Research Colloquium on ‘Crowd Dynamics and Financial Markets

Research Colloquium on ‘Crowd Dynamics and Financial Markets’

30 September, 3–5 pm, Porcelænshaven 18B, Room 3.135

Per H. Hansen, Copenhagen Business School: ‘Financial Institutions: From Master to Servant and Back Again’

In his presentation Per H. Hansen will present an overview of 150 years of financial history. The emphasis will be on how finance came to dominate the economy during the two periods of globalization. Both times the result was a devastating financial crisis that ended in economic depression and austerity. The presentation is based on a narrative approach and focuses on comparing the bubbles and the resulting crisis during the interwar period and in the 2000s.

Per H. Hansen is Professor at the Center for Business History at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He has done research on financial history with particular focus on financial crises and central banking. His dr.phil. dissertation På glidebanen til den bitre ende. Dansk bankvæsen i krise (1996) dealt with the Danish banking crisis in the interwar period. Per H. Hansen has written several books and articles on financial history and on the history of Danish modern furniture design. He is the current president of the US based organization The Business History Conference.