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  1. Conference paper

    Social Interaction Models and Keynes' Macroeconomics

    By Duncan Foley

    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.

  2. Occupy? Strike? Separatism? Populism? Are Any Of The Historical Forms Of Protest Effective In The Information Age?

    Featuring Andrea Fumagalli, Daniel Chomsky, and Richard Hyman

    Apr 9, 2015 | 07:15—08:45

  3. Information And Economics: How Should Expectations Be Modeled? What Actually Works?

    Featuring Duncan Foley, Michael Goldberg, and David Tuckett

    Apr 9, 2015 | 10:45—12:15

  4. Northeast Asia: The Balkans of the 21st Century?

    Featuring Bruce Cumings, Andrew Sheng, and James Kurth

    Apr 9, 2015 | 09:15—10:45

  5. Financial Networks, Financial Innovation & Inequality

    Featuring Stefano Battiston and Co-Pierre Georg

    Apr 9, 2015 | 10:30—12:00

  6. Sovereign Debt Restructuring

    Featuring Martin Guzman, Joe Stiglitz, and Richard Conn

    Apr 9, 2015 | 10:00—11:30

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    Perverse and virtuous feedbacks between inequality and innovation: Which role for public institutions and public investment?

    By Alberto Botta

    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.

  8. Conference paper

    Top incomes and the glass ceiling

    By Tony Atkinson, Alessandra Casarico, Sarah Voitchovsky, Facundo Alvaredo, Jorgen Modalsli, and Jakob Søgaard

    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.

  9. Conference paper

    Board Gender Diversity, Audit Fees and Auditor Choice

    By Judy Tsui

    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.

  10. Gender & Inequality: The Glass Ceiling In International Perspective

    Featuring Alessandra Casarico, Monika Queisser, Judy Tsui, and Sarah Voitchovsky

    Apr 9, 2015 | 06:30—08:00

  11. The New Politics of Central Banking

    Featuring Perry G. Mehrling, Andrew Sheng, and Adair Turner

    Apr 9, 2015 | 07:00—08:30

  12. Stimulating Innovation & Growth

    Featuring James Balsillie, Dan Breznitz, and Andrew Wyckoff

    Apr 9, 2015 | 06:45—08:15

  13. Inequality, Innovation, and Public Investment

    Featuring Alberto Botta and Annamaria Simonazzi

    Apr 9, 2015 | 06:15—07:45

  14. Conference paper

    Pseudo-wealth Fluctuations and Aggregate Demand Effects

    By Martin Guzman and Joe Stiglitz

    Apr 2015

    This paper presents a theory of pseudo-wealth in a model that displays aggregate demand externalities.

  15. Conference paper

    Labour in Europe’s crisis.

    By Mario Pianta

    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.