15th Trento Summer School in "Financial Crises"

16 giugno 2014
17 giugno 2014
18 giugno 2014
19 giugno 2014
20 giugno 2014
21 giugno 2014
22 giugno 2014
23 giugno 2014
24 giugno 2014
25 giugno 2014
26 giugno 2014
27 giugno 2014
16-27 June 2014

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