Events

The Macroeconomics of Crises

Conference organized by Bank of Greece & European Monetary Forum

Athens
Friday and Saturday 30-31 March 2012

Venue: Bank of Greece, 2nd floor, room N.216 (entrance: corner of Edouardou Lo & Stadiou streets)

Conference Programme

Friday March 30

9.00am Sylvester Eijjfinger: how much should the Fed talk?
9.50 Stephen Hall, PAVB Swamy and George Tavlas: Generalised Cointegration, Friedman, and the Demand for Money in the Euro Area
10.40 coffee
11.00 Sumru Altug: Institutions and business cycles
11.50 Mike Wickens: a model of banking
12.40 Lunch
1.40pm Arnab Bhattarcharjee
2.30 Mike Beenstock: Correlation and Contagion in Empirical Factor Models of Bank Credit Risk
3.20 Tea
3.40 Robert Kollmann: Global Banks, Financial Shocks and International Business Cycles: Evidence from Estimated Models
4.30 Matthew Canzoneri: Monetary Policy and the Natural Rate of Interest
5.20 Michael Arghyrou: Accounting for crisis euro-spreads
6.10 Panel on sovereign debt crisis: Dale Henderson, Manfred Neumann, Akos Valentinyi, Paul de Grauwe
Dinner

Saturday March 31st

8.45 am Parantap Basu: should there be a new Glass-Steagall?
9.35 Paul Levine: Fiscal Consolidation and unemployment: how fast, how deep?'
10.25 Coffee
10:50 Maria Albani, Zacharias Bragoudakis, Dimitris Sider: The new quarterly model of the Greek economy: The blocks of aggregate supply and aggregate demand
11:25 Hiona Balfoussia and Heather Gibson: A financial conditions index for the euro area
12:00 TBA
12:50pm Lunch
1:30 TBA
2:00 Paul de Grauwe
2.50 Casper de Vries: Variable Phillips Curves & Fluctuations in Inflation
3.10 TBA
4.00 End of Proceedings (dinner in evening for those leaving on Sunday)

Attendees

Antonio Afonso, ECB
Sumru Altug, Koç University, Istanbul
Michael Arghyrou, Cardiff
Parantap Basu, Durham
Mike Beenstock, Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem
Arnab Bhattarcharjee, Dundee
Matthew Canzoneri, Georgetown
James Davidson, Exeter
Harris Dellas, Bern
Sylvester Eijffinger, Tilburg
Paul de Grauwe, Leuven
Stephen Hall, Leicester
Dale Henderson, Georgetown
Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University
Robert Kollmann, ECARES
Alex Kontonikas,Glasgow
Clemens Kool, Utrecht
Paul Levine, Surrey
Kul Luintel, Cardiff
Kent Matthews, Cardiff
Patrick Minford, Cardiff
Joe Pearlman, London Metropolitan
Panayiotis Pourpourides, Central Bank of Cyprus
Peter Smith, York
Oren Sussman, Saïd Business School
George Tavlas, Bank of Greece
John Tsoukalas, Glasgow
Akos Valentinyi, Cardiff
Casper de Vries, Rotterdam
Mike Wickens, Cardiff

Past Events and Activities

There is an Annual Julian Hodge Lecture on Applied Macroeconomics

2010 European Monetary Forum Conference, Friday March 5th - Saturday March 6th, Universität Bern

On March 27-28th 2009, Testing Open Economy Models - a Conference organised by the Bank of Greece and the European Monetary Forum held at the Bank of Greece..

The 2008 European Monetary Forum Conference was held at the University of Leuven, November 14-15th. The Friday evening Policy Panel discussed the state of the world economy.

The 2007 European Monetary Forum Conference was held in Cardiff on Friday, November 16 and Saturday, November 17. This featured Friday afternoon seminar sessions and a Friday evening panel that debated "Quo Vadis Europe? Fortress or land of opportunities?".

The 2006 European Monetary Forum Conference was held on Friday, November 17 and Saturday November 18, starting with an economic policy panel on the Friday afternoon. The Friday meeting took place at the Dutch National Bank in Amsterdam; the Saturday meeting at Nijenrode University, Amsterdam.

On May 10-12, 2002, a Conference on Money was held in Cardiff in honour of Sir Alan Walters - a conference volume was produced in 2003, published by Edward Elgar, edited by Patrick Minford and Kent Matthews. Details can be found here. Nearly 40 participants came from the USA, Europe and the Middle East; over a two-day period, the conference held two policy panels (on the euro and monetary targeting) and discussed fourteen papers. Sponsors who joined the Institute and the Business School in putting on this conference were the University of Bonn's Centre for European Integration Studies, the European Monetary Forum, Cardiff City Council, and Sir Rocco Forte's RF Hotels.