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2023

7th September: Austerity and Deprivation: A Day of Discussion

9:30am - 5pm, Stockwell Street Building 11_0004, Greenwich Campus

Deprivation and poverty are a blight on society, which the cost-of-living crisis and return to austerity will only exacerbate. In this one-day conference, Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Harry Konstantinidis (UMass Boston), Victoria Stadheim (University of Winchester) and others, will discuss the intersection between austerity and deprivation in the UK and across Europe. The day's discussion will start at 9.30 and finish at 17.00, with refreshments provided. The event is supported by the Association for Social Economics and Review of Social Economy, and will engage in a wide-ranging interrogation of the effects of, and alternatives to, austerity.


21 - 23 June: 12th Post-Keynesian Economics Society Summer School

Greenwich Campus

The 12th annual PKES summer school on post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy is back with a renewed focus. Spend three days discussing topics in heterodox economics with leading economists and a group of peers with likeminded research interests. This year’s summer school offers a topics-based introduction to post-Keynesian economics and Political Economy, including: growth and distribution, fiscal policy and austerity, ecological and environmental macroeconomics, money and finance, development, feminist economics, income distribution, and current debates around inflation and the cost of living crisis. Please find the programme here.

The school is aimed at undergraduate students and is an ideal basis for those wishing to continue postgraduate study on the aforementioned topics. We will however also consider applications from postgraduate students. The summer school will be held from 21 to 23 June 2023 at the University of Greenwich’s fantastic campus in London.

Registration is open and places are available, with and without accommodation, prices start at £35. There is a limited number of spaces which will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Members of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society pay a reduced fee. Membership for students is £10/year and includes online access to all issues of European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention and Review of Keynesian Economics. Further benefits and info about PKES membership can be found here: https://www.postkeynesian.net/membership/ .

The summer school is jointly organised by the Post-Keynesian Economic Society and the Institute of Political Economy Governance Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich. We would like to thank the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust and PEGFA for their generous financial support.

If you have any questions regarding the summer school please get in touch with a member of the organising committee:


20 June: Ukraine’s (post)War Economy: Sustainability, International Relations, and EU Integration

6pm - 8pm in Room QA280, Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Park Row, SE10 9LS, London

Organised by the Greenwich Business School (GBS), University of Greenwich (UoG) Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) in collaboration with FEPS and LSE:

Public roundtable and Europe and the war in Ukraine: From Russian aggression to a new eastern policy (FEPS) Book launch

The Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 shook the world and has caused immense suffering and destruction in the invaded country. Aggravating the damage caused since the invasion of 2014, adding to the pre-existing economic problems, pandemic socio-economic damages, the war drags on and with it grows the scope of destruction of human life, livelihoods, and future prospects. How does Ukraine link building an economy to secure victory in the war with long-term goal of sustainable development and strengthening the resiliency of its democracy? How can its EU candidate status be leveraged by Ukrainian opponents of neoliberal frameworks and policies? The economic reform and their nature and the role of the EU do and will play a crucial role in determining the shape of Ukraine to come. The new important volume published by FEPS aims to answer many of those fundamental questions. As the London Ukraine Recovery conference is upon us, we will build on the book and beyond in the discussion of Ukraine’s losses, prospects, proposals on the table and those that are lacking. Whither Ukraine and/in Europe? Our roundtable will aim to deliver some crucial answers and set out trajectories for the future. Please find more information about the book here.

SPEAKERS:

Uwe Optenhögel is the Vice President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies.

Tasha Lomonosova is a Senior Policy Advisor at Cedos and member of the Social Movement/Sotsialny Rukh, UA

Yuliya Yurchenko is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Greenwich.

Edward Knudsen is a Doctoral Researcher in International Relations at the University of Oxford.

Luke Cooper is Director of PeaceRep's Ukraine programme at the LSE.

Bohdan Ferens is the Founder of the Social-Democratic SD Platform of Ukraine.

With an introduction by PEGFA co-director, Prof Ozlem Onaran

This will be a hybrid event with options for both online and in-person attendance. Admission is free, but please register here.

Please find the event leaflet with further information here.


15 June: Was Robert Gibrat right? Presentation by Marco Vivarelli

5pm - 7pm

QA280, Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, SE10 9LS, London

The Centre for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability invites you to Visiting Scholar Marco Vivarelli's presentation Was Robert Gibrat right? A test based on the graphical model methodology.

Please find the abstract here:

Using both regression analysis and an unsupervised graphical model approach (never applied before to this issue), we confirm the rejection of the Gibrat’s law when our firm-level data are considered over the entire investigated period, while the opposite is true when we allow for market selection. Indeed, the growth behavior of the re-shaped (smaller) population of the survived most efficient firms is in line with the Law of Proportionate Effect; this evidence reconciles early and current literature testing Gibrat’s law and may have interesting implications in terms of both applied and theoretical research.

Marco Vivarelli is affiliated with the Department of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano; IZA, Bonn and UNU-MERIT, Maastricht.


10 June: Progressive Economics 2023

full-day event from 9am-6.30pm

University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD

The Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) and the University of Greenwich research Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability bring you Progressive Economics 2023 – a conference of debate and education at a vital moment in the UK to debate the policies to tackle the alarming economic challenges of austerity, inequalities, Brexit, Covid-19, cost-of-living crisis, global supply problems, the war in Ukraine, care crisis and environmental collapse. What are the solutions and how to persuade the policy makers to implement them? There will be panels on green caring just transition, inequalities, cost-of-living crisis, economics of the commons, Brexit, fiscal policy, monetary policy, industrial policy and macroeconomic policy coordination with MPs, academics, and researchers from think-tanks and civil society organisations.

Speakers include John McDonnell MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Lord Robert Skidelsky, Patrick Allen (PEF), Ann Pettifor (Prime), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Banco Central de Chile), Carys Roberts (IPPR), Rebekah Diski (NEF), Molly Scott Cato (Green Party, Economy Spokesperson and University of Roehampton), Faiza Shaheen (PEF), Will Hutton (The Observer), Peter Holmes (Trade Policy Observatory), Geoff Tily (TUC), Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Michael Jacobs (University of Sheffield), Guy Standing (SOAS), Susan Himmelweit (Open University), Özlem Onaran (University of Greenwich), Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich), Stewart Lansley (University of Bristol), James Meadway (PEF), Fran Witt (Recourse), Mehmet Ugur (University of Greenwich), Jo Michell (UWE Bristol), David Barmes (Positive Money), Gerhard Schneider (Loughborough University), Lorena Lombardozzi (Open University), Katie Kedward (UCL), Shreya Nanda (Social Market Foundation), Jan Toporowski (SOAS), Rob Calvert Jump (University of Greenwich), Janet Williamson (TUC), Ben Tippet (University of Greenwich), and Alex Guschanski (University of Greenwich), among others.

Please find the programme of the conference here. More information about our wonderful speakers can be found here.

The venue of this conference is 10 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD, rooms 11_0003 and 11_0004 (ground floor) and Stephen Lawrence Building room SL101 (building no. 6 on the map). A campus map can be found here.

The recordings of the highly successful Progressive Economics 2022 conference with 500 delegates are here.


5 - 9 June: Beyond The Optimising Agent - Summer School in Advanced Methods for Economics and Political Economy

This summer school provides advanced training in methods for Economics and Political Economy with practical applications. It focusses on theoretical and empirical methods beyond constrained optimisation that capture features such as uncertainty, instability, complexity, institutions, and historical change. In this way, the school provides methods that receive less attention in standard economics programmes but are essential to analyse real-world issues such as financial cycles, climate change, income and wealth inequality, and much more. Please see the Call for Applications, including the programme, here.

What will be covered?

The school covers both analytical foundations in the form of lectures as well as applications in the form of hands-on computer-lab exercises and interactive group work. A variety of different methods are introduced, both quantitative and qualitative (see programme below). Concrete applications illustrate how participants can apply these methods in their own research.

Who can participate?

The summer school is targeted at PhD students (or PGRs) and Early Career Researchers (up to 3 years since completion of PhD). In exceptional cases, we will also consider applications from postgraduate students.

Organising Team and Support

The summer school is jointly organised by the Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich and the Department of Economics at the University of Leeds. We are grateful for financial support from the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

Coordinator Greenwich: Rafael Wildauer (r.wildauer@gre.ac.uk)

Coordinator Leeds: Karsten Kohler (k.kohler@leeds.ac.uk)

How to apply

Send a CV and a 1-page motivation letter (covering, e.g., research interests / PhD topic, supervisors if applicable, methods used, and how you would benefit from attending) to beyondoptimization@gmail.com. We will notify successful candidates by 12 April 2023.

Costs

  • Participation fee with accommodation (5 nights, Avery Hill Campus): GBP 150
  • Participation fee without accommodation: GBP 80
  • Lunch and coffee will be provided.

Tickets with accommodation include a room in the student accommodation at Avery Hill Campus, including breakfast. Each room includes a single bed, desk and a sink. Toilets and showers are separate but shared between 5 rooms which also share a communal kitchen. Avery Hill campus is a 40min bus ride away from Greenwich Campus, where all sessions will take place. See details about Avery Hill Campus here.

Deadlines

  • Application deadline: 5 April
  • Acceptance notification: 12 April
  • Registration and payment: 30 April

25 May: Public investment in the green and care economy for a sustainable caring just transition

The employment effects of public investment in infrastructure, the care economy and the green economy: the case of emerging economies

organised by the Greenwich Business School (GBS), University of Greenwich (UoG) 

Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA)

in collaboration with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

25 May 2023, 16:00-20:00

Hybrid event.

University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Building Room QA080, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS, UK

We would like to invite you to this conference where we will present the results of a new ITUC report conducted by Özlem Onaran and Cem Oyvat at the University of Greenwich on the employment effects of public investment in infrastructure, the care economy and the green economy in the emerging economies. The report shows that a repeated annual increase in public spending within these three sectors would yield major economic returns across eight countries and create substantial new employment for a green caring just transition in the emerging economies and beyond.

The speakers include Evelyn Astor (ITUC), Ronald Janssen (TUAC/OECD), David Kucera (ILO), Boitumelo Molete (COSATU), Geoff Tily (TUC), Gonzalo Hernández Jiménez (Deputy Finance Minister, Colombia),  İpek İlkkaracan (İTU), Özlem Onaran (UoG) and Cem Oyvat (UoG), with opening remarks by Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof. Leigh Doster, Greenwich Business School (GBS).

This is an on-site event but will also be accessible via Microsoft Teams. The event is free but please register here (indicate your mode of attendance).

PROGRAMME

16:00 Opening remarks: Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof. Leigh Doster, GBS

Chair and Introduction: Evelyn Astor, ITUC Economic and Social Policy Advisor

Özlem Onaran, Prof. of Economics, Co-director of PEGFA/GBS and Cem Oyvat, Senior Lecturer in Economics, GBS/PEGFA,The employment effects of public investment in infrastructure, the care economy and the green economy: the case of emerging economies

David Kucera, International Labour Organization, Senior Economist, A unifying framework for employment impact assessments for policy decisions: The case of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

Ronald Janssen, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), Senior Policy Advisor, Investing in Green and Resilient Economies and labour markets : The role of trade unions

Geoff Tily, Trades Union Congress (TUC), UK, Senior Economist, An economy for work not wealth

İpek İlkkaracan, İstanbul Technical University, Prof. of Economics, The employment generation impact of meeting SDG targets in early childhood care, education, health, and long-term care in 45 countries (online)

Zingiswa Losi, President of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) via video message

Gonzalo Hernández Jiménez, former Deputy Finance Minister, Colombia, via video message

Debate and Q&A 

19:00 Reception


12 May: 14th Annual PKES PhD Student Conference

The Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES), in collaboration with the Institute for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich, is organising its 14th annual PhD student conference on the 12th of May 2023, 10:00-18:00 BST. The conference will be held in person at the University of Greenwich, London. Students from the Global South who cannot travel to London will be able to present their work at a dedicated hybrid session with limited spots available. The conference gives students the opportunity to present a chapter of their PhD dissertation and receive detailed and structured feedback from a senior researcher from PKES in a friendly environment.

