Archive
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Conference Session
Other People's Money: Governance, Integrity, & Ethics
May 5, 2015 | 06:45—08:00
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Conference Session
A Conversation with Christine Lagarde & Janet Yellen
May 5, 2015 | 05:15—06:15
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Conference Session
Credit Markets: Booms, Busts, & Distortions
May 5, 2015 | 09:15—10:45
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Conference Session
Making Financial Regulation Work for Society
May 5, 2015 | 10:45—11:45
In this session Anat Admati and Brooksley Born discuss their observations about financial regulation needed to make sure the financial system serves society.
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Conference Session
An Interview With Sarah Bloom Raskin
May 5, 2015 | 12:00—12:30
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Conference Session
Concluding Remarks
May 5, 2015 | 12:30—01:00
Closing remarks at the 2015 Finance & Society conference in Washington D.C.
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Article
Want to Take on Financial and Governmental Corruption? Hire Women.
May 5, 2015
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Webinars and Events
Finance & Society
ConferenceMay 5–6, 2015
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde joined a renowned group of globally influential women in discussing how the financial system can be re-imagined to truly benefit society.
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Conference Session
Finance & Society
May 4, 2015 | 02:30—05:30
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Video
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
May 3, 2015
Whilst progress has been made, the “glass ceiling” dividing men and women has yet to be broken definitively. Monika Queisser discusses the challenges still facing women in the workplace and beyond.
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Article
How Sociologists Think About Inequality
May 1, 2015
Most sociologists believe that formal and informal institutions are more critical in explaining the rising inequality observed in advanced economies. In this light, changing institutions such as the ascendance of shareholder-centered corporate governance model, finance-friendly policies since the late 70s, credentialism, and deunionization all contribute to the earnings dynamics at different parts of the distribution.
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Working Paper
Working paperInput Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Network
Apr 2015
The adoption and diffusion of inputs in the production network is at the heart of technological progress. What determines which inputs are initially considered and eventually adopted by innovators? We examine the evolution of input linkages from a network perspective, starting from a stylized model of network formation.
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Working Paper
Working paperLaid Low: The IMF, The Eurozone and the First Rescue of Greece
Apr 2015
As Greece descended into a financial maelstrom in the spring of 2010, a small group of staffers at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held top-secret talks with officials from the German and French finance ministries to discuss the idea of restructuring Greece’s debt.
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Video
Women, Finance & Society
Apr 27, 2015
Gudrun Johnsen on Iceland, “womenomics”, and Finance & Society
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Article
Why journal editors should commission history papers for their anniversary issues
Apr 23, 2015
Writing the history of economic journals is not merely a way to reconstruct the development of new fields and new approaches to economics. It also recasts current debates on peer-review, retractions, open-access, replicability, and bias in scientific publishing in a wider perspective. It answers important questions on the influence of editors, publishers and referees on the development or marginalization of various economic approaches. But such endeavour requires the preservation of journals’ archives, the recognition of historical expertise, and economists’ adoption of a more relaxed and humble approach to their history.
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Article
History as Personal Expression — a personal note
Apr 22, 2015
Economists and historians of economics have constructed different (and sometimes conflicting) narratives about the past of their field. In fact what is history for economists may not be what is history for historians. To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Economic Journal invited renowned economists to discuss important contributions published in the past by the journal and the works on similar topics by historians of economics are absent from these accounts. History of economics here seems to have the weight of a JEL descriptor attached to an invited contribution, which we ought to agree that it is not much.
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Article
Our Banking System is a Giant House of Cards
Apr 21, 2015
It Could Fall On You.
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Article
New Climate-Economic Thinking
Apr 21, 2015
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Video
Income Inequality in Europe
Apr 19, 2015
A member of the Austrian Central Bank tells us his research on wealth and income inequality in Europe.
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Working Paper
Working paperDiscrimination, Social Identity, and Coordination: An Experiment
Apr 2015
This paper presents an experiment investigating the effect of social identity on hiring decisions. The question is whether people discriminate between own and other group candidate
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesAn Economical Business-Cycle Model
Apr 2015
In recent decades, advanced economies have experienced low and stable inflation and long periods of liquidity trap. We construct an alternative business-cycle model capturing these two features by adding two assumptions to a money-in-the-utility-function model: the labor market is subject to matching frictions, and real wealth enters the utility function. These assumptions modify the two core equations of the standard New Keynesian model
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Video
Greece and the Eurozone
Apr 14, 2015
Yanis Varoufakis and Joseph Stiglitz discuss Greece’s financial challenges and the associated Eurozone politics in this exclusive conversation.
