Consumer Credit

18 Jun 2015

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Consumer credit is ubiquitous today. Modern forms like credit cards and buy now, pay later arrangements predominate, but ancient forms such as pawnshops and payday loans continue to thrive as well. We suggest that the penetration and pattern of modern forms of consumer credit differ from country to country; determined on the one hand by concerns about consumer protection, credit rationing, and legal objections, on the other by cultural attitudes towards debt and about the desirability of saving over spending.

eabh in cooperation with Santander &  GUG

Programme

18 June	Consumer Credit Day 1 1400 - 1745
1400	Opening Pedro de Elajabeitia (Santander)
1415	General Introduction Joost Jonker (Utrecht University/University of Amsterdam)
1430	Britain Sean O’Connell (Queens University Belfast)
1515	Consumer Credit a Product Innovation at Deutsche Bank Reinhard Frost (Deutsche Bank)
1600	Coffee & Tea
1615	Installment credit as early form of consumer credit in Germany Andrea Schneider (Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V. GUG)
1700	France Sabine Effosse (Paris Ouest Nanterre University)
1745	Close
1930	Dinner Locanda della torre Oeder Weg 14 www.locanda-della-torre.de
19 June	Consumer Credit Day 2 0900 - 1200
0900	Wrestling with Legal Obstacle to Consumer Credit in the Netherlands Michael Milo (Utrecht University)
0945	The Legal Framework in Belgium Johan Vannerom (Leuven University)
1030	Coffee & Tea
1045	Early Consumer Credit in Germany Paul Thomes (RWTH Aachen)
1130	Closing Comments Christopher Kobrak (University of Toronto)
1200	End - Lunch (optional) Restaurant L´Unico Mendelssohnstraße 83 http://www.restaurant-unico.net