We invite applications from students who are in a later stage of their PhD and who work on topics relevant to Post-Keynesian and heterodox economics more broadly. Amongst others, this includes topics such as inequality and stagnation, the ecological crisis, structural dependencies in the Global South, the care economy and financialisation. Submissions should qualify as a novel contribution to the literature and be at the stage of pre-publication. We usually do not consider dissertation proposals, literature reviews, or papers based on a master’s dissertations.

We actively encourage submissions from people who are underrepresented in economics research. This includes – but is not limited to – individuals who identify as women, black or ethnic minority, those with disabilities, or members of the LGBTQ+ community. Should we receive more applications than we can accommodate, these students will be given priority.

Please submit your working paper and a cover letter of up to 300 words describing your research interest and how your dissertation topic relates to heterodox economics via this form. We accept applications on a rolling basis and aim to inform applicants whether they are accepted as soon as possible. The FINAL deadline for submissions to present at the conference is the 26th of March. We will inform you about acceptance at the latest by the 11th of April 2023 and assign reviewers to you. (You will be able to submit an updated version of your paper at this point). To further debate and discussion, successful applicants will be assigned a paper from a fellow presenter to provide feedback on during the conference.

MARK HAYES PRIZE

Students can also submit their work to be considered for the Mark Hayes Prize. The prize will be awarded to an outstanding paper presented at the PhD conference that furthers the advancement of Post-Keynesian and heterodox economics. The prize is named after Mark Hayes (1956-2019), an exemplary Keynes scholar and former Secretary of PKES. The prize winner will receive a £200 stipend and will be announced at the end of the conference. If you would like your submission to be considered for the Mark Hayes prize, you must submit your paper via the form in advance of the general deadline by the 26th of February. The prize selection committee consists of PKES committee members.

FUNDING AND STIPENDS

There is no participation fee for the conference. Lunch and refreshments will be provided thanks to generous funding by YSI. The conference will include a social dinner, sponsored by YSI, to give the opportunity to young scholars to come together in person, build their network and get involved with the heterodox economics community and YSI.

In addition, YSI will offer partial accommodation and travel stipends to selected young scholars who will present at the conference. This includes travel from Europe as well as the Global South. Scholarships are limited, and aimed at students who cannot obtain (sufficient) funding from their university or other academic funding sources. Travel via plane should be avoided if possible. We are also not able to reimburse taxis or rented cars. Please indicate in your cover letter should you wish to be considered for this, and explain that you have exhausted funding from your university. Provided applicants are eligible, scholarships will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

Please don’t hesitate to contact the organisers via pkes.phd.conference@gmail.com should you have any questions.

The link to the application form can be found here: https://forms.gle/XQfft4pLeFqUPcyw6

Updates will be published on this website.

Please also see information on the YSI website here: https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/workinggroup/keynesian-economics-working-group

Organising committee:

Dr Alexander Guschanski (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Dr Annina Kaltenbrunner (Leeds University Business School)

Thomas Rabensteiner (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Ines Heck (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Jimena Castillo (Leeds University Business School)

Andreas Maschke (Leeds University Business School)

Benjamin Tippet (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Brian Cepparulo (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Ali Berk Kokbudak (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Stuart Leitch (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Merle French-Jamieson (PEGFA & University of Greenwich)

Hannah Hasenberger (University of Hertfordshire)


9 May: Professor Arjun Jayadev: Social Networks and Experienced Inequality

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance, and Accountability invites you to a talk by Professor Arjun Jayadev of Azim Premji University.

When: 9 May 2023 at 5pm

Where: QA080, Queen Anne building, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, SE10 9LS

Professor Jayadev will present Social networks and experienced inequality by Sai Madhurika Mamunuru, Anand Shrivastava, and Arjun Jayadev

Abstract: Traditional measures of inequality, such as the Gini coefficient, involve pairwise comparisons across all members of a given population. But, most people possess information about, and therefore experience inequality in comparison to, only a subset of the population. In this paper, we provide simple axioms to describe inequality as experienced in social networks. Consistent with these axioms, we propose an index to measure aggregate experienced inequality. We then compute the Gini coefficient and experienced inequality in 75 villages in Karnataka, India. We show that for a given wealth distribution, the social network could either accentuate or diminish experienced inequality. We see this with respect to two network properties. Firstly, when wealthier households are more central to the network, experienced inequality tends to be greater. Secondly, wealth-based homophily will reduce experienced inequality.

Arjun Jayadev is Professor of Economics at the Azim Premji University and the Director of the School of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely in the areas of political economy, distribution, power,  macroeconomic dynamics, development, intellectual property, quantitative and theoretical analysis of finance,  and international economics. He has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is also a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and was an inaugural post-doctoral fellow at the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.


27 April: Prof Gilbert Achcar presents new book The New Cold War, joined by Dr Yuliya Yurchenko (PEGFA)

The Institute for Political Economy, Governance, Finance, and Accountability invites you to the book launch of Professor Gilbert Achcar's The New Cold War: The United States, Russia and China, from Kosovo to Ukraine (Westbourne Press, 2023)

When: 27 April 2023, 5pm

Where: QA080, University of Greenwich, Queen Anne building.

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings about a ‘new Cold War’ proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new study, the Cold War has been ongoing since the turn of the century, as he himself had already observed by then. Racing to solidify its position in the 1990s as the sole remaining superpower, the US alienated Russia and China, pushing them closer and rebooting the ‘old’ Cold War with disastrous implications.

Vladimir Putin’s consequent rise and imperialist reinvention, along with Xi Jinping’s own ascendancy and increasingly autocratic tendencies, have culminated, respectively, in the murderous invasion of Ukraine and mounting tensions over Taiwan and trade. Was all this inevitable? Will these three powers’ permanent readiness to war write the story of the twenty-first century? What comes after Ukraine? What might the contours of a more peaceful world look like?

These questions and many others are addressed in this ‘indispensable guide to the current global disorder and its ominous portent’ (Noam Chomsky), an ‘essential book’ that ‘no one who hopes to move beyond complacent rhetoric and slogans can afford to miss’ (Samuel Moyn, Yale University).

Professor Achcar will be joined by Yuliya Yurchenko from PEGFA.

Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations. He joined SOAS, University of London, in 2007 after having taught or researched in Beirut, Paris and Berlin. He is the author of several books, including The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (2002, 2006), Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy (with Noam Chomsky, 2007, 2008), The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010, 2011) and The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013, 2022).

Yuliya Yurchenko is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the Vice-Chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network Board (CPERN), Chair for Critical European Studies Workshop/CPERN, Editor for Capital and Class, and Global Political Economy. She is the author of (2018) Ukraine and The Empire of Capital: from marketisation to armed conflict. Pluto Press: London; a member of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK), ENSU campaign, and the Social Movement political organisation, Ukraine.


27 April: Finance and Banking Research Group Seminar

27 April 2023, 10.30am-1pm, QA075, Queen Anne building, University of Greenwich.

This Finance and Banking Research Group Seminar will take place in QA075 as well as in hybrid mode.

The Microsoft Teams meeting is available to join here.

The seminar will feature the following five presentations;

A) By: Dr Guoxiang Song

On: “Profitability analysis for bank capital regulation

Abstract: In the light of the intense competition for high return on equity and the procyclicality in banking industry, this paper develops a set of equations using the profitability analysis to investigate the determination of banks’ capital structure measured by book capital ratios. Based on these equations, if banks’ return on assets and its difference from net borrowing costs are determined by banks’ business model and the broad economy, then banks’ capital structure is determined by banks’ target of return on equity. The empirical evidence of US commercial banks from 1934 to 2021 supports this inference and indicates that the optimal capital regulation which contributes to long-term stable economic growth should consider the impact of banks’ target of return on equity and business model. From the perspective of both macroeconomic stability and capital market competition for equity capital, this paper proposes that optimal capital regulation should be in line with and be adjustable to significant changes in the broad economy so that banks will expect their return on equity to be close to that of nonfinancial firms which reflects the broader economic and institutional factors, and the procyclicality in banking can be contained.

B) By: Dr Francesco Guidi

On: " Determinants of banks’ profitability: the case of Euro STOXX banks index"

Abstract: This study investigates the determinants of banks’ profitability via a system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) applied to a sample of large European banks. Using alternative measures of banks’ profitability, such as return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and Net Interest Margin (NIM), the empirical analysis suggests that determinants such as total assets and loan loss provisions have a more prominent effect on profitability than other accounting-based indicators. Higher bank credit risk, measured by the loans-to-assets ratio, was found to lower bank profitability. Furthermore, the effect of capital-asset ratio on banks’ profitability indicated that over-capitalised banks might have ignored profitable investment opportunities. Managerial efficiency, measured by cost-to-income ratio, was found to increase banks’ profitability. Finally, banks with a large fraction of ownership held by institutional shareholders are generally more profitable relative to banks characterised by diffuse ownership.

C) By: Dr Trung Hoang

On: " Foreign institutional investment in Asian countries"

Abstract: This paper examines foreign institutional investment in Asian countries for the period 2013-2019. Our sample of 237,439 quarterly firm observations indicates that foreign institutional investment positively impacts the performance of Asian firms. Also, we documented that the co-existence of government ownership does not reduce the effectiveness of institutional investment. Besides, we found different pattern of institutional investment between two groups: developed and developing markets. In countries with developing stock markets, this positive effect is even higher if firms are simultaneously invested by foreign strategic entities. From our results, we suggest that future studies should include investment from foreign institutions to fully capture the impact of foreign investment at the firm level.

D) By: Miss Elia Perrot (PhD student)

On: " Fintech and bank performance: Evidence from developed and developing countries"

E) By: Mr Ali Al Thawadi (PhD student)

On: " SME’s internationalisation, financing constraints and incremental innovations: the case of the Bahrain"


6 April: PEGFA Research Seminar Series 2023: Tian & Galanis

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability invites you to its Research Seminar Series 2023.

Our second Research Seminar will take place on 6 April at 5pm in QA220. Siyang Tian will present "Political Connections and Corporate Litigation: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment".

Abstract: This paper studies the causal impacts of political connections on corporate litigation. Specifically, by exploiting an unanticipated depoliticization reform in China which forces all politically connected directors to resign from listed firms, we investigate how political connections impair the effectiveness and fairness of the judicial system. We show that fi rms’ government connections deter disadvantaged groups from taking legal action to resolve disputes, and that the weakening of the political ties results in greater litigation risk for connected firms in forms of higher likelihood of and larger monetary amounts involved in litigation as defendants. The effects are stronger for non-state-owned firms, financially distressed firms, and firms in regions with weak legal institutions. We also find that plaintiffs fare better in litigation against those previously connected firms after the reform. Overall, our analysis highlights the social costs of judicial corruption, and demonstrates that curbing firms’ abusive political power in judicial affairs can effectively mitigate the biases rooted in the judiciary.

Giorgos Galanis will talk about his paper "The Global Political Economy of a Green Transition", co-authored with Giorgio Ricchiuti and Ben Tippet. Please find the abstract here:

By building a simple discrete choice model, we study possible paths regarding country participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs) on climate change. Preferences for action are influenced by (i) the growth rate of emissions, (ii) participation of others in IEAs, and (iii) heterogeneous costs and preferences for action. We find a variety of outcomes depending on the relative strength of effects, where sustained high level of cooperation is just one possibility. More specifically, we find that a short run increase in climate action may be followed by a decline later, while non trivial dynamics that make the evolution less predictable are another possibility. Our results indicate that a reduction in global inequalities related to low carbon transition costs are a necessary condition for sustained high levels of cooperation.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Please find the entire programme for this year's Research Seminar Series here.


29 March: PEGFA Research Seminar Series 2023: Arrieta Paredes & Calvert Jump

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability invites you to its Research Seminar Series 2023.

