Programme:

Day one 2nd March
1000-1130
Akinobu Kuroda
Comparison of currencies, local credits and monetary accounts between China, Japan, and England in early modern period.
Commented from the viewpoint of liquid dynamics by Katsuhiro Nishinari

1330-1440
Georges Depeyrot (CNRS-EHESS)
Rome and the unit of account

1500-1610
Richard von Glahn (UCLA)
Monies of account and monetary transition in China, twelfth to fourteenth centuries

1630-1740
Sushil Chaudhury (U of Calcutta)
Multiple currencies and their complementary relationship: the Indian scenario – early modern era-

Day two 3rd March
930-1040
Massimo Amato (Bocconi U)
From liquidness to liquidity: the commodification of money in the financial fairs of early modern Europe

1050-1200
Jérôme Blanc (LEFI)
Beyond the competition approach to money: a conceptual framework applied to the Early modern France

1400-1510
Anders Ögren (Stockholm SE-U Paris X)
Imaginary or real: Christiernin’s theory on unit of accounts and money

1530-1640
Torbjörn Engdahl (Stockholm SE)
The introduction of units of account in colonial Africa: What was the function of a currency standard?

1700-1810
Willem Wolters (U of Nijmegen)
Monetary crisis in the Philippine Islands during the last decades of Spanish rule in de 19th century: problems of money of account and exchange rates

Day three 4th March
930-1040
Patrice Baubeau (U Paris X)
The monetization process and the question of the anchor of the unit of account: the case of the substitution from bills to banknotes in 19th century France

1050-1200
John A. James (U of Virginia)
Wall Street to Main Street? The Increasing Centrality of New York City in the U.S. Payments System and the Propagation of Panics after 1893

1400-1510
Luca Fantacci (Bocconi U)
How to make liquidity liquid: gold and currency plans at the end of World War II

1520-1630
Bruno Théret, (CNRS – IRISES, université Paris Dauphine)
Between uniqueness of the unit of account and plurality of means of payment, the need for money to be instituted and a set of money-ing rules (with an illustration on the case of fiscal provincial monies in 2001-2003 Argentina fs open monetary crisis)

1640-1810
General discussion
Hans Ulrich Vogel (U of Tübingen) Comment