“Crisis in Europe, Europe in Crisis – Financial Markets, Regions, Cities and Uneven Development in Europe”

International Seminar (Hamburg, 3rd & 4th May 2012)

Thursday, 03.05.12

Time Chair

13:30 Registration

14:00 Welcome from the Principal of the HafenCity University Hamburg, Dr. Walter Pelka

14:15 Introduction and Welcome, Prof Dr. Gernot Grabher & Tim Heinemann

14:30 Keynote: Economic Geographies of Finance: Travels in Time and Space (Roger Lee, Queen Mary, University of London)

15:30 Intervention (Dariusz Wojcik, University of Oxford)

Martin Sokol

16:45 From bank- vs. market-based to local- vs. international-oriented financial systems: The case of German saving banks (Stefan Gärtner & Franz Floegel, IAT Gelsenkirchen)

16:15 Coffee Break

16:30 Dynamics   of   Capital   Re-­‐Switching   within   and   beyond   Europe   (David   Bassens   &  Michel  van  Meerteren  ,  University  of  Ghent)

17:00 New Investment circuits as a response to the Crisis. What consideration for the territorial and sustainability issues? (Victoriya Salomon, University of Neuchatel)

17:15 Keynote: Reforms of the international financial system and the role of the G20s and the IMF (Gustav Bager, Hungarian Audit Office )

Zoltan Gal

18:15 Finish

19:30 Dinner at the Restaurant Warsteiner Elbspeicher, Große Elbstrasse 39, 22767 Hamburg (Ferry to the Restaurant leaves at 18:20; 18:35; 18:50 from Standtorhöft pier)

Friday, 04.05.12

Time Chair

09:00 Keynote: The Housing Market and Urban Development after the Financial Crisis (Gary Dymski, University of California at Riverside)

10:00 The financialisation of urban development: Tax Increment Financing in Newcastle upon Tyne (Thomas Strickland, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

10:30 A Fetish and Fiction of Finance: Unravelling the Sub-prime Crisis (Erica, Pani, Queen Mary, University of London)

Tim H

einemann

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Financial FDI in Central Eastern Europe revisited (Magdolna Sass, Hungarian Academy of Science & Zoltan Gal, University of Pecs)

11:45 Spatial impacts of deposit collection and lending practices of commercial banks by the oligopol market structures in Hungary (Balázs György, Corvinius University Budapest)

12:00 The role of financial services offshoring in CEE – Tackling the crisis: the cases of Czechia and Hungary (Pavel Ptacek, Palacky University & Zoltan Gal, University of Pecs)

Dariusz W

ojcik

12:30 Lunch at La Baracca Restaurant (Italian Cuisine), Am Sandtorkai 44, 20457 Hamburg

13:30 How the crisis influences the uneven development of Ukrainian regions (Olga Shevchenko, National Institute of Strategic Studies)

14:15 Learning from the crisis: Is finance ready for (permanent) inter-firm collaboration? (Christian Baumeister, Catholic University, Eichstaett)

Martin Sokol

14:30 Final Discussions

16:00 End