Professor Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, will host an all-day seminar series discussing financial crashes and climate disasters.
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
October 20, 2018
The New School
6 E 16th Street, Room D1009
Albert and Vera List Academic Center
New York, NY 10003
If you are unable to join the seminar series in person, you can join the live webex meeting here (Meeting number: 640 223 427).
The schedule for the series is as follows:
Check in (9:30 - 10:00 AM)
Opening and Introduction (10:00 AM - 10:15 AM)
Session A: Financial markets, wealth distribution, and instability (10:15 AM - 11:30 AM)
- Oil Prices and Banking Instability: A Jump-Diffusion Model and Empirics
Presented by Samar Issa, The New School and Willi Semmler - Estimating Bi-Modality and Inflection in Wealth Disparity
Presented by Damien Parker, The New School -
Restricted Portfolio Management: The Case of Islamic Finance
Presented by Houda Rabah, The New School
Session B: Financial markets and climate change (11:40 AM - 12:55 PM)
- Climate Disaster Risk -- Empirics, Model and Financing Policies
Presented by Alexander Haider, The New School - Feasible Financing Sustainability: A Beta Analysis of Green Bonds
Presented by Michael Flaherty, The New School
Lunch Break (12:55 PM - 1:25 PM)
Session C: Climate Instability (1:25 PM - 2:40 PM)
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Review of Fossil Fuel Divestment as an Investment Strategy
Presented by Brandt Weathers, The New School -
Climate Wealth of Nations
Presented by Julia M. Puaschunder -
Fiscal Mechanisms for a Sustainable Forest Sector
Presented by Erin Hayde, The New School
Session D: International Financial Markets and Instability (2:45 PM - 4:00 PM)
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Financial Stress of the Emerging Markets and its Interactions with Other Macroeconomic Indicators
Presented by Xingxing Yang, The New School -
Overleveraging by Developed Market Banks and the Feedback Effects on Developed and Emerging Market Economies
Presented by Carl Jensen, The New School -
Exchange rate targeting and gold demand by central banks: modeling international reserves composition
Presented by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, St. John’s University and Tarron Khemraj, New College of Florida
For questions, contact this event's organizer, Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, Ph.D., St. John’s University, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..