N: Finance and Society

Friday, June 24, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


N-01
Institutional and Political Preconditions for Financial Democratization
N: Finance and Society

Session Organizer: J. Nicholas Ziegler, Brown University

Participants:
From Financial Reform to Financial Democratization
Fred Block, UC Davis
Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late-Twentieth Century America
Greta Krippner, University of Michigan
Transparency, Accountability and Stability in Financial Markets: The Evolving Post-Crisis Anti-Fraud Regime and the Declining (?) Structural Power of Major Financial Institutions
Jay Varellas, UC Berkeley
After Dodd-Frank: Advocacy Groups and Pathways of Institutional Change in Financial Market Regulation
J. Nicholas Ziegler, Brown University

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


N-02
Money
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Benjamin Braun, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Participants:
Stimulating Business and Economies with “Speed” Money: Enabling Euro Zone Nations like Greece to Regain Monetary Sovereignty
Shann Turnbull, New Garden Cities Alliance
The Sanctity of Money
Lindsay DePalma, University of California-San Diego
When Cash Is the Tie That Binds: Situating Affective Monetary Attachments in the Euro-Zone
Ursula M Dalinghaus, Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion UC Irvine

2:30 PM-4:00 PM


N-03
Regulation
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Yally Avrahampour, London School of Economics & Political Science

Participants:
Co-Evolution of Finance and Manufacturing in the Late Twentieth Century US
Youn Ki, Miami University
What Is an Algorithm? Representational Uncertainty in the German High-Frequency Trading Act
Nathan Coombs, University of Edinburgh
The Political Economy of Emerging Market Sovereign Bonds: Narrowing the Policy Space?
Natalya Naqvi, Cambridge
The Construction of Systemic Risk As a Pathology of Monetary Government
Onur Ozgode, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School
Liquidity and Risk - How Financial Markets Judge Regulatory Proposals
Ingrid Hjertaker, Brown University

4:15 PM-5:45 PM


N-04
Monetary Moralities: Trust in Money and the Legitimacy of Monetary Orders
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Kurt Mettenheim, São Paulo Business School, Getulio Vargas Foundation
Session Organizer: Benjamin Braun, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Participants:
Is the Use of Money a Matter of Trust? the Social Foundations of Monetary Orders and the Example of the “Euro Crisis”
Klaus Kraemer, University of Graz
Distributed Confidence and Monetary Value: Notes from Argentina
Sarah Muir, Barnard College
Monetary Trust and Monetary Mythology, or: There Is No Transparent Central Bank
Benjamin Braun, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Quantification and the Cultural Authority of Central Banks
Simone Polillo, University of Virginia

Saturday, June 25, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


N-05
Banking and Financialization
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Ismail Erturk, The University of Manchester

Participants:
Risk Perceptions and Valuation Techniques: Evidence from Investment Banks in the Wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Alicja Katarzyna Reuben, Manhattan College; Amira Annabi, Manhattan College
Back to the Future of Alternative Banks and Patient Capital
Kurt Mettenheim, São Paulo Business School, Getulio Vargas Foundation; Olivier Butzbach, Second University of Naples
Cultures of Risk: How Organizational Logics Affect Decision-Making at Commercial Banks
Joe LaBriola, Graduate Student
Doing God's Work or Sucking Humanity's Blood?: The Controversy over Goldman Sachs' Role in the U.S. Financial Crisis (2007 – 2010)
Olivia Nicol, EUI (European University Institute)

N-06
Financial Selves in a Neoliberal Era
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Basak Kus, Wesleyan University

Participants:
Transforming Uncertainty into Risk: Conventions in Financial Education
Daniel Maman, Ben-Gurion University; Zeev Rosenhek, The Open University of Israel
The Neoliberal Paradigm and Financialization in the US
Basak Kus, Wesleyan University
The Determinants of Formal Savings in Mexico: The Role of Financial Capabilities
Adolfo Albo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; David Cervantes Arenillas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Juan Luis Ordaz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


N-07
Consumer Credit
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Maria Lissowska, Warsaw School of Economics

Participants:
Informal Household Finance and Kinship Networks in Rural China
Hannah Waight, Princeton University
Ties That Bind? Financial Inclusion and Relational Obligations in Accra, Ghana
Lindsay Bayham, UC Berkeley
Consumer Credit in Comparative Perspective
Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego; Alya Guseva, Boston University

N-08
Financialization
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Fred Block, UC Davis

Participants:
How Financial Power Really Works: Central Bank Predictability and the Management of Expectations
Ayca Zayim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Financialised Capitalism and Post-Crisis Central Bank Unconventional Policies: How Financialised Firms and Banks Block the Transmission Mechanisms
Ismail Erturk, The University of Manchester
The Relative Timing of Privatization Policies, and the Rise or Decline of Stock Exchanges in Post-Communist Emerging Markets
Marek Naczyk, Hertie School of Governance
Managing the Rebellious City: Race, Housing and the Politics of Finance in Urban Crisis-Era Chicago (1960-1975)
John N Robinson, Northwestern University
Losing Their Way? Credit Unions' Embrace of Market-Based Investment Practices
Marc Schneiberg, Reed College; Darci Kovacs, Reed College

2:30 PM-4:00 PM


N-09
Financial Markets and Morality
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Simone Polillo, University of Virginia

