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The eabh Podcast. Looking for precedents from the exciting world of financial history. We follow money through time and space. We encourage independent research, encourage open debate and va...

Did bankers understand uncertainty better before financial models? In this episode we explore a question at the heart of finance: what is ri...

How post-war finance remade Europe. In this episode, host Carmen Hofmann speaks with historian Tobias Straumann about his book Hitler’s Debt...

Hugo Bänziger (Chairman of eabh) and Manfred Pohl (founder of eabh) come together for a rare conversation between two of the most experience...

Capital Matters: Banking, Risk, and History In this episode, Carmen Hofmann (eabh) speaks with Simon Amrein (Lucerne) about the role of capi...

In this episode of 'Finance and History', Hugo Bänziger talks to Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the eabh annual conference....

In this episode, we dive into how rising populism is reshaping capitalism and democracy. With Stefan Hofrichter (AllianzGI) Hans-Jörg Naumer...

Is art a safe investment in times of war? In this episode, Kim Oosterlinck (General Director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) a...

In this episode, Sebastian Alvarez (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez) & Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) explore the powerful role of the Brazilian state in...

Step into the world of German banking from the 1960s to the 1990s—a time of rebuilding, global reintegration, and economic transformation. I...

In this episode, Caroline Fohlin (Emory) and Hugo Bänziger (eabh) dive deep into the rise of US dominance in the investment banking world. H...

What are the effects of political instability on the banking sector? In this episode, Juan Flores Zendejas (Geneva) and Carmen Hofmann ( eab...

In this episode, we explore how hyperinflation in emerging markets devastates economic stability, causing extreme price hikes, undermining s...

🎙️ Step into the world of economic impact and war in our latest podcast episode! Join Willi Mutschler (Tuebingen) & Carmen Hofmann (eabh) a...

Join Charles Goodhart, former Bank of England official, and Hugo Bänziger, chairman of eabh in a captivating discussion on the end of the Gr...

Join Mariusz Lukasiewicz (Leipzig) and Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) as they delve into the history of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, a mirror r...

Why do banks fail? What are the characteristics of banks that fail? Are these consistently the same over the course of history? Emil Verner...

How to regulate banks effectively? Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt University Berlin) makes a case for banking regulation being a cyclical af...

In this episode Maylis Avaro (Penn University) and Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) discuss the international role of Sterling during the Bretton Woo...

Volker Berghahn (Columbia) & Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) talk about European reconstruction after World War I, World War II and the Ukrainian Wa...

A practitioner's perspective with Edgar Walk (Metzler Bank) and Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ). How can history insight help to bridge the gap betw...

Stein Berre (New York Fed) & Paul Kosmetatos (University of Edinburgh) talk to Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) about the first global credit crisis...

This episode is about one of the oldest banks in Europe. Alex Cooper (Leicester University) and Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) discuss the financia...

This episode tells the story of the rise and fall of the Mississippi Bubble (1720) in Saint Domingue (Haiti). Malick Ghachem (MIT) discusses...

How shall companies confront a difficult past? In the most transparent way. So say Mike Anson (Bank of England) and Michael Bennett (Sheffie...

With Ghassan Moazzin ( University of Hong Kong ), Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) talks about the integration of China into the world economy in the...

Are real sector bailouts good public policy in crisis? In early 1932, President Hoover created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during...

Founded in 1674, Bankhaus Metzler is one of the oldest continuously family owned financial businesses in the world. This longstanding indepe...

The Great Depression remains the largest financial crisis in American history. Bank of America is one of the largest banks in the United Sta...

Was there a world before inflation targeting? Alain Naef (Banque de France) and Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) talk about currencies and exchange r...

Broken promises? This episode is about the world's growing dependence on debt financing and current challenges to the world economy. The pro...

How to build an economy? Come and follow Hugo Bänziger ( eabh ) & Pete Asch (NYSE) to the creation of the modern US American economy and the...

How do the Swedes do it? Here comes a straightforward conversation between Anders Sjöman (Stockholm) and Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) about the C...

Is it advisable to combine colonial warfare with trade? Private interests with state interests for business? A talk about early modern risk...

Hyperinflation as a catalyst for transformation? Nathan Marcus (Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva) & Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) discuss the e...

Are all wars fought for money? Kevin Clancy (Royal Mint London) & Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) in conversation about 500 years of experience with...

A story of empires, of financing war and risk and reward in uncertain times. Larry Neal (Illinois) & Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) in conversation...

Is there good beyond profit? Lilia Costabile (University of Naples) and Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) take a long view back at the creation and fu...

In their talk about Gentlemen Bankers, Susie Pak (St.John's University) & Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) focus on the social and economic circles o...

Are we back to the inflationary environment of the 1970s? During these tumultuous times of post covid recovery, unprecedented monetary polic...

Hugo Bänziger ( eabh ) and Walter Kielholz (Swiss Re), two leading figures in finance in the 1980s and 90s give true insights into the banki...

Filipe Fernandes (Banco de Portugal) & Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) talk about the Bank of Portugal, modern Portuguese history, the vast extent o...

Hugo Bänziger ( eabh ) and Thomas Mayer (Flossbach von Storch Research Institute) discuss Monetary Unions from the Latin Currency Union to t...

Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) and April Miller (The World Bank Group) talk about archival material from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and how to inspire...

Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) and Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute) talk about Sovereign Debt in the 21st century. Trebesch argues that we see a...

Carmen Hofmann ( eabh ) and Donato Masciandaro (Bocconi) talk about pandemic recession, central banking and a radical idea that reemerges wh...

In this episode we discuss 700 years of interest rates. Together with Paul Schmelzing (Harvard/Bank of England) we will find out why interes...

Hugo Bänziger ( eabh ) and Barry Eichengreen (Berkeley) look to the past and the future of the international monetary system. 15 August, 197...

Get to know Her Majesty's Treasury: Its 1000 years history, characterised by continuity and evolution; its relationship with the Bank of Eng...

Carmen Hofmann (eabh) in conversation with Marie Laperdrix (Head of Archives and History at BNP Paribas). In this episode we discover the ap...

Hugo Bänziger (eabh) and Harold James (Princeton) take a real long view on the field of financial history. Can we see an anticipation of wha...