Conflicts of Interest and the Structures of Trust in Countries in Transition
Second International Conference "Finance – Ethics – Responsibility"
March 20-21, 2002, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
10:15 Opening: Prof. Stanislaw Owsiak, Vice-Rector, AE Kraków
Session I: Trust: a Social and Economic Precondition
Chair: Prof. Aniela Dylus, Instytut Politologii UKSW &
Prof. Jerzy Mikulowski-Pomorski, AE Kraków
10:30 Mr Pier Giorgio Gawronski: Global Public Goods and the Structures of Trust
10:50 O.P. Maciej Zieba, Tertio Millennio Institute, Kraków: Catholic Social Teaching: How to Build Trust
11:10 Discussion
11:30 Break
12:00 Prof. Wojciech Gasparski, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, Warszawa: Conflict of Interests as an Ethical Problem: Only in Business?
12:20: Mr Loe Andringa: The Economics of Communion
12:40: Prof. Paul H. Dembinski, Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva: Break-up of Money, Consolidation of Trust
13:00: Discussion
13:30: Lunch
Session II: Emerging Structures of Trust in Post-Communist Societies
Chair: Jan Skórzynski, „Rzeczpospolita”&
Stefan Wilkanowicz, Wydawnictwo „ZNAK”
15:00 Mr Ludek Rychetnik, University of Reading: The Protestant Ethic and Constitutional Stability
15:20: Prof. Antoni Z. Kaminski, ISP PAN Warszawa: Public Institutions and Social Morality in a Process of Transformation
15:40: Discussion
16:00: Break
16:30: Prof. Nicolas Hayoz, University of Fribourg: From 'Arms-Length Relations' to Political Trust. Building Vertical Structures of Trust in Low-Trust Societies
16:50: Ms Helene Alford, Mr Luigi Troiani, Pontifical University of St. Thomas: How to Establish Institutional Trust in Conditions of Transition: the Case of Market Economy Institutions
17:10: Prof. Lubomir Mlcoch, Uniwersytet Karola, Praga: From the Institualization of Irresponsibility to the Institualization of Responsibility. The Economics of Trust: The Czech Experience
17:30: Prof. E.V. Afanasyev, Russian Orthodox Church University, Moskwa: Conflicts of Interest in the Modern Russian Economy
20:00: Keynote Speaker: Ernesto Rossi, Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva
Session III: Financial Institutions as Structures of Trust
Chair: Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski, ING Barings &
Prof. Jan Czekaj, AE, Kraków
09:00 Prof. Levon Babalyan, Prof. Jacques Pasquier-Dorthe, University of Fribourg: Problems of the Population’s Confidence in the Banking System in Transition Countries: The Case of Armenia
09:20 Krzysztof Pietraszkiewicz, Dyrektor Generalny, Zwiazek Banków Polskich : Shaping of Public Trust Institutions: the Experience of the Polish Banking Sector
09:40 Discussion
10:00Break
10:30 Dr Ewa Miklaszewska, AE Kraków: Privatisation of Financial Regulation. Can Market Discipline Replace the Public Regulator in Transition Countries?
10:50 Prof. Ludmila Pankova, Uniwersytet im. Lomonosowa, Moskwa: Conflict of Interest: the Legal and Ethical Dimensions
11:10Discussion
11:30 Break
12:00 Dr Janina Filek, Dr hab. Kazimierz Sosenko, AE Kraków: From Trust to Responsibility in Financial Activities
12:20 Prof. Stanislaw Owsiak AE, Kraków: The Ethics of Tax Collection
12:40 Presentation by a representative of TUiR „Warta”
13:00 Discussion
13:30 Douglass C. North, Hoover Institution, The Nobel Prize winner in Economics in1993: Understanding Economic Change and Economic Growth
14:30 Summing-up and the press conference
15:15 Closing of the Conference