The third seminar will take place on 29 March at 1pm in QA280 and will feature PEGFA experts Mary-Paz Arrieta Paredes and Robert Calvert Jump. Dr Arrieta Paredes will present "The sustainable financing of British SMEs after Brexit".

Dr Calvert Jump will talk about joint work with Adam Scavette: "The Labour Market Effects of Place-Based Policies: Evidence from England’s Neighbourhood Renewal".

Please find the abstract here:
Neighbourhood renewal programs are a type of place-based policy that aim to revive underperforming localities. The literature on place-based policies has found mixed results regarding their effects on local labour market outcomes, but there are relatively few studies of policies that aim to improve local labour supply. In this paper we examine the labour market effects of the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, which targeted 88 of the most deprived areas in England during the early 2000s as part of the Labour government's National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. The fund disbursed almost £3 billion for spending on community safety, education, healthcare and worklessness, with supply-side interventions making up the bulk of the program's spending on worklessness. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find statistically significant impacts on local employment. Our results suggest that policy interventions to improve local labour supply can be a successful strategy for neighbourhood renewal.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please find the entire programme for this year's Research Seminar Series here.


23 March: PEGFA Seminar Series 2023: Nikolaidi & Guschanski

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) invites you to its Research Seminar Series 2023.

Our third Research Seminar will take place on 23 March at 5pm in QA220 and will feature PEGFA speakers Dr Maria Nikolaidiand Dr Alexander Guschanski.

Dr Guschanski will present "Inflation and distribution in a three sector model" and Dr Nikolaidi will talk about "Green Public Investment, Consumption Patterns and the Ecological Transition: A Macroeconomic Analysis".

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please find the entire programme for this year's Research Seminar Series here.


9 March: PEGFA Seminar Series 2023: Ugur & Botta 

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability invites you to its Research Seminar Series 2023.

Our first Research Seminar will take place on 9 March at 5pm in QA220 and will feature PEGFA speakers Professor Mehmet Ugur and Dr Alberto Botta

Prof Ugur will talk about his new paper "Inflated TFP growth and falling labour share: OECD evidence on the roles of innovation and market power". Please find the abstract here:

In this paper, we address two issues that have remained below the radars of the growing research on market power and its macroeconomic consequences: (i) simultaneity and reverse causality in the relationship between innovation, market power and macroeconomic outcomes; and (ii) the implications of market power for the invariance property of the total factor productivity (TFP) measure. Using a structural equation modelling approach and EU-KLEMS data on 12 countries and 33 industries from 1995-2019, we report the following: (a) markups always increase with innovation but innovation increases with markups only in industries with high initial markups; (b) the TFP growth measure based on perfect competition will be biased upward and its invariance property will no longer hold under market power; (c) markups always have an adverse effect on labour share directly and indirectly; and (d) the adverse effects of markups on labour share are stronger than the effects of innovation intensity. These findings remain robust to different model specifications, markup measures, and innovation intensity measures. One take-away from our findings is that the TFP growth estimates in use may not be a reliable guide for policy.  The second is that the main determinant of falling share is not technological innovation per se but the extent of market power that allows successful innovators to extract rents.

Dr Botta will present "Financial integration, productive development and fiscal policy space in developing countries". This is the abstract:

This paper offers a simple, tractable post-Keynesian model, which highlights the importance of structural change and productive development in defining the dynamics of the Real Exchange Rate (RER) and foreign debt in a small open developing economy. The argument is that in countries that keep the capital account open and rely on austerity policies to induce a notional surplus in the Balance of Payment, the RER can hardly be used as a tool aimed at smoothing the impacts of changes in international financial markets (as argued in the classical macroeconomic trilemma). In our model, capital flows and fluctuations in the RER endogenously feed back into each other and give rise to cyclical macroeconomic volatility. Fiscal austerity supposedly taming external imbalances exacerbates such instability. More diversified productive structures and stronger non-price competitiveness open more space for expansionary fiscal policies, make the economy more resilient to finance-led macroeconomic cycles, and make external debt more sustainable. Capital controls together with stronger price sensitivity of net exports can further stabilize the economy. The paper carries important policy implications, in particular for the combination of industrial and macroprudential policies in peripheral economies, whose pattern of specialization is highly dependent on a few, low-tech commodities. The adoption of industrial policies to foster non-price competitiveness and diversification is critical to sustain macroeconomic stability, both in the short and the long run.


25 February: RETHINKING ECONOMICS GREENWICH CONFERENCE 2023

Please find highlights of this event here.

Rethinking Economics Greenwich invites you to its highly anticipated Rethinking Economics Conference 2023, taking place on February 25 at the University of Greenwich and co-organised with the Institute for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA). This full-day event promises to be both informative and captivating, with an array of panel discussions exploring various topics about current socio-economic issues.


Along with our Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane Harrington, who has kindly agreed to open the conference, we will welcome speakers from universities, think tanks and the media from across the UK discussing timely topics such as inequalities, feminist economics, economics in the media, ecological economics, decolonizing the curriculum among others. These discussions are designed for academic enthusiasts, students and the curious general public. Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to expand your understanding of current economic issues and engage in meaningful discussion with our panellists!

Speakers include:

  • Opening remarks: Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane Harrington
  • Yuan Yang (Financial Times)
  • Eric Lonergan (Eisler Capital and former M&G Investments)
  • Ann Pettifor (Director of PRIME and author of The Case for the Green New Deal)
  • Professor Özlem Onaran (University of Greenwich, Co-director of PEGFA)
  • Professor Engelbert Stockhammer (King’s College London)
  • Dr Jo Michell (University of the West of England Bristol)
  • Dr Ingrid Kvangraven (King’s College London)
  • Dr Yannis Dafermos (SOAS, University of London)
  • Dr Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich)
  • Dr Carolina Alves (University College London)
  • Ignacia Pinto (Women’s Budget Group)
  • Rosie Collington (University College London)

... and many more!


This exciting event is entirely FREE of charge. Don't miss your chance to attend and engage in thought-provoking discussions with leading experts in the field.

Reserve your spot now here and find the programme here.


2022

Thursday, 8 Dec, 5-6:30 PM (GMT) – Speakers: Rafael Wildauer and Athina Piterou

Location: Room QM369, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (and via Microsoft Teams with this link)

5-5:45 PM: Rafael Wildauer – Was Pareto right?

5:45-6:30 PM: Athina Piterou - Sociotechnical transitions, market devices and the sociology of markets: the emergence of retail formats

All seminars are hybrid events and will also be accessible via Microsoft Teams with this link:

Click here to join the meeting

Meeting ID: 392 637 608 043 
Passcode: 9qMR5q

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions regarding our events.

PEGFA Administrator: Thomas Rabensteiner
E-Mail: t.rabensteiner@gre.ac.uk

Please see below the updated programme.


Thursday 17 Nov: PEGFA Seminar Series with Thomas Rabensteiner and Lorenzo Cresti

Location: Room QM369, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (and via Microsoft Teams with this link)

5-5:45 PM: Thomas Rabensteiner - The decline in routine jobs in Western Europe:

The 21st century, the Great Recession and labour market institutions

5:45-6:30 PM: Lorenzo Cresti - Weak sectors and weak ties? Labour dependence and asymmetric positioning in GVCs

All seminars are hybrid events and will also be accessible via Microsoft Teams with this link:

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Nov 2: PEGFA Seminar Series with Kefei You and Ben Tippet

Location: Room SL011, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (and via Microsoft Teams with this link)

1-1:45 PM: Kefei You - Financial Development and Technological Progress: Does the Financing Channel Matter? Evidence from Spatial Analysis for Chinese Provinces

We examine the relationship between financial development and productivity growth by investigating the impact of total social financing and, more importantly, the four financial channels underneath it (i.e., formal bank loans, corporate bond market, equity market and shadow banking) on technological progress in Chinese provinces during 2013-2020. We first separate structural change from total factor productivity (TFP) to obtain the net factor productivity (NFP) series. We then employ spatial models to account for spatial dependence in technological progress; the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) is shown to best describe our data. We find that, first, both structural change and NFP have contributed positively to TFP in China. Thus, the latter captures the pure technological progress more accurately than TFP does. Second, while TSF overall does not seem to affect technological advancement in China, three of its four components do. Specifically, corporate bonds and formal bank loans promote technological progress across Chinese provinces, with the former producing stronger effects than the latter. Shadow banking also shows a positive impact but at a weaker magnitude than the above two. Conversely, equity financing does not foster technological progress in China. Finally, we observe positive spatial technological dependence, implying a cooperative relationship between Chinese provinces.

1:45-2:30 PM: Ben Tippet - House price cycles and speculative demand: understanding how the returns to capital gains and rent extraction drive the intensity of house price booms and busts

Why do some countries have stable house prices, while others have intense booms and busts? The existing literature in Comparative Political Economy (CPE) has argued that house price booms are caused primarily by domestic mortgage-credit encouraging institutions (and their interactions with a strong welfare state). Building on heterodox economic theories of house price cycles, this paper instead argues that intense house price booms and busts are driven by speculative demand, which in turn is shaped by institutions increasing the returns to housing via capital gains and rent extraction. Using turning point analysis, we demonstrate significant cross-country differences in the intensity of booms and busts across 26 OECD countries. We build a dataset of what we call “speculation encouraging institutions” and estimate their relationship to the intensity of house price cycles. We find that countries with speculation encouraging institutions are significantly more likely to have intense house price booms and busts. Once we control for speculative demand, mortgage-credit encouraging institutions no longer has a significant effect on house price cycles. This paper is a part of the Leverhulme grant "The Political Economy of growth models in an age of stagnation" Leverhulme, RPG-2021-045.

Sep 27: May AI revolution be labour-friendly? Some micro evidence from the supply side - Marco Vivarelli

This study investigates the possible job-creation impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, focusing on the supply side, namely the providers of the new knowledge base. The empirical analysis is based on a worldwide longitudinal dataset of 3,500 front-runner companies that patented the relevant technologies over the period 2000-2016. Obtained from GMM-SYS estimates, our results show a positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product innovation in the AI supply industries. However, this effect is small in magnitude and limited to service sectors and younger firms, which are the leading actors of the AI revolution. Finally, some evidence of increasing returns seems to emerge; indeed, the innovative companies which are more focused on AI technologies are those obtaining the larger impacts in terms of job creation.

Speaker: Marco Vivarelli, UNU-MERIT, Catholic University of Milan and IZA

Professor Vivarelli will present findings from a joint paper with Giacomo Damioli (European Commission, Joint Research Centre), Vincent Van Roy (European Commission, Joint Research Centre), and Daniel Vertesy (International Telecommunication Union and UNU-MERIT).

Time: 15:00 – 16:30 GMT, 27 Sep 2022

Location: Room HH102, Greenwich Business School, Hamilton House, 15 Park Vista, London, SE10 9LZ

This is a hybrid event and will also be accessible via Microsoft Teams with this link:

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22-24 June: Post-Keynesian Economics Summer School

This three-day summer school introduces Post Keynesian Economics. Post Keynesian theory is part of a broader Political Economy approach which highlights the social conflict and power relations between classes such as labour, capital and finance and social groups stratified along the lines of gender and ethnicity. Economic analysis should thus be rooted in a historic and institutional setting.

Post Keynesian Economics emphasises the role of fundamental uncertainty about the future, the central role for ‘animal spirits’ in the determination of investment decisions; inflation as the result of unresolved distributional conflicts; money as an endogenous creation of the private banking system; unemployment as determined by effective demand on the goods markets; and financial markets prone to periodic boom-bust cycles.

The summer school is aimed at advanced undergraduate 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 be of interest for a broader audience.

