INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR ARCHIVES AND FINANCIAL CRISES
BRINGING ARCHIVISTS AND FINANCIAL HISTORIANS TOGETHER
Conference Co-Hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis & eabh (The European Association for
Banking and Financial History)
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Pre-Conference Workshop: Tool Selection and Management
Carol Kussmann (Society of American Archivists)
Thursday, May 11, 2017
BREAKFAST
Welcoming Remarks
Katrina Stierholz (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) & Carmen Hofmann (The European
Association for Banking and Financial History, eabh)
Money Talks, Archive WARCs
Jefferson Bailey (Internet Archive)
Records of Crisis in Crisis
Melanie Aspey (The Rothschild Archive)
Co-authors: Michele Blagg (The Rothschild Archive/Institute of Contemporary British
History, King's College London) & Natalie Broad (The Rothschild Archive)
BREAK
Risk vs. Access: Striking the Balance
Anne DiFabio & Brigette C. Kamsler (HSBC Archives)
The Bank of England as Lender of Last Resort: New Methods for Handling Historical Data
Ryland Thomas (Bank of England)
Innovations for Education: Using an Archive to Support Education
Katrina Stierholz & Mary Suiter (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Lunch Speaker
Laura Linard (Harvard)
"Accounts with Interest:" An Interdisciplinary Research Project at Barclays Group Archives
Margaret R. Procter (University of Liverpool, Centre for Archive Studies)
Co-authors: Andrew Smith (University of Liverpool Management School), Maria
Sienkiewicz (Barclays), & Ian Jones (University of Liverpool)
The World Bank Archives: Digital Preservation
Elisa Liberatori-Prati (World Bank)
Co-author: April Miller (World Bank)
The Quest for a Long-term Digital Preservation Strategy at the BIS
Piet Clement (Bank for International Settlements)
Co-author: Claire Whitfield (Bank for International Settlements)
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Putting the "E" (As in Electronic) in Economic Records
Daniel J. Linke (Princeton University, Mudd Manuscript Library)
Using ePADD to Appraise and Discover Historical Email Accounts
Peter Chan & Glynn Edwards (Stanford University Libraries)
BREAK
Archives Showcases
RECEPTION
Dinner Speaker: Federal Reserve History
Gary Richardson (UC Irvine)
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
10:30 AM-10:45 AM
10:45 AM-12:15 PM
12:15 PM-1:30 PM
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
3:00 PM-3:15 PM
3:15 PM-4:30 PM
4:30 PM-4:45 PM
4:45 PM-5:30 PM
5:30 PM-6:00 PM
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR ARCHIVES AND FINANCIAL CRISES
BRINGING ARCHIVISTS AND FINANCIAL HISTORIANS TOGETHER
Conference Co-Hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis & eabh (The European Association for
Banking and Financial History)
Friday, May 12, 2017
BREAKFAST
7:30 AM-8:15 AM
Keynote
Harold James (Princeton University/IMF)
The Variety of European Innovations in War Finance during the Thirty Years War
Larry Neal (Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana8:15 AM-10:00 AM
Champaign)
Naples, 1622: A Blueprint for the Resolution of Banking Crises
Lilia Costabile (University of Naples Federico II)
BREAK
10:00 AM-10:20 AM
The Bank of England as Lender of Last Resort: New Historical Evidence from Long-Run,
High- Frequency Archival Data
Ryland Thomas (Bank of England)
Co-authors: Mike Anson, David Bholat & Miao Kang (Bank of England)
Bank Archives as a Source for the Reinterpretation of French, British, and American
Financial Crises
10:20 AM-11:50 AM
Eugene N. White (Rutgers University and NBER)
Averting a Banking Panic – The Microeconomics of Last Resort Lending during the 1912
Banking Crisis in Austria-Hungary
Clemens Jobst (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
Co-author: Kilian Rieder (Oxford University)
LUNCH
11:50 AM-12:50 PM
Bagehot on Holiday: The Lender of Last Resort, Allocation and the Evolution of Banks'
Lending: Evidence from the 1931 Banking Crisis in Spain
Enrique Jorge-Sotelo (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Mapping the Banking System without Official Statistics: A New History of French Banks
12:50 PM-1:50 PM
during the Interwar
Eric Monnet (Bank of France & Paris School of Economics)
Co-authors: Patrice Baubeau (Paris Nanterre), François Chounet (PSE) & Angelo Riva
(EBS & PSE)
BREAK
1:50 PM-2:10 PM
Risk-Shifting Between Two Lenders of Last Resort
Sriya Anbil (Federal Reserve Board)
Co-author: Angela Vossmeyer (Claremont McKenna)
2:10 PM-3:10 PM
Responding to Crises at Systemically Significant Banks: The Cases of Franklin National and
Continental Illinois
Mark Carlson (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)
Co-author: Jonathan Rose (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)
BREAK
3:10 PM-3:30 PM
The Gold Pool (1961-1968) and the Fall of Bretton Woods: Lessons for Global Central Bank
Cooperation
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University) and Alain Naef (Cambridge University)
Co-author: Eric Monnet (Banque de France)
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Coping with the Debt Crisis in Africa in the 1980's: Archival Evidence from Central Banks
Olivier Feiertag (University of Rouen)
HM Treasury and Its Management of the Financial Crisis: 2007 – 2010
Eleanor Hallam (King's College London, and HM Treasury)
RECEPTION
5:00 PM-5:45 PM