Credit crisis
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At a seminar of the ACLE/Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance in Amsterdam (NL) on 27 October 2008, Professor Paul de Grauwe gave a presentation on the credit crisis. ACLE fellow René Smits’ summary can be found here.

On 25 November 2008, the British Institute for International and Comparative Law organised a seminar on State Aid and Financial Services: Impact of the Credit Crisis? In London (GB) at which René Smits spoke. His presentation is available here. His report of the evening can be found here. You can also look at the presentations of other speakers, notably Mark Friend, Partner, Allen & Overy, LLP and Christopher Vajda QC of Monckton Chambers.

On 4 December 2008, René Smits spoke about the institutional aspects of the credit crisis at a meeting in The Hague (NL) of the Europese Beweging Nederland, after a keynote speech of Professor Alexander Rinnoy Kan (chairman, Social-Economic Council of the Netherlands) His presentation is available here. The event was held in Dutch.

On 9 December 2008, the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics organised its Antitrust and Regulation Forum 2008 under the title: “The Financial Crisis and its implications for State Aid and Competition Policy”. For a report by Michael Frese, senior researcher at the University of Amsterdam, of this event, look here. You can also view the presentations of Lowri Evans, Deputy Director-General, European Commission, Abel Moreira Mateus, Visiting Professor University College of London and British Institute of International and Comparative Law and former Chairman of the Autoridade da Concurrência  and previous to that Deputy Governor of the Banco de Portugal, and John Vickers, All Souls College, Oxford University, previously chairman of the Office of Fair Trading by clicking on their names.

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