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miércoles, 15 de octubre de 2014

Repensando la evolución del sistema financiero


http://ineteconomics.org/institute-blog/new-economic-thinking-evolving-financial-system

New Economic Thinking for an Evolving Financial System

A conference organized by INET's Young Scholars Initiative
Amsterdam, November 10-11
The global financial system has evolved over the past decades into a vastly complex architecture. As economists, our understanding of the inner workings of the system is limited and often incoherent. 
The global financial crisis has exposed our dangerous overreliance on a narrow set of tools and views on the financial sector. Crucial blind spots and misconceptions in our understanding of the global financial architecture and its fault lines have persisted. For instance, the Walrasian framework used in modern DSGE models abstracts from the banking system completely. By assumption liquidity is assumed to be perfect, as is the expectation formation by “representative” agents. This of course discounts any interaction between agents and means that asset bubbles cannot exist.
Today, major central banks around the world are in uncharted territory in their attempt to reinstitute financial stability and induce an economic recovery.  The road ahead is unclear, and new economic thinking is needed. This conference will bring together young scholars, central bankers, and researchers to explore promising new frameworks for conceptualizing the financial system in order to better engage today’s realities.
A major step forward for any academic treatment of the financial system is the use of balance sheets as a key intellectual framework. This immediately opens multiple crucially important perspectives:
  • The interaction of agents’ balance sheets (networks, agent based modeling, complexity theory)
  • The interaction between sectors of the economy (SFC modeling)
  • The importance of different qualities of “money” (the money view, legal theory of finance)
Meanwhile, we must take seriously the challenge of global governance of global finance. In creating an environment in which alternative conceptual frameworks are exposed to each other and to people with operational expertise, we hope to properly understand the virtues and limitations of the respective approaches.
The Young Scholars Initiative is partnering with youngDNB, the DNB, and the Institute's Financial Stability Research Program in order to create environments for studying issues of financial stability. Our working groups consisting of students and young researchers organize webinars, workshops and discussions in order to advance our understanding of the economy.
We hope you join us in Amsterdam on November 10-11. If you are unable to come, please still get in touch, as we’d love to welcome you to our working groups.
This conference is kindly hosted by the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and generously supported by the University of Groningen’s faculty of Economics and Business.