Workshop
Financial Markets and Finanacial Regulation:
Sources of Instability or Growth?
International Historical Perspectives

in Münster (Germany), April 12, 2012

organized by
Martin T. Bohl, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany
Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University
and Viessmann European Research Centre, Waterloo, Canada

Call for Papers

Please find the detailed "Call for Papers" here.

Program

Please find the "Program" here.

Papers Fabio Braggion, Narly Dwarkasing and Lyndon Moore, From Competition to Cartel: Bank Mergers in the U.K. 1885 to 1925 Matthias Morys and Martin Ivanov, Business Cycles in South-East Europe 1870 - 2000: A Bayesian Dynamic Factor Model Haelim Park, The Conservatism of British Banks in the Interwar Period Re-examined Hugh Rockoff, Country Banking in the Great Depression in the U.S.: Re-examining the Work of Fred L. Garlock Margaret M. Jacobson and Ellis W. Tallman, Liquidity Provision during the Crisis of 1914: Private and Public Sources Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn, When the Music Stopped: Transatlantic Contagion During the Financial Crisis of 1931 Presentations George Chouliarakis and Sopia Lazaretou, Greece in the Great Depression: Lessons from History Fabio Braggion, Narly Dwarkasing and Lyndon Moore, From Competition to Cartel: Bank Mergers in the U.K. 1885 to 1925

Arrival

Public transport: Please find the bus schedule from the FMO airport to the main railway station Münster here.  Please find the description of the way from the main railway station to the Stadthotel Münster here. Please find the description of the way from the hotel (Stadthotel Münster, Aegidiistraße 21) to the place of the workshop on April 12, 2012 (Alexander von Humboldt-Haus, Hüfferstraße 61) here. Please find the description of the way from the hotel (Stadthotel Münster, Aegidiistraße 21) to the place of the dinner on April 12, 2012 (Möwenpick Hotel Münster, Restaurant "Chesa Rössli", Kardinal-von-Galen-Ring 65) here.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Martin T. Bohl Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Chair of Monetary Economics Am Stadtgraben 9 48143 Muenster Germany Phone: +49 251 83 25 005 Fax: +49 251 83 22 846 Email: