The New Financial Architecture - a Ruin?

29.11.2006: The presentations of the speakers on the conference "The New Financial Architecture - a Ruin?" in Berlin on 29th-30th November 2006 are now available online.

Programme:

• Dominique Plihon (Paris University): Everything under control or dancing on a volcano? Basic trends in the international financial markets since the Asian crisis

• Jörg Huffschmid (University of Bremen):
Like locusts? The impact of private Equity Funds, Hedge Funds and REITS on stability and sustainable development

• Elmar Altvater (Free University of Berlin):
Dollar - Oil - Euro: Instability from an unholy trinity

• Heiner Flassbeck (Chief Economist of UNCTAD):
Lessons not learnt - a review of the attempts to reform the international financial System since the Asian crash

• Panel dispute with Dr. Rüdiger von Kleist (German Finance Ministry):
Endless liberalisation?

• Heribert Dieter (SWP Berlin):
Growing reserves and regional financial cooperation - East Asia ten years after the crash

• Fernando Carvalho (University of Rio de Janeiro):
Goodbye IMF! The Latin American solution

• Randall Dodd (Financial Policy Forum Washington):
Playing with fire - the impact of derivatives on developing countries

• Pietro Calice (University of Sussex):
Framework for a development friendly international financial system