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2003
- December 4: Gerard Dumenil presented an Economics Department seminar on "Neoliberalism and Neoimperialism." Gerard Dumenil has worked extensively with Dominique Levy on the political economy of contemporary capitalism from a Marxist standpoint. Their 1993 book, The Economics of the Profit Rate, is an excellent summary of contemporary theory and evidence on the profit rate. Dumenil and Levy's papers can be accessed through their web page: http://www.cepremap.ens.fr/levy
- December 1: Nicoli Mattrassi (University of Capetown) presented an Economics Department seminar on "The Economics of AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Africa." (This event was co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science)
- November 5: Heidi Hartman and Stephen Rose (Institute for Women's Policy Research) presented to the CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy.
- November 5: Josh Bivens (Economic Policy Institute) gave a talk on "Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Using Temporary Import Tariffs to Unwind the U.S. Current Account Deficit and Endow a Public Fund for Global Public Goods" for the CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy.
- October 27: Bob Pollin (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) gave a talk on "Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: Was Greenspan Right about 'Traumatized Workers' in the 1990s?" (This event was co-sponsored by the Economics Department Seminar series and the CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy.)
- October 21: Jörg Bilbow gave a talk on "Pushing Germany Off the Cliff Edge—Spreading the 'German Disease'" for the CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy.
- October 20: Joseph Stiglitz presented an Economics Department seminar on his most recent book "The Roaring Nineties."
- October 15: Amit Bhaduri gave a talk on "An Alternative Approach to the Theory of Endogenous Growth" for the CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy.
- October 8: Jörg Huffschmid (University of Bremen) gave a talk on "Economic Policy Obstacles to Full Employment and Social Cohesion in Europe" and "Better Institutions, Rules and Tools for Full Employment and Social Welfare in Europe" for the CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy.
- September 17: Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame) gave a talk on "The Scientific Dimensions of Social Knowledge and their Distant Echoes in 20th century American Philosophy of Science" for the CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy.
- September 1: CEPA events for Fall 2003 posted.
- June: New working papers added. Lance Taylor and Codrina Rada (CEPA), Debt Equity Cycles in the Twentieth Century, and Can the Poor Countries Catch Up? Sources of Growth Accounting Gives Weak convergence for the Early 21st Century. Korkut Erturk (University of Utah) On the Changing Nature of Currency Crises. Nelson H. Barbosa-Filho and Lance Taylor (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and CEPA) Distributive and Demand Cycles in the US Economy—A Structuralist Goodwin Model.
- May: David Gordon Award recipients announced. Winners are: Ramaa Vasudevan, Trade and Accumulation: Disequilibrium Dynamics in a Classical-Harrodian Model; Massimiliano La Marca, Uncovered Interest Parity and Exchange Rate Dynamics in an Adaptive Learning Framework; Christopher Malikane, The Long Run Phillips Curve; Diego Senchez-Ancochea, Globalization and Inequality in the Developing World: Potential Benefits with Real Costs.
- April 22: "What Went Wrong?", by Paul Krugman, the 2003 Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture.
- April 18: Conference: Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade, an event of the Program on Markets, Equality and Democracy.
- February 1: CEPA events for Spring 2003 posted; Sara Burke appointed new webmaster for CEPA.
- January 21: The CEPA mailing
list was moved to a new server.
2002
- December 16: The last workshop of the Fall semester
was held today. CEPA events in the Spring
semester will be announced in January.
- November 27: list of events
at CEPA updated, seminar on December 3 added.
- November 25: Program for conference
on Nov. 22-23 updated; all papers that were presented are now online.
- November 8: New working
paper added: Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research),
Andrew Glyn (Oxford University), David Howell (New School University),
and John Schmitt (Economic Policy Institute). Labor Market Institutions
and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence.
CEPA Working Paper 2002-17.
- November 6: List of CEPA
events updated: "Monetary Policy and the Labor Market in the
U.S., the Euro-area and Japan: A Conference in Honor of James Tobin"
added. - Conference Program.
- November 4: New working
paper added: Edgar Pardo-Beltrán (New School for Social Research
and Universidad Externado de Colombia). Effects of Income Distribution
on Growth. CEPA Working Paper 2002-16.
- November 4: List of CEPA
events updated.
- November 1: List of CEPA
events updated: Economics Department Seminar on November 9 added.
- October 28: Chris Rude is the new Assistant Director
of CEPA. He succeeds Janine Berg, who joins the International Labor
Organization (ILO) in Geneva.
- October 17: List of people
at CEPA updated.
- October 12: List of CEPA
events updated.
- October 3: List of CEPA
events updated: workshop on November 11 added.
- September 27: List of CEPA
events updated: workshop on October 14 added.
- September 26: Revised working
paper added: Giammario Impullitti and C. Matthias Rebmann (New School
University). An Agent-Based Model of Wealth Distribution. CEPA
Working Paper 2002-15.
- September 19: List of CEPA
events updated: Dissertation workshops added.
- September 19: New working
paper added: Giammario Impullitti and C. Matthias Rebmann (New School
University). An Agent-Based Model of Wealth Distribution. CEPA
Working Paper 2002-15.
- September 13: List of CEPA
events updated: More Economics Department Seminars added.
- September 13: Site map updated.
- September 11: List of CEPA
events updated: Economics Department Seminars announced.
- September 9: List of CEPA
events updated: Presentation by Robert Brenner (UCLA) on September
10 added.
- September 5: List of people
at CEPA updated.
- September 4: CEPA mailing list announced.
- September 3: CEPA events
for Fall 2002 posted.
- August 23: List of former
CEPA staff updated.
- August 19: Research resources
at CEPA updated.
