Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions

Kassel, Germany, 25 - 28 April 2001

Preconference to session no. 39, XIII World Congress of the International Economic History Association, Buenos Aires

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EMU has awarded a high topicality to the question for the prerequisites for the realization of monetary unions. Arrangements of monetary integration aren't restricted to the 20th century. They aren't limited at Europe either. Economic history can therefore offer an independent contribution to the analysis of the conditions of success and the mode of action of differenttypes of monetary integration. Economic history offers orientation lines for the future development of EMU. The following aspects will be treated:

- The analysis of the relationship between real economy, state and currency system.
- The identification of relevant monetary institutions and the conditions for their transformation.
- Competitive monetary paradigms and paradigms of integration politics.
- Motives for projects of monetary integration.
- Expectations to projects of monetary integration.
- Distinction features of union elements. E.g.: History, economic ideas, structures of the financial markets, ethnic aspects.
- Competitive monetary expectations and opportunities of participation for social groups within a monetary integrated area.
- The construction of the union's order as a determinant, as condition for the success, as conflict potential.
- Mechanisms to the mastering of conflicts in monetary unions: rules for exit, crisis management, flexibility of the order etc.

Areas and subjects which will be analyzed:
- Latin America (time between the World Wars: Dollar block; contemporary: development of Nafta).
- Asia: Japan's efforts around the establishment of a Yen block; politics of the "tigers".
- USSR as example of a monetary strategy of dominance.
- USA in the 18th and 19th century.
- Austria-Hungary as precursor of the modern monetary integration politics.
- The German "Muenzeinigung" as suggestion for the planning to the European currency system and to the European monetary union.
- The Latin Monetary Union as example of a failed project of monetary integration.
- The Western European monetary integration.

Folgende Aspekte sollen in den Beitraegen behandelt werden:

- die Beziehungen zwischen Realwirtschaft, Staat und Waehrungssystem

- die Identifizierung relevanter monetaerer Institutionen und die Bedingungen fuer deren Stabilitaet beziehungsweise deren Wandel

- konkurrierende geldpolitische Paradigmen

- die Paradigmen der Integrationspolitik

- die Motive fuer monetaere Integrationsprojekte

- die Erwartungen an Projekte monetaerer Integration

- die verschiedenen Charakteristika von Unionselementen, z.B. Pfadabhaengigkeiten resultierend aus Geschichte und oekonomischen Ideen, Strukturen der Finanzmaerkte, ethnische Aspekte

- konkurrierende geldpolitische Erwartungen

- Partizipationsmoeglichkeiten sozialer Gruppen innerhalb eines Integrierten Waehrungsraumes

- die Konstruktion einer Waehrungsunion als Determinante, als Bedingung fuer Erfolg oder Misserfolg, als Konfliktpotential

- Konfliktbewaeltigungsmechanismen in Waehrungsunionen: Exit-Regeln, Krisenmanagement, Flexibilitaet des Ordnungsrahmens etc.

- Die Bedeutung internationaler Rahmenbedingungen fuer die Konvergenz oder Divergenz von Waehrungsunionen als Raeume und Gegenstaende der Analyse wurden herausgestellt:

- Lateinamerika: Phasen der Dollarisierung waehrend des 20. Jahrhunderts, monetaere Entwicklungen innerhalb von Nafta und Mercosur-Gebieten - Asien: die Rolle des Yen; monetaere Einigung in China etc. - UdSSR, Russische Foederation, (ehemaliges) Jugoslawien: als Beispiel fuer die monetaere Strategie der Dominanz - OEsterreich-Ungarn als Vorlaeufer moderner monetaerer Integrationspolitik - die deutsche Muenzeinigung als Vorbild fuer die Planungen zum Europaeischen Waehrungssystem und zur Europaeischen Waehrungsunion - die Lateinische Muenzunion als ein Beispiel eines gescheiterten Integrationsprojektes - die westeuropaeische monetaere Integration - die Konditionen der waehrungspolitischen Integration in Nordamerika - Suedosteuropa als Zielzone verschiedener ueberregionaler geldpolitischer Regime - kleinere Zonen monetaerer Integration in LDC-Regionen

Call for Paper:

N.N. (CFP!!!) Conflicts in moentary politics within the Ottoman Empire

N.N. (CFP!!!), Spreading of the dollar zone in Central and South America.

N.N. (CFP!!!), The role of the Yen (19th/20th century).

Participants:

Christian Erb, University Frankfurt: German Monetary Union and the Prussian influence; monetary policy (Deutsche Muenzeinigung und preussischer Einfluss; Waehrungspolitik)

Hans-Juergen Gerhard, University Goettingen: First steps to Central European monetary unification and their problems; 17th/18th century (Erste Versuche der Muenzeinigung in Mitteleuropa und ihre Probleme).

Daniel Gross, CEPS, Brussels: Competion between Rubel and Euro.

Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Free University, Berlin: Political economy of monetary unions (asked).

Hartmut Kiehling, Munich: On the stairway to unification: From European Payments Union to European Monetary Union.

Bernhard Nagel, University Kassel: "Mark ist Mark". The conflict on a jurisdication during the inflation 1923. A late consequence of the German monetary unification of 1871? (Der Konflikt um einen Rechtsgrundsatz waehrend der Inflation 1923. Eine Spaetfolge der Waehrungsvereinheitlichung von 1871?)

Juergen Nautz, University Kassel, University Vienna: Commitment strategies in monetary arranagements and central bank policiy in Austria-Hungary between 1867 and 1914.

Michel Palareit, University of Edinburgh: Internal monetary arrangements in Yougoslavia, the republic central banks, and their role in Yugoslavia's break up and currency separation, 1987ff.

Elisabeth Paulet: on the role of the European Central Bank.

Hermann Remsperger, German Federal Bank, Frankfurt: Conflict potential within EMU

Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University, National Bureau of Economic Research: How long did it take the United States to become an optimal currency area?

Tal Sadeh, Brown University: Currency unions and the different dimensions of money

Oskar Schwarzer, University Bamberg: German monetary unification and the Bavarian strategy of symmetric policy (Deutsche Muenzeinigung und bayerischer Einfluss; Symmetriepolitik)

Arnold Suppan, University Vienna: Centralization of monetary responsibility in Yugoslavia after Word War I and her consequences (Zentralisierung der Waehrungskompetenz in Jugoslawien nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, Entwicklung bis 80er Jahre)

Theresia Theurl, University Muenster: Matters of conflict and reasons for the dissolution of Latin Monetary Union (Konfliktpotentiale und Gruende für das Scheitern der Lateinischen Muenzunion).

Nuno Valerio, Lissabon: The monetary arrangments prevailing before 1962 in Portugal and the Portuguese cononial empire.

Organizers:

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz,
Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel
Fb 10, Abt. Rechtswissenschaft
D-34109 Kassel
Telefon: ++49-561-804-3144
Fax: ++49-561-804-3227
Email: Juergen.Nautz@t-online.de

PD Dr. Oskar Schwarzer
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Hegelweg 12
D-90571 Schwaig
Fon: +49-911-5067207
Fax: +49-911-5067205
Email: DEMO.Schwarzer@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de


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Subject: CFP: Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions
Date: 03.06.2000


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