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News and activities

13 May 2012 Bank of Finland seminar

José Sanchez Fung has presented "Examining the role of monetary aggregates in China" to the research seminar series of the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT).

16 February 2012 Catholic Schooling and Further Education

Economics Letters is publishing 'Catholic schooling and further education' by Young-Joo Kim in its March 2012 issue. This paper shows uses longtitudinal data from the USA that attending a Catholic high school has a
permanent impact on educational attainment.

19 January 2012 LSE Seminar Paper

Paul Auerbach presents The Giant Firm as a Model of Socialist Co-ordination: How the Centrally Planned Economy was Inspired by the Second Industrial Revolution to the Modern and Comparative Economic History Seminar Group at the LSE.

01 January 2012 Subrata Ghatak

With sadness, we note the passing of Emeritus Professor Subrata Ghatak, who has unexpectedly suffered a fatal heart attack. Subrata led our research activities from 1997 until his retirement in 2005, since when he continued a close association with the School. His passing is mourned by an extensive network of friends and colleagues throughout the UK and abroad. A funeral will take place on Saturday 21 January 2012 at 9.45am at the Heart of England Crematorium, Heart of England Way, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV11 6WZ, England.

01 December 2011 Liberalisation, growth and regime shifts

The International Journal of Economic Issues has published Financial Liberalisation and Endogenous Growth in Bangladesh: cointegration analysis with regime shifts by Subrata Ghatak and Jalal Siddiki, as pages 191-207 of its July-December 2011 issue. This paper identifies a long-run relationship between growth and financial liberalisation when regime shifts are incorporated into the empirical analysis.

08 November 2011 Book launch

A book launch for “A Modern Guide To Keynesian Macroeconomics And Economic Policies”, edited by Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer, takes place on Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 5.30 – 7.30 pm at UCL, organised by the Post Keynesian Economics Study Group.

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