YSI Europe Convening
Program
The YSI Europe Convening program officially starts at 14:30 on 31 May and ends at 14:30 on 3 June. You may download it here.
Venue: University of Trento
Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, via Tommaso Gar 14
Our registration desk opens on 31 May at 11:30. You will be able to pick up your tote bag, program and lunch tickets for the university canteen.
INET lectures and Festival program
The INET lectures are part of the main festival program which will be taking place all over Trento.
Accommodation
Most of our participants are staying at Hotel Everest:
Contact: Tel: (+39) 0461 825300; Fax: 0461 824527 - Email: [email protected] / www.hoteleverest.it
The hotel is a 15-minute walk from the train station. Bus direct lines are: n. 4 and n.8 north direction.
Lunch & Dinner
On Thursday and Friday we have access to the university canteen near our venue (address: via Tommaso Gar 18) and you may use the lunch tickets received at registration to purchase your meal (please return any unused tickets). On Saturday and Sunday we’ll have lunch directly in our venue.
We will communicate the dinner locations for each day on-site and via email.
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Program Draft Version: 21 May 2018
University of Trento
Department of Humanities
Via Tommaso Gar, 14, 38122 Trento TN, Italy
Aula 004 | Aula 006 | Aula 001 | |
THU 31 May | |||
14:30 - 16:00 | Disruptive Technologies, Inequalities and Law #1 Mentor: Nadia Garbellini “The Importance of Path Dependence for Economic Theory: A Systemic Approach to Distribution Integrating Institutional Components” Anastasia Biermann “Socioeconomic System Gap Analysis Finance Law and Economics Prototype” Tony Crawford “AI and IOT appliances in Health care: dealing with urging aging issue in Europe and China” Nuoya Chen | Complex Systems #1: Political Economy “The Stubborn-Effect in Opinion Dynamics” “An agent-based model of Political Identity: The mechanics of Contentious Politics through the lens of agent-based modeling” Eugenio Dacrema “Human Agency and Social Capital- Silver bullets for corruption?” Davina Osei | The Economic Possibilities of Technology #1: Social Impact of Technological Change “Can ELR contribute to Women’s Empowerment?” Salam Abukhadrah “Regional Development And New Technologies” Maria Pia Napoletano “Ageing population, productivity and social inequalities: is automation the ideal solution?” Marco Zannini |
16:15 - 16:45 | Welcome | ||
17:00 - 19:00 | LECTURE “The Invisible Sex: Women in the History of Economic Thought” Goncalo Fonseca | ||
21:00 | DINNER | ||
FRI 1 June | |||
10:30 - 12:00 | Disruptive Technologies, Inequalities and Law #2 Mentor: Nadia Garbellini “Fighting Inequality through Collective Investment” Wesley Merritt “Universal Basic Income: Where Equity and Efficiency Meet?” Roxana Vatanparast “The Winner Takes It All? Designing international tax system suitable for era of disruption” Natalia Pushkareva | Reconciling Financial Stability and Economic Inclusion Across Space #1 Mentor: Richard Baldwin, Orsola Costantini “Political Economy of Finance: Securities Market Regulation” Jure Jeric “What role should solidarity play in the European Economic and Monetary Union?” Stefano Merlo “Boom Bust Boom: The long history of the United States financial cycle (1834-2017)” Daniel Dieckelmann | Complex Systems #2 “Determinants, direct and indirect influences of technological capabilities on firm performance” “CDS Central Counterparty Clearing Liquidation: Road to Recovery or Invitation to Predation?” “A post Keynesian framework of exchange rate determination: a dynamical approach approach” |
12.00 - 13:00 | LUNCH | ||
13:00 - 14:00 | LECTURE “What Piketty Missed in Measuring Wealth” Nadia Garbellini | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | The Concept of State in Economic Theory #1: Teaching Pluralist Economics The teaching of Economic discipline and the issue of Pluralism: A quantitative and qualitative study Michela Ciccotosto Thinking like an economist — a quantitative analysis of economics bachelor curricula in the Netherlands Maarten Kavelaars Non-Formal Education for Pluralist Economics? Nurlan Jahangirli | The Economic Possibilities of Technology #2: Economic Impact of Innovation Mentor: Nadia Garbellini “Human Capital, Growth and Technological Specialization” Andrea Brugora “Technological change: how societies deal with Baumol’s Cost Disease?” Martino Comelli “Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Labor Market Turbulence in Africa” Solomon Owusu “Information-Constrained Behavior, Technological Frontier, and Equilibrium: Theory and Simulations” Jangho Yang | History of Economic Thought #1: Between Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes Mentor: Goncalo Fonseca |
15:45 - 17:15 | PANEL “Historical Challenges to Democracy” Introduction: Orsola Costantini Thomas Ferguson Stefano Lucarelli | ||
21:00 | DINNER | ||
SAT 2 June | |||
10:00 - 11:30 | INET LECTURE “Robot Capitalism” Adair Turner Location: Palazzo Geremia | Special session Early Career Challenges: Publishing & the Academic Job Market | |
