EH.N: CfP: Third Conference of the South-Eastern European Monetary History Network (SEEMHN)

[Sophia Lazaretou]

Call for Papers
Announcing the Third Conference of the South-Eastern European 
Monetary History Network (SEEMHN)

hosted by the Bank of Greece
in Athens, Greece
on 14 March, 2008


Following the success of the First and the Second Annual Conferences 
of the South-Eastern European Monetary History Network held in Sofia 
(BNB) in 2006 and in Vienna (OeNB) in 2007, it is the great pleasure 
of the Bank of Greece to host the Third Annual Conference in March 
2008. This underlines the support of the Bank of Greece to this 
network, whose main objectives are to extend the knowledge of the 
economic history of the Balkans as an integral part of the 
Pan-European experience with a specific focus on financial, monetary 
and banking history.

One of the aims of SEEMHN is to establish a historical data base with 
19th and 20th centuries financial and monetary data. The first stage 
of the SEEMHN Data Collection Task Force included reports from all 
participating countries; a set of aggregated data will be published 
in the conference proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference, to be 
released by the Austrian National Bank later this year. Professor 
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University) will contribute to the second 
stage of this data collection effort.

The Third SEEMHN Conference will take place on March 14, 2008, in 
Athens at the premises of the Bank of Greece. The topic of the 
conference will be "Banking and Finance in South Eastern Europe: 
Lessons of Historical Experience". Professor Michael Bordo has been 
invited to deliver the key-note speech. The organizing committee 
would like to invite all researchers from academia, central banking 
and commercial banking institutions to submit paper proposals. 
Summaries of the papers should be sent to Dr. Sophia Lazaretou 
(slazaretou at bankofgreece.gr) no later than January 15, 2007. The 
conference version of the paper is expected by February 29, 2008. It 
is possible to participate at the conference without presenting a 
paper.

Final versions of the presented papers will appear in the Working 
Paper Series of the Bank of Greece.


Kind regards,


Sophia Lazaretou
Special Studies Division
Economic Research Department
Bank of Greece
on behalf of the Organizing Committe


Scientific Committee:

George Tavlas (Bank of Greece, Director-Advisor)
Heather Gibson (Bank of Greece, Head of Special Studies Division)
Darko Bohnec (Bank of Slovenia, Vice Governor)
Kliti Ceca (Bank of Albania, Director, Department of Statistics)
Yuksel Gormez (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Head of 
Financial Analysis Division)
Branko Hinic (National Bank of Serbia, Director of Economic Research 
Department)
Sophia Lazaretou (Bank of Greece, Special Studies Division)
Peter Mooslechner (OeNB, Director of Analysis and Research)
Matthias Morys (Oxford University, Department of Economics)
Nikolay Nenovsky (BNB, Member of the Governing Council)
Virgiliu Stoenescu (National Bank of Romania, Member of the Managing Board)
Boris Vujcic (Croatian National Bank, Vice Governor)


Organizing Committee:

Heather Gibson (BoG, Head Special Studies Division, Economic Research 
Department)
Sophia Lazaretou (BoG, Special Studies Division, Economic Research Department)
Kalina Dimitrova (BNB, Expert Economic Research and Projections)