Conference Agenda
The Conference aims at debating the current debt-based money system and two major reforms in two parallel tracks and three sessions.
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Time
Audimax
Lecture room
09:30-09:45
Klaus Karwat, Manuel Klein, Lino Zedies: Welcome, Introduction
10:55-12:35
Session:
Current money System
Audimax
- Prof. Dr. Steve Keen: Why we Regularly Witness Financial Debt Crises due to Asset Price Inflation
- Dr. Michael Kumhof: Central Bank Digital Currencies – Benefits versus Costs
- Dr. Carl A. Claussen: Insights into the Riksbank e-krona project
13:10-14:15
Lunch
14:50-16:30
Session:
Vollgeld
Sovereign Money
Audimax
- Prof. Dr. Joseph Huber: Design principles for a Central Bank Digital Currency
- Prof. Dr. Ole Bjerg: CBDC in line with the Vollgeld approach?
- Dr. E. Dawnay / M. Degiacomi: Lessons learnt after the Swiss Referendum on Sovereign Money
Lecture room
- Prof. Dr. Laurence J. Kotlikoff: The Big Con – Reassessing the “Great” Recession and its “Fix”
- Edgar Wortmann: Evolution of Money in the Digital Age
- Manuel Klein: Vollgeld 101 – How does it work and what can it do?
17:05-17:20
Coffee break
17:55-19:00
Session:
Cryptocurrencies
Audimax
- Dominik Schiener: IOTAs Vision of an Open and Decentralized Financial System
- Prof. Dr. Phillip Sandner: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto Assets and ICOs: Emergence of a New Asset Class
Lecture room
- Veronika Kütt: Bitcoin 101 – How does it work, what can it do?
- Max Rangeley: Blockchain, The Austrian School and Monetary Reform
19:00-19:15
Break
19:15-20:00
- Dr. Gerhard Schick: Spokesman on financial policy of the German green party
- Dr. Cyrus de la Rubia: Chief Economist, HSH Nordbank
- Dr. Carl Christoph Hedrich: Senior Research Manager, Commerzbank
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Helge Peukert: Professor of pluralist Economics, Siegen University
- Ralph Bärligea: Banking Consultant, Bearing Point
- Marc Friedrich, Bestselling author
20:00-20:15
Closing Address, Get together