The MS in Finance invites you to a Guest Speakers event: EUROPE’S DEBT CRISIS: CAUSES AND OUTLOOK

Join us at the Graduate School of DEREE to an evening of distinguished seminar presentations by three leading international academics.

Monday, 24 January 2011, 17:00-20:00

Library Upper Level
DEREE – The American College of Greece
Aghia Paraskevi Campus- 6 Gravias Street 

EVENING OVERVIEW:

17:00-17:15                   Arrival and Welcome

17:15-17:45                   “Credit Derivatives and the Default Risk of Large Complex Financial Institutions”,
                                       by Professor Christos Ioannidis, University of Bath, UK Q & A Session

17:45-18:00                   Q&A Session

18:00-18:30                   “Financial Instability, Institutions and Regulations: The 2009-10 Greek Crisis”,
                                       by Dr. Dimitrios Tsomocos, University of Oxford, UK

18:30-18:45                   Q&A Session

18:45-19:00                   Coffee Break

19:00-19:30                   “Root causes of the debt crisis in Greece”,
                                       by Dr. Vassilis Manesiotis, advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Greece on Fiscal matters.

19:30-19:45                   Q&A Session

PROFILES OF SPEAKERS:

Dr. Christos Ioannidis is Professor of Economics and Finance at the Department of Economics, University of Bath. His research addresses issues in macroeconomics and finance with emphasis on econometric applications. Recently he is involved with externally funded research projects that deal with the economics of information security. He has undertaken research as consultant for private financial institutions and government organizations (ONS, City of London Corporation, WDA etc). His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Economics Letters, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Political Economy, Omega, Quantitative Finance and others. 

Dr. Dimitrios Tsomocos is University Reader and Fellow in Management at the University of Oxford. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Financial Markets Group at the LSE. He holds a B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. He has worked at the Bank of England and consulted with various Central Banks around the world. His holds editorial positions and has published at various international journals. Moreover, he is the co-editor of volumes Financial Stability and Financial Regulation and Supervision (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011). He is the co-developer of the Goodhart - Tsomocos model of financial fragility that focuses on banking and regulation, missing financial markets, systemic risk and contagion, financial instability and issues of new financial architecture. Currently, he is working towards designing a new paradigm of monetary policy, financial stability analysis and macroprudential regulation. 

Dr. Vassilis Manessiotis received his MA and PhD in Economics from Northwestern University, USA. He is currently advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Greece on Fiscal matters. From 1980 until 2009 Professor Manessiotis served as the Head of the Fiscal Affairs Division of the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Greece. He has extensive research experience and has published numerous articles and books on budgeting, taxation, tax evasion, control of government expenditure, public debt, fiscal policy inside the EMU and sustainability of public finances. He also has extensive teaching experience as a Professor at the American College of Greece and at the University of Aegean, University of Ioannina and the Athens University of Economics and Business where he taught Public Finance for several years.