Understanding
Financial Architecture: Legal and Political Frameworks and Economic
Efficiency
Research
Training Network
Workshops and Conferences
The first workshop of the network was held in Frankfurt on 3/4 November 2000, and was organized by Erik Berglöf, Patrick Bolton, Jan Pieter Krahnen and Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden. The meeting was exploratory and included presentations on the political determinants of capital markets, the politics of financial legislation, the impact of finance on politics, financial systems architecture, competition and consolidation of financial institutions, insolvency codes, corporate governance, and institutional change in European capital markets. PDF versions of the papers, programme (37k) and the list of participants (51k) are available.
The second workshop of the Network was held in Madrid on 26/27 October 2001, and was organized by Marco Becht, Erik Berglöf, Colin Mayer, Howard Rosenthal, and Rafael Repullo. Corporate governance is a key aspect of financial architecture. It has been an important policy issue, in particular in Europe, for over a decade. This workshop invited contributions analysing the origins and consequences of individually-adopted corporate governance mechanisms and economy-wide corporate governance systems. PDF versions of the papers, programme (34k) and the list of participants (33k) are available.
The third workshop was held in Oxford on 13/14 September 2002, and was organized by Bruno Biais, Colin Mayer, Marco Pagano, Oren Sussman and Ernst-Ludwig Von Thadden.
The conference was
concerned with all aspects of corporate financial structure and bankruptcy.
Some papers took a legal
or political economy approach to these topics though corporate finance,
micro- and macroeconomic approaches may be equally suitable.
PDF versions of the papers, programme (135k)
and the list of participants (29k) are available.
The fourth workshop was held in Princeton on 26/27 September 2003, and was organized by Erik Berglöf, Patrick Bolton, Randall Kroszner, Marco Pagano and Roberta Romano and Howard Rosenthal. It was co-organised by the National Science Foundation (USA), the Bendheim Center for Finance, the Research Program in Political Economy, and the Bost Center for Peace and Justice.
Entitled "The Political Economy of Financial Markets", the conference explored the issue of Financial Development, Ex Post Efficiency versus Ex Ante Commitment and Bankruptcy.
PDF versions of the papers, programme and the list of participants are available.
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