Government Debt Crises: Politics, Economics and History
14 – 15 December 2012
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GOVERNMENT DEBT CRISES: POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND HISTORY
December 14-15, 2012
Geneva, Switzerland
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond (AJF), Parc Barton, 132 Rue de Lausanne
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Pierre du Bois Foundation
Preliminary Program
AFTERNOON Friday, December 14
12:00-13:00 Buffet Lunch
13:00-13:15 WELCOME by Irina du Bois (Pierre du Bois Foundation)
13:15-14:45
Session I. When Germany was the Problem (Chair: john wallis, maryland)
The German interwar debt crisis and its resolution in the 1950s
Albrecht Ritschl (London School of Economics)
The Last Nazi Bond
Mark Weidemaier (UNC School of Law)
15:00-16:30
Session II. Litigious issues (Chair: Tim Le Goff, York/Paris)
Revisiting the Origins of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders
Marc Flandreau (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Sovereign Defaults in Court
Julian Schumacher (Free University Berlin)
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30
Session III. Toujours la Dette (Chair : Olga Christodoulaki, LSE)
The Crash of 1789
Tim Le Goff (York University/University of Paris – Sorbonne)
Protecting the Credit of the State from Speculation: Law, Economics, and Politics in Interwar France
Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po, Paris)
18:30-20:00 Cocktails
20:00 Conference Dinner (La Perle du Lac, 126 Rue de Lausanne)
MORNING Saturday, December 15
9:00-10:30
Session IV. The US, too (Chair: Albrecht ritschl, LSE)
Repudiation! The Crisis of US Civil War Debt, 1865-1870
Franklin Noll (Noll Historical Consulting, LLC)
Debt, Default and Constitutional Reform: US State Debt Crises and Their Aftermath, 1837-1857
John Wallis (University of Maryland)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:15
Session V. Gatekeeping (Chair: Christoph Trebesch, munich)
Havas and Foreign Loans in France
Gabriel Geisler (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Originating foreign debt in the New York market during the interwar
Ugo Panizza (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Lawyers as Gatekeepers
Mitu Gulati (Duke Law School)
13:15-14:45 Buffet Lunch
Panel
To be communicated later
AFTERNOON
14:45-16:15
Session VI. Greeks Bearing Gifts (Chair: Mark Weidemaier, UNC School of Law)
Small Debt, Large Problems in Cyprus: How Even Small Debt in a British Colony Led to the Political Crisis and Violence in October 1931
Alexandros Apostolides (School of Business Administration, European University of Cyprus)
The Role of the Central Bank in Rescuing Governments: Lessons from the Greek Experience of the 1890s and the 1920s
Olga Christodoulaki (Department of Economic History, London School of Economics)
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break