Reduced rates for PKES members are available. Membership for students is £10/year and includes online access to all issues of European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention and Review of Keynesian Economics. Further benefits and info about PKES membership can be found here: https://www.postkeynesian.net/membership/

Speakers:

Engelbert Stockhammer King’s College London: Post Keynesian Economics, Introduction & Overview

Maria Nikolaidi University of Greenwich Endogenous Money and Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis

Özlem Onaran, University of Greenwich: Aggregate Demand and Inequalities - Income and Wealth distribution and Gender

Yannis Dafermos, SOAS, University of London: Modelling approaches in ecological and environmental macroeconomics

Jo Michell, UWE Bristol: Complexity in New Keynesian and Heterodox Models

Rafael Wildauer, University of Greenwich: A New Keynesian and Post Keynesian Model in a Simple Unified Framework

Adam Aboobaker, University of the West of England: Development and Income Distribution

Christina Wolf, Kingston University: Development from Post Keynesian and Institutionalist perspectives

Esra Ugurlu, University of Leeds: Keynesian Economics and New Developmentalism

Time: 22 to 24 June 2022 all day

Sign up: In order to book your place please follow this link: https://store.gre.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/short-courses/pkes


June 11: A festival for the future of economics and transformative economic thinking

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) and Progressive Economy Forum is co-organising a festival for the future of economics and transformative economic thinking on 11 June at the University of Greenwich. In a world battered by crises, facing environmental collapse, leading thinkers will present the arguments and the solutions we need to build a radically better economy. The conference will be packed with sessions ranging from "Beyond the Green New Deal" to "Political Economy of Ukraine," "Workers and the Crisis," and "The End of Economic Growth?"

Speakers

Featured speakers include Anne Pettifor, Kate Pickett, Guy Standing, Grace Blakeley, Ed Miliband, Nadia Whittome, Ozlem Onaran, Maria Nikolaidi, Yuliya Yurchenko, Alex Guschanski, Ben Tippet, and many more.

Time: 9:30 – 18:30 BST

Sign up: The event is free and please register via this link

Location: Registration will be in Ground Floor Stockwell Street. The conference will be held between King William Building and Stockwell Street


April 6: Financing sustainability in the SMEs of the UK after Brexit, Covid-19 and COP 26: The road ahead

After Brexit, Covid-19 placed an unexpected burden on this already battered sector. However, according to the government’s post Pandemic policies, half of the UK's Medium-Sized and Small businesses (SMEs) anticipate a rise in income and demand on 2022; In fact, official sources gather that SMEs feel borrowing will be important to their growth and recovery. Equally relevant, SMEs account for over 50% of all carbon emissions produced by UK businesses: Committing to the pledges made in COP26 of the net zero emissions target, British SMEs may reap benefits that are significant. After Brexit and Covid-19, there is an increasing need for support in their effort to be environmentally responsible, since short and/or medium-term growth and recovery would be otherwise long-term impossible (this is also being challenged by recent events in international energy markets).  In this seminar we hope to shed some light about what is possible or not for UK SMEs after COP26. Implications for HEIs in the dissemination of practices are as well explored.

Speakers

Organiser and Moderator: Dr Mary Arrieta (University of Greenwich, EIB Greenwich Faculty of Business, PEGFA and ISBE member)

Dr Robyn Owen (Middlesex University Business School) Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR) and Greenfin Research Hub, Middlesex University, London and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP).

Presentation title: Seeding Green Innovation to Build Back Better: A Critique of UK Green SME Finance Policy

Abstract: The UK government has announced a £12bn green rebuilding plan for the UK, but there is no specific mention of green SME innovation finance. This paper focuses on early-stage Cleantech innovation finance in the UK. It argues that if the UK wishes to pursue the policy of aspiring "World leader" in green finance and innovation it rapidly requires increased focus and investment on cleantech innovations that will shape the future of global Climate Change.

Prof Ciarán Mac an Bhaird (Dublin City University)

Presentation title: TBA

Mr Brishni Mukhopadhyay (CFA – ESG Specialist at Western Asset Management) 
Presentation title: Sustainable Finance Education and Sustainable Finance Practices in the UK: Are SMEs accounted for?

Time: 18:00 – 20:00 GMT

Details: This is an online event. It will be hosted on Microsoft Teams via this link.


April 5: Defence Acquisition and Procurement: How (not) to buy weapons.

Professor Ron Smith will present a paper on defence economics for students and staff at the University of Greenwich, and interested members of the public.

Speakers

Professor Ron Smith, Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck, University of London

Chair: Dr Robert Calvert Jump, research fellow at the University of Greenwich

Time: 16:00 – 17:30 GMT

Sign up: The event is free and please register via this link.

Location: Room QA075, Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich. This is a hybrid event and will also be accessible via Microsoft Teams via this link.


March 10: A shorter working week for a gender-equal green transition

The workshop will present findings from a report by Ozlem Onaran and Robert Calvert Jump for the Women’s Budget Group (WBG) Feminist Green New Deal Project and explore the potential impact of a shorter working week with contributions by Sara Reis and Will Stronge. Link to the report:

https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Shorter-Working-Week-Report.pdf

Speakers

Prof Leigh Doster, PVC, Greenwich Business School: Opening Remarks

Prof Ozlem Onaran, co-director of PEGFA and professor of economics at the University of Greenwich

Dr Robert Calvert Jump, research fellow at the University of Greenwich

Dr Sara Reis, Deputy Director, Head of Research and Policy, WBG

Dr Will Stronge, ESRC Fellow at Brighton University and Co-Director of Autonomy

Chair: Ines Heck, PhD Economics students at the University of Greenwich

Time: 18:00 – 19:30 GMT

Location: This is a hybrid event. For online attendees please join us on Microsoft Teams via this link. For those attending in person, the event will be in Lecture Theatre QA065, Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS.


March 16: Fertility, electricity and television: is there a link? Evidence from Pakistan, 1990-2018

In 1960s Pakistan, every woman was giving birth to more than 6 children on average. In 2021, Pakistan still has the second highest fertility rate in South Asia with every woman giving birth to 3.4 children on average. This paper uses four waves of Demographic and Health Survey data to empirically analyse trends in fertility in Pakistan between 1990 and 2018; accounting for wealth, education and locational differences, this paper looks at three additional pathways for reducing fertility: (i) electrification, (ii) access to TV and (iii) family planning commercials broadcast on television. We employ multi-level fixed effects and the average yearly district-wealth level access to the three channels as instrumental variable. Across models we show that electricity does not reduce fertility. In contrast, access to television appears to have a significant effect in reducing fertility rates, which seems to operate to a large extent through family planning commercials broadcast on television. The content and evolution of Pakistani soap-operas is also discussed, and it is argued that the role models, the types of households and the messages conveyed by these soap-operas may represent strong pathways for the fertility decline.

Speakers

Dr. Luca Tasciotti, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Greenwich

Dr Natascha Wagner

Dr Farooq Sulheria

Time: 17:00 – 18:30 GMT

Location: This is a hybrid event. For online attendees please join us on Microsoft Teams via this link. For those attending in person, the event will be in Room QA063, Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS.


March 30: The roles of standards for trade in changing the (economic) environment

The number of plant and animal species under threat of extinction our current geological epoch is unprecedented. Environmental standards have been promoted as a policy guideline that can effectively regulate the effect of human activity on the environment. In an ever-interconnected world, environmental standards have multiple effects which affect trade patterns, environmental protection, poverty, economic development and employment across countries. This talk with economists, social scientists and environmental activists links environmental standards for trade with several issues that have recently received attention: environmental protection and conservation, trade, corruption, environmental justice and human rights.

Speakers

Dr. Elissaios Papyrakis, Senior Lecturer in Development Economics (Macroeconomics) at the Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam

Prof. Lorenzo Pellegrini, Associate Professor of Economics of Environment and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dr. Luca Tasciotti, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Greenwich
Plus more to be announced

Time: 17:00 – 18:30 GMT

Location: This is a hybrid event. For online attendees please join us on Microsoft Teams via this link. For those attending in person, the event will be in Room QA063, Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS.


Feb 8: A shorter working week as part of a green, caring economy as part of the Feminist Green New Deal project

PEGFA will present their project A shorter working week as part of a green, caring economy as part of the Feminist Green New Deal project of the Women's Budget Group and Women's Environmental Network

Speakers

Professor Özlem Onaran and Dr. Robert Calvert Jump, University of Greenwich.

More details about this event will be announced on our website.

Time: 13:00 GMT

Location: This is an online event. Please sign up via this link.


Feb 16: Worker autonomy and wage divergence: Evidence from European survey data

This paper contributes to the understanding of increasing wage inequality in Western Europe. We ask if worker autonomy, defined as the degree of control workers have over their own work process, can explain wage growth differences in Western European countries from 2003 to 2018. We provide econometric analyses using individual-level wage data from the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions and find that wages in occupations with high autonomy have grown significantly faster than in occupations with low autonomy. Because workers in high autonomy occupations are generally at the top of the wage distribution, this process has increased wage inequality. We use additional worker surveys to shed light on technological, institutional, and demographic determinants of the ‘autonomy premium’ and highlight three main findings: (i) The autonomy premium is higher in countries with lower collective bargaining; (ii) the autonomy premium increases more in industries with faster computerisation; (iii) the rising autonomy premium increases gender inequality because women are less likely to be employed in high autonomy occupations, but we do not find differences in the increase of the autonomy premium between women and men. These findings suggest that wage inequality between high and low-autonomy jobs is shaped by technological as well as institutional factors.

Speakers

Thomas Rabensteiner, PhD Candidate in Economics (University of Greenwich)

Dr Alexander Guschanski, Senior Lecturer in Economics (University of Greenwich)

Time: 17:00 – 18:30 GMT

Location: This is a hybrid event. For online attendees please join us on Microsoft Teams via this link. For those attending in person, the event will be in Room QA063, Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS.


Feb 23: Analysing the link between periods of financial bonanza and premature de-industrialization in developing countries

The outbreak of Covid-19 brought back to the forefront the crucial importance of structural change and productive development for economic resilience to economic shocks. Several recent contributions have already stressed the perverse relation that may exist between productive backwardness and the intensity of the Covid-19 socio-economic crisis. In this paper, we analyse the factors that may have hindered productive development for over four decades before the pandemic. We investigate the role of (non-FDI) net capital inflows as a potential source of premature de-industrialization. We consider a sample of 36 developed and developing countries from 1980 to 2017, with major emphasis on the case of emerging and developing (EDE) economies in the context of increasing financial integration. We show that periods of abundant capital inflows may have caused the significant contraction of manufacturing share to employment and GDP, as well as the decrease of the economic complexity index. We also show that phenomena of “perverse” structural change are significantly more relevant in EDE countries than advanced ones. Based on such evidence, we conclude with some policy suggestions highlighting capital controls and external macroprudential measures taming international capital mobility as useful policy tools for promoting long-run productive development on top of strengthening (short-term) financial and macroeconomic stability.

Speakers

Prof. Alberto Botta (Associate Professor in Economics)

Time: 17:00 – 18:30 GMT

Location: This is a hybrid event. For online attendees please join us on Microsoft Teams via this link. For those attending in person, the event will be in Room QA063, Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS.


Jan 26: Does technological innovation affect inequalities? Separating the pure innovation effect from the rent extraction effect

The empirical literature draws on reduced-form models to estimate the effects of technological innovation on inequality. We argue that such models may not identify the true effect because market power and labour-market institutions affect both innovation and inequalities at the same time. To identify the true effect, we adopt a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach in which markups and labour-market deregulation determine innovation, capital share and inequality simultaneously. Using an unbalanced panel of 34 countries from 2000-2018, we find that the main driver of inequalities is not technological innovation per se, but markups and labour-market deregulation that increase capital share and worsen inequalities at the same time. Post-estimation evidence indicates that human capital and fiscal/monetary policy variables we control for are insufficient to reverse the adverse effects of capital share, markups and labour-market deregulation on inequalities. Our findings are robust to sample variation, two different markup measures, and five different measures of inequality.

Speakers

Professor Mehmet Ugur

Time: 16:00 – 17:00 BST

This event will be hosted online at 4pm on Microsoft Teams via this link.

Location: Room HH103, Hamilton House, University of Greenwich, 15 Park Vista, SE10 9LZ


2021

Nov 4: Decarbonising the Bank of England's monetary policy

The aim of the event is to discuss how the Bank of England can decarbonise its monetary policy under its new climate neutrality mandate. A new UoG, New Economics Foundation, SOAS, and UWE report will be presented which focuses on alternative approaches for greening the Corporate Bonds Purchase Scheme.

