The Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development (CFD) is co-organising four high-level CFD Series:
The CFD Sovereign Debt Series
CFD aims at transfering knowledge from theory to practice on Sovereign Debt related topics.
The CFD Sustainable Finance Series
CFD organises high-level conferences to promote fundamental and applied research on financial development as a means for inclusive growth and provides networking among academic researchers, policymakers, practitioners, market participants and social entrepreneurs.
The CFD - IFIs Reports Series
CFD serves as a forum for the main international financial institutions (IFIs) and international organisations to present their annual or quaterly reports.
The CFD Macro History Series
CFD collaborates with an international network of top universities and brings macroeconomic history topics to an interested public on a weekly basis.
Find more information under the respective sections below.
The first Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference (DebtCon) was launched at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) at Georgetown University in January 2016. Its mission is to engage scholars and practitioners across geographic, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries to help solve pressing sovereign debt problems.
DebtCon brings cutting-edge research to bear on policy and market practice, and helps make research more impactful with exposure to real-world policy and market experience.
DebtCon 6 - Princeton University (April 27-29, 2023)
DebtCon 5 - European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy (May 25-27, 2022)
Debtcon 5 programme and recordings
DebtCon 4 (D-DebtCon) - Online, Distributed in 9 Countries (September 7-September 18, 2020)
10 September 2020: Sovereign Debt and Financial History (The Graduate Institute Geneva) (Programme & Slides) (Video), featuring Edwin M. Truman (Peterson Institute for International Economics), Elena L. Daly (Global Sovereign Advisory), Ugo Panizza (The Graduate Institute), Mark Walker (Guggenheim Partners), Rui Esteves (The Graduate Institute), Simon Hinrichsen (LSE), Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford) and Nathan Sussman (The Graduate Institute).
Watch the recording of the session on Sovereign Debt and Financial History
Programme of the session on Sovereigh Debt and Financial History
Readout (PDF, 154 KB)
Paper Lessons from the 1980s for Sovereign Debt Relief in the Global Pandemic by Edwin Truman (PDF, 422 KB)
Paper The Iraq Sovereign Debt Restructuring by Simon Hinrichsen (PDF, 815 KB)
Slides of Simon Hinrichsen's presentation The Iraq Sovereign Debt Restructuring (PDF, 371 KB)
Slides of Nathan Sussman's presentation When reputation is not enough – the great default of the London Corporation in 1683 (PDF, 1.34 MB)
D-DebtCon (debtcon 4) materials D-DebtCon Recordings
DebtCon 3 - Georgetown Law, Washington (April 11-12, 2019)
DebtCon 3 Programme DebtCon 3 recordings
DebtCon 2 - Centre for Finance and Development, The Graduate Institute, Geneva (October 5-6, 2017)
DebtCon 1 - Georgetown Law, Washington (January 21-22, 2016)
Below, find the videos of some of the high-level panel segments of the conference.
This conference was co-organised with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the CDC Group, the International Growth Centre (IGC), IDB Invest, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Center for Global Development and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Watch the recordings of the two high-level panels (below).
Listen to all the other recorded sessions
Conference programme with links to papers and presentations (PDF, 386 KB)
This conference was co-organised with the Center for Global Development and the CDC Group.
The special theme of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) Annual Congress 2019 was Sustainable Development.
Full 2019 programme (PDF, 350 KB)
SSES mission is to promote and advance economic research in Switzerland and to improve the collaboration between the domestic and international research community. An important focus lies also on the promotion of young economist by providing them with the appropriate platform to present their scientific work.
SSES also publishes the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, an open access academic journal published quarterly (ISSN 0303-9692).
The Centre for Finance and Development (CFD), the World Bank, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) have hosted several online discussions on the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects Report.
24 February 2022: Slowing Growth, Rising Risks
28 January 2021: A Subdued Recovery
Presentation by Professor Nathan Sussman (PDF, 1.28 MB)
25 June 2020: Pandemic and Crisis
Presentation by Professor Nathan Sussman (PDF, 526 KB)
18 June 2019: The Impact Imperative for Sustainable Development
Presented by Karen Wilson, Senior Advisor, Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) Centre, OECD
The International Macroeconomic History Online Seminar Series (IMHOS), jointly organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of numerous other universities and institutions from around the world (see below), aims to keep the flow of intellectual debate active and to bring macroeconomic history topics to an interested public on a weekly basis.