11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch KEYNOTE “Twisting the General Theory” Cristina Marcuzzo | ||
12:30 - 13:00 | Meetings in Working Groups | ||
13:00 - 14:30 | The Economic Possibilities of Technology #3: International Consequences of Technological Innovation Mentor: Nelson Barbosa “Exchange controls and exchange gap in Argentina (1946-2016)” Santiago Jose Gahn “Technological and productive systems facing the economic crisis: heterogeneity, convergence and divergence in the European Union” Simone Gasperin “The Role of Comparative Advantage and Endowments in Structural Transformation” Matteo Tranchero “Trade cost variation from innovations in transportation technology: the role of the Suez Canal in core and peripheral trade, 1870 - 1914” Kevin Tang | Disruptive Technologies, Inequalities and Law #3 Mentor: Adair Turner “In-e-qualities in online trading” Tove Engvall ”Effects of Regulatory Changes on Industrial Technological Capability: A Case Study of the United Kingdom and South Africa” Andrew Mkwashi “MOOCs, OER and developing countries: something good is in the air?” Grazia Sveva Ascione | Complex Systems #3 Session starts at 12:30 Mentor: Andrea Roventini “The Network Origins of Firm Dynamics” “Towards a first principles and evidence based theory of bubbles with complexity theory” |
15:00 - 16:30 | The Concept of State in Economic Theory #2: Economics crisis: why do we need more diverse economic thinking? Mentor: Goncalo Fonseca “Teaching Pluralist Economics” Oleksandra Sokolenko “Reforming Economics Curricula: Existing, Ideal and Possible” Cahal Moran “Is pluralism for economics a valid claim?” “Marxist and Post-Keynesian theories of the firm under financialisation and globalisation” Joel Rabinovich | The Economic Possibilities of Technology #4: Technological innovation at the firm level Mentor: Nadia Garbellini “Network participation and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese MSEMs in manufacturing sector” Elisa Calza
Beatriz Calzada Olvera
Rituparna Kaushik
Tho Pham “Employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence” Elvis Avenyo | |
17:00 | INET Lecture “Populism and the Repression of Salaries” Nelson Barbosa Location: Castello del Buonconsiglio - Sala Marangonerie | Special session Early Career Challenges: The State of Diversity in Economics Moderated by Diversity Task Force | |
21:00 | DINNER | ||
SUN 3 June | |||
10:30 - 12:00 | The Economic Possibilities of Technology #5: Innovation and technology of exchange Mentor: Nelson Barbosa “Distortions on decision-making in financial markets: What they are, why they matter, and how central bank digital currency can solve them” James Barker “Fintech on the stage” Adam Kerenyi “The Holy Grail of Crypto Currencies: Ready to replace fiat money?” Richard Senner “The Economics of Craftsmanship in the Age of E-commerce” Charles Wan | Reconciling Financial Stability and Economic Inclusion Across Space #2 Mentor: Josh Mason, Orsola Costantini “Spatial variation in the causes of income inequality: decomposition analysis on US census data” Andreas Lichtenberger “Microcredit 40 years later: the financial instrument that revolutionised Development” Leonardo Conte “Local currencies as new tools for sustainable urban development” Csaba Lakócai | The Concept of State in Economic Theory #3: Rethinking the State: towards a conceptual synthesis between the political and the economic spheres Mentor: Sheila Dow “The distributive limits of modern market exchange rate policies in the post currency mismatch era: lessons from the Brazilian Central Bank experience” Joao Pedro “Role Models of Fair public ownership: some examples from Hong Kong and Singapore” Andrew Purves |
12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH | Meetings in Working Groups | Meetings in Working Groups |
13:00 - 14:30 | CLOSING KEYNOTE ‘Monetary Reform, Central Banks and Digital Currencies’ Sheila Dow Discussant: Josh Mason | ||
15:00 | INET Lecture “Cryptocurrencies, bitcoins and blockchains: new bubble or future of money?” Beatrice Weder di Mauro Location: Castello del Buonconsiglio - Sala Marangonerie |
Participating Working Groups
Cooperatives
Complexity Economics
Economic Development
Economic History
Finance, Law, and Economics
Fianancial Stability
Keynesian Economics
Inequality
Innovation
Urban and Regional Economics
States and Markets
Support for Accepted Young Scholars
Selected young scholars will receive accommodation from 31 May - 3 June.
The YSI Europe America Convening strives to provide an inclusive environment and uphold a balance of gender, nationalities and research interests from across the region. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
Calls for Papers
1. Disruptive Technologies, Inequalities, and Law
2. The Concept of the State in Economic Theory
3. The Economic Possibilities of Technology
4. Reconciling Financial Stability and Economic Inclusion Across Space
5. Complex Systems and Economic Complexity
6. Cooperatives and the Future of Employment
About the Festival dell’Economia
The 13th edition of the Festival of Economics will take place in Trento from 31 May - 3 June. This year’s theme is Technology and Jobs.
The Festival program is now available here!