Participants:
Discourse Ethics for Debt Markets
Timothy Johnson, Heriot-Watt University
The “Modus Operandi” of Sustainable Finance Morality: The Case of the Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative
Marina de Souza Sartore, Federal University of Sergipe
Financial Struggles in Post-Crisis Spain: How the Failure of ‘Popular Finance' Gave Birth to a Working-Class Movement
Quentin Ravelli, CNRS (ENS/EHESS)

N-10
Financialization and Inequality
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Adam Goldstein, Harvard University

Participants:
What Crisis? the Capitalist State, Financial Power, and Elite Resiliency
Matthew Soener, The Ohio State University; Michael Nau, The Ohio State University
The Effects of Income Inequality on Financial Satisfaction, Trust, and Economic Optimism: Evidence from U.S. States, 1973-2012
Orestes 'Pat' Hastings, University of California, Berkeley
Inequality and the Institutional Evolution of Financialisation
Eoin Flaherty, Queen's University Belfast
Household Financial Practices and Wealth Mobility in the Era of Mass-Participatory Finance and Growing Inequality
Angelina Grigoryeva, Princeton University

4:15 PM-5:45 PM


N-11
Responsible Banking and Social Impact Investing
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Klaus Kraemer, University of Graz

Participants:
The Dynamics of Financialisation: Ethnography of a Social Impact Fund
Theo Bourgeron, University of Edinburgh
How Private Profits Became Public Benefit – a Case Study of Impact Investing and the Financialization of Welfare in the U.K.
Philipp Golka, Friedrich-Schiller-University
Zakat, a Muslim Corporate Responsibility Duty. Does IT Have an Effect on the Malaysian Banking System's Financial Performance?
Maria Jose Garcia-Lopez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; Juan Jose Duran, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid; Juan Jose Rienda, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

N-12
Economic Devices and Market Infrastructures
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Yuval Millo, University of Leicester

Participants:
The Fantasy of Expertise: Professional and Algorithmic Opacity in a Prediction Market
Jeff Gordon, U.C. Berkeley
Conventional wisdom about the economic future. The role of “Consensus” in the world of macroeconomic forecasting
Olivier Pilmis, CNRS
Making the Grade: Infrastructural Semiotics and Derivative Market Outcomes on the Chicago Board of Trade and New Orleans Cotton Exchange, 1856-1909
David Pinzur, UC-San Diego
Of Spoofs and Other Awkward Movements : Relations, Infrastructures, and Meanings in Automated Financial Markets
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, UC San Diego

Sunday, June 26, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


N-13
Household Consumption and Indebtedness
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego

Participants:
Borrowed Dreams. How Household Debt Drives the Knowledge Economy.
Andreas Wiedemann, MIT
Trends in Consumer Credit Market in Post-Transition European Countries – Is the Life Cycle of Saving and Borrowing Relevant?
Maria Lissowska, Warsaw School of Economics
Who Speculates? Financial Experience and Household Participation in Asset Bubbles
Adam Goldstein, Harvard University
Social Foundations of Economic Outlooks: How Race and Social Resources Influence Consumer Expectations and Attitudes
Megan Doherty Bea, Cornell University

N-14
Meanings and Discources on Finance and Financialization
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Daniel Maman, Ben-Gurion University

Participants:
Cross-Border Investment in China: Financial, Moral and Political Meanings of an Everyday Practice
Horacio Ortiz, CNRS, IRISSO, Université Paris Dauphine, UMR 7170
"Market Citizenship" and the Nation: Popular Financial Trading in Israel
Galit Ailon, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Can We Tether Finance to the Productive Economy?: Experimental Monetary Practices in Islamic Finance
Aaron Z. Pitluck, Illinois State University
Effects of the Financialization of Housing Discourse: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area
Mary Shi, UC Berkeley

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


N-15
Financial Elites in the Global South
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Nina Bandelj, University of California, Irvine
Session Organizer: Nina Bandelj, University of California, Irvine

Participants:
Capital Brokers in Emerging Markets
Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago
The Jeitinho Estrangeiro: Foreign Investors, Brazilian Regulators, and Control over Farmland
Madeleine Fairbairn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Aristotle in Abu Dhabi: Islamic finance as scholastic modern
Ryan Calder, Johns Hopkins University
Old Wine in New Bottles: Translating Finance for an International Elite
Brooke Harrington, Copenhagen Business School

N-16
Financial Experts and Knowedge Networks
N: Finance and Society

Discussant: Nathan Coombs, University of Edinburgh

Participants:
Acknowledgement Networks in Financial Economics
Andreas Andrikopoulos, University of the Aegean; Labrini Oikonomou, University of the Aegean
Representation As Intervention: From Performativity to Looping Effects in a Post-2008 World
Dean Curran, University of Calgary
The Transparency of Transparency International
Byron VIllacis, UC Berkeley
Sell-Side Analysts, Buy-Side Analysts and Positional Struggles in the Field of Financial Advice
Yuval Millo, University of Leicester; Crawford Spence, Warwick Business School
Revisiting the Connection Between the Division of Labour and Social Exchange Theory: The Role of Standards Setting and Governance
Yally Avrahampour, London School of Economics & Political Science