🔹The new Cambridge Festival will take place from 26 March to 4 April 2021, with a series of free online events and activities including podcasts, films, panel discussions, virtual tours, walks and talks for the whole family.

🔹The full programme of events will be availble online at the end of February 2021.

▫️Sign up for festival updates:
https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/sign-festival-updates
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✅ NaDiMa Dialogue #7

▫️Challenges and Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Views from Iran & Beyond.
18 December 2020

Mohammad R. Farzanegan
Tim Krieger
Hamidreza Khankeh
Kamiar Mohaddes

Video: https://youtu.be/bt59XnseAiE
#webinar
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✅ Meaningful Integration or Jobless Future?
with Daron Acemoglu and William Janeway

Watch on youtube
https://youtu.be/-MO-c7u1lJY
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✅Going for Growth
#Webinar
🔹Professor John Van Reenen Hosted by Baroness Shafik (the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE)

▫️How can we get back to sustainable growth following the COVID-19 pandemic? Pulling together the lessons of 30 years of work on technology, management and productivity.

Monday 08 February 2021 08:00 PM in Tehran
register:
https://lse.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pFKuADlNQrqxKCYgDBCCNQ

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✅The Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks:
Microeconometric Evidence
#Webinar

▫️Dr. Niklas Amber (Research Division of Monetary Policy Department at Sveriges Riksbank in Sweden) hosted by TeIAS.

8 Feb 2021
13:30 Tehran time

Register:
teias.institute/Amberg-talk202102/

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✅JFK JR. FORUM: Cooperative Internationalism and Domestic Inclusivity: Making Them Work Together

Dani Rodrik HKS alumnus and Senior Minister of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam MPA 1989 will discuss how we can achieve a more effective interplay of cooperative internationalism and national strategies to secure a safer and more inclusive world.

📆 Friday, February 5th 2021
⏰ 12pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jwUFE0ewQq2s0OFZGecBhQ

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✅LSE Festival; Shaping the Post-COVID World

#Event

▫️A week of virtual events free and open to all, taking place from 1 - 6 March 2021, about the direction the world could and should be taking after the COVID crisis and how social science research can shape it.

Live Festival: 18 webinars
Skills Festival: 5 webinars

👉🏼 More Information and Registering

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✅Economics of Child Well-being and Development with Prof. Guilherme Lichand at the University of Zurich!

#Course

▫️New course open for students from low- and middle-income countries on https://remotestudentexchange.org

Syllabus
🗓22 Feb 2021 - 08 Apr 2021

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✅Experimental and Behavioral Economics with Prof. Dorothea Kübler
WZB Berlin and Technical University Berlin
Master's level

#Course

▫️The course intends to introduce students to the experimental method in economics. The participants learn how to conduct an experiment and are introduced to the literature in experimental and behavioral economics. Students identify a research
question and design an experiment that addresses the research question. They write a term paper on the experimental design, or possibly the results from a small pilot.

12 Apr 2021 — 17 Jul 2021
Sign up: https://remotestudentexchange.org

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✅Money View Symposium
#Event

▫️5-7 February 17:30-23:00 Tehran time

Register to attend:
https://fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/blnrjes6ti/index.html?1612216185530

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✅In case you missed, the Globalisation Hub projects presented their final findings:
#Event
Chair: Stephen Kinsella (University of Limerick) and Angus Armstrong (Rebuilding Macroeconomics)

Henrietta Moore (UCL): Developing an Economy of Belonging: the role of public services in balancing a globalised economy

Pawel Bukowski/Stephen Machin(LSE): Globalisation and Rent Sharing

Daniela Gabor, Jo Michell (both University of the West of England) and Yannis Dafermos (SOAS):Managing supercycles: globalisation and institutional change

Claudius Gräbner (University of Duisberg-Essen): Country capabilities, product complexity, and finance in the EU: an AB-SFC multi country model for policy analysis

Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst):What drives specialisation? A century of revealed comparative advantage

Watch here: https://youtu.be/VV6p45vUpqo

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✅ MITx MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy
#Course
▫️دانشگاه MIT دوره‌ی آموزشی آنلاینی ایجاد کرده است که علاقه‌مندان می‌توانند با گذراندن 5 کورس آنلاین در edX، به یکی از شعب موسسه Pearson مراجعه کرده و در صورت موفقیت در امتحان حضوری، مدرک این دوره را دریافت کنند.

▫️شرکت کنندگان این امکان را دارند تا پس از اتمام دوره به دانشگاه MIT رفته و با گذراندن 61 واحد آموزشی به صورت حضوری، مدرک کارشناسی ارشد DEDP را کسب کنند. لازم به ذکر است که edX برای هر کورس به صورت جداگانه گواهینامه معتبر اعطا می‌کند.