More details about this event will be announced on our website. This event will be online and registration is open and free.

Date: Thurs, 4 November 2021

Time: 17:30 – 19:30 BST

Location: This event will be online.

Sign up link: This event is free but please register using this link


Nov 17: Global Finance, Governance and Socio-Ecological Transformation: Insights for Progressive Strategies from the Special Issue and a COP26 debrief - what has been achieved?

*** Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event will now be held only online. You can access the webinar via this link. Please do not attend the in person event on campus. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and look forward to seeing you at the webinar. ***

Green finance has been increasingly presented as being an effective solution to global environmental problems and climate change.  However, today’s global financial structures tend to reproduce global inequalities and contribute to continued, highly unequal over-use and destruction of the environment, as well as a global ecological crisis.

Fossil fuel dependent world economy needs to rapidly decarbonise and that needs to be adequately financed and equally adequately governed and managed. The above begs questions about the sources of funding, targets of it, modes of governance and ownership of productive and reproductive systems that are to emerge, replace what is clearly not working, what is driving the global heating.

This workshop will (1) build on the scholarship collated in the Special Issue “The Global Political Economy of Green Finance and Socio-Ecological Transformation”, in Das Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (2021) Jaeger, J. and L. Schmidt, Eds. and (2) aim to assess the progress/regress of the COP26 and what it means for the problematic raised in the SI.

Speakers

Dr Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy

Professor Johannes Jaeger, Professor and Economics coordinator at the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna

Plus more speakers TBA

Date: 17 November 2021

Time: 17:30 – 19:30 BST

Sign up link: This event is free but please register using this link

Webinar link: The webinar can be accessed online via this link


Nov 18: Time to remit: The effect of remittances on household consumption in India. A panel analysis of the India Human Development Survey.

India has enjoyed over twenty years of rapid economic growth. The benefits of this growth, however, have largely by-passed India's poor: around a quarter of the world's malnourished children lives in India, and their wasted bodies and stunted lives represent a challenge for the Indian government. Although the growth in India's domestic economy did not result in many trickle-down benefits for the hungry poor, anecdotal evidence suggests that food security has benefited from another factor. Both rural or urban families have become increasingly reliant on remittances and used them to improve their food security. This paper explores the pattern of relationship between remittances received and food consumption at the household level; the paper uses a panel data approach with data coming from two rounds of the ‘India Human Development Survey’ (IHDS) conducted in 2005 and in 2011-12, and employs an instrumental variable approach to control for the endogeneity of remittances. The econometric results indicate that remittances do have a significant positive effect on the size of expenditure on food, as well as on two key indicators of food diversity, the Shannon and the Simpson Index. Results are robust to models’ specification and support the view that remittances do represent a mechanism by which households improve their food security.

Speakers

Dr Luca Tasciotti, Senior Lecturer in Economics

Dr Navjot Sangwan, Senior Lecturer in Economics

Time: 17:30 – 19:30 BST

Location: Room QA063, Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS


** Postponed due to strike  ** The scope of fiscal policy to tackle climate change

How will we pay for the green new deal? This workshop will debate how to conduct truly sustainable fiscal policy and public investment.

Speakers

Dr Cem Oyvat, Senior Lecturer in economics at the University of Greenwich

Dr Rafael Wildauer, Senior Lecturer in economics at the University of Greenwich

Chair: Prof Ozlem Onaran, co-director of PEGFA and professor of economics at the University of Greenwich

Plus more speakers TBA

More details about this event will be announced soon.

Date: 2 December 2021

Time: 17:30 – 19:30 BST

Location: Online webinar

Sign up link: This event is free but please register using this link

Webinar link: The webinar can be accessed online via this link


Dec 8: Sustainable economy is a cooperative economy

Overview

Cooperation Jackson is a network of worker cooperatives and solidarity economy institutions based in Jackson, Mississippi. The network consists of four interconnected and interdependent institutions: a federation of emerging local worker cooperatives, a cooperative incubator, a cooperative education and training center, and a cooperative financing system.

The broad mission of Cooperation Jackson is to advance the development of a regenerative economy in Jackson, MS based on a program centered around food sovereignty, which is rooted in the practices of agroecology, combined with local resourcing provisioning to build a locally grounded supply chain production that is rooted in the practices of working class self-organization and economic democracy to create a sustainable future.

Speakers

Kali Akuno, Director of Cooperation Jackson

Dr Adotey Bing-Pappoe, Senior lecturer in economics at The University of Greenwich

Time: 17:30 – 19:30 BST

This is an online event.

Sign up link: This event is free but please register using this link

Webinar link: The webinar can be accessed online via this link


October 7: is the Silvertown tunnel compatible with London's climate commitments?

The Silvertown Tunnel is a proposed four-lane road tunnel across the Thames, to be built a few metres east of the Blackwall Tunnel. It has been commissioned by the Greater London Authority from the Riverlinx consortium and is scheduled for completion in 2025. The GLA says that the cost, which it estimates at £1.2 billion but opponents say is £2.2 billion, will be met by road tolling.

Climate and transport researchers have argued that the project is incompatible with London’s own climate targets, which require a substantial overall decrease in traffic volumes in the next decade. It will also exacerbate local air pollution problems, and community campaigners and doctors have called for its cancellation for that reason.

The tunnel project raises wider questions about London’s transport system and urban planning. Opponents, including the Labour party’s own London regional conference, are calling for alternative approaches with more investment in public transport and non-motor modes.

This is a “hybrid” event that you can attend in person on the university campus, or on line

Speakers

Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport and Director of the Active Travel Academy, University of Westminster

Andrew Boswell, Independent Scientist and Consultant on Climate Emergency Planning and Policy

Simon Pirani, author of The Silvertown Tunnel is in a hole, so Stop Digging; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Date: Thu, 7 October 2021

Time: 17:00 – 20:30 BST

Location: Hamilton House, University of Greenwich, 15 Park Vista, SE10 9LZ

Sign up link: This event is free but please register using this link


Online Conference: Inequalities and policy implications after Covid-19

Whether we look at wealth, race, gender, health, or income, the pandemic has exposed, and in some cases exacerbated, pre-existing inequalities. From Black Lives Matter to new wealth taxes, the visibility of inequality has generated a strong response from social movements and policy makers. This raises many questions that have long been at the heart of policy - what causes inequality? What policies stop it rising? And does it ultimately lead to instability?

Programme

12:30 Opening remarks: Vice Chancellor Professor Jane Harrington, University of Greenwich (UoG)

12:45 Keynote speech 1

Chair: Ozlem Onaran, Professor of Economics, Co-director of PEGFA, UoG

Transformatory strategies to reduce inequalities after Covid-19: creating caring economies, Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor University of Essex,

13:15 Tackling wealth inequalities

Chair: Aleksandar Stojanovic, Professor and HoD of Accounting and Finance, Co-director of PEGFA

Tax wealth to fund purple and green public investment, Ozlem Onaran, Professor of Economics, Co-director of PEGFA

The fall and rise of the top 1%: is wealth inequality determined by new technologies, globalisation, progressive taxation, or worker’s bargaining power? Ben Tippet, PhD Research Student, UoG,

The distribution of wealth in Europe and a European wealth tax, Rafael Wildauer, Senior Lecturer in Economics, UoG

Producer cooperatives as pre-distribution: Lessons from Emilia Romagna, Adotey Bing-Pappoe, Senior Lecturer in Economics, UoG

15:00 Keynote speech 2

Chair: Jeff Powell, Programme Leader UG Economics, UoG

Informality and intersectionality of race, gender and class inequality: The impact of Covid-19 policy responses in developing countries, Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

15:30 Race, gender, class inequalities and development

Chair: Julia Mundy, Deputy director of PEGFA, UoG

The Effects of Public Social Infrastructure and Gender Equality on Output and Employment: The case of South Korea, Cem Oyvat, Senior Lecturer in Economics , UoG

Neoliberal de-development and social reproduction in the post-Soviet space: erosion of women’s rights, social protection and security in Ukraine, Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, UoG

Capitalism, labour and race: the role of accounting in the Indian Maritime labourers, Antonella Russo, Senior Lecturer in Financial Accounting, UoG

The impact of Global Value Chain participation on income inequality in Emerging Economies, Alexander Guschanski, Lecturer in Economics, UoG

17:15 Finance, regional development and inequalities

Chair: Maria Nikolaidi, Assoc. Prof., UoG

Estimating workforce jobs data for British local authority districts, 1981-2018, Rob Calvert Jump, Research Fellow in Economics, PEGFA, UoG

Unconventional monetary policy and inequality, Alberto Botta (Programme Leader MSc Economics, UoG), Eugenio Caverzasi (Università Politecnica delle Marche), Alberto Russo(Università Politecnica delle Marche), Mauro Gallegati (Università Politecnica delle Marche), Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)

Inequalities in accessing finance: Has government support equipped British credit union sector to meet post Covid challenges? Sallyanne Decker, Principal Lecturer in Banking and Finance, UoG

Bank Credit Risk and Macro-Prudential Policies: Role of Liquidity in Uncertain times, Nadia Benbouzid (Senior Lecturer, UoG), Abishek Kumar, Sushanta Mallick (Professor of International Finance, Queen Mary), Ricardo Sousa (Associate Professor in Economics, University of Minho), Aleksandar Stojanovic (Professor, Head of Accounting and Finance, Finance, Co-director of PEGFA)

Tuesday 23 March 2021 12:30-18:45 (GMT)


Research Webinar: A dataset of workforce job counts for British local authority districts, 1981-2018

Speaker
Dr Rob Calvert Jump

Abstract
This paper presents workforce job counts for British local authority districts between the years 1981 and 2018. The estimates are produced by adjusting local authority job counts drawn from the Census of Employment, Annual Employment Survey, Annual Business Inquiry, and Business Register and Employment Survey to match regional job counts drawn from the Workforce Jobs dataset. The result is a measure of sub-regional workforce jobs which is consistent with publicly available national statistics, and can be motivated as a maximum entropy estimator. To illustrate the use of the dataset, the employment effects of European Union Objective 1 funding are examined using a synthetic control method.

Wednesday 3rd February 14:00-16:00 (GMT)
Click here to join the seminar (No sign up needed)


Research Webinar: Central Bank Power versus the tyranny of financial markets: liquidity preference in a world of endogenous money

Speakers
Dr Alberto Botta and Professor Marco Missaglia

Abstract
In this paper we present a simple Keynesian model about the role of liquidity preference in the determination of economic performance. We assume a world of endogenous money, where the banking system is able to fix the interest rate at a level of its own willing. Even in this framework, we show that the Keynesian theory of liquidity preference, while obviously not constituting anymore a theory for the determination of the interest rate, continues to be a fundamental piece of theory for the determination of the level and evolution of aggregate income over time, both in the short and in the medium run. However powerful, the banking system and monetary authorities are not the deus ex machina of our economies and financial markets are likely to exert a permanent influence on our economic destiny.

Tuesday 9th February  14:00-16:00 (GMT)
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Research Webinar: Does intellectual property protection deliver economic benefits? A multi-outcome meta-regression analysis of the evidence

Speaker
Professor Mehmet Ugur

Abstract
Both theoretical and empirical research on intellectual property protection (IPP) report contingent and conflicting findings on how IPP affects related outcomes such as innovation, technology diffusion, productivity, or growth. To establish where the balance of the evidence lies and identify the sources of heterogeneity in the evidence base, we conduct a multi-outcome meta-regression analysis that takes account of dependence, unobserved heterogeneity, and publication selection at the same time. Drawing on 91 primary studies that report 1,626 effect-size estimates for one or more outcomes, we find that IPP does not spur innovation, technology diffusion, productivity, or economic growth. The effects remain statistically or practically insignificant under different scenarios concerning model specification, effect-size standardisation, and ‘best practice’ scenarios for research. Our work offers two contributions to existing knowledge: (i) we extend the application of the multi-outcome meta-regression analysis into evidence synthesis in economics; and (ii) we provide verifiable/replicable evidence indicating that the sanguine claims about the IPP’s economic benefits encountered in some legal studies and the advocacy literature are misleading.

