This workshop of the Interdisciplinary Research Cluster ‘Finance and Society’ brings together political scientists, economists and legal scholars with an interest in the international monetary-financial system.
The speakers discuss how the role of the US-dollar is changing in response to its current dis-embedding from traditional Western alliances, the rivalry with China and stronger cooperation among middle powers, in and beyond the European Union
Organiser: Waltraud Schelkle (RSCAS and SPS Department)
12:00-13:00 Keynote Kathryn Dominguez (University of Michigan, ESRB)
The international role of the US dollar
14:00-16:00 Roundtable 1: Geopolitical challenges
Pierre-Hugues Verdier (University of Virginia) Financial governance and geopolitics from an international law perspective
Livia Chiţu (ECB) Geopolitics of currency choice
Rudy Bouguelli (University of Paris City) Geopolitics of payment systems
16:30-18:30 Roundtable 2: Monetary sovereignty
Steffen Murau (Global Climate Forum and BIS) Rethinking monetary sovereignty
Mark Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia, RSCAS) Europe ‘s dependency
Daniela Gabor (SOAS) The potential role of a global Euro
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