- August 13: New working paper
added: Günseli Berik (University of Utah), Yana van der Meulen
Rodgers (College of William and Mary), and Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr. (Asian
Development Bank). Does Trade Promote Gender Wage Equity? Evidence
from East Asia. CEPA Working Paper 2002-14.
- August 13: New working paper
added: Elissa Braunstein and Gerald Epstein (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst). Bargaining Power and Foreign Direct Investment in China:
Can 1.3 Billion Consumers Tame the Multinationals? CEPA Working
Paper 2002-13.
- August 13: New working paper
added: Asad Sayeed (Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research)
and Radhika Balakrishnan (Marymount Manhattan College). Why Do Firms
Disintegrate? Towards an Understanding of the Firm Level Decision to
Sub-Contract and Its Impact on Labor. CEPA Working Paper
2002-12.
- August 13: New working paper
added: Ipek Ilkaracan (New School for Social Research) and Raziye Selim
(Istanbul Technical University). The Role of Unemployment in Wage
Determination: Further Evidence on the Wage Curve from Turkey.
CEPA Working Paper 2002-11.
- August 13: New working paper
added: Janine Berg (CEPA) and Dante Contreras (Universidad de Chile).
Political-Economic Regime and the Wage Curve: Evidence from Chile,
1957-96. CEPA Working Paper 2002-10.
- August 10: New working paper
added: Susan K. Schroeder (New School University and University of Bremen):
A Minskian Analysis of Financial Crisis in Developing Countries.
CEPA Working Paper 2002-09.
- July 1: Janine Berg is the new Assistant Director of
CEPA. She replaces Nelson Barbosa, who will work in Brazil. List of
people at CEPA updated.
- June 19: New working paper
added: Matthew J. Slaughter (Dartmouth College and NBER): Does Inward
Foreign Direct Investment Contribute to Skill Upgrading in Developing
Countries? CEPA Working Paper 2002-08.
- May 16: List of events
updated. On Thursday, May 30, at 8 p.m., C-Span will broadcast the first
event in the Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture
Series: "The world economy after the U.S. recession: Bob Kerrey
interviews Robert Rubin and Stanley Fischer." The program was taped
on April 30, 2002, at New School University.
- May 4: New working
paper added: Christy Huebner Caridi (New School University): Keynes'
Inactive Balances, the Banking Sector and Effective Demand.
CEPA Working Paper 2002-07.
- May 4: Revised working
paper added: John Schmitt (Economic Policy Institute) and Jonathan
Wadsworth (London School of Economics): "Is the OECD Jobs Strategy
Behind US and British Employment and Unemployment Success in the 1990s?"
CEPA Working Paper 2002-06.
- May 4: Revised working
paper added: Lance Taylor (CEPA): Exchange rate indeterminacy
in portfolio balance, Mundell-Fleming, and uncovered interest rate parity
models. CEPA Working Paper 2000-21.
- May 4: Recipients of David
Gordon Award announced.
- February 28: The seminar with Ray Fair, scheduled for
March 4, has been postponed to a later date. Instead, the economics
department's Dissertation Workshop will meet (see events
at CEPA).
- February 26: List of events
at CEPA updated: Workshop on Markets, Equality
and Democracy revised.
- February 18: New research
project added: Bernard Schwartz Project on Markets, Equality
and Democracy.
- February 15: List of events
at CEPA updated: Conference on Labor and the Globalization of
Production added.
- February 15: David Gordon
Award for Students' Papers in Economics announced. The deadline
for submitting papers for the 2001-02 academic year is March 25, 2002.
- February 15: New research
project added: Liberalization and Employment Performance in the
OECD.
- February 15: New research
project added: Enhancing Market Transparency and the Financial
Risk Management Function.
- February 15: Revised working
paper added: Lance Taylor (CEPA): Exchange rate indeterminacy
in portfolio balance, Mundell-Fleming, and uncovered interest rate parity
models (CEPA Working Paper 2000-21).
- February 13: List of events
at CEPA updated: Workshop on Markets, Equality and Democracy
added.
- February 9: List of events
at CEPA updated: Workshop on Economic Modeling and Econometrics
added.
- February 6: List of events
at CEPA updated.
- February 5: Events at CEPA
for spring 2002 posted.
- February 5: List of people
at CEPA updated (now with biographical information) and list of
former CEPA staff added.
- January 18: New working
paper added: John Schmitt (Economic Policy Institute) and Jonathan
Wadsworth (London School of Economics): "Is the OECD Jobs Strategy
Behind US and British Employment and Unemployment Success in the 1990s?"
(CEPA Working Paper 2002-06).
- January 18: New working
paper added: Ronald Schettkat (Utrecht University): Regulation
in the Dutch and German Economies at the Root of Unemployment? (CEPA
Working Paper 2002-05).
- January 18: New working
paper added: Peter Plougmann (Oxford Insight) and Per Kongshøj
Madsen (University of Copenhagen): Flexibility, Employment Development
and Active Labour Market Policy in Denmark and Sweden in the 1990s
(CEPA Working Paper 2002-04).
- January 18: New working
paper added: Andrew Glyn (Corpus Christi College): Labour Market
Success and Labour Market Reform: Lessons from Ireland and New Zealand
(CEPA Working Paper 2002-03).
- January 18: New working
paper added: Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente (University
of Salamanca): Spain and the Neoliberal Paradigm (CEPA Working
Paper 2002-02).
- January 18: New working
paper added: David R. Howell (CEPA): Increasing Earnings Inequality
and Unemployment in Developed Countries: Markets, Institutions and the
'Unified Theory' (CEPA Working Paper 2002-01).
- January 10: Revised working
paper by Nelson H. Barbosa Filho (CEPA) uploaded: The Balance-of-Payments
Constraint: From Balanced Trade to Sustainable Debt (CEPA Working
Paper 2001-06).
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