Government & Politics
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Markets, Speculation and the State
William Janeway’s Far-Ranging Seminar on Fundamental Debates in Innovation and Finance
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After the Crisis
Many thought the financial crash was a final blow to capitalsim. Why does it still reign supreme? Anatole Kaletsky outlines the shape of things to come.
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Political Economy of Distribution
Inequality and distribution—areas underserved by mainstream economics—sit at the heart of The Institute’s work. This program brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to develop alternative approaches to the problem of inequality.
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Commission on Global Economic Transformation
Chaired by Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, INET has assembled a global team of leaders and scholars calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy
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Years granted:
2015
Economic Policy and the Performativity of Economic Models: Looking at the Intersection between Theory and Policy
This research project aims at analyzing the role of economic models in economic policy-making. Specifically, we investigate the impact of CGE models, related to the TTIP debate, and potential output models, related to fiscal policy in the EU, on politicial decision-making and public debate.
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Years granted:
2015
Collective and Cumulative Careers: Foundations for Sustainable Prosperity
This research project posits that increasing income concentration and erosion of the middle class are interrelated results of a change in the dominant corporate resource-allocation regime from “retain-and-reinvest” to “downsize-and-distribute,” manifested by massive distributions to shareholders and the disappearance of “collective and cumulative” careers.
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Years granted:
2015
Central Banks, Crises, and Income Distribution
This research project studies the evolution of monetary policy since the financial crisis, as regards to changes in implementation mechanisms and use of conventional/unconventional instruments of monetary policy, as well as its mpact on macroeconomic variables, including income distribution.
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Years granted:
2015
Distributional National Accounts
The objective of this proposal is to build distributional statistics of income and wealth consistent with national accounts aggregates for the United States.
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Years granted:
2015
Transport Infrastructure, Long-Run Development, and Policy: Evidence from England and Wales, c.1817 to 2011
This research project will study the long-run interactions between transport infrastructure and economic development using spatially-disaggregated data for England and Wales over the period c.1817—2011. It will look to inform policy toward large investments in physical infrastructures.
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Years granted:
2015
Income Distribution, Asset Prices, and Aggregate Demand Formation, 1850-2010: A Post-Keynesian Approach to Historical Macroeconomic Data
This research project uses macroeconomic data going back to the mid-19th century to analyze issues such as the relation between income distribution and economic growth; and how debt, asset prices, and growth moved together the last 160 years.
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Years granted:
2015
Financial Innovation and Central Banking in China: a Money View
This research project develops a “Money View” analysis of the recent evolution of China’s financial system.
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Years granted:
2015
Causal Analysis in Economics: Philosophical Underpinnings and Econometric Tools for Non-Standard Settings
This research project addresses the problem of inferring causal relationships in economics. It investigates the philosophical roots of the problem and develops econometric tools which take into account the complexity of economic systems.
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Non-bank lending and the credit cycle: what are the risks?
Jun 21, 2019 |
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Outlook Session: How much debt is too much?
Jun 21, 2019 |
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The Real High Income Trap: Political Money, Political Establishments and Power
Oct 23, 2017 | 09:30
Not just an American dilemma: is political money in dual economies the biggest problem of all?