N: Finance and Society

Thursday, 2 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


N-01
Regulation
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Market Devices and “Folk Economics” of Crypto Currency
Ilan Talmud, University of Haifa
Pollution Rituals and the Birth of Financial Regulation in the U.S. during the Interwar Period (1918-1938)
Pierre Penet, IHEID Geneva
Where Do Electronic Markets Come from? Steps Towards Political Sociology of Financial Exchanges
Yuval Millo, University of Leicester; Michael Castelle, University of Chicago; Daniel Beunza, London School of Economics and Political Science
Negotiating the Future of Banking: To Reduce or Not Bank Dependence?
Eileen Keller, European University Institute

N-02
Corporations and Finance
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Emily Barman, Boston University
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Power, Financialization, and Corporate Control: Revisiting the Liberal Market Environment at the Firm-Level
Matthew Soener, The Ohio State University; Michael Nau, The Ohio State University
Corporate Governance Practices and Financial Structure in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Brick (K) Countries
Guler Aras, Yildiz Technical University
Affecting Companies' Behavior Towards Sustainability: The Role of Activist Shareholders in Germany
Sebastian Nagel, University of Jena

N-03
Financial Literacy
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Galit Ailon, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Urban Aboriginal Individuals' Financial Behaviour and Experiences: Some Focus Group Evidence from Canada
Paul Bowles, UNBC
‘Financial Education Is about Everybody's Self-Regulation': Financial Literacy As a Moralizing Project
Daniel Maman, Ben-Gurion University; Zeev Rosenhek, The Open University of Israel
Financial Education As "Folk Building"? the Case of Improving Financial Literacy in Contemporary Sweden
Claes Ohlsson, Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg
Financial Literacy of Russians: A Comparative Perspective
Olga Kuzina, HSE

N-04
Systemic Risk in Finance
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Dirk H. Ehnts, Bard College Berlin
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Press Freedom and Jumps in Stock Prices
Thorsten Lehnert, Luxembourg School of Finance
Might Supplementary Domesticated Currencies Reduce Financial System Risks?
Shann Turnbull, International Institute for Self-governance
More Is Less: Cooperation, Coordination, and the Cost of Financial Bailouts
Jason O. Jensen, McGill University

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


N-05
Sociology of Financial Experts
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, London School of Economics
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Professional Ethics in Banking and Finance - a Praxeological Approach to the Social Embeddedness of Finance
Claudia Czingon, Goethe-University; Sighard Neckel, Goethe University
Coauthorship and Subauthorship Patterns in the Journal of Finance
Andreas Andrikopoulos, University of the Aegean; Labriana Economou, University of the Aegean
Are Financial Economists Creative?
Simone Polillo, University of Virginia
Explaining the Jurisdictional Settlement Between Accountants and Actuaries: Standard Setting, Bureaucratization and Counterpart Units
Yally Avrahampour, London School of Economics & Political Science

10:15 AM-11:55 AM


N-06
The Political Economy of Private Pension Funds Around the World
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Richard Deeg, Temple University
Session Organizer: Marek Naczyk, Sciences Po
Moderator: Ewald Engelen, University of Amsterdam

Participants:
Turning Pirate into Captains: Institutional Entrepreneurs, Pension Funds and Patient Capital in Liberal Market Economies
Marek Naczyk, Sciences Po
The Politics of Choice in Occupational Pensions
Karen Anderson, University of Southampton
Organising Private Social Protection - How to Explain Different Experiences with Collective Risk-Sharing in Denmark and the Netherlands?
Pieter Tuytens, London School of Economics
Big Fish in Small Ponds: Pensions and Capital Market Development in Latin America
Giselle Datz, Virginia Tech
Politics and Pension Reform (Revisited) in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe
Stephen J. Kay, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

2:15 PM-3:45 PM


N-07
Calculative Practices
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Calculating the Human Spirit: The Popularization of Day-Trading Outside the Global Centers of Finance
Galit Ailon, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Rating Financialization: The Calculative Practices of Credit Rating Agencies As Drivers of Social Change
Natalia Besedovsky, University of Bremen
Calculating at the Frontier: Coordinating the Reinsurance Market
Rebecca Bednarek, Cass Business School, City University London; Paula Jarzabkowski, Cass Business School, City University London; Paul Spee, University of Queensland
Risk, Ratings and the Antagonistic Relationship Between Epistocracy and Democracy: Financial Engineering and Reclaiming Fiscal Sovereignty
Bartholomew Paudyn, London School of Economics & Political Science

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


N-08
Pensions
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Yally Avrahampour, London School of Economics & Political Science
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Cui Prodest - the Distributional Impact of the Riester Scheme
Johannes Koenig, Freie Universitaet Berlin; Giacomo Corneo, Freie Universitaet Berlin; Carsten Schroeder, DIW Berlin / Freie Universitaet Berlin
Pension Funds As Porous Boundaries Between Labor and Finance
Sabine Montagne, CNRS
Pension Fund Capitalism and Financialization: The United States, the Netherlands and Finland Compared
Natascha van der Zwan, Leiden University; Michael McCarthy, Marquette University; Ville-Pekka Sorsa, University of Helsinki