Tuesday 16th February 14:00 – 16:00 (GMT)
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Webinar: A Sub-national Resource Curse? A synthetic-control approach to the case of hydrocarbons in Basilicata, Italy

Speaker

Dr Luca Tasciotti

Abstract

Basilicata is a region of Southern Italy where the expansion of oil operations in the 1990s was promoted as an opportunity to foster economic development. In 2020, Basilicata is one of the poorest regions in Europe despite the exploitation of the largest onshore hydrocarbon reserves of the continent. The coincidence of high poverty rates with abundant natural resources suggests that the region is experiencing a 'resource curse'; however, socio-economic problems predate the oil boom, complicating any causality claim. To disentangle and estimate the effects of oil exploitation, we employ the synthetic control method that compares the actual trends of development indicators of Basilicata with a counterfactual that is created by taking a weighted average of trends of other Italian regions --a 'synthetic' Basilicata.

The analysis finds that the development of oil operations has generated no detectable improvement to employment, nor to a range of social indicators, nor educational attainment. The absence of quantifiable beneficial effects is coupled with negative impacts on other dimensions of development that are more difficult to estimate --the environment and human health. Taken together the evidence offers a sobering prospect over the potential of resource-based development for disadvantaged regions in developed countries.

Time: 26th January, 4pm
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2020

Webinar: 3000 Years of Discrimination and Counting: How Caste Still Matters in the Indian Credit Sector

Speaker
Dr Navjot Sangwan

Abstract
The caste system has dominated the social, political and economic lives of Indian people for over three thousand years. Since independence, the Indian government has introduced a flood of quotas, schemes and affirmative action to tackle caste discrimination. Can seventy years of government policy reverse three thousand years of oppression? Taking a close look at the country's credit system reveals that a new, more subtle, and less overt form of discrimination appears to be emerging, and becoming more widespread. This paper examines whether caste-based differences influence the amount of credit sanctioned to borrowers in India utilising data from the India Human Development Survey collected in 2005 and 2011-12. Using the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition method, along with the Heckman procedure and the instrumental variable approach to correct for selection and simultaneity bias, I find substantial credit differentials between the general caste and other lower castes. I also show evidence of caste discrimination against the lower castes. The results of this research have been complemented by qualitative data gathered from interviewing lower caste borrowers in North India to understand the nature of discrimination and obstacles faced by them in the credit sector.

Time: Tuesday 8th December, 3.30pm
Click here to join the meeting [no need to sign up]
Working paper: PDF
Further details: here


Webinar: COVID-19, ecological, economic, social and financial sustainability

The scale of the COVID-19 crisis and its economic impact is unprecedented. Yet, even before the public health crisis struck, there were serious questions about the ecological, financial and social sustainability of our economy.

As economists from the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre and the Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA), we are hosting a series of webinars exploring the economic challenges of our time: from COVID-19 to the ecological, financial and social sustainability of modern capitalism.

Every Thursday at 3pm, a leading researcher from our research centre will run a free online seminar on their area of expertise, to help us make sense of these tumultuous times.

May 21: Fighting the COVID-19 emergency and relaunching the European economy: debt monetization and recovery bonds. Presentation slidesVideo

May 28: Investing in social infrastructure and equality: lessons for macroeconomic policy from the pandemic Presentation slidesVideo

June 4: COVID-19 and the public finances: Another ten years of austerity? Presentation slides |  Video

June 11: Class in the time of COVID-19: how the crisis has exposed class divides Presentation slidesVideo

June 18: Greening the Bank of England COVID-19 QE programme Presentation slidesVideo

June 22: Cooperatives: democracy, equality, and efficiency

July 2: Reflections on innovation policy after Covid-19: What does the microeconometric evidence tell us? Presentation slides

July 9: The political economy of income distribution – why is income inequality increasing and what can we do about it? Presentation slidesVideo

July 14: Is the European Green Deal ambitious enough? Presentation slidesVideo

In relation to the European Green Deal, please find two recent papers connected to European energy policy from GPERC academic Dr Yuliya Yurchenko Paper 1Paper 2

To see a more information on each event and to register please follow the link here.

Download Full Programme here.


Postponed: Rethinking Economics 2020: salvage the future

The future is uncertain. From ecological breakdown to precarious work, many people feel that business as usual is leading us towards a dead end. However, despite all the pessimism and fear, young people across the globe are demanding change - on the streets and in the classroom.

While dissenting students in economics have raised an unlimited number of questions about the future, answers from the mainstream remain scarce. Is our economics education fit to meet the challenges of the coming decade? What economic issues are behind this sense of decline? And do we need systemic change to salvage the future? On March 28 2020, Rethinking Economics Greenwich (REG) will host a festival of ideas to tackle these questions.

Speakers include Grace Blakeley, Jonathan Aldred, Daniela Gabor, Özlem Onaran, Nick Srnieck and many more...
  • Time: Saturday 28 March 10am to 6pm
  • Location: Room QA080, Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich
  • Tickets: Tickets are free but please sign up here, where you will find more information about speakers, location and details.

European Green Deal: From ambitions to reality

PEGFA researcher Dr Rafael Wildauer is presenting a policy paper on the European Green Deal. This is the first output from a larger project together with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, the Karl Renner Institute and the Chamber of Labour Vienna. The policy paper analyses the current proposals around the European Green Deal and compares them with the current scientific evidence coming out of climate science. Julia Herr, member of the Austrian Parliament and Niels Fuglsang, member of the European Parliament will provide a political assessment.

Please find the full programme here and register here.

  • Monday 15th June
  • 12:30 - 14:00
  • Registration link here
  • Full Programme here

International Cooperative Webinar

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA), in association with the African Cooperative union, is hosting an International Cooperative Webinar on Saturday 20th June.

The conference will take the form of four plenaries: The first will feature presentations from leading academics on cooperative economics and African peoples' empowerment. In the second, practitioner organisations involved in promoting African peoples' economic empowerment in the UK will speak about what they do. The third plenary will be devoted to institutions that provide technical of financial support to cooperatives. In the final plenary, which will be a 'meeting of the whole' those present will be invited to explore strategies to raise the level of cooperation among African people's cooperatives in the UK.

Speakers

Keynote: Professor Jessica Gordon-Nembhard | "The African American Cooperative Empowerment Experience"

Professor Esther Gicheru | Cooperative University of Keyna | "The Keynan Cooperative Experience"

Professor Gibril Faal | LSE | "The African Diaspora Experience in the UK and Continental Connections"

Professor Kehinde Andrews | Birmingham City University and author of Black to Black: Retelling Black radicalism for the 21st Century |  "The Social and Economic Circumstances of People of African Descent"

  • Saturday 20th June | 15:00 BST to 18:30 BST
  • For tickets and more information please see here

9th PKES Summer School – Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics and Political Economy

This event will now be hosted online.

This four-day summer school introduces Post Keynesian Economics as an alternative to mainstream neoclassical economic theory and neo-liberal economic policy. Key assumptions in Post Keynesian Economics are that individuals face fundamental uncertainty about the future; there is a central role for 'animal spirits' in the determination of investment decisions; inflation is the result of unresolved distributional conflicts; money is an endogenous creation of the private banking system; unemployment is determined by effective demand on the goods markets; financial markets are prone to periodic boom-bust cycles.

The summer school 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 be of interest for a broader audience.


Open Day: MSc Economics

VIDEO RECORDING HERE

The scale of the COVID-19 crisis and its economic impact is unprecedented. Yet even before the public health crisis struck, there were serious questions about the ecological, financial and social sustainability of our economy.

There has never been a more pressing time to learn economics. Policies are now being implemented across the world to deal with the health crisis which just a few months ago were considered radical. This shows more clearly than ever that economics is a broad discipline, with a wide range of perspectives and policies. The MSc economics at the University of Greenwich is situated within this pluralist tradition, providing a real world understanding of the economy from different theoretical perspectives, including post-keynesian, ecological, feminist, neoclassical and marxist.

On Monday 11 May, four leading academics who teach on the MSc programme will host a free, online open day to talk you through the programme and how it relates to their research. The open day is aimed at anyone who is potentially interested in learning about the economy and you do not need a formal background in economics to attend.

*Dr Alberto Botta, senior lecturer in economics

*Professor Özlem Onaran, professor of economics

*Professor Mehmet Ugur, professor of economics

*Dr. Maria Nikolaidi, senior lecturer in economics

Moderated by two current Greenwich Rethinking Economics students, Thomas Rabensteiner and Ben Tippet, the event is an opportunity to ask any questions you might have about undertaking an MSc degree: Why economics? Why Greenwich? And why pluralism?

  • Time: Monday 11 May 28 2pm to 4pm
  • Online: webinar link will be sent via link below
  • Tickets: Tickets are free but please sign up here, where you will find more information about speakers, location and details.

CANCELLED: Innovation Symposium

This event is now cancelled.

Despite considerable interest, and with heart-felt regret, we have decided to cancel the symposium.

This is due to two sources of uncertainty.
One source is the ongoing strike action in a large number of UK universities and its implications for people's schedules over the next few weeks. The other source is the developments around the Corona virus, which reflect increased emphasis on containment and precautions globally.
Coming to this conclusion has not been easy for us. We hope to be able to reschedule after the Easter break.

Morbid Symptoms: The Global Rise of the Far-Right

We would like to invite you to an exciting book event at the University of Greenwich with author and academic Dr Owen Worth. Dr Yuliya Yurchenko will introduce and host the discussion.

As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right's growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives.

Morbid Symptoms examines the far-right's ascendancy, uniquely tracing its history from the end of the Cold War, revealing how its different dimensions have led to a series of contradictory strategies and positions that often leave their overall significance unclear. From the United States to Russia and from Britain across Europe to Greece, Owen Worth's analysis reveals that the left's failure to mount a radical alternative to the prevailing order has allowed the far-right to move in and provide an avenue for discontent and for change. Crucially though this avenue hasn't necessarily offered a definite alternative to the status quo as yet, meaning there is still a chance to change its significance in the wider global order. This is an essential primer to the future of international politics and international relations.

We will send further details closer to the date of the event and look forward to seeing you then. ​
  • Time: Thursday 30 January 2020 5pm to 7pm
  • Authors: Dr Owen Worth
  • Location: Room QA175, Queen Anne Building, Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich
  • Tickets: while the event if free we ask you to sign up via this link

2019

Understanding dollarization: a Keynesian/Kaleckian perspective

We would like to invite you to an exciting seminar with Dr Robert Calvert Jump, who has recently joined PEGFA (University of Greenwich) as a research fellow. What does "dollarization" mean in a world of endogenous money, i.e. a world where money is not (only) created by printing pieces of paper, but (mainly) by making loans? Is it true that dollarization only constitutes a limitation of sovereignty in the short run (making it harder to run standard stabilization macro policies) or can it slow the growth process of a country? The paper builds a theoretical, Keynesian-Kaleckian growth model for a dollarized economy in a framework of endogenous money to answer these questions. We will show that, ceteris paribus, the steady-state medium-term growth rate of a dollarized economy is lower than that of a country with its own currency. We will also show that a dollarized economy is more likely to be unstable than an economy with its own currency, in the specific sense that, everything else being equal, it is more likely for a dollarized economy to fall into a debt trap

We will send further details closer to the date of the event and look forward to seeing you then. ​
  • Time: Tuesday 4 February 5pm to 7pm
  • Authors: Marco Missaglia, Università di Pavia, Italy
  • Location: Room QA063, Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich.
  • Tickets: The event is free

Deprivation and the electoral geography of Brexit

We would like to invite you to an exciting seminar with Dr Robert Calvert Jump, who has recently joined PEGFA (University of Greenwich) as a research fellow.

