrila University of Pula (Croatia) on 20th to 30th August, 2023 alongside the International Co-operative Law Summer School. The Summer School will …
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This is the first of three sessions on Perry Mehrling's 2005 book Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance. https://www.amazon.com/Fischer-Black-Revolutionary-Idea-Finance/dp/1118203569/ From Mehrling's Amazon Author Page: My second book, Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley 2005), tells the story of the rise of modern finance, both as a set of ideas and …
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ChatGPT and new AI based technologies challenges for researchers, policy makers and practitioners. A lesson from the Developing World We happily announce a special session on recent progress in AI industry and AI based technologies impact on the economy, in particular for developing/periphery countries. This session aims to explore the effects of global digital economy …
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6th Annual UNCTAD YSI Summer School 2023 The Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are hosting their 6th Annual Summer School from 28-31 August, 2023. The school will take a hybrid format this year, bringing a small group of participants together …
In the last few decades Argentina has faced a particular macroeconomic regime that has differentiated it from its neighbours. In particular, while most Latin American countries, at least before the war in Ukraine, faced relatively low inflation levels, Argentina presented a large inflationary spirals reaching levels above 100%. Moreover, unlike other Latin-American countries, Argentina has …
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The Launch of the YSI Brazilian Local Hub in Rio de Janeiro aims to create a dedicated platform for young scholars in Brazil, catering to the specific needs and challenges of the country. This project seeks to foster a dynamic network where aspiring scholars can come together to collaborate and develop impactful solutions to pressing …