“Crisis in Europe, Europe in Crisis – Financial Markets, Regions

 “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
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)
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)
Martin Sokol
13:30
16:15 Coffee Break
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)
Keynote: Reforms of the international financial system and the role of the
G20s and the IMF (Gustav Bager, Hungarian Audit Office )
Finish
17:15
18:15
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)
Zoltan Gal
16:30
Friday, 04.05.12
Time
Chair
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)
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)
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)
Lunch at La Baracca Restaurant (Italian Cuisine), Am Sandtorkai 44,
20457 Hamburg
12:00
12:30
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)
14:30
Final Discussions
16:00
End
Martin Sokol
13:30
Dariusz Wojcik
Keynote: The Housing Market and Urban Development after the Financial Crisis
(Gary Dymski, University of California at Riverside)
Tim Heinemann
09:00