Current IMHOS Participant Institutions: Banque de France, Centre for Economic Policy Research, European Association of Banking History, European Historical Economics Society, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judge Business School Cambridge, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, King’s College London, London School of Economics, NYU-Abu Dhabi, Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, Queen’s University Belfast, Rutgers University, Sciences Po, Santa Clara University, Solvay Business School, Universitat de Barcelona, University Carlos III Madrid, University College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, University of Geneva, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Yale University.
The seminars takes place virtually bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 17:00 (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion.
fall 2022 seminar registration
The video recordings and papers of the Spring & Fall 2021 sessions are made available by our partner CEPR through the below links.
spring 2022 programme & video recordings
The video recordings and papers of the Spring & Fall 2021 sessions are made available by our partner CEPR through the below links.
Fall 2020 (23 September to 9 December 2020)
Find below the recordings, papers and slides of the Fall 2020 sessions.
Session 1: Black Swans, Dragon Kings and Gray Rhinos: The World War of 1914-1918 and the Pandemic of 2020-?, Niall Ferguson (PDF, 538 KB)
Session 2: The Role of Sentiment in the Economy of the 1920s, Ali Kabiri, Harold James, John Landon-Lane, David Tuckett, Rickard Nyman.
Session 3: Hidden Wealth, Neil Cummins (PDF, 907 KB)
Session 4: Vulture Diplomacy: Distressed Sovereign Debt, Creditor Coalitions and the London Stock Exchange in the 19th century, Marc Flandreau (PDF, 439 KB)
Session 5: Understanding Persistence, Morgan Kelly (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Session 6: Paper not available
Session 7: Paper not available
Session 8: Corporate Finance of Industry in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial Russia, Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger (PDF, 7.79 MB)
Session 9: What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?, Erik Bengtsson, Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström (PDF, 839 KB)
Session 10: Human Development in the Age of Globalisation, Leandro Prados de la Escosura (PDF, 5.39 MB)
Session 11: The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era, Mark A. Carlson, Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck.
Session 12: Contagion of Fear, Kris James Mitchener, Gary Richardson (PDF, 1.34 MB)
Session 1: Black Swans, Dragon Kings and Gray Rhinos: The World War of 1914-1918 and the Pandemic of 2020-?, Niall Ferguson (PDF, 2.15 MB)
Session 2: The Role of Sentiment in the Economy of the 1920s, Ali Kabiri and Harold James (PDF, 1.62 MB)
Session 3: Hidden Wealth, Neil Cummins (PDF, 1.95 MB)
Session 4: Slides not available
Session 5: Understanding Persistence, Morgan Kelly (PDF, 1.23 MB)
Session 6: When Property Rights Are Not Enough: Lessons from Renaissance Florence, Francesca Trivellato (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Session 7: The Berlin Stock Exchange in the ‘Great Disorder’, Caroline Fohlin (PDF, 2.34 MB)
Session 8: Corporate Finance of Industry in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial Russia, Amanda Gregg (PDF, 4.8 MB)
Session 9: What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?, Daniel Waldenström (PDF, 776 MB)
Session 10: Human Development in the Age of Globalisation, Leandro Prados de la Escosura (PDF, 1.36 MB)
Session 11: The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era, Mark A. Carlson (PDF, 6.22 MB)
Session 12: Slides not available
What can we learn from the economic effects of the 1918 flu pandemic and the public health measures taken back then? What measures did countries successfully use in the past to recover from economic depressions? What are the long-term economic effects of different inheritance rules?
These were some of the questions addressed by economic history experts in our European Macro History Online Seminar, jointly organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development (CFD) and a consortium of sixteen other institutions.
PAPERS:
Session 1: What Happened to the US Economy During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data by François Velde
Session 2: Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu by Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck and Emil Verner
Session 3: The Ends of 30 Big Depressions by Martin Ellison, Sang Seok Lee and Kevin O'Rourke (PDF, 9.41 MB)
Session 6: Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine by Mohamed Saleh (PDF, 2.13 MB)
RECORDINGS OF THE SESSIONS:
SLIDES:
Session 1: What Happened to the US Economy During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data by François Velde (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Session 2: Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu by Stephan Luck (PDF, 3.94 MB)
Session 3: The Ends of 30 Big Depressions by Kevin O'Rourke (PDF, 3.32 MB)
Session 6: Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine by Mohamed Saleh (PDF, 839 KB)
Session 7: The Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Historical Inheritance Rules for Land by Charlotte Bartels (PDF, 410 KB)
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