Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism: Catherine Hakim & Ben Southwood 'Women as Economics Victims'
2016-10-26 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Silver Street , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism Free events:
Catherine Hakim & Ben Southwood ‘Women as Economics Victims’
Mill Lane Room 2

Kingston Economic Department Research Seminar Series - Davoud Taghawi-Nejad (University of Oxford) and Willem Spanjers (Kingston University)
2016-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, , KT1 2EE, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2016
Time: 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Venue: JG 4006 (John Galsworthy building)
Price: free
‘Web-Enabled Policy Advice – Modelling the Saudi Arabian Labour Market’ by Davoud Taghawi-Nejad (University of Oxford)
Booking and further information: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/2338/26-oct-2016-economics-research-seminar-with-davoud-taghawinejad-and-willem-spanjers/
Contact: Antoine Godin (A.Godin@kingston.ac.uk)
Abstract: One of Saudi Arabia’s principal problems is unemployment of Saudi nationals, which is, at least partially, caused by the fact that seven million expatriates reside in the country and hold the majority of the available jobs. In order to address this problem we created a data-driven agent-based policy simulator of the Saudi labour market. The purpose of our model was to evaluate Saudi Arabia’s policy options to increase employment of Saudi nationals: taxes on expatriates, quotas, and minimum wages (in general and for expatriates).
The model consists of Saudi and expatriate workers and Firms that hire employees. Firms prefer to hire workers with the best productivity – cost profile, but hire in accordance with the law. Their behaviour has been calibrated with time-series and firm-level data. It is possible to run the simulation with different policies, which influence the firm’s decisions and therefore the simulation outcomes. With the agent-based model we showed the best policy answer for each sector. This model was delivered not only as part of an academic paper but also as a web-enabled policy simulator. Beyond testing and designing policy, the model could also be used to train policymakers’ intuition and understanding of the labour market. In the second half of the talk I will address the use of policy simulators in policy advice and our experience in working with the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Labour in particular.
‘Liquidity Provision, Ambiguous Asset Returns and the Financial Crisis’ by Willem Spanjers (Kingston University)
Abstract: For an economy with dysfunctional intertemporal financial markets the financial sector is modelled as a competitive banking sector offering deposit contracts. In a setting similar to Allen and Gale (1998, [1]) properties of the optimal liquidity provision are analysed for illiquid assets with ambiguous returns. In the context of the model, ambiguity – i.e. incalculable risk – leads to dynamically inconsistent investor behaviour. If the financial sector fails to recognize the presence of ambiguity, unanticipated fundamental crises may occur, which are incorrectly blamed on investors ‘loosing their nerves’ and ‘panicking’.
The basic mechanism of the current financial crisis resembles a banking panic in the presence of ambiguous asset returns. The combination of providing additional liquidity and supporting distressed financial institutions implements the regulatory policy suggested by the model.
A credible commitment to such ‘bail-out policy’ does not create a moral hazard problem. Rather, it implements the second best efficient outcome by discouraging excessive caution. Reducing ambiguity by increasing stability, transparency and predictability – as suggested by ordo-liberalism and the ‘Freiburger Schule’ – enhances ex-ante welfare.
How to find us: The seminar takes place at Penryhn Road Campus (Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 2EE). Public Transport: take train from London Waterloo to Surbiton (20 mins approx.) and walk (15 mins approx.) or buses 71, 281, K2, K3 (5 mins approx.) from Surbiton Station to Kingston University. For further details and driving directions, please go http://www.kingston.ac.uk/aboutkingstonuniversity/location/howtofindus/penrhynroad/

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – Peter Sinclair ‘In Search of Smart Fiscal Policies’
2016-10-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday 19 October 2016
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Peter Sinclair
Talk Title: ‘In Search of Smart Fiscal Policies’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on Wednesday 17 February 2016. Peter Sinclair will give a talk on “In Search of Smart Fiscal Policies”. The seminar will be held in the Ramdsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism: Prof Tony Lawson & Dr Jochen Runde 'Is Economics Predictable?'
2016-10-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Silver Street , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism Free events:
Prof Tony Lawson & Dr Jochen Runde: ‘Is Economics Predictable?’
Mill Lane Room 2

Cambridge Realist Workshop – Tony Lawson 'Central Fallacies of Modern Economics'
2016-10-17 19:30 - 22:00 | Latimer Room, Clare College, Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge
Talk Title: ‘Central Fallacies of Modern Economics’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – Terry Barker ‘Financialisation of the Global Economic System Past, Present and Future@ its Relevance to Austerity Economics’
2016-10-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday 12 October 2016
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Terry Barker
Talk Title: ‘Financialisation of the Global Economic System Past, Present and Future@ its Relevance to Austerity Economics’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the ‘Economics of Austerity’, will be held on Wednesday 12 October 2016. Terry Barker will give a talk on “Financialisation of the Global Economic System Past, Present and Future@ its Relevance to Austerity Economics”. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism: Dr Jason Hickel 'Colonial Legacies: How does Colonialism Shape Today's Development Challenges?'
2016-10-11 17:00 - 18:00
Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism Free events:
Dr Jason Hickel ‘Colonial Legacies: How does Colonialism Shape Today’s Development Challenges?’
Time & Location tbc

'Maynard Keynes in King’s College and the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money' Conference
2016-10-08 09:00 - 18:00 | King’s College
The event will feature remarks from the leading UK and US post-Keynesian scholars Victoria Chick and Paul Davidson. Three presentations will give accounts of post-war policy, contrasting the golden age with the liberalised era, in Germany (by Jörg Bibow), the UK (by myself) and France (by Renaud du Tertre and Hélène de Largentaye).
The event is organised jointly by Hélène de Largentaye and Jean Michel Massing. Hélène graduated in economics from Kings and was the first Secretary General of the Conseil d’analyse economique, founded by the French socialist Prime Minister ( 1997-2002) . Her father translated the General Theory into French in 1939 just before the advent of the Vichy regime which delayed the publication until 1942. Hélène will tell this fascinating story with Ghislain Deleplace, and Harald Hagemann will discuss the German translation (1936) .
Jean Michel has also organised morning sessions around Keynes’s wider interests, in particular his art collection and his book collection.
The full programme and further information about the event can be found here: www.kingsmembers.org/KeynesConference.
Last registration is 23 September 2016.

Empirical models of the UK economy Seminar
2016-10-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, , KT1 2EE, United Kingdom
This event is part of the Economic Department Research Seminar Series.
The seminar is free of charge but booking is essential to attend the event.
Presentations will include:
Ken Coutts and Graham Gudgin will deliver a paper entitled ‘An Empirical Keynesian Stock-Flow Consistent Model of the UK Economy with application to the post-referendum economy’.
Antoine Godin will deliver a paper entitled ‘A dynamic model of financial balances for the United Kingdom’.

An Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics and Political Economy
2016-07-14 09:00 - 2016-07-16 17:00 | Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, , KT1 2EE, United Kingdom
PKSG, PERG Kingston and KU Rethinking Economics are organising a workshop on the ‘Introduction to Post Keynesian Econommics and Political Economy’. The workshop is aimed at students of economics and social sciences. As the aim of Post Keynesian Economics and Political Economy ultimately is to provide the foundation for progressive economic policies, it may also be of interest for a broader audience.
The workshop will take place at Kingston University, in the John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, KT1 2EE.
To register for the event please go to the Booking Webpage.
For further infromation about the workshop see: http://www.postkeynesian.net/kingston16.html

Cities in Transformation: Processes, Problems and Policies
2016-07-14 09:00 - 2016-07-15 17:00 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Major cities are facing an unprecedented set of economic, social and environmental challenges. There is mounting evidence that cities are demonstrating very different capacities to adapt, cope with, and respond to such challenges and this is leading to diverse and unpredictable outcomes. The aim of this conference is to examine the different experiences of cities as they transform. The first part of the conference (morning of Thursday 14 July), will give an overview of cities in transformation in various parts of the world (e.g. United Kingdom, Germany, United States, China). The afternoon of Thursday 14 July will then be dedicated to a discussion of the implications for policies to address spatially unbalanced growth among the cities. The sessions on Friday 15 July are reserved for particular aspects of urban transformation and resilience (e.g. role of institutions, implications of new technologies, consequences of austerity, possibilities offered by big data and smart city technologies, etc.).

40 years of the Cambridge Journal of Economics
2016-07-12 09:00 - 2016-07-13 18:00 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
A conference is being held to mark the first forty years of the Cambridge Journal of Economics and look ahead to the next forty. The conference will be held on 12-13 July 2016 at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

The General Theory and Victoria Chick at 80
2016-07-11 09:00 - 19:00 | University College London
A celebration conference of ‘The General Theory and Victoria Chick at 80’. The conference is being organised in collaboration with The Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group and the Association for Heterodox Economics to celebrate and reflect on the lasting contributions of The General Theory and Victoria Chick to macroeconomics. The event will take place at Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London on Monday 11 July, including a party with buffet supper in the evening.
The programme and registration details can be found at https://www.postkeynesian.net/events/general-theory-chick-at-80/.
Please register by 24 June at the latest.

Association for Heterodox Economics - 18th Annual Conference
2016-07-07 09:00 - 2016-07-09 18:00
This will be the 18th Annual Conference for the Association for Heterodox Economics. The conference will run Thursday 7th – Saturday 9th July and be held in the University of Glasgow. The theme for the conference is ‘Alternatives to Austerity’.

