Financial Crises and the Transformation of the Financial System since 1945

Kategorie Wissenschaftliche Veranstaltungen

Datum: vom: Donnerstag, 03 Mai 2012 um 09:00 bis zum: Freitag, 04 Mai 2012 um 19:00

Ort: EUI, Florence (Italien)

Link: http://www.eui.eu/SeminarsAndEvents/Index.aspx?eventid=73723

Kontakt francesca.elia..a..eui.eu

Quelle Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (manumourlon..a..gmail.com)

Zusammenfassung:

The aim of this conference is to assess in a historical and comparative perspective the changes that have taken place in the banking and financial world since the end of Bretton Woods, in particular during the period from the mid-seventies to the late eighties.

Details:

Financial crises and the transFormation
oF the Financial system since 1945

Conference
sponsored by Robert Schuman Centre

Department of History and Civilization

Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia
Via Boccaccio, 121 - Firenze

Programme Florence, 3-4 May 2012

Thursday 3 May

09.00-09.15 Welcome address
Stefano Bartolini, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre

09.15-09.30 Introduction
Youssef Cassis, European University Institute

09.30-11.00 Chair: Ranald Michie, University of Durham

Financial Crises since 1945: From Stability to Instability?
Youssef Cassis

The Intellectual Roots of the Financial Crisis of 2008
William Becker, George Washington University

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Chair: Laure Quennouëlle-Corre, CNRS Paris

Summer in the City: The 1974 International Banking Crisis in London and
its implications for regulatory reform
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, University of Glasgow

A suspended referee in a new game: The work and role of the Swedish Bank
Inspection Board in the 1980s
Mikael Wendschlag, Linköping University

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Chair: William Becker

How to build a risk adverse environment in the French Golden Age (1945-1975)
Laure Quennouëlle-Corre

The Evolution of Risk-Taking in Banking: Evidence from the Netherlands, 1957-2007
Gerarda Westerhuis, University of Utrecht

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Chair: Bartolomé Yun Casalilla, European University Institute

Financial Crises in Britain since 1945
Ranald Michie and Simon Mollan, University of Durham

A major five: The Spanish banking crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s
in a European comparative perspective
Pablo Martin-Aceña and Elena Martínez-Ruiz, University of Alacalá

19.45 Dinner

Friday 4 May 2012

09.30-11.00 Chair: Carlos Marichal, Il Colegio de Mexico

Banking in Turbulent Times: French Banks, the Bank of France and
the Euro-dollar Market
Edoardo Altamura, University of Geneva

The 1982 debt crisis and the BIS Macro-prudential approach
Piet Clement and Ivo Maes, Bank for International Settlements and
National Bank of Belgium

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Chair: Ivo Maes

The Construction of the Post-1945 International Financial Cooperation
on the Ashes of the Interwar Period
Yann Decorzant, University of Geneva

The transformation of the international financial system and the IMF
– Through an analysis of IMF consultations in the UK and Singapore
Teru Nishikawa and Yoshinori Bando, Yokohama National University and
Tokyo Metropolitan University

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Chair: Elena Carletti, European University Institute

A Quarter Century of Sovereign Debt Crises and the Destabilization
of the Mexican Banking System and Structure, 1970-1995
Carlos Marichal

The Mexican Crisis of 1982 Revisited
Juan Flores, University of Geneva

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.45 Chair: Youssef Cassis, European University Institute
Organisation of Session 82 at the XVIth World International Economic
History Congress, Stellenbosch, July 2012

20.15 Dinner