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11.02.2011
Competition in the financial sector
(“Finanzsektor im Wettbewerb”)
Organized by Roman Inderst and Brigitte Haar
The conference “Finanzsektor im Wettbewerb” was jointly
organized by Prof. Roman Inderst, IMFS, and Prof. Brigitte Haar,
The Doctorate/Ph.D. Program Law and Economics of Money and
Finance (LEMF).
Among the speakers were Prof. Wernhard Möschel (University of
Tübingen; former head of the German Monopolies Commission),
Prof. Hannes Rehm (Financial Market Stabilisation Fund, SoFFin),
Dr. Horst Satzky (Partner, Hengeler, Mueller; member of the
Executive Board of the Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftsverfassung
und Wettbewerb), Prof. Daniel Zimmer (University of Bonn
and German anti-trust commission).
03.-04.12.2010
2 nd Workshop on Money, Macro and Finance
in East Asia
Organized by
Michael Funke (University of Hamburg)
Stefan Gerlach (IMFS)
Heinz Herrmann (Deutsche Bundesbank)
The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the
worldwide development and their weight will increase further.
They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet
the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments
and policies in the region. This raises the question of
what lessons we can draw from macroeconomic, financial and
banking developments in Asia. This second informal workshop
on “Money, Finance and Banking in Asia”, organized jointly by
the Bundesbank and the IMFS, dealt with these issues in the
Conference Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Eltville am
Rhein.
Registered participants: 28
and constitutional law. Prof. Christoph Herrmann (University
of Passau), Prof. Christoph Paulus (Humboldt-University Berlin)
and Prof. Helmut Siekmann analyzed the consequences of the
crisis and debated future prospects. Finally, Christian Thimann
(ECB) discussed the challenges of creating the proposed new
organizational structure.
Registered participants: 30
30.06.2010
Sovereign defaults in the euro area:
Legal and economic issues
Organized by Stefan Gerlach and Brigitte Haar
In cooperation with The Doctorate / PhD Program Law and
Economics of Money and Finance (LEMF) the IMFS organized
this conference in June 2010. An overview from the legal perspective
was given by Jörn Axel Kämmerer, Professor of Public
Law, Public International and European Law at the Bucerius Law
School. He focused in the first part of his presentation on the
European approach to sovereign defaults, and in the second part
on the perspectives for a “European State Insolvency Regime”,
by discussing alternative ways of sovereign debt restructuring.
Michael Burda, Professor of Economics, Humboldt-Universität
Berlin, focused on the economic perspectives and discussed
“The simple mechanics of solvency, stability and sovereign
debt”. He reminded that fiscal discipline in a monetary union
is essential. He also pointed out that the world recession was
a massive distraction to fiscal discipline and concluded that it is
time to renew focus on stability.
The panel was chaired by Prof. Brigitte Haar (LEMF, Goethe
University). Panelists besides for Prof. Burda and Prof. Kämmerer
were Prof. Stefan Gerlach (IMFS, Goethe University) and Prof.
Helmut Siekmann (IMFS, Goethe University),
Registered participants: 55
Registered journalists: 2
03.12.2010
X. Walter-Hallstein-Colloquium 2010
Jointly organized by Stefan Kadelbach, Rainer Hofmann, Rainer
Klump, Stefan Gerlach and Helmut Siekmann
Due to a thematic overlap, the Xth Walter-Hallstein-Kolloquium
was jointly organized by the Wilhelm Merton Centre for European
Integration and International Economic Order and the
Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability. It was geared
towards an audience from all faculties. The central question
was what kind of structures were needed to avoid future crises.
Daniela Schwarzer (Foundation Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin)
analyzed the management of the current crisis and asked what
lessons could be learned. Prof. Martin Nettesheim (University of
Tübingen) discussed the rescue measures in light of European
29.06.2010
Roundtable: Ursachen, Auswirkungen
und Lehren der Finanzkrise /
“The financial crisis: Reasons, consequences
and lessons”
Organized by Stefan Gerlach and Helmut Siekmann
in cooperation with AmCham Germany,
FAZ Institute and House of Finance
The American Chamber of Commerce, the FAZ Institute, the
House of Finance and the IMFS jointly organized the panel
discussion on „Ursachen, Auswirkungen und Lehren der
Finanzkrise: Eine systematische Bestandsaufnahme” (“Causes,
Consequences and Lessons-learned from the Financial Crisis:
An appraisal”). The panel discussion explored the reasons and
consequences of the financial crisis and presented a general
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