The Economics Department and the Center for Global Economy and Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University will be holding a conference in honor of Richard Sylla, the Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets, who will be retiring at the end of 2015.
 

• Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, and Chris Meissner, University of California, Davis
  "Financial Globalization, Financial Development and Financial Crises in the Golden Age, 1870-1914"
   
• Charles Calomiris, Columbia University, and Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board
  "US Bank examination in late 19th century: Purposes and Accomplishments"
   
• Niall Ferguson, Harvard University
  "Financial Systems, International Relations, and Globalization"
   
• Marc Flandreau, Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development, Geneva
  "Anatomy of a regime change: underwriters' reputation, new deal financial acts and the collapse of international capital markets (1920-1935)"


• Peter L. Rousseau, Vanderbilt University and Paul Wachtel, New York University
  "Episodes of Financial Deepening: Credit Booms or Growth Generators?"


• John Wallis, University of Maryland
  "Banks and democracy"


• Eugene N. White, Rutgers University
  "Protecting Financial Stability in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Experience of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta"


• Robert Wright, Augustana College, SD
  "Financing U.S. Economic Development, 1788-1860"


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