Program for the conference: Global Monetary History and Policy Lessons

Conference to happen at the University of Manchester on May 15, 2025, as previously annouced here.

Location: Arthur Lewis Building, floor 2, room 2.016/2017 (boardroom)

Each speaker will have 20 mins to present, including questions. Time limits will be strictly enforced!

9.00. Opening remarks and organizational notes by the organizers

9.10. François Velde (Chicago Fed), Monetary disintegration: Northern Italy, 900-1200

9.30. Matthias Morys (University of York), Where It All Begins: Eurodollars and International Monetary Policy Transmission under Bretton Woods (with Guillaume Bazot and Eric Monnet)

9.50. Rebecca Stuart (Queen’s Business School), Missing persistence: measurement errors and US inflation before WWI (with Stefan Gerlach)

10.10. Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University), Pragmatism and Flexibility in Monetary Institutions and Policies of the Ottoman Empire

10.30. Max Harris (Wharton, UPenn), Gold after the Nixon Shock: The Role of the Yellow Metal in the 1970s

10.50. coffee break

11.30. Hiroki Shin (University of Birmingham), The Ascent of Paper Currency (with Nuno Palma)

11.50. Policy session 1. Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Reserve management operations: how little has changed in 300 years

12.30. lunch break

13.30. Keynote by Nathan Sussman (Geneva Graduate Institute), From Shells to Crypto: How Politics, Technology, Liquidity, and Credibility Shape Money

14.30. coffee break

15.00. Policy session 2. Jagjit S. Chadha (University of Cambridge), What went wrong with 21st Century Economic Policy?

15.30. Larry Neal (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Can financial history help the EU develop a “safe asset”?

15.50. Alejandra Irigoin (LSE), Standard error: the monetary role of foreign silver in China – from
Qianlong to the fall of Qing

16.10. Roman Zaoral (Charles University, Prague), Monetisation in Medieval Bohemia

16.30. Nuno Palma (University of Manchester), The Fraudster and the Bank (with Luís F. Costa and Renato Pistola)

16.50 Closing remarks by the organizers

17.00 conference ends

Optional dinner at Zouk, around 18.45pm