🔹این دوره به کوشش J-PAL و دپارتمان اقتصاد MIT (آبهیجیت بانرجی، استر دوفلو، سارا فیشر الیسون، ریچل گلنرستر، جاناتان گروبر و بنجامین اولکن) طراحی و اجرا شده است.

Future Courses Dates
Spring 2021: starts Feb. 9, 2021
Summer 2021: starts June 1, 2021

More Information:
https://micromasters.mit.edu/dedp/

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✅Pavlina Tcherneva: The Many Benefits of a Jobs Guarantee
#Podcasts
▫️Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College, discusses her new book, The Case for a Jobs Guarantee, outlining why society would benefit tremendously from such a program.

Download Podcast
Listen online

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✅Joseph Stiglitz | Rethinking Globalization - post Covid and post Trump

#Webinar
by The Economist's Society, UCL

🔹Wed, 10 February 2021
21:30 – 22:30 Tehran time

Register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joseph-stiglitz-rethinking-globalization-post-covid-and-post-trump-tickets-140502868863

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✅Principles of Economics
By Dr. Masoud Nili (Professor of economics at Sharif University)
#Course

▫️This course is free and open for everyone.

🔹From 14-Feb-2021, Sundays and Tuesdays 15-16:30 Tehran time

Join:
https://vc.sharif.edu/ch/13992-447141

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✅Program Evaluation and Causal Inference
by Prof. Pietro Biroli
University of Zurich

▫️This technical #Course in applied econometrics provides an introduction to recent advances in the methods used for program and policy evaluation. The focus will be on the discussion of causal inference and estimation of treatment effects. These econometric methods will be illustrated using real-world examples in the field of health and labor economics.
syllabus
▫️Prerequisites
The course is targeted at students at the master level who want to become familiar with modern econometric methods for causal inference. Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of statistics and regression models at the level of Green (2012), Wooldridge (2013) or Stock (2012).

Class sessions
23 Feb 2021 — 01 Jun 2021
Tuesday, 08:15—09:45 ((GMT+01:00) Zurich)
Wednesday, 16:15—18:00 ((GMT+01:00) Zurich)
Access this course here:
https://remotestudentexchange.org/

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✅Robert Akerlef | How the Studying of Meaning Making Will Enrich Economic Analysis

#podcast

◻️Robert Akerlof, economics professor at the University of Warwick, discusses his research into issues of self-esteem and values and how such a focus can greatly improve efforts to make sense of economic activity.

Listen online

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✅Online Summer School in Modern Difference in Differences Design
#Event
🏫University of Milan

▫️Instructor:
John Poe (University of Michigan)
Teaching Assistant:
Silvia Vannutelli (Boston University)

▫️This course provides a comprehensive overview of modern Diff-in-Diff designs. The sessions will proceed step by step starting by the basic set-up and build up to the state-of-the-art applications. The course is structured to provide:
a broad overview of a problem and the associated methods and literature;
an in-depth look at a particularly important paper;
how to implement the methods in software.

💶The course is fully funded by the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) at the University of Milan.

📜Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to request a certificate of participation

⏳Deadline:
February 28th, 2021 at 23:59:59 CET.

🌐 Visit Website: https://b2n.ir/753463

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✅Gender Equity in the COVID Era: Women's Mentorship, Collaboration, and Economic Empowrement.
#Webinar

▫️Teatime with SHE featuring Nadereh Chamlou from Atlantic Council hosted by Dr. Navid Madani.

⏰Feb 17, 2021 19:30 in Tehran

Register: https://dfci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p9FxfGgkTXiv2JKsYigqJg

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✅Monopoly Capital In The Contemporary Global Economy

▫️In this #Webinar series, four books that focuses on big companies in contemporary capitalism will be presented.

11 February
Maurice E. Stucke (University of Tennessee) and Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford)
“Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants”

22 March
Cecilia Rikap (CONICET, Université de Paris and Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
“Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered”

5 April
John Thoburn (University of East Anglia) and Kaoru Natsuda (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
“Automotive Industrialisation: Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia”

19 April
Cédric Durand (University of Geneva and Centre d'Économie Paris Nord)
“Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique”

Register: https://ysiproject.org/mono

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✅The Costs of Connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriates it for capitalism
#Webinar
🔹Professor Nick Couldry and Dr Ulises Ali Mejias hosted by Dr Bingchun Meng (the Department of Media and Communications at LSE)

▫️Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias will discuss their new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism. They argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism.

Thursday 25 February 2021
Register here

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