Social Science Activities

Economy and Finances

The Great Crisis has brought about an extraordinary increase in banking regulation, but it has not changed the money creation system. Some scholars, very minority, have proposed to move from the current system of creating fragile money by commercial banks to a secure money system issued by central banks, which, in addition, would allow the liberalization of banking activity. 

We addressed safe money and liberalization of the banking sector at an expert seminar organized by Miguel Ángel Fernández Ordóñez, former Governor of the Bank of Spain. Participants included Joseph Huber (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg).

International accounting was addressed at a symposium and a series of conferences, within the framework of the already extensive collaboration between the Fundación Ramón Areces and the Chair of the Autonomous University of Madrid - Auditores Madrid. Lectures were delivered by Karel Van Hulle (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Hervé Stolowy (HEC Paris).

MadMac is the name used by the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) for the organization of macroeconomics seminars, workshops and conferences. MadMac aims to bring together macroeconomists from different institutions in Madrid. In 2019 we hosted at our headquarters the 4th MadMac Annual Conference: Firm Dynamics and Macroeconomics.

Macarena Estévez (CEO of Conento) and Carmen Herrero (University of Alicante) spoke about the role of mathematicians in the business world and in the Economy at the round table on Economic development and mathematics.

We present the categories in which the Social Sciences activities of the year 2019 are included: