Inequality & Distribution
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The Problem of Capital Flight
Apr 9, 2015 | 11:30—01:00
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Macroeconomic Externalities
Apr 9, 2015 | 12:15—01:45
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Conference paper
Information 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 paper
Two 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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Conference paper
How 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 paper
Social 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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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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Information And Economics: How Should Expectations Be Modeled? What Actually Works?
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:45—12:15
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Northeast Asia: The Balkans of the 21st Century?
Apr 9, 2015 | 09:15—10:45
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Financial Networks, Financial Innovation & Inequality
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:30—12:00
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Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:00—11:30
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Conference paper
Perverse 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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Conference paper
Top 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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Conference paper
Board 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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Gender & Inequality: The Glass Ceiling In International Perspective
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:30—08:00