Modern Monetary Theory

Roundtable discussion "Modern Monetary Theory and Alternative Monetary Systems" in the framework of the "Economics and Culture" Seminar (58–60 Galernaya Street).

PROGRAM

1:30pm Welcome сoffee

2:00pm Session 1: Optimal Macroeconomic Policy: MMT Approach. Moderator: Jan Kregel

• Viktor Tunyov (Agidel Asset Management, Perm) "MMT for Emerging Markets and Russia: Sovereignty, Capital Flows and Economic Growth Financing"
• Vadim Grishchenko (Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Moscow) "Can MMT Be Applied to the Russian Economy? Historical and Empirical Evidence of Monetary Sovereignty"
• Alberto Botta (University of Greenwich, UK) "Space for Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries and the International Financial System"
• Vasily Tkachev (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow) "The Role of MMT in the Current Debate on Monetary and Fiscal Policy in U.S. 2020 Presidential Campaign"

4:00pm Coffee break

4:30pm Session 2: International Macroeconomics and Reforming the System of Global Finance. Moderator: Danila Raskov

• Jan Kregel (USA) "Are Crypto Currencies Money?"
• Mikhail Golovnin (Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) "Challenges from Current International Monetary System for National Monetary Systems (Case of Russia)"
• Ivan Rozmainsky (SPbU; High School of Economics) "Financial Fragility Hypothesis-Based Analysis of the Private Nonfinancial Sector of Portugal in 2001–2017"
• Yulia Vymyatnina (EUSP) "Macroeconomics and Finance: Getting Closer or Falling Still Further Apart?"

6:40pm Session 3: International Monetary Reform in the Digital Age. Moderator: Vsevolod Ostapenko