Webinar
Coping with Disasters
200 years of international official lending
4 Feb 2021
Kiel, Germany
eabh in conversation (on zoom) with Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
based on a joint paper by Sebastian Horn, Carmen M. Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch
The scale of official (bilateral and multilateral) lending is hugely relevant, yet has received little academic attention – so far. Now, Christoph Trebesch and his co-authors collected data on state-directed lending by 134 creditor countries and 50 international and regional financial organisations for 200 years. Using this database they document the characteristics of official capital flows, link them to the occurrence of disasters (wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes), and study their determinants. Official international lending is much larger than previously known.
Join our web talk with Christoph to learn about their main findings and why these historical insights can be of particular relevance for those working on post covid recovery initiatives.
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Webinar
Development Banks
History, Role, Impact
23 Feb 2021
Waltham, United States of America
eabh in conversation (on zoom) with Aldo Musacchio (Brandeis International Business School) and Daniel Díaz (Universidad de Cantabria)
in cooperation with IBF and Leibniz Institute SAFE
How well do States’ Banks do?
Development banks are seen as an important tool to solve market imperfections, alleviate capital scarcity and fund long term infrastructure projects. At the same time they are often criticised for supporting politically well connected industrialists and political regimes.
Despite this controversy and the relevance of these state banks in many countries, empirically studies are rare. Aldo, Daniel and their colleagues set out to fill this gap and will, for the first time, share their research findings with a wider international audience.
They take a comparative look and discuss distinct market failures, how they were addressed by state owned banks and how they map into different policy tools that have been used by the banks.
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lunch hour
Easy Monetary Policy
Cure or Curse?
Mar 2021
Germany
eabh in cooperation with Allianz Global Investors
Harold James (Princeton University) and Eric Barthalon (Head of Research Allianz SE) will take a long-term perspective on easy monetary policies and their implications.
Post Great Financial Crisis, major central banks have cut rates to, or below zero and have provided unprecedented amounts of liquidity to the system ever since. After first steps to normalise monetary policy, we have seen a renewed round of monetary easing in 2019. Further, the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 brought back discussions about helicopter money and direct credit to the banking sector.
eabh Annual Meeting
Finance & Migration
conference
10 Jun 2021
Athens, Greece
eabh in cooperation with National Bank of Greece
This conference will look at the relationship between the financial sector and migration – taking a comparative historical view.
We are interested in scholarly work that looks into the relationship between migratory flows and the financial sector. How were mass movements of people financed during chaotic times? How were migrants integrated into the financial systems of the country of their arrival? Which is the spectrum of agency between private networks, state responsibility and the banks in between?
Call for papers
Archival Workshop
Photography Collections
of (Financial) Companies. Part II
11 Jun 2021
Athens , Greece
eabh in cooperation with National Bank of Greece
This workshop wants to put the spotlight on the photography collections of not exclusively, but mainly financial companies.
Photography collections of corporations are often broad and extensive but very little explored for marketing, research and digital access. This archival workshop aims to discover the contents, importance and use of corporate photography collections of (financial) organisations: Where are these often-extensive collections? How are they used? Which is their use and marketing value for institutors themselves? Which is their value for research beyond financial history (social, political history, etc.)? How can they be made available to a wider audience of scholars and the public eye?
Call for papers
Archival Workshop
GDPR & Historical Archives
2021
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
eabh in cooperation with the European Central Bank
This workshop aims to look at the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on historical archives, in particular, but not exclusively, in the financial sector.
Since May 2018, the GDPR has set common standards of data protection within the European Union and, to a certain extent, beyond. This regulation received critical acclaim by the public and scholars alike, however not without facing wide criticism for the severity of the changes it requires to implement.
What is new for historical archives under the GDPR regime?
Archival Workshop
Access, Recovery & Historical Archives
Practical cases and new findings
2022
Valencia, Spain
eabh in cooperation with Banco de España
Summer School
Boom or Bust!
Empowering archivist and economist collaboration
2022
Ottawa, Canada
eabh in cooperation with the Bank of Canada