PKSG 26th Annual Workshop
2016-06-10 09:00 - 18:00 | University of Greenwich, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS, United Kingdom
This is the 26th annual workshop of the Post Keynesian Study Group (PKSG).
Speakers at the workshop include: Alberto Botta, Ken Coutts, Giovanni Cozzi, Simon Deakin, Antoine Godin, Graham Gudgin, Mark Hayes, Annina Kaltenbrunner, Ewa Karwowski and Ann Pettifor.
The workshop programme can be found at: http://www.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/1183151/program-AWS-2016.pdf
The workshop will be held at the University of Greenwich, in Room QA080.
The workshop is free of charge. PKSG will provide coffee from 9.15 and in the afternoon break.
If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to: M.Nikolaidi@greenwich.ac.uk.
Papers will be made available on the PKSG webpage (http://www.postkeynesian.net/) one week prior to the workshop.
The PKSG is also organising its 8th Annual PhD Student Conference on 9 June 2016, 9am-7pm. For more info see here: http://www.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/1157211/PhD-Student-Conference-pksg.pdf.

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – Speaker: Paul De Grauwe
2016-05-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 4 May 2016 – Paul De Grauwe will give a talk on ‘’Flexibility versus Stability. A Difficult Trade off in the Euro Area’’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome.

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – Speaker: Richard Murphy
2016-04-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 20 April 2016 – Richard Murphy will give a talk on ‘’Will austerity work?’’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome.

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – Speaker: Ozlem Onaran
2016-03-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 9 March 2016 – Ozlem Onaran will give a talk on ‘’A policy mix of equality-led development and public investment’’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome.

CSEP - Speaker: Lord Eatwell and Lord Wilson
2016-03-09 17:30 - 18:30 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The talk by Lord Eatwell and Lord Wilson entitled ‘HAS BRITISH POLITICS BEEN REPLACED BY ECONOMICS?’ will take place in The McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam College Arrol Adam Lectures - Speaker: Dr Ha-Joon Chang
2016-03-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Fitzwilliam College, Fitzwilliam College, Storey's Way,, Cambridge, CB3 0DG, United Kingdom
As part of the Fitzwilliam College Arrol Adam Lectures ‘The Problem with Economics’, Dr Ha-Joon Chang will be speaking on “”Neoliberalism: the theory and the empirics””. The lecture will take place in the Upper Hall in Fitzwilliam College.
Please click HERE to book your place.

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – Speaker: Anastasia Nesvetailova
2016-02-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 24 February 2016 – Anastasia Nesvetailova will give a talk on “Shadow Banking and Financial Innovation: in Search of a Theory’’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome.

CSEP - Speakers: Dr. Michael Kumhof & Professor Jagjit Chadha
2016-02-24 17:30 - 18:30 | Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Silver Street , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
This talk entitled ‘WHAT ROLE DOES THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM HAVE IN ECONOMIC THINKING ?’ will take place in Mill Lane Room 4.

Cambridge Realist Workshop - Speaker: Andy Brown
2016-02-22 19:30 - 22:00 | Latimer Room, Clare College, Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Talk Title: ‘The Nature of Value and Money’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.

Fitzwilliam College Arrol Adam Lectures - Speaker: Prof Coen Teulings
2016-02-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Fitzwilliam College, Fitzwilliam College, Storey's Way,, Cambridge, CB3 0DG, United Kingdom
As part of the Fitzwilliam College Arrol Adam Lectures ‘The Problem with Economics’, Professor Coen Teulings will be speaking on “Secular stagnation, the introduction of the pill, and house prices”. The lecture will take place in the Upper Hall in Fitzwilliam College.
Please click HERE to book your place.

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – Speaker: Michelle Baddeley
2016-02-17 06:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 17 February 2016 – Michelle Baddeley will give a talk on ‘’Convergence, Divergence and Migration in an Age of Austerity’’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome.

CSEP - Speaker: Andy Haldane
2016-02-16 17:30 - 18:30 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The talk by Andy Haldane entitled ‘A CONVERSATION WITH THE CHIEF ECONOMIST AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND’ will take place in the McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College Cambridge.

CSEP - Speaker: Dr Sriya Iyer
2016-02-09 17:30 - 18:30 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The talk by Dr Sriya Iyer entitled ‘THE NEW ECONOMICS OF RELIGION’ will take place in the McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

Cambridge Realist Workshop - Speaker: Jamie Morgan
2016-02-08 19:30 - 22:00 | Latimer Room, Clare College, Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Talk Title: ‘What is Neoclassical Economics?’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Speaker: Ann Pettifor
2016-02-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 3 February 2016 – Ann Pettifor will give a talk on ‘’Challenging the Ideology of Austerity’’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome.

CSEP - Speaker: Prof. Ricardo Reis, Dr. Angus Armstrong and Prof. Wouter den Haan
2016-02-03 17:30 - 19:30 | Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Silver Street , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
The talk by Professor Ricardo Reis, Dr. Angus Armstrong and Professor Wouter den Haan entitled ‘THE FUTURE OF THE EURO’ will take place in Mill Lane Room 2.
