Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions
Kassel - Hofgeismar, 25 - 28 April 2001

Preconference to session no. 39, XIII Economic History Congress,
Buenos Aires 2002

 

Programmplanung

 

2000-10-14

 

Wednesday, April 25th, 2001
Florasaal, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel

5:00 – 10:00 a.m.

 

Time

Speaker

Topic

5 a.m.

Mayor Georg Lewandowski

Welcoming speech

 

President Landeszentralbank Hessen

Welcoming speech

 

President GhK

Welcoming speech

5:30

Hermann Remsperger
Director Deutsche Bundesbank

Conflict Potentials in EMU

6:00

Baliño
International Monetary Fund

Euro-Dollar Competition

7:00

Daniel Gross
CEPS Brussels

Competition between Euro and Rubel

7:30

Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich

Free University, Berlin

Conditions of increasing monetary integration

8:15

Hessische Landeszentralbank

Reception

 

Thursday, April 26th, 2001
Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar

Morning session          
9:00 – 12:30

 

Time

Speaker

Topic

 

Christian Erb

German monetary unification in the 19th century and the Prussian influence

 

Oskar Schwarzer

German monetary unification in the 19th century and the Bavarian strategy of symmetric policy

 

Theresia Theurl

Matters of conflict and reasons for the dissolution of Latin Monetary Union

 

Zeynep Yildirim

Comparative study of two changes of monetary unification in the Ottoman history: XVIIth and XIXth century

 

Afternoon session

 

Time

Speaker

Topic

 

Juergen Nautz

Commitment strategies in monetary arrangements and central bank policy in Austria-Hungary between 1867 and 1914

 

Marc Flandrau, Mathilde Maurel

Monetary union, trade integration and economic fluctuations, 1880-1913: Austria-Hungary in a European mirror

 

Andrej Pancur

The influence of political parties and ethnical conflicts on the currency reform of 1892 in Austria-Hungary, under special consideration of the role of Slovenes

 

Arnold Suppan

Centralization of monetary responsibility in Yugoslavia after Word War I and its consequences

 

Michel Palareit

Deficit finance and economic tension in former Yugoslavia, 1989-1991

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, April 27th, 2001

Morning session

 

Time

Speaker

Topic

 

Bernhard Nagel

„Mark ist Mark“. The conflict on an jurisdiction during the inflation 1923. A late consequence of the German monetary unification of 1871?

 

Tal Sadeh

Currency unions and the different dimensions of money

 

Hugh Rockoff

The Great Depression in the United States as a problem of optimum currency areas

 

Olga Christodoulaki

Central Banking in the 1920s: the Case of the Bank of Greece

 

Afternoon session

 

Time

Speaker

Topic

 

Freytag, Andreas

Pegging Latin America to the US-Dollar. An analytical history of monetary reforms in Latin America

 

Graciela Márquez

Negotiating a monetary union for the Western hemisphere, 1889-1891. Consequences for Latin America

 

Farley Grubb

Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union, 1761-1811: A Quest for  Monetary Stability or a Grab for Sovereignty?

 

Warren E.Weber

Monetary union in the United States in the 1780s after independence was achieved

 

Doo Hwan Oh,

The Role of the Bank of Chosen in Manchuria

 

Saturday, April, 28th, 2001

 

 

Time

Speaker

Topic

 

Warren E.Weber

Monetary union in the United States in the 1780s after independence was achieved

 

Nuno Valério, Palmira Tjipilica

The Escudo zone – a failed attempt of colonial monetary union (1962-1971)

 

Sadyoshi Tabakaya

Internationalization of Yen and the role in the world economy. Financial regulation and monetary policy in Japan from 1970 to 2000

 

Hartmut Kiehling

On the stairway to unification: From European Payments Union to European Monetary Union

 

Marc-Alexandre Senegas

Monetary and political powers in conflict: could a bank war reappear in EMU?