The Leibniz Institute SAFE, the Institute for Banking and Financial History (IBF), and the House of Finance organize and cordially invite you to attend a
Conference in the context of the Goethe University Visiting Professorship of Financial History – endowed by Metzler Bank and the Friedrich Flick Förderungsstiftung – currently held by Eugene N. White (Rutgers University)
New Lessons from the Archives: The Evolving History of Central Banking
29 June 2023, House of Finance, Room E.22 (Commerzbank), Campus Westend, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Although the actions of central banks are often cloaked in silence, the lessons drawn from the management of bank failures and financial crises often give the impression that the “smoke-filled room” was bathed in sunlight. While policy makers internal deliberations have appeared, with few exceptions, as quick sketches, there are substantial underused archives of documents and data that can be accessed to provide a more complete and sometimes even dramatically different picture of the conduct of central banking from the late 19th century to the present. This conference brings together experts in this evolving field to present their findings.
