FINANCIAL CRISES IN A HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE.
SPAIN AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY

Fundación Ramón Areces. Madrid: 23-24 February, 2012

Organizers and Program Committee:

Pablo Martín-Aceña. Univ. de Alcalá

Elena Martínez Ruiz. Univ. de Alcalá

M. Angeles Pons. Univ. de Valencia

PROGRAM (Provisional)

Day 1: Thursday 23

Opening address and welcome: 9.00h-9,15

Pablo Martín-Aceña. Univ. de Alcalá

Alfonso Novales. Fundación Ramón Areces

Session 1: 9.15-11.30

Capie, Forrest (City University, London): “200 years of financial crises: lessons learned and forgotten”

Discussant: Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo (Bangor University)

Bignon, Vincent (Graduate Institute, Geneva): “Financial crises, Business cycles and bankrupcies in the very long run: France during the 19th century”

Discusant: Diebolt, Claude (Université de Strasbourg)

Betrán, Concepción (Universidad de Valencia) & M. Angeles Pons (Universidad de Valencia): “Understanding Spanish financial crises, 1850-2000: what determine their severity

Discussant: Solomous, Solomon (University of Cambridge)

Open discussion

* Coffee break: 11.30-12.00

Session 2: 12.00-13.30

Ogren, Anders (Stockholm School of Economics): “"The causes and consequences of banking regulation: The case of Sweden”

Discussant: Battilossi, Stefano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Martínez Ruiz, Elena (Universidad de Alcalá) & Pilar Nogues-Marco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Measuring exchange market pressure: Currency crises in Spain”

Discussant: Morys, Mathias (York University)

Open discussion

* Lunch (Residencia de Estudiantes): 14.00-16.00

Session 3: 17.00-18.30

Reis, Jaime (Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Lisbon): "Bagehot for 'Followers': How Did the Portuguese Lender of Last Resort Manage the Post World War I Crises?"

Palafox, Jordi (Universidad de Valencia)

Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille (Paris School of Economics), Angelo Riva (European Business School Paris) & Eugene White (Rutgers University): "Bagehot on the Continent? How the Banque de France Managed the Crisis of 1889"

Discussant: Ristuccia, Cristiano (University of Cambridge)

Open discussion

Conference: 19.30-21.00

Peter Temin: The Great Recession in Historical Perspective

* Dinner

Day 2: Friday 24

Session 4: 9.15-11.30

Flandreau; Marc (Graduate Institute. Geneve): “New Deal Financial Acts and the Business of Foreign Debt Underwriting: Autopsy of a Regime Change”

Discussant: Toniolo, Gianni (Duke University, USA)

Comín, Francisco (Universidad de Alcalá): “Default, rescheduling and inflation. Debt crisis in Spain during the XIXth and the XXth centuries”

Discussant: Paolera, Gerardo della (World Economic Forum. New Delhi)

Cuevas, Joaquím (Universidad de Valencia): “Patterns in Spanish Stock Market Crashes, 1850-1936”

Discussant: Baubeau, Patrice (Université Paris X)

Open discussion

* Coffee break: 11.30-12.00

Session 5: 12.00-13.30

Cassis, Youssef (European University Institute): “Financial crises since 1945: from stability to instability?"

Discussant : Feiertag, Olivier (Université de Rouen)

Sussman, Nathan (Hebrew University) & Yafeh, Yishay (Hebrew University): “The current financial crisis in historical perspective –a view from the core”

Discussant: Neal, Larry (University of Illinois)

Open discussion

Closing remarks and farewell: 13.30-14.00

Elena Martínez Ruiz. Univ. de Alcalá

M. Angeles Pons. Univ. de Valencia

* Lunch (Residencia de Estudiantes): 14.15-16.00

SPONSORS:

Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

Fundación Ramón Areces

Universidad de Alcalá. Dep. Fundamentos de Economía e Historia Económica