Uncertain Futures in Economic Decision Making

Thursday, 2 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


TH15-01
Constructing Economic Furures (1): Risk Narratives and Financial Imaginaries
Uncertain Futures in Economic Decision Making

Discussant: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Session Organizers: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderator: Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science

Participants:
The Cartography of Forex Lending: Westernizing the Future in the Hungarian Mortgage Market
Lena Pellandini-Simanyi, ELTE; Zsuzsanna Vargha, University of Leicester; Ferenc Hammer, ELTE
The Uncertain Meanings of Risk. Calculative Practices of Rating Agencies As Ordering Devices of Financial Action
Natalia Besedovsky, University of Bremen
“What If?” Desiccating Narratives to Assess a Never Fulfilled Risk: The Case of Agroterrorist Threats
Vincent Cardon, CURAPP-ESS (University of Amiens-CNRS)

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


TH15-02
Constructing economic futures (2): Central banking and forecasting
Uncertain Futures in Economic Decision Making

Discussant: Waltraud Schelkle, London School of Economics
Session Organizers: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderator: Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science

Participants:
Enacting the Temporality of Monetary Walrasianism: How Expectations-Based Monetary Policy and Has Become Locked into Its Model Worlds
Timo Walter, Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement
Constructing a Global Policy Norm: Monetarist Central Banking, ‘Stackelberg' Games in Monetary Economics, and the Discovery of “Credibility”
Leon Jesse Wansleben, London School of Economics
From Central Banking to Central Planning? Forward Guidance, Quantitative Easing, and the Politics of Expectation Management
Benjamin Braun, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
What "Being Wrong" Means in the World of Economic Forecasting
Olivier Pilmis, CNRS

2:15 PM-3:45 PM


TH15-03
Managing uncertainty in innovation
Uncertain Futures in Economic Decision Making

Discussant: Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science
Session Organizers: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderator: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Participants:
Surfing the Hype Wave: Intermediary Organizations Shaping Expectations in Emerging Technologies.
Carla Alvial Palavicino, University of Twente; Konrad Kornelia, University of Twente
Navigating through Uncertainty - How Complementary Expectations Provide Orientation in Industrial Innovation Projects
Katrin Hahn, TU Dortmund University
Big Promises and Fragile Coalitions – the Political Economy of the Early Photovoltaic Industry
Timur Ergen, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Rules of Exchange: Organizing a Market for Biofuels in Europe
Ines Peixoto, Aalto University School of Business

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


TH15-04
Strategies for coping with uncertain futures
Uncertain Futures in Economic Decision Making

Discussant: Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science
Session Organizers: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Richard Bronk, London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderator: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Participants:
Facing Uncertainty: The Role of Norms and Formal Institutions As Shared Mental Models
William Ferguson, Grinnell College
Monetary Solidarity in Financial Integration: Payment Systems As Insurance Mechanisms for Stabilizing Expectations in Conditions of Uncertainty
Waltraud Schelkle, London School of Economics
Fishing for Customers: Uncertainty and the Microfoundations of the Taxi Market in Warsaw
Marcin Serafin, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Micro-Entrepreneurship As a Safety Net for Economic Uncertainty for Mexican and U.S. Mothers
F. Alethea Marti, UCLA Center for the Study of Women