On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...

Ralph Hawtrey, a leading economist of the interwar period, published his first work in economics, Good and Bad Trade, in 1913. The book presents the key elements of the theoretical model Hawtrey developed and refined over the next quarter century. Though he was remarkably consistent in...