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Article
How to Recognize New Economic Thinking
Apr 14, 2015
The Institute for New Economic Thinking responds to an evident need for innovative approaches to understanding economic and financial processes.
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Article
We Must Lean Over Backwards
Apr 14, 2015
Emulate Richard Feynman: Lean over backwards so you do not fool yourself, and teach your students the discipline correctly from the start, rather than teaching them things at the start you will have to unteach them later.
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Article
Party Competition to Cut the Government Deficit by More in the UK's General Election
Apr 14, 2015
At least the Labour Party has only promised to cut day-to-day spending, not public investment.
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Video
Upholding the Rule of Law
Apr 13, 2015
Here we are, some 7 years after the Great Financial Crisis, and not one senior banking executive has gone to jail.
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Article
New Economic Thinking vs. Hard Political Realities
Apr 13, 2015
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Article
False Economic Policy Clichés and General Elections
Apr 13, 2015
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Article
Is the Fed Making Inequality Worse? Yes, New Research Shows.
Apr 11, 2015
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Working Paper
Conference paperA New Rational Expectations Hypothesis: What Can Economists Really Know About the Future?
Apr 2015
John Muth proposed the Rational Expectations Hypothesis (REH) to represent how the market (an aggregate of its participants) understands and forecasts outcomes. REH imposes internal consistency between the market’s forecasts and “the relevant economic theory” (Muth 1961, p. 316).
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Working Paper
Conference paperChange of Course: a Journalist’s Perspective
Apr 2015
I first came across economics students’ campaigns to revolutionise their education in that bastion of radical thought: the newsroom of the Financial Times.
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Conference Session
George Soros on the Future of Europe
Apr 10, 2015 | 03:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperFrom Terrible to Terrific Undergraduate Economics Curricula
Apr 2015
Among the areas left largely unscathed by the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent never-‐ending recession, the teaching of economics ranks high.
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe Eurozone crisis: A debt shortage as the final cause
Apr 2015
This paper proposes a different interpretation of the Eurozone crisis, seeing as its “final” cause European policies which have forced private savings down too low.
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Working Paper
Conference paperWhat's Wrong With Economics?
Apr 2015
Hubris might well head the list
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Conference Session
The Eurozone Crisis: Fiscal Profligacy Or Capital Flows As Final Causes
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:30—08:00
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Conference Session
Ukraine & The Future of Europe
Apr 10, 2015 | 08:00—08:30
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Conference Session
Durable Inequality and Individual Differences in Capacities and Behavior
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:15—07:45
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Conference Session
Teaching Economics
Apr 10, 2015 | 07:00—08:30
This panel covers the teaching of economics at the university level.
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Conference Session
Finance, Sustainability and the Environment
Apr 10, 2015 | 07:15—08:45
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Conference Session
Economics Curriculum for Activists
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:00—07:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperAusteritarianism in Europe: What Options for Resistance?
Apr 2015
In much of Europe, the social rights and social protections won in the first post-war decades, by labour movements in particular, have subsequently been seriously eroded, and are further threatened by neoliberal austerity.
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Working Paper
Conference paperEmbedding GroupThink
Apr 2015
This memo outlines key concepts and the methodological approach involved in a recently funded Institute for New Economic Thinking project. Our aim is to pinpoint the relationship between the reception of academic ideas, traced by citation networks with qualitative coding, and positions of institutional and political power.
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Working Paper
Conference paperReflexivity, expectations feedback and almost self-fulfilling equilibria: economic theory, empirical evidence and laboratory experiments
Apr 2015
We discuss recent work on bounded rationality and learning in relation to Soros’ principle of reflexivity and stress the empirical importance of non-rational, almost self-fulfilling equilibria in positive feedback systems.
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Working Paper
Conference paperLinking Individual and Community Economic Mobility: The Spatial Foundations of Persistent Inequality in the United States
Apr 2015
Considerable academic and public attention has been drawn to the pulling away of the very rich—the so-called “one percent” whose gains have far outpaced those of everyone else (Piketty 2014). But the debate has reached well beyond the very top, especially in the United States.Indeed, the hollowing out of the middle class, continuing stagnation of wages, and new evidence on the lack of upward mobility across generations all strike at the very heart of the American ideal.
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Working Paper
Conference paperItaly's Crisis: Neither Fiscal Profligacy nor Capital Flows
Apr 2015
Italy was one of the worst hit during the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) among the major advanced economies. By year-end 2009, Italy’s economy had contracted by 6.6 percent; significantly larger than the recessions in the euro zone and the United States, for example, which saw their GDPs shrink by 4.4 and 3.1 percent, respectively.
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Working Paper
Conference paperReviving Debate In Economics: Motivations and Methods of the International Student Movement
Apr 2015
In the past three years, students around the world have turned the heat of scrutiny onto our economics departments. Our call is strikingly uniform across our diverse cultures and languages: we want critical debate back in the economics curriculum.
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Article
Herr Schauble’s Foibles: The Eurozone Rebalancing Conundrum
Apr 10, 2015
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Conference Session
How Did Bad Economics Crowd Out Good Economics? Evidence from Citation Analysis
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:45—08:15
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Working Paper
Conference paperHow Money Drives US Congressional Elections: More Evidence
Apr 2015
“Because many interests come into play in the financing of an election campaign and then they ask you to pay back. So the election campaign should be independent from anyone who may finance it.” - Pope Francis
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Working Paper
Conference paperGordian knot: A panoramic perspective on stemming illicit financial flows from Africa
Apr 2015
Pushing this strand of research brings a certain feeling of trepidation. It comes from recognizing that by openly elaborating on how to catch or deter a criminal, you thereby confer an undue advantage on the criminal through forewarning.
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Working Paper
Conference paperTowards a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Framework
Apr 2015
Initiatives to improve sovereign debt restructuring (“SDR”) began long before recent Argentine bond decisions but were redoubled in the aftermath of these rulings. At first glance, these cases identify problematic contract language that could be rectified by re-drafting critical boilerplate provisions such as the pari passu and collective action clauses (“CAC”).
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe Prince('s) Rules: Economic Theories and Political Struggle in Europe.
Apr 2015
The Cyclically Adjusted Budget (CAB) is the estimated size of the public budget at some previously defined level of output which may represent the ‘normal’ output or a policy target and that usually is considered to be unaffected by business fluctuations or cycles. Such an estimate is supposed to isolate the automatic movements of revenues and expenditures, given the current structure of tax and transfers, from discretionary fiscal interventions and indicate the “impact” and sustainability of fiscal action.
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Working Paper
Conference paperSocial investment for inclusive growth: a Southern European perspective
Apr 2015
Inequality has emerged as a major economic issue: sharp increases in the share of income going to those at the very top of the income distribution, a rising share of income going to profits, stagnant real wages, and a fall in median family income have raised concern over the sustainability of our economies and societies.
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Working Paper
Conference paperCapital Flight from Africa and Development Inequality: Domestic and Global Dimensions
Apr 2015
Over the past decades African economies have exhibited two stunning paradoxes: growth acceleration coexisting with stubbornly high poverty rates; increasing capital flight along with widening development financing gaps. There has been no attempt to link the two in the literature.
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Working Paper
Conference paperGoethe’s Faust and the socioeconomic roots of modern subjectivity
Apr 2015
The modern individual is the point of intersection of the processes of consumption and production. The subjective representation of these processes has been determined by two branches of the modern middle class, the bourgeoisie, which has privileged consumption, and the bureaucracy, which has privileged production.
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Conference paperTwisting the economic tale: what literature can do that political economy can’t
Apr 2015
This paper will address the problem of how we might gain economic understanding from literature. It will look at the aesthetic form of literature as being an efficient vehicle for economic thinking.
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Conference Session
Challenging Economic Injustice Through Literature
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:15—11:45
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Conference Session
Political Institutions & Inequality
Apr 9, 2015 | 11:00—12:30
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Conference Session
The Problem of Capital Flight
Apr 9, 2015 | 11:30—01:00
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Conference Session
Macroeconomic Externalities
Apr 9, 2015 | 12:15—01:45
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Working Paper
Conference paperInformation and Economics: A New Way to Think About Expectations and to Improve Economic Prediction.
Apr 2015
The largely unexpected arrival of the global economic crisis and the largely unpredicted slowness of the recovery from the Great Recession should be precipitating an intellectual crisis across economics and policy making. We require additional theories and additional methods to detect how an economy is evolving and to provide the basis for policy intervention (Haldane, 2014).
