Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0
Hamburg Conference Schedule

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Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0

June 15-17, 2023

Hamburg, Germany Conference Schedule

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Thursday, June 15, 2023 – The New Institute
PANEL I [Video]
The Global Public-Private Power Nexus I
CHAIR: Lea Steininger (Wien)
Papers:
  • Chen Li (Hong Kong): Financialized Developmental State: Development banking, industrial policy and state transformation in China
  • Florian Penz (Vienna): Property, Credit, and Monetary Sabotage – An institutionalist framework for conceptualizing contemporary capitalism
  • Seung Woo Kim (Uppsala): Inequality, Development, and Economic Sovereignty: The Global South, social democrats, and alternative visions of the post-war
    international monetary system, 1960~1964
  • Daniele D’Alvia (London): Believe in Virtual Currencies? The money-tree of Pinocchio is in vogue again
PANEL II [No Video]
Philosophical Approaches to Monetary Democracy
CHAIR / COMMENT: Janosch Prinz (Maastricht)
Papers:
  • Georg Schmerzeck (Gothenburg): A Theory of Justice of Sovereign Money
  • Valerie Schreur (Amsterdam): What Justice Requires from Institutions that Govern Business Credit Allocation
  • Simon Derpmann (Münster): The Publicity of Commercial Money
PANEL III [Video]
Green Money I
CHAIR: Georg Ringe (Hamburg)
Papers:
  • Alexander Paulsson (Lund): Circulation: Money, ecology, and crafting new spheres of exchange
  • Joel Michaels (Yale): Capital Regulation as Climate Policy
  • Claire Debucquois (FNRS) / Gabriela de Oliveira Junqueira (São Paulo): Climate debt for carbon credit: The law and political economy of green bonds in Brazil
  • Tobias Pforr (Fiesole): Memories of the Great Financial Crisis and How Central Banks Approach Climate Change: The strange divergence between Fed and ECB
PANEL IV [No Video]
The Global Public-Private Power Nexus II
CHAIR: Carolin Müller (HIS)
Papers:
  • Stefano Merlo (Oxford): Transnational Republicanism in the Economic and Monetary Union
  • John Ryan (Independent): Geopolitical Influence of the Dollar and the Rise of Renminbi
  • Martino Comelli (Vienna): The Impact of Welfare on Household Debt
  • Jamieson G. Myles (Oxford): Accommodating Agriculture within U.S. Capitalism: Cotton, cooperatives,
    and intermediate credit in the early twentieth century
ROUNDTABLE [No Video]
On the Role of Banks, Monetary Policy, and Fiscal Policy in Social Ecological Transformation
CHAIR: Aaron Sahr (HIS)
PARTICIPANTS: Karen Kaiser (European Central Bank), Andrea Binder (Berlin), Steffen Murau (Berlin)
Friday, June 16, 2023 – Hamburg Institute for Social Research
KEYNOTE [Video]
Costas Lapavitsas (London): Limits of Monetary Politics
CHAIRS: Isabel Feichtner (TNI/Würzburg) / Aaron Sahr (HIS)
PANEL V [Video]
The Future of Central Bank Money
CHAIR: Max Krahé (TNI)
Papers:
  • Simon Hess (Salzburg): Regulating Central Bank Digital Currencies: Towards a conceptual framework
  • Joseph Huber (Halle-Wittenberg): The Monetary Turning Point. From bank money to central bank digital currency (CBDC)
  • Michael Kumhof (London): Central Bank Money: Liability, asset, or equity of the nation?
PANEL VI [No Video]
Re-Making Money for a Sustainable Future
CHAIR / COMMENT: Kathrin Latsch
Papers:
  • Christian Gelleri (Würzburg-Schweinfurt): Creating Monetary Collaborating Spaces
  • Ester Barinaga (Lund): Greening Monies: Re-making money for a sustainable future
  • Valentino Cattelan (Birmingham): The Lesson from the Ukrainian Crisis: On the social nature of money and the rise of a global humanitarian crypto-currency
PANEL VII [Video]
Boundaries of the State: Bailouts, Derisking, and Public Money
CHAIR: Ute Tellmann (Darmstadt)
Papers:
  • Stefan Eich (Georgetown): Keynes and the Politics of Uncertainty
  • Leah Downey (Cambridge): What’s Wrong with Derisking? Climate, finance, and democracy
  • Leon Wansleben (Cologne): Two Juxtaposed Worlds of Public Money: Modern fiscal institutions and the rise of financial security states
  • Martijn Konings (Sydney): Contradictions of the Bailout State
PANEL VIII [No Video]
Green Money II
CHAIR: Maki Sato (TNI)
Papers:
  • Anne Kervers (Amsterdam): Common Ground on Money Creation for Researching its Link with the Paris Agreement
  • Armin Haas (Berlin) / Andrei Guter-Sandu (London) / Steffen Murau (Berlin): Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition
  • Jérôme Deyris (Nanterre): Warning Words in a Warming World: Central bank communication and climate change
  • Injy Johnstone (Oxford): Net-zero as a New Norm at Financial Institutions: Trends in standardisation and disclosure
JOINT ROUNDTABLE HAMBURG/CAMBRIDGE [Video]
Inequality and Asset Economy
CHAIRS: Christine Desan (Cambridge) / Isabel Feichtner (TNI/Würzburg)
Participants: Martijn Konings (Sydney), Stephanie Kelton (New York), Aaron Medlin (Amherst), Benjamin Braun (Cologne), Anna Chadwick (Glasgow)
PANEL IX [No Video]
What are Complementary Currencies Good For? Interconnecting Practical Uses, Transformation Motives, and Legal Challenges
CHAIR/ COMMENT: Valentino Cattelan (Birmingham)
Papers:
  • Georgina M. Gómez (Rotterdam): The Social Differentiation and Institutionalisation of Monetary Circuits: A case study of a remote location in Argentina
  • Jérôme Blanc (Lyon) / Bruno Théret (Paris): Introducing Transformative Money. How currency schemes can be implemented as drivers for change
  • Gabriella Gimigliano (Siena): Complementary Currencies: A real challenge to the EU internal market for money and finance? A legal standpoint
PANEL X [No Video]
Monetary Sovereignty and Central Bank Independence
CHAIR: Joana Mendes (Luxemburg)
Papers:
  • Matthias Goldmann (Heidelberg): Central Bank Independence 2.0: Same but different
  • Samuel Färdow Kazen (Independent): How Should a Central Bank be Organized?
  • Pieter-Augustijn Van Malleghem (Louvain-la-Neuve): Monetary Sovereignty, Federal Governance Structures, and the Challenge of Constitutional Pluralism