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Plenary Symposium: "The Public Debt and Monetary Stability"
Presentation Title: In Defense of the Euro
Biography: Jesús Huerta de Soto is a Spanish economist of the Austrian School and a Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at King Juan Carlos University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is on the editorial board of its Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Huerta de Soto is currently considered as one of the most representative proponents of the Austrian School of Economics and has published numerous research works and articles.
Pedro Schwartz, San Pablo University—Spain
Presentation Title: Optimal Monetary Zones: Why is there No Single World Money
Biography: Pedro Schwartz is a Professor at the San Pablo University, where he teaches history of economic thought and directs the Center for Political Economy and Regulation. He has taught at numerous universities and lectured all over the world on economic history, financial issues and other various economic topics. A member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Madrid, he is a frequent contributor to the European media on the current financial and social scene.
Angelo Santagostino, Yildirim Beyazit University—Turkey
Francesco Forte, Sapienza University of Rome—Italy
Presentation Title: On the convergence among the EU five main countries since the creation of the Euro: An analysis of the present club model under a memory hypothesis with spread measure
Biography: Francesco Forte is Emeritus Professor at Sapienza University of Rome. He was Minister of Finance, European Affairs and Foreign Aid of the Italian Government (1982-1983) and a former Senator and Chairman of the Finance and Treasury Committee of the Italian Senate. He also is a former President of the International Atlantic Economic Society (1984-1985) and current member of the Board of Editors of the International Advances in Economic Research. Forte is author of numerous publications on public and political economics.
Gordon L. Brady, University of North Carolina–Greensboro—USA