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Conference paperTwo Paths to War: The Origins of the First World War versus the Dynamics of Contemporary Sino-American Confrontations
Apr 2015
During the past year, there have been numerous and somber reflections, rather like those during a traditional period of mourning, about the great and tragic events that occurred just 100 years ago – the beginning of the First World War. And in the course of these melancholy reflections about the past, there naturally have arisen anxious concerns about the future.
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Working Paper
Conference paperHow the Planned Perversion of Democracy generated accelerating inequalities
Apr 2015
What is at stake : Increasing doubt over the virtue of democracy. One cannot doubt the ubiquitous lack of confidence and hope in the so-called democratic institutions by a large majority of the people. The fundamental cause is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting the rule and thereby the welfare of the people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in terms of income, standard of living and wealth.
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Conference paperSocial Interaction Models and Keynes' Macroeconomics
Apr 2015
The central concepts of Keynes’ macroeconomic theories concerning the behavior of labor markets, aggregate demand, and asset pricing can be formulated as special cases of a general social interaction model.
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Conference Session
Occupy? Strike? Separatism? Populism? Are Any Of The Historical Forms Of Protest Effective In The Information Age?
Apr 9, 2015 | 07:15—08:45
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Conference Session
Information And Economics: How Should Expectations Be Modeled? What Actually Works?
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:45—12:15
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Conference Session
Northeast Asia: The Balkans of the 21st Century?
Apr 9, 2015 | 09:15—10:45
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Conference Session
Financial Networks, Financial Innovation & Inequality
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:30—12:00
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Conference Session
Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:00—11:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperPerverse and virtuous feedbacks between inequality and innovation: Which role for public institutions and public investment?
Apr 2015
In this paper, we deal with the complex relationship connecting inequality to innovation, and the ways through which public investment, in particular public participation to R&D initiatives, may affect it. We first stress that multiple different equilibria may exist in the inequality-innovation space.
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Working Paper
Conference paperTop incomes and the glass ceiling
Apr 2015
This paper studies the glass ceiling by analyzing the presence of women at the top of the income distribution using tax record data reported for a sample of countries with individual taxation.
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Working Paper
Conference paperBoard Gender Diversity, Audit Fees and Auditor Choice
Apr 2015
Using a sample of U.S. firms spanning 2001-2011, we examine whether female directors (female audit committee members) affect audit quality in terms of audit effort and auditor choice.
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Conference Session
Gender & Inequality: The Glass Ceiling In International Perspective
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:30—08:00
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Conference Session
The New Politics of Central Banking
Apr 9, 2015 | 07:00—08:30
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Conference Session
Stimulating Innovation & Growth
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:45—08:15
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Conference Session
Inequality, Innovation, and Public Investment
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:15—07:45
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Working Paper
Conference paperPseudo-wealth Fluctuations and Aggregate Demand Effects
Apr 2015
This paper presents a theory of pseudo-wealth in a model that displays aggregate demand externalities.
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe New York Times and American Tax Policy: Representing Citizens or Echoing Elites?
Apr 2015
A recent New York Times article observed that Americans want action to address inequality. 2016 presidential candidates from both parties also acknowledge that inequality is a pressing concern. But not one of the candidates has proposed to do anything meaningful about it, sharing wealthy Americans’ (understandable) opposition to any solution (Scheiber 2015). Perhaps nothing has been done because there is nothing to do about it.
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Working Paper
Conference paperLabour in Europe’s crisis.
Apr 2015
A structural transformation is investing labour in Europe, accelerated by the crisis started in 2008. Job destruction is dominating employment trends in most EU countries and deep changes are taking place in labour relations, labour market institutions and wage regimes.
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Conference paperLeveraging the network: a stress-test framework based on DebtRank
Apr 2015
We develop a novel stress-test framework to monitor systemic risk in financial systems. The modular structure of the framework allows to accommodate for a variety of shock scenarios, methods to estimate interbank exposures and mechanisms of distress propagation.
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Conference paperSevering the Innovation-Inequality Link: Distribution Sensitive Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in Developed Nations
Apr 2015
Innovation is essential to economic growth. However, it appears that the ways in which we pursue innovation policies have aggravated inequality. Inequality is an increasingly contentious political issue in both wealthy and emerging economies.
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Working Paper
Conference paperAnarchic East Asia on an American Tether—and Cushion
Apr 2015
“Oh, the Chinese hate the Japanese and the Japanese hate the Chinese—to hate all but the right folks is an old established rule. The Koreans hate the Japanese and the Vietnamese hate the Chinese, and the North Koreans hate them all. Oh, the People hate the Communists and the Communists hate the People. The Nationalists hate the Communists and the Communists hate themselves. The Confucians hate the Buddhists and the Muslims hate them all. All of my folks hate all of your folks. But during National Brotherhood Week, be nice to people who are inferior to you. It’s only for a week, so have no fear—be grateful that it doesn’t last all year.”
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Conference Session
National Strategies, Value Creation, Income Distribution, and the Structure of Careers
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:00—07:30
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Article
Marxian Economics: The Oldest Systems Theory Is New Again (or Always?)
Apr 9, 2015
The best new economic thinking in an age of the dominance of rent-seeking will be Marxian economic thinking
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Article
Learning from Karl Polanyi
Apr 9, 2015
The old political-economic thinking of Karl Polanyi was never properly absorbed into “mainstream” North Atlantic economics: recognizing that land, labor, and finance are not really “commodities” returns institutions and social processes to the center of economic analysis.
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Article
Inequality or Living Standards: Which Matters More?
Apr 9, 2015
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Working Paper
Conference paperIncome Distribution, Rentiers and their Role in a Capitalist Economy: A Keynes-Pasinetti Perspective
Apr 2015
This paper finds its origins in two important developments within mainstream economics since the financial crisis, both of which analyze the economy from the viewpoint of what Schumpeter (1954) referred to as the domain of “real” analysis of a modern market economy in contrast to “monetary” analysis.
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Conference paperCaring Economics
Apr 2015
Caring Economics is about a new way of thinking about human prosperity. In mainstream economics, prosperity is a matter of consumption, income and wealth. By contrast, Caring Economics conceives of prosperity in terms of deeper sources of durable human wellbeing.
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Conference paperFAQs about “GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment”
Apr 2015
The SSGAC is a research infrastructure designed to stimulate dialogue and cooperation between medical researchers and social scientists. The SSGAC facilitates collaborative research that seeks to identify associations between specific genetic markers (segments of DNA) and behavioral traits, such as preferences, personality and social-science outcomes.
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Conference paperThe Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics
Apr 2015
Behavior genetics is the study of the relationship between genetic variation and psychological traits. Turkheimer (2000) proposed “Three Laws of Behavior Genetics” based on empirical regularities observed in studies of twins and other kinships. On the basis of molecular studies that have measured DNA variation directly, we propose a Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics: “A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability.”
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Conference paperCentral banks and distribution
Apr 2015
Income and wealth inequality have been rising in the past three decades. Surprisingly, inequality has been largely ignored in the literature and practice of monetary policy. However, due to the crisis, this question has been gaining more attention.
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Working Paper
Conference paperDistributional Considerations in Climate Change Mitigation: Policy Design as if the Present Generation Matters
Apr 2015
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Conference Session
The Capital Account, Savings Gluts, and Global Imbalances
Apr 8, 2015 | 07:00—07:30
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Conference Session
Budget Deficits, Austerity and Deflation
Apr 8, 2015 | 07:15—07:40
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Conference Session
Central Banks & Distribution
Apr 8, 2015 | 10:00—10:30
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Conference Session
Inequality and Climate Change
Apr 8, 2015 | 10:15—10:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe Value of Political Connections in Fascist Italy — Stock Market Returns and Corporate Networks
Apr 2015
Recent years have witnessed the flourishing of a body of economic literature concerned with the search for empirical evidence of a positive relation between political connections, economic rent and the value of firms. The present paper contributes to the strand of this literature that deals with the quantitative measurement of the value of the political connections of firms.
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Conference paperFinancial Regulation That Might Have a Chance of Working
Apr 2015
Regulation of financial services has been an unmitigated policy disaster.
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Conference paperThe international monetary and financial system: its Achilles heel and what to do about it
Apr 2015
This essay argues that the Achilles heel of the international monetary and financial system is that it amplifies the “excess financial elasticity” of domestic policy regimes, ie it exacerbates their inability to prevent the build-up of financial imbalances, or outsize financial cycles, that lead to serious financial crises and macroeconomic dislocations.