Friday, 3 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


N-09
Ethical Finance
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Zeev Rosenhek, The Open University of Israel
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Financial Capitalism and Its Critiques. Individualization and Collectivization of Responsibilities during the Libor Scandal
Thomas Angeletti, University of Cambridge
Critique and Change through Ethical Banks? Normative Claims Between Autonomy and System Change
Sarah Lenz, Goethe University
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: A Dilution of Social Sustainability?
Stefanie Hiss, University of Jena; Sebastian Nagel, University of Jena; Bernd Teufel, University of Jena; Daniela Woschnack, University of Jena
The Good Measure of Others: Social Return on Investment and Its Role in Legitimacy-Seeking
Emily Barman, Boston University; Matthew Hall, London School of Economics; Yuval Millo, University of Leicester

N-10
People's Finance
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Simone Polillo, University of Virginia
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Financial Retailers and Financial Inclusion in Chile
Carolina Pinto, Universidad de Viña del Mar; Rodrigo Figueroa, University of Chile; Javiera Correa, University of Chile
Crowdfunding in Sweden - Institutional Limits and Endogenous Possibilities.
Tiziana Sardiello, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
The Extractive Success of Financial Systems: Microfinance and the Financialisation of Poverty
Philip Mader, University of Basel
Mental Accounting or Accounting for Mentalities?: Socio-Cultural Influences on the Financialization of Peruvian Coffee Farmers
Matthew Bird, Universidad del Pacifico

2:15 PM-3:45 PM


N-11
Author Meets Critics: "Conservatives Versus Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict" by Simone Polillo (Stanford University Press 2013)
N: Finance and Society

Critics: Leonard Seabrooke, Copenhagen Business School; Sabine Montagne, CNRS; Leon Jesse Wansleben, London School of Economics
Book Author: Simone Polillo, University of Virginia
Session Organizer: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego


N-12
Household Debt I
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Mikolaj Lewicki, University of Warsaw
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Private Debt, Public Virtues; On the Relationship Between Welfare and Household Debt.
Martino Comelli, SciencesPo, Paris
Historical Institutionalism and the Comparative Study of Bankruptcy Law
Iain Ramsay, KENT LAW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF KENT
Why Is There No Household Debt in Germany…or Is There? Policy Regimes and the Institutional Analysis of Credit
Daniel Mertens, Goethe-University

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


N-13
Central Bank
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Daniel Maman, Ben-Gurion University
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
From Wicksell to Le Bourva: The ‚Compensation Thesis' in Monetary Theory
Dirk H. Ehnts, Bard College Berlin; Nicolas Barbaroux, University of St Etienne
Servant of the People or Slave to Global Finance? Unpacking the Post-Crisis Policy of the Turkish Central Bank
Ayca Zayim, University of Wisconsin-Madison

N-14
Household Debt II
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Alya Guseva, Boston University
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Foreign Exchange Mortgages As Market Devices.
Mikolaj Lewicki, University of Warsaw
From Moral Economy to Market Morality: The Rise and Fall of the Debtors' Prison
Alexander Roehrkasse, UC Berkeley
The Portfolio Society in Europe: Financial Intensification and Household Debt in Six Countries
Tod Van Gunten, Universidad Carlos III; Edo Navot, University of Haifa

Saturday, 4 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


N-15
Eurozone Crisis
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Critical Realism, Debt Markets and the Eurozone: Action, Structure and Experience in Greece
Akrivi Andreou, Medbest SA; Andreas Andrikopoulos, University of the Aegean; Christos Nastopoulos, Alpha Bank
A Gilded Debtors' Prison? the Policy Imaginary of Financial Stability in the Twin Crises of the EU
Adorjan Istvan, University of Chicago
Common Currencies, Disparate Solidarities: The Crisis of the Eurozone in Comparative Perspective
Pierre-Christian Fink, Columbia University; Josh Whitford, Columbia University

N-16
Inequalities I
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Dean Curran, University of Calgary
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
Asymmetric Bargaining and Top Incomes Under Finance-Driven Capitalism, 1990-2010
Eoin Flaherty, Queen's University Belfast
Financialization Is Securitization! a Study on the Respective Impact of Various Dimensions of Financialization on the Increase in Global Inequality.
Olivier Godechot, Sciences Po, MaxPo and CNRS
Informal Debts and Credits or How Financialization of Everyday Life Maintains Inequality
Ana Perrin-Heredia, CNRS

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


N-17
Inequalities II
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Olivier Godechot, Sciences Po, MaxPo and CNRS
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
The Rise in CEO Compensations and the Evolution of Ownership Structure
Lionel Almeida, University of Paris Ouest
Risk and Contemporary Inequality
Dean Curran, University of Calgary

N-18
Institutional and Social Structures of Finance
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Yuval Millo, University of Leicester
Session Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University; Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

Participants:
A Social Network Analysis of Collateralized Debt Obligations
Adam Leaver, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester; Daniel Tischer, Manchester Business School
The Power of Plastic Money: The Causes and Consequences of National Control over Payment Card Markets in Europe
Akos Rona-Tas, University of California, San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University
Evaluation Cultures, Organizational Logics, and the Limits of Financial Regulation
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, London School of Economics
Local and Global Dynamics in Financial Organisations: Relational, Institutional and Symbolic Structuration of Financial Work
Javier Hernandez, Catholic University of Temuco