Failing Banks
Why do banks fail? What are the characteristics of banks that fail? Are these consistently the same over the course of history? Emil Verner (MIT) says yes, there are some commonalities all US banks th...
25 Apr 202434min
Banking Regulation
How to regulate banks effectively? Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt University Berlin) makes a case for banking regulation being a cyclical affair. He and his colleagues started out to do the first qua...
22 Feb 202437min
Zombie Currency
In this episode Maylis Avaro (Penn University) and Carmen Hofmann (eabh) discuss the international role of Sterling during the Bretton Woods era. Maylis claims that after 1945, the collective interest...
22 Feb 202429min
A Marshall Plan for Ukraine?
Volker Berghahn (Columbia) & Carmen Hofmann (eabh) talk about European reconstruction after World War I, World War II and the Ukrainian War of today. Why was the reconstruction effort after 1945 so mu...
18 Des 202331min
Economic Thought
A practitioner's perspective with Edgar Walk (Metzler Bank) and Carmen Hofmann (eabh). How can history insight help to bridge the gap between mathematical economic theory models and the 'real world o...
18 Des 202331min
Credit Crisis
Stein Berre (New York Fed) & Paul Kosmetatos (University of Edinburgh) talk to Carmen Hofmann (eabh) about the first global credit crisis (1772/73). Which role did innovative financial products play? ...
18 Des 202339min
The Bank of Sicily
This episode is about one of the oldest banks in Europe. Alex Cooper (Leicester University) and Carmen Hofmann (eabh) discuss the financial needs of an island society and how banks are an integral par...
22 Nov 202325min
Mississippi Bubble in Saint Domingue
This episode tells the story of the rise and fall of the Mississippi Bubble (1720) in Saint Domingue (Haiti). Malick Ghachem (MIT) discusses with Carmen Hofmann (eabh)why money seems not to be working...
7 Nov 202339min
