CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sub-prime Crisis and how it Changed the Past

On behalf the organisers of PPP4 (Marc Flandreau, Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR, Øyvind Eitrheim and Jan F. Qvigstad, Norges Bank), and of the PPP steering committee we are writing to invite submissions of papers or expression of interest in attending, the launch of the fourth Economic History panel: Past, Present, and Policy, to be hosted by the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva.

The topic of this meeting is The Sub-prime Crisis and how it Changed the Past. The conference goal is to review critical aspects of crisis management in the past and how they relate to current problems, as well as to raise new research areas that modern problems suggests ought to have been studied earlier. There are no time bounds. Priority will be given to bringing about new facts or data that have a potential for challenging existing views and fostering policy debate. Previous crises have changed the views on policy, supervision and regulation. How will the sub-prime crisis impact on policy institutions and international cooperation? Policy relevant implications will be stressed and a particular concern of the conference is to achieve advances in understanding the role of money and capital markets before and during a financial crisis, the role of ratings and the rating industry, the forms of supervision and regulation of the financial industry, and the leverage and risk taking of the industry.

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