Information

Date

5 February 2018

Price

Full price: 650 CHF

25% early bird rebate until 5 December, 2017: 490 CHF

GIC and CFA Members

Voucher code can be requested through Colleen Murphy for GIC and info@swiss.cfafor CFA.

GIC and CFA Members: 325 CHF

25% early bird rebate GIC and CFA Members until 5 December: 245 CHF

Students and professors: 25 CHF, contact vollgeld@gdi.ch and send the credentials as PDF.

The conference fee includes all food and beverages. Participants registering less than two weeks before the event can pay by credit card only.

Event location GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
Langhaldenstrasse 21
8803 Rüschlikon

Further

Language

German/French/English (simultaneous translation)

Changes to the programme

The programme is subject to change. If an event does not take place, fees will be refunded. Further claims are ruled out.

Cancellation

If you are unable to attend, please let us have your cancellation in writing. The fee will be reimbursed on cancellation thirty or more days before the event. After this term and until five full working days prior to the event we will charge 75% of the fee. In the event of later cancellations we will charge the full participation fee. Substitute participants welcome.

Hotel reservation

To benefit from special rates, please use the following email adresses and refer to the following code: VOLLGELD2018

Hotel Sedartis, Thalwil: info@sedartis.ch

Hotel Belvoir, Rüschlikon: info@hotel-belvoir.ch

Transport

There will be a free shuttle bus service between the GDI and the Hotel Sedartis Thalwil and Thalwil train station.

from 8:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee 9:00 Conference Introduction and Overview  Uli Kortsch, Author, Economist and Expert on Monetary Policy 9:20 Trends in Money David Bosshart, CEO, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI) 9:50 Panel Introduction: The Current Monetary System Today’s source of money creation  Richard Werner, Chair in International Banking, University of Southampton, England Banking instability due to investment structures and history of banking runs  Larry Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University, former Snr. Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, USA Banking stabilization efforts: Basel III, Dodd-Frank, …  William White, former Chief Economist, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland Role of central banks: including QE, negative interest rates, …  William Dunkelberg, Chief Economist, National Federation of Independent Business, former Chair, Economics Dept., Temple University, Philadelphia, USA 10:45 Coffee Break 11:15 Panel: The Current Monetary System  with Richard Werner, Larry Kotlikoff, William White, William Dunkelberg moderated by Uli Kortsch Q&A 11:50 Overview of Current Global Situation Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator, Financial Times 12:30 Lunch 13:45 Panel: The Chicago Plan (Vollgeld): YES  Referendum overview  Sergio Rossi, Chair of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Implementation  Joseph Huber, Chair of Economic and Environmental Sociology, Martin Luther University, Germany Social results  Katharina Serafimova, Lecturer at the University of Zurich, Institute of Banking and Finance, Switzerland 14:30 Coffee break 15:00 Panel: The Chicago Plan (Vollgeld): NO  Practitioner’s Outlook – Jürg Müller, Economics editor, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland Academic’s Outlook – Aleksander Berentsen, Professor of Economic Theory, University of Basel, Switzerland Politician’s Outlook –Ruedi Noser, Member of the Council of States, Switzerland 15:45 Panel of all speakers for an open discussion 17:15 Networking Apéro 17:30-18:30 Shuttle to Thalwil Railway Station Language German/French/English (simultaneous interpretation) http://desiebenthal.blogspot.ch/2015/12/swiss-positive-money-social-credit.html 5 February 2018 CONTENT PROGRAMME SPEAKERS SIGN-UP Uli Kortsch Founder of the Monetary Trust Initiative and Global Partners Investments. His focus is on transparency and authentic principles in the monetary system. He has worked in over 50 countries and conferred with many national presidents, ministers of finance, and ministers of commerce. David Bosshart CEO of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, one of Europe’s leading think tanks for business and society. The focuses of David Bosshart’s work are trade, consumption, management and social change. Richard Werner Chair International Banking, U. of Southampton. Convenor, Association for Research on Banking and the Economy; organizer, European Conference on Banking and the Economy. Author, “Quantity Theory of Credit: credit creation for GDP transactions determines GDP growth; non-GDP credit causes price boom-bust cycles and banking crises”. Larry Kotlikoff Professor of Economics, Boston U., expert on financial crises, banking regulation and banking reform; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; one of the world’s 25 most influential economists. “New York Times” Best Selling author with writings in “New York Times”, “Wall Street Journal”, “Financial Times”, and top publications. William White Chairman, Economic and Development Review Cttee, OECD; member, Issing Committee advising German Chancellor on G20 issues; Advisory Board, INET; Cato Institute; Council on Economic Policies; former Head, Monetary and Economic Department, BIS. Widely credited with foreseeing the economic and financial difficulties emerging in 2007. William Dunkelberg Chief Economist, National Federation of Independent Business, former Dean, School of Business and Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Martin Wolf Chief Economics Commentator, “Financial Times”, awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for financial journalism; was a member, UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking, and has doctorates, honoris causa, from the London School of Economics and Warwick University. He has won numerous awards. Sergio Rossi Prof. of Economics, U. of Fribourg, Chair of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. His research focuses on macroeconomic analysis, esp. national and international monetary and financial issues. Author and editor of many books including an encyclopedia of central banking and is on the scientific boards of numerous journals. Joseph Huber Former Chair, Economic Sociology, Martin-Luther U. Main fields of research are monetary system analysis and modernisation and innovation processes, with a focus on industrial ecology. He has conducted studies and served as a policy advisor for various governments, political parties, and companies on economics and ecology. Katharina Serafimova Lecturer U. of Zurich, Institute of Banking and Finance, former Head, Renewable Resources at Ernst Basler + Partner and Head of Corporate Sustainability for a Swiss Private Bank. Leading an international project to change financial market regulations to include environmental considerations into decision-making at the BIS and G20. Jürg Müller Economics editor at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, covering the financial system, the digital transformation of the economy, and economic policy. Jürg Müller holds an M.Phil. in economics from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in economics from ETH Zurich. In his research, he investigated the impact of banking regulation on macroeconomic stability and welfare. Aleksander Berentsen Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Basel. His research interests include monetary economics, macroeconomics, and financial economics. He is currently research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and external consultant of the Swiss National Bank. Ruedi Noser He is the sole shareholder of Noser Management AG, one of the biggest ICT companies in Switzerland. He was elected in 2003 to the Swiss National Council (Nationalrat), and since 2015 represents Zurich in the Swiss Council of States (Ständerat). He presides over the Swiss Innovation Park, aimed at attracting global corporations