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Savings in a world without interest.REGISTER FOR: Financial History Workshop on Friday 27 May 2016 in Brussels, BelgiumThe workshop is designed to provide a forum for extensive discussion on new and innovative research covering the history of savings and retail banks as well as savings in general.Today, the savings and retail banks are facing a challenging economic and financial environment, marked by low interest rates, increased volatility, and new economic and demographic risks.The 2016 Financial History Workshop will focus attention on the impact of low interest rates on the savings behavior and its influence on the savings &#38; retail banks throughout history.PROGRAM​​​There is a 30 minutes slot for each speaker. 20 minutes are reserved for the speakers to present their research project followed by 10 minutes of discussion. All presentations will be in English.9.30​-10.00​​Welcome Coffee​10.00-10.15​Welcoming by WSBI-ESBG Managing Director Chris De Noose10.15-10.45​Insurance and ​Investment: savings banks and asset-based welfarepresented by Josephine Maltby, Sheffield University Management School, United Kingdom10.45-11.15​​​Saving​​s and Investment in the World Economic Crisis and the Current Global Crisis : an Overinvestment View.presented by Andreas Hoffmann and Gunther Schna​bl, University of Leipzig, Germany​11.15-11.30​Coffee Break​11.30-12.00​Fishing in Tr​ouble Water : Savings Business in China during the 1920s-1930spresented by Pui-Tak Lee, University of Hong-Kong, China​12.00-12.30​​The role of Low Interest Rates on preferences of Savings in Turkeypresented by Zeliha Sayar, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey12.30-13.00​​4 Origins an Measurement of Financial Repression: The British Case mid-20th Centurypresented by Garrick Hileman, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance &#38; London School of Economics​13.00-13.15​Closing Words by Thorsten Wehber, Head of Documentation Center on Savings Banks History, Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband​13.15​LunchAttendance is free of chargeQuestions and more information:Please e-mail the workshop-organiser, Nancy Lockkamper, WSBI-ESBG, at financial.history@wsbi-esbg.orgNancy LockkamperArchivistWSBI-ESBGRue Marie-Thérèse 11B – 1000 BrusselsTel. +32 (0)2  211 11 87nancy.lockkamper@wsbi-esbg.orgNancy LockkamperArchivistWSBI-ESBGRue Marie-Thérèse 11B – 1000 BrusselsTel. +32 (0)2  211 11 87nancy.lockkamper@wsbi-esbg.org