Conference „Money, Crisis & Banking - An Austrian
Economics Perspective” – Plan of Sessions
Session 1a: Theory of Capital and Interest
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker: Böhm‐Bawerks temporale Kapitaltheorie: Ihre Modernisierung und ihre heutige
Aktualität
Ulrich van Suntum & Tom Neugebauer: Böhm-Bawerk meets Keynes – what does determine the interest rate,
and can the latter become negative?
Matthias Erlei: Financial Crises from the Perspective of Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Hendrik Hagedorn: A Theory of Interest
Gunther Schnabl: Austrian Business Cycle Theory and Asymmetric Macroeconomic Policy Response Patterns
Session 1b: Banking
Lachezar Grudev: ECB´s dangerous game of digging holes in the ground and then filling them up
Romain Baeriswyl: 100 percent reserve banking system: fixed or flexible?
Petr Koráb & Jitka Poměnková: Determinants of Financing Constrains of SMEs in the Eurozone: Evidence from
the Financial Crisis
Leef H. Dierks: The European Banking Union from an Austrian Economics’ Perspective:
Further Depriving the Market of its Coordination Function
Session 1c: Monetary Policy
Jakub Jedlinský: Currency systems and their role in entering and leaving the economic crisis
Dominik Stroukal & Herbert Heissler: Bitcoin and the End of the Booms and Busts of the Business Cycle
Michal Střecha: Structure and attitude to the public debt as an origin of the financial crises
Lorenz Meyenburg: ‘Euro Disease equal to Dutch Disease’?
Session 2a: Austrian Ideas as Engine of Change
Dagmar Schulze Heuling: Smart Ideas and Power. How Austrian Economics Can Foster Institutional Change
Daniel Fallenstein: Value is in your Mind — A Proposal to spread Austrian Economic Literacy through Culture
Igor Uszczapowski: The Paradox of Freedom – Austrian Thought and the Crisis of Liberalism
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Session 2b: Regulation Ideas
Katja Galkova: The origin and consequences of financial crisis. Are liabilities in the financial sector set at the
right level to prevent the next financial crisis?
Kalle Kappner & Carsten Schwäbe: The Hayekian Knowledge Problem and the need for collective action
– a pragmatic approach to the scope and limits of regulation
Marius Kleinheyer: The Chicago Plan Revisited: An Austrian Critique
Session 3a: Rationality and Crises
Marek Hudik: What does the Rational Choice Theory attempt to explain?
Catherine Herfeld: The Economist's Persisting Commitment to Methodological Rationalism
Jens Harbecke: Rational Choice Theory and the Metaphysics of Causation
Alexander Fink: Meanings of Rationality in Economics
Session 3b: The Financial Crisis in China, Japan and Central Eastern Europe
Raphael Fischer & Gunther Schnabl: Regional Heterogeneity, Aging Society and the Rise of Public Debt in Japan
in the Post-Bubble Crisis
Andreas Hoffmann: Why Do Low Interest Rates not Cause a Credit Boom in Central and Eastern Europe?
Björn Urbansky: Spontaneous Order and Economic Developments in China and Japan
from a Historical Perspective
Session 4a: Critique of Austrian Ideas
Arash Molavi Vasséi: The Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Misleading Perspective on the Financial
Crisis
Stefan Kolev : On the Spontaneity of the Spontaneous Order
Raimund Dietz: Catallactics, money and the economic system – a Simmelian approach
Session 4b: Historical Aspects
Wilhelm Rabenstein: Die Geldtheorie nach Carl Menger im Vergleich zum heutigen ungedeckten Geldsystem
Joseph Schwarz: The Austrian School of Economics and the Rise of German Ordoliberalism and the “Social
Market Economy”, 1914-1948
Eduard Braun: Low Interest Rates Combined with Fair-Value Accounting – What We Could Have Learnt
From the German Crisis of 1873?
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