Guest Speaker:
Professpr Adrian E. Tschoegl, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Topic:
A Closer Look At Coins: Insights Into Marketing, The Evolution Of Economic Institutions In Society, And International Money From Numismatics.
Chairman:
PHANG Sock Yong, Associate Professor of Economics
Venue:
Conference Room, Singapore Management University, 47 Scotts Road, #06-00, Goldbell Towers, Singapore 228233.
Date:
Tuesday, 27 February 2001, at 4.30 pm
Reservation:
This seminar is free. Places are limited. Please confirm your attendance by Monday, 26 February, 12 pm with Ms. Lim Lih Yeng at lylim@smu.edu.sg or telephone: 822-0197.
About the seminar:
The discussion will cover three topics. 1) how a market value for rarity violates the Law of Demand; 2) how the denominations of US coins has evolved since 1792 to the present and what this tells us about institutional evolution; and 3) what the Maria Theresa Thaler, a coin still being produced today though unchanged since 1780, tells us about what makes an international money.
The Talk will be based on the following three papers:
Koford, Kenneth, and Adrian E. Tschoegl, "The Market Value of Rarity (1997)", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 34 (3), 445-457.
Tschoegl, Adrian E. 2001, "The Denominations of US Coins: A Case of Institutional Evolution", The Wharton School: unpublished paper. (Revised and re-submited to the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.)
Tschoegl, Adrian E. 2001, "Maria Theresa's Thaler: A Case of International Money", The Wharton School: unpublished paper. (Revised and re-submited to the Eastern Economic Journal.)
About the speaker:
Professor Adrian E. Tschoegl joined the Wharton faculty in 1993. His previous appointment was with the University of Michigan.
His research areas are in international banks and banking, and international business. His current projects are in international expansion of Norwegian banks; Japanese banks and the Japanese financial system; Spanish banks in Latin America; foreign banks in Eastern Europe and Financial centers/geography of financial services.
