Conférence "International Clearing, Cross-Border Payment Systems and International Monetary Reforms: Ideas, History and Contemporary Issues"

THURSDAY, MAY 15 

9h – 12h30: Insights from the History of Economic Thought RHPE (Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique) – Sponsored Session

• Nikolay Nenovsky (LEFMI - University of Picardy) – Clearing and International Monetary Relations in Fascist, Corporatist and Socialist Literatures
• Fabrizio Bientinesi (University of Pisa) & Rosario Patalano (University of Napoli) - A world without gold: the debate on the clearing system in Italy (1907-1958)

10h30: Coffee break

• Pierre-Hernan Rojas (Institut Catholique de Paris) – International monetary debates in the US Treasury in the 1930s: Harry Dexter White at the crossroads of theory and action
• Mikhail Lipkin (Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences) – Transferable ruble as a part of COMECON design: a comparative study of Khrustchev and Kosygin visions of the bright socialist financial future (late 1950s – mid 1970s)

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch

14h – 17h30: Varia – Session 1

• Alessandro Roselli (University of Buckingham) – Balancing international trade in uncertain times: the Italo-German clearing agreements during the 1930s
• Jean-Michel Godeffroy (Former Director of Market Infrastructure and Payments – European Central Bank) – Geopolitics and Payments 

15h30: Coffee break

• Catherine Schenk (Oxford University) - Building the architecture of the global payments system 1970-2002: governance and coordination
• Steffen Murau (Global Climate Forum, Berlin) - A Feature, not a Bug: The US Dollar in the European Monetary Union

Dinner – Restaurant – La Ravioline, Valence

FRIDAY, MAY 16

9h-12h30: Varia – Session II

• Matteo Giordano (SOAS London) - Forging Monetary Unification through Novation. The TARGET System and the Politics of Central Banking in Europe
• George Pantelopoulos (University of Newcastle, Australia) - The problem of fungibility during the course of payment and settlement

10h30: Coffee break

• Carolyn Sissoko (University of the West of England Bristol) – On the Economics of Cross‐border Reparations Payments: The Case for a Bank of International Reparations
• Bruno Bonizzi (University of Hertfordshire) - Enhancing MDB Capacity through Local Currency Lending 

12h30-13h30: Lunch

13h30-16h40: Contemporary Issues

• Rudy Bouguelli (LADYSS, Université Paris Cité) & Bruno De Conti (University of Campinas) – Building Bridges or Competing in a Payments Arms Race? The Geopolitics of the mBridge and Agora projects
• Heikki Patomaki (University of Helsinki) – On the feasibility and viability of the ICU understood as a process in product and product in process
• Faruk Ülgen (CREG – Université Grenoble Alpes) - A Keynes Plan to deal with the Tragedy of the viability
• Adrien Faudot (CREG – Université Grenoble Alpes) - Closing remarks