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Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities

donderdag, 13 december, 2012 - 15:00 to donderdag, 13 december, 2012 - 18:00
Campus: Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus
Aula QD
Paul Jorion
Guest lecture

Topics:

  • What functions should financial firms fulfil?
  • Tobin tax, Glass-Steagall Act. Are there universal principles to banking?
  • Shareholders and stakeholders. Do shareholders “own” a company?
  • The responsibilities of a corporation, of a trust
  • Are some products or services “socially useless”? If so, what should be done? Trust self-discipline 
  • or enforce prohibition?
  • An international Constitution for the Economy? 

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About the chair

‘Stewardship of Finance’ is sponsored by six major insurance companies and will focus on research as well as on education. Behind its foundation lies the believe that the current financial crisis has shown that a moral reflection is most certainly necessary.

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Videos about the chair

All lectures and panel discussions wil be filmed and put online.

Holder of the chair

Koen ByttebierThe chairman of this chair is Professor Koen Byttebier of the Faculty of Law and Criminology.

Professor dr. Régine Feltkamp and Tom Wera will be in charge of coordinating with the partners and faculties involved. The project will also benefit from an active contribution by ULB.

Insurance companies

The six insurance companies which have agreed to support the chair are AG Insurance, Allianz, Baloise Insurance,Belfius Insurance, Ethias and P&V Groep.

AG InsuranceAllianzBaloise Insurance

Belfius InsuranceEthiasGroup P&V

 

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