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  1. Conference paper

    Leveraging the network: a stress-test framework based on DebtRank

    By Stefano Battiston, Guido Caldarelli, Marco D'Errico, and Stefano Gurciullo

    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.

  2. Conference paper

    Severing the Innovation-Inequality Link: Distribution Sensitive Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in Developed Nations

    By Amos Zehavi and Dan Breznitz

    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.

  3. National Strategies, Value Creation, Income Distribution, and the Structure of Careers

    Featuring William Lazonick, Mario Pianta, and Marie Carpenter

    Apr 9, 2015 | 06:00—07:30

  4. Inequality or Living Standards: Which Matters More?

    By Max Roser, Brian Nolan, and Stefan Thewissen

    Apr 9, 2015

  5. Conference paper

    Income Distribution, Rentiers and their Role in a Capitalist Economy: A Keynes-Pasinetti Perspective

    By Mario Seccareccia and Marc Lavoie

    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.

  6. The Capital Account, Savings Gluts, and Global Imbalances

    Featuring Claudio Borio, Anton Brender, Florence Pisani, and Hélène Rey

    Apr 8, 2015 | 07:00—07:30

  7. Budget Deficits, Austerity and Deflation

    Featuring Karl Aiginger, Catherine Mann, Richard Portes, and Martin Wolf

    Apr 8, 2015 | 07:15—07:40

  8. Central Banks & Distribution

    Featuring Anthony Blundell-Wignall, Gerald Epstein, and Dominique Plihon

    Apr 8, 2015 | 10:00—10:30

  9. Inequality and Climate Change

    Featuring James K. Boyce, Michael Grubb, and Lucas Chancel

    Apr 8, 2015 | 10:15—10:30

  10. Yanis Varoufakis Interviewed by Joseph Stiglitz

    Featuring Yanis Varoufakis and Joe Stiglitz

    Apr 8, 2015 | 09:15—10:00

  11. History and the Theory Of Income Distribution: Some Perspectives

    Featuring Gerard Dumenil, Tiziana Foresti, Nadia Garbellini, and Ariel Luis Wirkierman

    Apr 8, 2015 | 11:00—11:30

  12. Financial Regulation That Might Have a Chance of Working

    Featuring Edward J. Kane, Gudrun Johnsen, John Kay, and Walker Todd

    Apr 8, 2015 | 10:45—11:15

  13. Motivations, Emotions, Decisions

    Featuring Antonio Damasio, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower, and George Soros

    Apr 8, 2015 | 11:15—12:45

  14. Politics by Other Means? Eurozone Institutions and National Sovereignty in the Bank Bailout Negotiations

    Featuring Patrick Honohan, Yanis Varoufakis, and James K. Galbraith

    Apr 8, 2015 | 06:15—06:45

  15. Analyzing Growth & Inequality in the 21st Century

    Featuring Facundo Alvaredo, Gabriela Ramos, John MCombie, and Lance Taylor

    Apr 8, 2015 | 06:45—07:15