8th Budapest Public Finance Seminar: Sovereign Money

Conference,

Co-organizers:

         Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS),  Hungarian Economic Association (MKT),

date: 13 May 2026 (Wednesday) 9:30-16:00

venue: Ludovika University of Public Service, Main building, Zrínyi Hall)

Program:

9.30-10.h Registration

10h-10.10 Opening speech by the Gábor Kemény, Vice-Rector

10.10-10.15 Welcome Speech by Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy, Vice-Dean of Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies

10.15-10.55. Keynote speech: Michael Kumhof, CEPR, NIESR: Comments on the Macroeconomic Consequences of CBDC

10.55-11.30. Keynote speech: Josh Ryan-Collins, UCL: The fiscal dominance taboo

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12h-13h Speaker Session I.

Gergely Szabó, author of National Money, hedge fund manager: National Money

Eric Tymoigne, Lewis & Clark College, Portland: Chartalism and Money Theory: State Money and Beyond

13.00-14.00 Lunch break

14h-15h Speaker Session II.

Svatopluk Kapounek, Mendel University, Foreign Bank Ownership and Lending Dynamics in Post-Transition Economies

State Treasury: Digitalization and government bond

Vivien Czeczeli, Ludovika University

15.00-15.20 Coffee break

15.20-16.00 Workshop Roundtable, discussants: the presenters and the audience