SEEMHN 

The South-Eastern European Monetary History Network (SEEMHN) is a community of financial and monetary historians, economists and statisticians, established in April 2006 on the initiative of the Bulgarian National Bank and the Bank of Greece. Its main objective is to spread knowledge about SEE monetary history and policy as an integral part of the European experience.

Participants of the SEEMHN Data Collection Task Force (DCTF) are the Bank of Albania, the Bank of Greece, the Bulgarian National Bank, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, the National Bank of Romania, the National Bank of Serbia and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Those seven central banks have agreed to contribute to the joint publication of a data volume of harmonized long-run time series on monetary, financial and other macroeconomic variables. The data volume is entitled South-Eastern European Monetary and Economic Statistics from the Nineteenth Century to World War II and will appear in 2012 .  

Seventh ANNUAL SEEMHN Conference, 2012

Τhe 7th annual conference will be hosted by the Bank of Albania in 2012, in Tirana. The call for papers will soon appear.

Ninth SEEMHN DCTF meeting, September 2011

The 9th SEEMHN DCTF meeting took place in Frankfurt on 28-30 September 2011, hosted by the Deutche Bundesbank.

9th meeting DCTF Programme  

Sixth Annual SEEMHN Conference, March 2011

The 6th annual conference took place on 18 March 2011 in Bucharest and was hosted by the National Bank of Romania. The topic of the conference was: “Monetary Policies and Banking Institutions in South-Eastern Europe between National Objectives and European Patterns- a Historical and Comparative Perspective".

SEEMHN Bucharest Programme

The 8th meeting of the SEEMHN Data Collection Task Force took place on 17 March 2011 in Bucharest, hosted by the National Bank of Romania.  

8th meeting DCTF Programme 

Fifth Annual SEEMHN Conference, April 2010

The 5th annual conference took place on 16 April 2010 in Istanbul and was hosted by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. The topic of the conference was: “Monetary Policy during Economic Crises: a Comparative and Historical Perspective”.

SEEMHN Istanbul Programme

• On 15 April 2010, the 6th meeting of the SEEMHN Data Collection Task Force took place in Istanbul.

6th meeting DCTF Programme 

• The 7th SEEMHN Data Collection Task Force Meeting took place in Sofia on 12 November 2010 at the Bulgarian National Bank.

Fourth Annual SEEMHN Conference, March 2009

The 4th annual conference took place on 27-28 March 2010 in Belgrade at the National Bank of Serbia. The topic was “Economic and Financial Stability in SE Europe in a Historical and Comparative Perspective”.

SEEMHN Belgrade programme

• On 26 June 2009, the Bank of Greece hosted the 5th meeting of the SEEMHN Data Collection Task Force.

5th meeting DCTF Programme

Third Annual SEEMHN Conference, March 2008

The 3rd annual SEEMHN conference on “Banking and Finance in SEE: Lessons of Historical Experience” took place in Athens at the Bank of Greece on 14 March 2008. Professor Michael Bordo of Rutgers University delivered the keynote speech on Growing up to Financial Stability. The papers of the conference appeared in the Working Paper Series of the Bank of Greece, no 74-89 and no 94.

SEEMHN Athens programme

Second Annual SEEMHN Conference, April 2007

The 2nd annual  SEEMHN Conference on “The Experience of Exchange Rate Regimes in South-Eastern Europe in a Historical and Comparative Perspective”  took place on April 13, 2007, in Vienna at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

First Annual SEEMHN Conference, April 2006

The 1st SEEMHN  conference on “Monetary and Fiscal Policies in SE Europe:A Historical and Comparative Perspective” took place in Sofia, hosted by the Bulgarian National Bank on 13-14 April 2006.