Workshop Schedule
Sunday, June 5
Students arrive at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Monday, June 6
10:00 - 10:15 AM: Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00 AM: “A New Approach to Public Finance” | Pavlina R. Tcherneva (Bard College)
11:00 - 11:45 AM: “The Spectrum of Monetary Sovereignty” | Fadhel Kaboub (Denison University, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity)
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM: Breakout Groups
12:45 - 1:45 PM: Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 PM: “The Last Colonial Currency: The Case of the CFA Franc” | Ndongo Samba Sylla (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
2:45 - 3:30 PM: “"The Case of Palestine: Material Excesses of an Occupied Economy" | Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College)
3:30 - 3:45 PM: Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:30 PM: “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Economic Policy, Monetary Sovereignty, and the Impact of Sanctions” | Oleksandr Valchyshen (University of Missouri - Kansas City)
5:30 - 8:00 PM: Welcome BBQ , hosted by Leon Botstein, President of Bard College
Tuesday, June 7
10:00 - 10:30 AM: “Deriving the Sector Balances: A Step-By-Step Guide” | Yeva Nersisyan (Franklin & Marshall College)
10:30 - 10:45 AM: Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM: Lab - Constructing Sectoral Balances | Liudmila Malyshava, Oleksandr Valchyshen, Patricia Pino, Matt Robinson, Sam Levey, Kyle Mohr
12:45 - 1:45 PM: Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 PM: Student Presentations | Yeva Nersisyan (Franklin & Marshall College)
3:15 - 3:45 PM: Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:30 PM: “Spotlight on the Eurozone” | Dirk Ehnts (TU Chemnitz; Pufendorf Gesellschaft)
4:30 - 5:00 PM: Lab - Deriving Sectoral Balances for Home Countries
5:00 - 5:30 PM: Discussion
Wednesday, June 8
10:00 - 11:00 AM: Lab - Basic Balance Sheet Operations | Eric Tymoigne, Dirk Ehnts, Oleksandr Valchyshen, Matt Robinson, Sam Levey, Kyle Mohr
11:00 - 11:15 AM: Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45 AM: Review Exercises | Kyle Mohr and workshop faculty
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM: “Money Pyramid, Balance Sheets, and Monetary Sovereignty" | Kyle Mohr (EDI, Bard College)
12:45 - 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 PM: "Balance Sheet Mechanics of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Coordination and Consolidation" | Eric Tymoigne
3:00 - 4:00 PM: Lab - Government Spending and Taxation | Eric Tymoigne and workshop faculty
4:00 - 4:15 PM: Coffee Break
4:15 - 5:15 PM: Special Topics | Yeva Nersisyan, Oleksandr Valchyshen, Dirk Ehnts, and Fadhel Kaboub
5:15 - 5:45 PM: Group photo at Reem-Kayden Center
Thursday, June 9
10:30 - 11:15 AM: “Experiences with Public Employment Programs from around the World” | Jordan Ayala (EDI, Bard College)
11:15 - 11:30 AM: Coffee Break
1:00 - 2:00 PM: “FDR Library Keynote Address: Aspirational Law and the Economic Bill of Rights” | Philip Harvey (Rutgers Law School)
2:00 - 4:00 PM: Tour of FDR House and Library
Friday, June 10
10:15 - 10:45 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 AM: "China's Sector Balances and Balance Sheets” | Yan Liang (Willamette University)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Student Breakout Groups
12:45 - 1:45 PM: Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 PM: “Africa: Development, Monetary Sovereignty, Economic Dependence” | Ndongo Samba Sylla (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
2:45 - 3:30 PM: "Public Spending in Latin America: The Peruvian Case” | Patricia Pino (Kings College London)
3:30 - 3:45 PM: Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:30 PM: "An Alternative Framework for Global Public Policy" | L. Randall Wray (Bard College, Levy Economics Institute)
4:30 - 5:00 PM: Summer Workshop Concluding Remarks | Pavlina R. Tcherneva (EDI, Bard College)
6:00 - 9:00 PM: Farewell Dinner
All sessions on Bard College campus will be held in Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation - RKC 103 - Laszlo Z. Bito ‘60 Auditorium