7th Budapest Public Finance Seminar

7th Budapest Public Finance Seminar: Green Finance a Modern Money Theory

Conference,

Co-organizers:

Konrad Adenauer Schtiftung   

Hungarian Economic Association, Public Finance Section & Finance Section

date: 15 May 2025 (Wednesday) 9:00-16:00

venue: Ludovika University of Public Service, Dormitory, ground floor Auditorium ABCD, (Budapest 1083 Orczy út 1.; Kollégium fszt. ABCD előadó)

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Program:

9.30-10h Registration

10h-10.10 Opening speech by the Rector 

10.10-10.15 Welcome Speech by Vice-Dean of Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies

10.15-10.55. Keynote speech online: Larry Randall Wray (Bard Colledge, USA)

10.55-11.30 speech: Eric Tymoigne (Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR, USA)

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12h-13h Speaker Session I. – Green Finance

Ewa Dziwok (Katowice University of Economics), Johannes Jaeger (University of applied Sciences BFI Vienna) : Sustainable finance in a changing multipolar world

Colleen Schneider (University of Vienna): Modern Monetary Theory for a Degrowth Transition

chair: Viktória Vásáry (Ludovika University of Public Service)

13.00-14.00 Lunch break

14h-15h Speaker Session II. – Green Tax

Csaba Weiner, Daniel Muth, Csaba Lakóczai (HUN-REN): Public support and willingness to pay for a carbon tax in Hungary: can revenue recycling make a difference?

Gábor Kutasi (Ludovika University of Public Service): Green Tax, Economic Growth and MMT 

chair: Annamária Csiszér (Ludovika University of Public Service)

15.00-15.20 Coffee break

15.20-16.00 Workshop Roundtable – How can MMT link to Green Finance

discussants: the presenters and the audience

chair: Gábor Kutasi

Information about the past events:

https://rice.uni-nke.hu/conferences/6th-budapest-public-finance-seminar

https://rice.uni-nke.hu/conferences/5th-budapest-public-finance-seminar-2023

https://conference.tcs.allamkincstar.gov.hu/en/budapest-public-finance-seminar/past-events.html