## Richard Sylla Honorary Conference

**FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF RICHARD SYLLA** **NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
MARCH 27-28, 2015**

**PETER L. ROUSSEAU AND PAUL WACHTEL, EDITORS**

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](http://economics.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/217-bordo-michael-d), Rutgers University, and [Chris Meissner](http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cmm/), University of California, Davis
"[Financial Globalization, Financial Development and Financial Crises in the Golden Age, 1870-1914](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Sylla%20paper-final-cmm.pdf)"
- [Charles Calomiris](http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/ccalomiris/), Columbia University, and [Mark Carlson](http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/mark-a-carlson.htm), Federal Reserve Board
"[US Bank examination in late 19th century: Purposes and Accomplishments](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Calomiris%20Carlson%20Examiner_reports_%202015%20Sylla%20Fest%20Conference%20Draft.pdf)"
- [Niall Ferguson](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/niall-ferguson), Harvard University
"Financial Systems, International Relations, and Globalization"
- [Marc Flandreau](http://graduateinstitute.ch/directory/_/people/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)](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/anatomy_regimechange_NYU.pdf)"

- [Peter L. Rousseau](http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/rousseau.html), Vanderbilt University and [Paul Wachtel](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-wachtel), New York University
"[Episodes of Financial Deepening: Credit Booms or Growth Generators?](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/RW-2015-3-22.pdf)"

- [John Wallis](http://www.econ.umd.edu/faculty/profiles/wallis), University of Maryland
"[Banks and democracy](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Wallis.Banks%26Dem.15.3.18.pdf)"

- [Eugene N. White](http://economics.rutgers.edu/undergraduate/courses-and-syllabi/210-white-eugene), Rutgers University
"[Protecting Financial Stability in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Experience of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/EWhite%20FRBAPostWWI%20for%20Syllafest%2001%2009%202015.pdf)"

- [Robert Wright](http://faculty.augie.edu/~rwright/), Augustana College, SD
"[Financing U.S. Economic Development, 1788-1860](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Finance%20and%20Growth%2C%201790-1860-2.pdf)"

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