Workshop on critical macro-finance and global challenges

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Key information

Date
Time
12:45 pm to 8:00 pm
Venue
SOAS - University of London
Room
DLT - Main building
Event type
Conference

About this event

What is the role of the macrofinancial structures in addressing today's economic challenges around the green transition, justice and innovation? 

Macrofinancial structure is the web of balance sheets of public actors (governments, central banks, supranational bodies), market actors and other (semi-public/ngo) organisations, and the rules and institutions that govern their actions and options. Financial crises, Covid, climate change and war have spurred renewed attention to their organisation to meet today's challenges. 

This half-day workshop, co-organised by the University of Groningen and SOAS University of London, aims at bringing together political economy researchers working in Post-Keynesian and Critical Macro-finance perspectives to discuss their work, exchange ideas, and explore new financing mechanisms.

TimeEvent
12:45pm-1pmArrival
1pm– 1:10pm 

Welcome and introduction

  • Dirk Bezemer – Whither Critical Macro-Finance?
1:10pm-2:45pm

Session I

  • Daniela Gabor – What critical macrofinance teaches us about the post-neoliberal State 
  • Jo Michell – Theorising non-bank financial intermediation 
  • Annina Kaltenbrunner – Central banking in subordinate financialised capitalism 

Questions & discussion

2:45pm-3:15pmCoffee break
3:15pm-4:30pm

Session II

  • Karsten Kohler –  Gross capital flows, current accounts and financial instability: a monetary perspective 
  • Carolyn Sissoko –  Is financial innovation market-driven or bank-driven? The case of private equity in the 1980s 
  • Bruno Bonizzi & Jennifer Churchill – A very boring role for pension funds in a new macro finance regime

Questions & discussion

4:30pm-5:00pmCoffee Break
5pm-6:15pm

Session III

  • Maria Nikolaidi – Incorporating climate into the Eurosystem collateral framework 
  • Katie Kedward – Land use constraints to reverse nature loss: macrofinancial implications 
  • Andrei Guter- Sandu – The Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Limits to Incremental Fiscal Integration in Europe

Questions & discussion

6:15pm-7pm

Closing session –  Reflections and discussion

  • Dirk Bezemer
  • Yannis Dafermos
  • Jan Toporowski 
7pm-8pmDrinks reception

Organisers: Dirk Bezemer, Yannis Dafermos and Jan Toporowski.

Header Image Credit: Dan Carlson via Unsplash.

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