We will send further details closer to the date of the event and look forward to seeing you then. ​
  • Time: Wednesday 11th December at 5pm
  • Authors: Robert Calvert Jump (University of Greenwich) and Jo Michell (University of the West of England).
  • Location: Room QA075, Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich.
  • Tickets: The event is free but please sign up here

Communicating Climate Change

I would like to draw your attention to an exciting upcoming event at the University of Greenwich, Communicating Climate Change, jointly organised by the Sustainability Technology and Innovation Research (STIR) group and Greenwich University Staff/Student Ecoteam.

  • Time: Wednesday 12th December 5.00 to 7.00pm
  • Location: Room D026, Dreadnaught building, Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich.

Programme

5-00 -5-15 Introduction and general insight from research on communicating CC Topic opened and led by Fanny Paschek

5.15 -5-30 Ecoteam Greenwich – CC communication and action at Greenwich University Topic opened and led by Ecoteam Greenwich

5.30-6.00: Can popular culture raise public awareness of climate change? Topic opened by Anne-Marie Coles

6.00 -6.30: Do politicians listen? Strategies for sustainable policy change Topic opened by Allen Duncan,

6.30-7.00 Discussion on issues raised


The structural origins of authoritarianism

We would like to invite you to an exciting event with Professor Gabriel Porcile, UN O​fficer at the ECLAC, the UN Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, and Director of the ECLAC Summer School on Latin American economies. He will give a seminar on "The structural origins of authoritarianism".

  • Time: Tuesday 5th November at 17:00
  • Location: Room QA075, Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich.
  • Tickets: The event is free but please sign up via this link​.

The macroeconomic effects of income, wealth and gender inequalities and policies

  • Time: Monday 14 October 17:00 - 20:00
  • Location: Room QA080, Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich
  • Tickets: Tickets are free but please sign up here

We would like to invite you to a conference on "the macroeconomic effects of income, wealth and gender inequalities and policies" where we will present the results of our new project funded by the Rebuilding Macroeconomics, ESRC Network+. Speakers at the panel include Romina Boarini (OECD), Sangheon Lee (ILO), Angus Armstrong (NIESR, RM), Jerome De Henau (WBG), Ozlem Onaran (UoG), Cem Oyvat (UoG), and Denise Hawkes (UoG).

For more information and to see the program for the day, please follow the link here.


Innovation, firm dynamics, employment and growth: New developments in modelling and estimation

  • Time: Fri, 21 June 2019
  • Location: Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich, SE109LS
  • Tickets: Tickets are free but please sign up here

The workshop brings together 14 original research papers authored by 43 distinguished contributors to the research field. The papers address five themes, four of which are substantive and one is methodological:

  • The patterns of job creation, job destruction and job reallocation by technology class, firm age/size and distance to the technology frontier
  • Sources of heterogeneity in the effects of innovation on firm survival and productivity growth by countries, sectors and firm types
  • Public support for innovation: Policy design and performance issues
  • Causal pathways and contingencies in the relationship between innovation and employment, productivity growth and survival.

The workshop is of interest for established researchers, PhD students and policy-makers. Presentations of papers listed below will be followed by comments from pre-assigned discussants and Q&A sessions.

The conference is being organised by Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre/ Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (GPERC/PEGFA) & The Department of Economic Policy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.

For more information and to see the program for the day, please follow the link here.


8th PKES Summer School – Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics and Political Economy

  • Time: 26th - 28th June 2019
  • Place: Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich, SE109LS
  • Tickets: Sign up link TBA
    • Workshop only (no accommodation): £25 (PKES members) / £45 (non-PKES members)
    • Workshop + accommodation for 3 nights (Wed-Fri, 25/06-28/06).
      Early Bird registration until 26 May: £60 (PKES members) / £80 (non-PKES members)
    • Workshop + accommodation for 3 nights (Wed-Fri, 25/06-28/06).
      After 26 May: £95 (PKES members) / £110 (non-PKES members)

This three-day summer school introduces Post-Keynesian Economics as an alternative to mainstream neoclassical economic theory and neoliberal economic policy. Key assumptions in Post Keynesian Economics are that individuals face fundamental uncertainty about the future; there is a central role for 'animal spirits' in the determination of investment decisions; inflation is the result of unresolved distributional conflicts; money is an endogenous creation of the private banking system; unemployment is determined by effective demand on the goods markets; financial markets are prone to periodic boom-bust cycles.

The summer school 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 be of interest for a broader audience.


Sustainability, Technology and Innovation Research Workshop

  • Time: 25th June 2019 10.30am - 5pm
  • Place: QA210, Queen Anne Building Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich, SE109LS
  • Tickets: Free event

Research round up of current projects happening at Greenwich.

For a full programme, please click here. 

30 - 31 March: Still Rethinking? The Need for Pluralism in Economics

  • Time: Weekend conference
  • Place: Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich, SE10 9LS
  • Tickets: Sign up here
  • Conference website.

After the 2008 financial crisis, the call for different approaches and methodologies in Economics became irrefutable. But what has really changed in the way Economics is researched, taught and practiced? Is there progress towards a more pluralist agenda or are we facing a backlash from the established institutions? Should Economics be left entirely to economists? At Still Rethinking, we want to look at the current state of economics. The need for pluralism in Economics and for interdisciplinary approaches seems to be more urgent than ever. Today, only a handful of universities offer pluralist programmes.

The conference also aims at introducing undergraduate students to pluralism in Economics. We will look at challenges concerning economic theory, social relations, climate change, gender issues, inequalities, housing and Brexit, among other socially relevant urgent issues of our time. What has economics to offer regarding these challenges?

Speakers TBA soon. For more information, please see the official conference website.


The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

  • Time: 6.00 – 9.00 pm.
  • Place: Room QA180, Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich, SE10 9LS

Join us for this free film screening, followed by Q&A. The Spider's Web is an award-winning documentary investigating the world of Britain's secrecy jurisdictions and the City of London, and its impact on global tax revenues and public welfare.

Q&A after the film screening with:

  • John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network
  • Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting, University of Essex
  • The panel will be chaired by Dr Lesley Catchpowle, Senior Lecturer in Social and Critical Accounting, University of Greenwich

Co-hosted by Rethinking Economics Greenwich, and the Institute for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA)

For more information please see the facebook event.

21 March: Celebrating 30 years of Professor Mehmet Ugur

You are cordially invited to celebrate Professor Mehmet Ugur's 30 years of teaching, research and scholarly activity at the University of Greenwich. The celebration will consist of a programme of exciting speakers followed by a drinks reception. The programme of speakers are:

  • Chair: Prof Ozlem Onaran, co-director of PEGFA
  • Opening by Pro VC Jonathan Sibson, Faculty of Business, University of Greenwich
  • Prof Denise Hawkes, HoD Dept of International Business and Economics, University of Greenwich
  • Prof Mehmet Ugur, deputy director of PEGFA
  • Prof Marco Vivarelli, Professor of Economics, Catholic University of Milano
  • Dr Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
  • Dr Noemi Levy-Aksu, LSE Teaching Fellow
  • Rob Copeland, University and College Union (UCU) Policy Officer

We hope you will be able to join us to celebrate Professor Ugur's scholarly contributions and reflect on the future of academic freedom.

For more information please see here.


16 February: Transforming Finance Conference

  • Time: 10.30am - 5.30pm
  • Place: Room QA180, Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich, SE10 9LS
  • Tickets: Sign up here
  • Conference website.

Transforming Finance aims to address the practical potential of a socialist finance. It will analyse the dominant power of the global financial system and outline the various ways that people are organising to challenge this power. Its aims are to use academic knowledge and lived experience to answer an unresolved but deeply important question: how can we make finance work for rather than against society?

Speakers for the day are:

  • Grace Blakeley, Economics commentator & Research Fellow at IPPR
  • Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at SOAS
  • Fran Boait - Executive Director at Positive Money
  • Laurie Macfarlane, Economics Editor at openDemocracy and research associate at IIPP
  • Brett Scott - Journalist, Campaigner, Author
  • Dr Adotey Bing-Pappoe, lecturer in Economics at University of Greenwich
  • Lavinia Steinfort - Researcher at Transnational Institute
  • Matthew Lawrence - Economist and former senior research fellow at IPPR
  • Ben Beach - Activist, organiser and architecture research student
  • Siôn Whellens - Cooperative worker at Calverts and director of Cooperative London
  • Dr Jeff Powell - Senior lecturer in Economics at University of Greenwich
  • Dr Maria Nikolaidi, Lecturer in Economics at University of Greenwich
  • Rhona Friedman - Criminal and human rights solicitor at Hickman & Rose and Bindmans LLP.
  • Lydia Hughes - IWGB trade union organiser with foster care workers and senior editor of Notes from Below

For more information please see the conference website above.


7 February: Asymmetric information and heterogeneous effects of R&D subsidies: Evidence on R&D investment and employment of R&D personnel

Research seminar by Prof Mehmet Ugur (University of Greenwich).  Location: University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, room QA 010. Time 17:00-18:00.

2018

  • Dr. Andrea Baronchelli, City University
  • Dr Marco Bardoscia, Bank of England
  • Kristian Bouw, CEO and founder of  notiontheory.com
  • Prof. Menelaos Karanasos, Brunel University

2017

  • 13 December 2017: The missing rich- power law modelling to tackle non-observation and non-response problems in household surveys. Research seminar by Rafael Wildauer (University of Greenwich). Co-organised by FEPS and GPERC. Location: University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, room QA165. Time 16:00-17:00.
  • 6 December 2017: The Economic Impact and Cause of Income Inequality: the shifting views of the international financial institutions, by John Evans. Co-organised by FEPS, University of Greenwich Business School, and GPERC. Location: University of Greenwich, King William Court room KW303. Time: 17:00-19:00. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).
  • 29 November 2017: A European Future for Brexit Britain? Talk by Lord Roger Liddle, co-organised by FEPS, UoG Business School, and GPERC. Location: University of Greenwich, King William Court room KW303. Time: 17:00-19:00. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).
  • 1 November 2017: Workshop on Growth and Income Distribution. Keynote speaker: Prof Marc Lavoie (Paris 13). Speakers include: Prof Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University), Prof Ozlem Onaran (GPERC), Dr Maria Nikolaidi (GPERC), Dr Rafael Wildauer (GPERC), Dr Cem Oyvat (GPERC), Dr Sakir Devrim Yilmaz (Kingston University). The workshop was chaired by Dr David Rinaldi (FEPS) and it is jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the University of Greenwich. Queen Anne Court Room QA080. Time: 16:30-19:30.The programme and abstracts of the presentations are here.
  • 18 October 2017: A Dynamic Model of Global Value Chains: Degree of Monopsony Power, Consolidation and Symbiosis. Research seminar by Giorgos Galanis (Goldsmiths College) and Ashok Kumar (Birkbeck, University of London), jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, room QA065. Time: 16:00-18:00. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).
  • 5 October 2017: The Complexity Approach to Post Keynesian Macro-modeling.
    Research seminar by Corrado Di Guilmi, University of Technology Sydney, jointly organised by FEPS and GPERC. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, room QA065. Time: 17:00-19:00. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).
  • 22 June 2017: Perspectives on Responsible Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
  • 12 April - June 2017: Lecture Series in Selected Topics Post-Keynesian, institutionalist, feminist and Marxian political economy.
  • 31 May - 1 June 2017: Conference co- organized by FEPS,     GPERC, and PKSG. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, Room QA080. Speakers include Daniele Tori (Open University), Robert Jump (Kingston University), Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary London), Roger Farmer (University of Warwick), Sebastian Dullien (HTW Berlin), Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University), Daniela Gabor (UWE), Jan Toporowski (SOAS) and Daniela Prates (UNICAMP, Brazil) among others. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).
  1. Key note lecture by Dr Michael Kumhof, Bank of England, on "Income Distribution and Stability", and presentation of the results of the project "An investment and equality-led sustainable growth strategy", by Ozlem Onaran, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Lisa Kastner, Signe Dahl, Paul Sweeney, Maria Nikolaidi, Giovanni Cozzi, and Daniele Tori.The conference is jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC,  TASC and ECLM. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne court room QA080. Time: 17:00-19:30.
  2. 5 April 2017: Forgotten Macroeconomics in Mega Trade and Investment Deals

Research seminar by Dr Jeronim Capaldo, Tufts University, chaired by Dr Ernst Stetter, Secretary General, FEPS, and jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich Queen Anne Court room QA180. Time: 13:00-15:00. Dr Capaldo's talk is based on a synthesis of two papers on TTIP and TPP.

