Conversation
Eurovision?
The Initial Period of Europe’s Monetary Union
29 Jan 2016
Florence, Italy
eabh Conversation on the record
The European Monetary Union and the introduction of the Euro in 1999 were unexpected achievements without precedent. At the initial period of the European Monetary Union the Community had high hopes and expectations. What happened to the hopes and objectives of the Treaty of Maastricht? Have some of them come true? Which crucial turning points or decisions in the history of the Union should and could be revised in order to avoid the mistakes of the past?
Let’s talk about it!
Workshop
Financial History of Europe
eabh oral history project
28 Jan 2016
Florence, Italy
Leading European experts (British Library, Historical Archives of the European Union, Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l´Europe) will share their knowledge about oral history projects.
Oral History offers us the unique opportunity to collect and preserve the memories, views and attitudes from a variety of people working in different positions in financial sector. Oral history recordings bring an additional dimension to modern financial archives.
The workshop will focus on the methodology of oral history:
- Identification of Material and Funding: How to set up a long term oral history project
- Planning and Managing: How to co-ordinate, transcribe, select and edit the collected testimonies
- Skill set: How to set up an interview?
- Laws and Ethics: How do e.g. confidentiality clauses in the financial sector affect projects?
- Equipment: Which are the technical requirements and possibilities and how can they be used to their fullest extent? Which documentation is needed alongside the recordings?
- Storage: short term and long term preservation of audio and video material
- Promotion and Access: How to present the project and its findings to a wider audience?
- Models: Presentations of exemplary oral history projects (in finance)
Workshop
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
Conference
History of Inflation
Inflation in History
15 May 2015
Prague, Czech Republic
Inflation: An Age old Topic.
The purpose of this meeting was to look at what is new about inflation. Can historical instances of inflation provide tools for understanding modern developments? Should present day monetary authorities and decision takers be aware of these lessons as they cope with the challenges of the global economy?
eabh in cooperation with the Czech National Bank and the Czech Banking Association.
Archival Workshop
Inflation, Money, Output
Economic and Financial Data underpinning Analysis and Policy Making
14 May 2015
Prague, Czech Republic
Today, financial statistics are of paramount importance. They inform and determine business and investment decisions, policy–making, and shape our expectations for the future.
The purpose of this workshop was to determine which statistics and data are available in the archives of financial institutions, and to identify promising areas for future research.
eabh in cooperation with the Czech National Bank and the Czech Banking Association.