The workshop has been cancelled.

The haute banque emerged as an elite or sub-category of private banks in France during the Restauration (1815 – 1830) and reached its climax in the 1850s and 1860s. These institutions were well respected and dealt with major international businesses which also had business with the State....

Topics: - The impact of government ownership of banks on efficiency, credit and financial stability - Politics and banking - Subsidies implicit in the financial safety net, and how to eliminate them - How to cope with the too-big-to-fail and too-complex-to-fail phenomena - The fiscal costs of...

Over the past few decades ties between financial markets worldwide have become stronger as a result of developments in IT, the liberalization of financial markets and increased cross-border competition among financial intermediaries. The developments in the payment and securities settlement...

Topics: all areas of Finance related to International Real Estate Securities.

This workshop has the purpose of presenting the draft chapters of a policy report on cross-border banking in Europe after the crisis. The authors of the report (Philip Lane, Elena Carletti, Franklin Allen, Wolf Wagner, Dirk Schoenmaker and Thorsten Beck) will each present their...

The aim of this conference is to add to the debate on the political economy aspects of the ongoing global financial crisis, and to stimulate research in this area. Topics that will be discussed include: regulatory capture and lobbying, bailout negotiations, and consumer protection.