  • 29 March 2017: Does Inequality Hamper Innovation and Growth? An AB-SFC Analysis

Research seminar by Alberto Russo, Marche Polytechnic University, jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich, Stephen Lawrence building, room: SL007 Time: 13:00-14:00. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).

  • 22 March 2017: Smooth Transition Analysis and Portfolio Optimization: the case of emerging- and frontier-equity markets

Research seminar by Francesco Guidi, jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich, Stephen Lawrence building, room: SL007. Time: 13:00-14:00. The seminar is based on the paper "Smooth Transition Analysis and Portfolio Optimization: the case of emerging- and frontier-equity markets", co-authored by Francesco Guidi, Christos Savva and Gabriella Cagliesi.

  • 15 March 2017: Wage-led vs Profit-led Growth: a comprehensive empirical analysis

Research seminar by Cem Oyvat,  jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich, Queen Mary building, room QM168. Time: 13:00-14:00.

  • 9 March 2017:  Postgraduate Research Students' Seminar on Sustainable Transitions

The student seminar is jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and STIR. University of Greenwich, Queen Mary court room QM168. Time: 16:00-17:00. For abstracts of the papers presented please visit here.

  • 8 March 2017, International Women's Day: Gender Equality for a Sustainable Economy

Book launch and discussion with Prof. Diane Elson (University of Essex), Heather Wakefield (Unison, Head of Local Government), Prof Ozlem Onaran (University of Greenwich, GPERC), Dr Hannah Bargawi (SOAS), Dr Giovanni Cozzi (University of Greenwich, GPERC), Dr Jerome de Henau (Open University), co-organised by FEPS, GPERC, and Women's Budget Group. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA065. Time 17:00- 19:00.  For the details of the contributions, please visit here. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).

  • 22 February 2017: "Non-linearities and Heterogeneity in R&D Productivity", seminar by Edna Solomon, jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich, Stephen Lawrence building, room: SL007 Time: 13:00-14:00
  • 2 February 2017: "The economic impact of Brexit in the age of secular stagnation", with Matthew Pennycook (MP for Greenwich and Woolwich and Shadow Minister for Exiting the European Union), Ms Sian Errington (Unite the Union, Political Officer), Mr John Palmer (former European Editor of The Guardian), Mr Andrew Harrop (Fabian Society, General Secretary), Prof Gerhard Stahl (the College of Europe in Brügge, Peking University HSBC Business School and FEPS Scientific Council), Prof Ozlem Onaran (Director of GPERC), Prof Mehmet Ugur (chair), co-organised by FEPS & GPERC. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA065. Time: 17:00-19:00.
  • 1 February 2017: Seminar "How to tackle the subjective measurement of agency. An empirical application on Italy", by Toa Giroletti, University of Pavia, jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). Part of this research has been implemented in collaboration with the EC funded project "CrESSI - Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation" (GA no: 613261). University of Greenwich, Stephen Lawrence building, room: SL007 Time: 13:00-14:00.
  • 26 January 2017: Book launch "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics", by Dirk Ehnts, Chemnitz Technical University, jointly organised by FEPS & GPERC. University of Greenwich King William court room KW003. Time: 17:00- 19:00. Chair and discussant: Professor Ozlem Onaran (FEPS Scientific Council member and Director of GPERC).
  • 25 January 2017: "Coping with uncertainty: policy responses of central and local government authorities in the U.K.", Research seminar by Catalin Dragomirescu-Caina, Foundation for Progressive European Studies (FEPS), jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich Queen Anne court, room QA238. Time: 13:00-15:00.
  • 18 January 2017: "Within-industry size diversity and firm survival: Evidence from UK data", seminar by Prof Mehmet Ugur, jointly organised by FEPS, GPERC, and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich, Stephen Lawrence building, room: SL007 Time: 13:00-14:00.

2016

  • 14 December 2016: "Alleviating the Childcare Constraint for Women: Empirical Evidence from the UK", seminar by Dr Gabriella Cagliesi, jointly organised by GPERC, FEPS and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich Stephen Lawrence building, room SL106. Time: 13:00-14:00.
  • 10 December 2016: One-day workshop, exhibition and round-table discussion: "Democratic Transformations, Kurdish Women and Regional Conflict: Lessons from Rojava and beyond", jointly organised by GPERC and Peace in Kurdistan – Women's Alliance for Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria. University of Greenwich, King William Court room KW002. Time: 09:30-18:30
  • 7 December 2016: "Migration in Kenya: Beyond Harris-Todaro", seminar by Dr Cem Oyvat,  jointly organised by GPERC, FEPS and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE). University of Greenwich Stephen Lawrence building, room SL106.Time: 13:00-14:00.
  • 23 November 2016: "Prosperity without Growth in a Finite Planet" by Professor Tim Jackson, University of Surrey. Jointly organised by the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), GPERC and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA080. Time: 17:00- 19:00 talk.
  • 10 Nov 2016: "Money and Totality", by Professor Fred Moseley, Mount Holyoke College, USA, jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich Queen Anne Court room QA065. Time 17:00-19:00. No registration required, but spaces are limited.
  • 12 October 2016: "How much is enough" by Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, jointly organised by the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), GPERC and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Library, 10 Stockwell Street, room 11_0004. Time: 16:00- 17:00 coffee welcome, 17:00- 19:00 talk.
  • 10 October 2016: "Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises" by Professor Anwar Shaikh, of the New School University, USA, jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA180, time: 17:00- 19:00.
  • 28 June 2016: One-day workshop: "Smart Urban Transport Policy Futures III", co-organised by GPERC, FEPS and STIR (Sustainability Technology and Innovation Research Group) University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA210, time: 09:30-18:30. The event is partly funded by a British Academy/ Society for the Advancement of Management Studies grant.
  • 20 June 2016: One-day workshop: "Small steps towards sustainability: Exploring the distributed, fragmented and piecemeal aspects of socio-technical change", co-organised by GPERC, FEPS and STIR (Sustainability Technology and Innovation Research Group) University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA210, time: 10.00-16.00.
  • 15 June 2016: Panel discussion: "Remain for Change: Building European solidarity for a democratic economic alternative", with Keir Starmer MP,  Matt Wrack (General Secretary, Fire Brigades Union),  Ann Pettifor (Director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics-Prime), John Weeks (Emeritus Professor, SOAS),  Jeremy Smith (Convenor of EREP & Co-Director of PRIME), Jo Michell (Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England), Ozlem Onaran (Professor, University of Greenwich, GPERC), Engelbert Stockhammer (Professor, Kingston University) and Mehmet Ugur (Professor, University of Greenwich, GPERC), jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA080. Time: 18:00-20:00. The report of EREP can be downloaded here.
  • 10 June 2016: 26th Post Keynesian Study Group (PKSG) Annual Workshop, University of Greenwich. Organised by: Dr Maria Nikolaidi, University of Greenwich, Professor Ozlem Onaran, University of Greenwich, and Professor Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston University. Jointly organized by PKSG, GPERC and FEPS.
  • 9 June 2016: Post-Keynesian Study Group (PKSG) Annual PhD Student Conference. Organised by: Professor Gary Dymski, University of Leeds,  and Professor Ozlem Onaran, Eurydice Fotopoulou, Alexander Guschanski, Thomas Obst, Daniele Tori, University of Greenwich. Time 9:00 - 19:00, University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, Room QA080. Jointly organized by PKSG, GPERC and FEPS.
  • 23 May 2016: Conference and Book Launch: "Investment Policies for Sustainable Growth" with Massimo D'Alema (Former Prime Minister of Italy and President of FEPS), Richard Burgon MP (Shadow Minister – Treasury), Markus Berndt (Head of Division at the European Investment Bank), Professor Ozlem Onaran, Professor Jan Toporowski, Dr. Ernst Stetter (FEPS), Dr Giovanni Cozzi, jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich Queen Ann Court, room QA080. Time: 16:00-18:45. More information about the book edited by Giovanni Cozzi, Susan Newman and Jan Toporowski.
  • 18 May 2016: Research seminar: Yun Kim: "Political Aspects of Household Debt", jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA020, time: 17:00-18:30.
  • 4 May 2016: Research seminar: Professor Mehmet Ugur: "Firm R&D intensity and employment: Evidence of inverted-U relationship in UK data", jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich, Queen Mary Court room QM268, time 17:00-18:00.
  • 28 April 2016: Report launch: Decent Jobs and Wage-led Growth in the UK and Europe, co-organised by GPERC, FEPS and TASC (Ireland), with John McDonnell MP; Professor Ozlem Onaran, Professor Engelbert Stockhammer, Professor James Wickham, Dr Alicja Bobek, Professor Francis Green, Dr Geoff Tily, Dr Ernst Stetter, Mr David Begg. Time: 14:45 - 20:00, University of Greenwich, King William Court, Room KW303. Our press release can be found here.
  • 21 April 2016: Research seminar: Dr Ceyhun Elgin, Bogazici University, "Informality: Measures, Causes and Consequences" jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA210. Time: 17:00-19:00.
  • 6 April 2016: GPERC- STIR (sustainability technology and innovation research group): Public launch of the Association for the Study of Innovation, Science and Technology (AsSIST-UK) with Dr Anne-Marie Coles. British Sociological Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, time: 19.00.
  • 9 March - June 2016: PhD lecture series in selected topics in Post-Keynesian, Institutional, Feminist and the Marxian Political Economy, University of Greenwich and Kingston University. Jointly organised by GPERC, FEPS and Kingston University.
  • 9 March 2016: Research seminar: Dr Alberto Botta, "The Theoretical Weaknesses of the Expansionary Austerity Doctrine and its Disastrous Implementation in the Eurozone", Joint International Business and Economics (IBE), GPERC and FEPS research seminar series, at the University of Greenwich, Hamilton House, HH103, Time 16:00 - 17:00.
  • 2 March 2016: Research seminar: Dr Giovanni Cozzi, "Investment-led recovery for Europe: modelling alternatives to austerity", Joint International Business and Economics (IBE), FEPS and GPERC research seminar series, at the University of Greenwich, Queen Ann Court, room QA063, Time 16:00 - 17:00.
  • 10 February 2016: Meta-analysis as a method of evidence synthesis: A workshop, by Mehmet Ugur, University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, room QA210, Time 13:30-17:00. Please find here the notes and do files.
  • 20 January 2016: Research seminar: "UK subsidies and private R&D: Is there input additionality?", by Mehmet Ugur, Eshref Trushin and Edna Solomon. Joint International Business and Economics (IBE), FEPS and GPERC research seminar series, at the University of Greenwich Queen Anne Court, room QA063. Time 16:00-17:00.
  • 19 January 2016: GPERC Launch Conference: "Building equitable and sustainable society, four decades of Political Economy at Greenwich", jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS. University of Greenwich, Queen Ann Court, room QA080. Time: 17:00 - 20:30.

2015

  • 5 November 2015: GPERC- STIR (sustainability technology and innovation research group) seminar: "Data into Knowledge", with Eur Ing Dr Deryn Graham on 'Introduction to Big Data and Predictive Analytics' and Dr Anne-Marie Coles on 'Science Fiction Film as a Money-spinner: Innovator as Audience or Audience as Innovator?'
  • 27 October 2015: Report Launch:  Working for the economy: the economic case for trade unions, joint GPERC and New Economic Foundation research project.
  • 4 October 2015: Seminar: Dr Alberto Botta: "The complex inequality-innovation-public investment nexus", University of Greenwich.

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