15th Trento Summer School in "Financial Crises"
In 2014, the Summer School returns to the subject of financial crises and their long-lasting legacy of problems. The recent debt crisis has put macroeconomics in disarray. The course will put the crisis into a broader context by reviewing the history of financial crises, by analyzing how existing theories need to be adapted or revised to provide a better understanding of crises of this nature and by discussing how macro-policies and financial regulation might be changed.
Beyond economics, crises of this magnitude raise legal and political issues of great difficulty. If prior legal commitments were to be consistently enforced this would threaten the total implosion of the financial system. To prevent this eventuality, governments have to decide which debts will be allowed to go into default and which ones will be discharged with tax-payer money. These decisions are unavoidably highly controversial.
Having relinquished their monetary sovereignty, governments of the European Monetary Union find their policy options severely constrained. Proposals to modify the EMU so as to promote a recovery will also be discussed.
The ideal candidates for the School are Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows, and newly minted researchers in macroeconomics, finance; and the economics of organizations and institutions.
People interested in participating in the Summer School are encouraged to fill in the application form
Applications are due by Monday, 7 April 2014.
Directors of the School:
- Axel Leijonhufvud, UCLA and University of Trento
- Daniel Heymann, University of Buenos Aires and University of San Andrés
Guest Lecturers:
- Paul de Grauwe, London School of Economics
- Martin Guzman, Columbia University Business School
- Lars Jonung, University of Lund
- Katarina Pistor, Columbia Law School
- Roberto Tamborini, University of Trento
- Niels Thygesen, University of Copenhagen
Program Directors:
- Axel Leijonhufvud, UCLA and University of Trento
- Enrico Zaninotto, University of Trento
Director of CEEL:
Luigi Mittone University of Trento
Tutor:
Nicolas Garrido: Universidad Diego Portales", Santiago, Chile
For further information see the webpage of the 15th Trento Summer School
Info:
Maria Grazia Zorzi
Summer School Secretariat
CEEL - Department of Economics and Management
University of Trento - Italy
ccschool [at] economia.unitn.it
www-ceel.economia.unitn.it