The European Association for Banking and Financial History E.V. (EABH) Annual Conference

Main Topic: "Public Policies & the Direction of Financial Flows", 7-9 June 2012, Bucharest


Seminar: Archives and the People Recording Working Life in Financial Institutions


7 June 2012

  • Welcome Address/ General Introduction
    • Iuliu Iacobescu (NBR)
    • Manfred Pohl (EABH)
    • Melanie Aspey (The Rothschild Archive)

  • Session 1 - "The Archivist as Administrator of Old Records - Pure History of the Employees' Lives"
    • František Chudjak (National Bank of Slovakia Archives) - Splendour and Miseries of the Slovak Bank Official in the First Half of the 20th Century
    • Jakub Kunert, Helena Sedlackova (Czech National Bank) - Archival Sources to the History of Bank Officials in the Archives of the Czech National Bank
    • Francesca Pino (Intesa Sanpaolo) - Professional and Social Banking Communities in Milan, 1823-1926, Through the Personnel Files of Intesa Sanpaolo Group Archives
    • Q&A

    • Moderator: Jakub Kunert (Czech National Bank)

  • Session 2 - "The Archivist as Initiator of New Records - Oral History (and what it enables)"
    • Anna Rita Gresta (Bank of Italy) - Men and Women in the Documents of the Bank Of Italy: The Other Story of Financial Institutions
    • Clara Harrow (The Baring Archive) - Living History: Engaging with the Past at the Baring Archive
    • Q&A

    • Moderator: Roger Nougaret (BNP Paribas)

  • Concluding Remarks: Laure Quennouëlle-Corre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) - What is Best Practice in Oral History Archives? - Some Advice from Experience

  • Honours and Awards

Notă: The spearkers' presentations are available on the EABH website.


Conference: Public Policies & the Direction of Financial Flows


8 June 2012

  • Keynote Speech, John Bonin (Wesleyan University) - Two Decades of Foreign Banking in Emerging Europe: The Devil is in the Details

  • Opening speech, Mugur Isărescu (NBR Governor)
  • Panel Discussion: "Managing Transition"
    • Mugur Isărescu (NBR Governor) - Monetary Policy during Transition. How to Manage Paradigm Shifts
    • Vladimir Tomsik (Czech National Bank) - Czech Transformation - Key Lessons for Today
    • Arielle de Rothschild (Rothschild & Cie)
    • Guy Poupet (BRD - Groupe Société Générale)
    • Gianni Toniolo (Duke University)

    • Moderator: Peter Hertner (Martin Luther University, Halle Wittenberg)

  • Session 1 - "Planning and Markets"
    • Laure Quennouëlle-Corre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) - Managing the Transition from Command To Market Economy: The French Financing and Credit Allocation in the 1970's and 1980's
    • Alfredo Gigliobianco, Federico Barbiellini Amidei, Claire Giordano (Bank of Italy) - Credit Policy and Economic Development in Post World War II Italy
    • Nathan Marcus (European University Institute) - Financial Flows and the Austrian Reconstruction Following World War I
    • Q&A

    • Moderator: Bogdan Murgescu (University of Bucharest)

  • Session 2 - "International Finance and Institutions"
    • Ileana Racianu (University of Geneva) - Romanian Politics and the Issue of the Romanain International Loan in Late 1920's
    • Matteo Gomellini (Bank of Italy) - Financing the Development of Italy's Mezzogiorno After World War II: The Role of the European Investment Bank
    • Neil Forbes (Coventry University) - International Finance and the Reconstruction of Hungary 1918-1939
    • Q&A

    • Moderator: Alfredo Gigliobianco (Bank of Italy)

9 June 2012

  • Session 3 - "Domestic Finance and Institutions"
    • Ashok Kumar Kapoor (State Bank of India) - Financial Flow To the Agricultural Sector (1935-1954): As Reflected from the Archival Records of the Reserve Bank of India
    • Joke Mooij (Rabobank Netherlands) - Government and the Rise of Cooperative Agricultural Banks in the Netherlands
    • Katharina Gärtner (Free University Berlin) - White Picket Finance: The Remaking of the U.S. Mortgage Market, 1932-1960
    • Marius-Constantin Apostoaie (University of Iaşi) - The Interest Rates Pass-Through from Policy Rates to Interbank Interest Rates in the Romanian Financial System
    • Q&A

    • Moderator: Niels-Viggo Haueter (Swiss Re)

  • Round Table - "Banking and Insurance Risk in Transition"
    • John Bonin (Wesleyan University)
    • Emil Vonvea (Garanti Bank Romania)
    • Cornel Theodor Stănescu (Marfin Bank Romania)

    • Moderator: Harold James (Princeton University)

  • Concluding Remarks: Hubert Bonin (Institut d'Études Politiques de Bordeaux)