SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Name:

Mr Alexis Stenfors

Email address:

as129@soas.ac.uk

Thesis title:

LIBOR & the Power Relationship between Central Banks and Banks

Year of Study:

Year of Entry 2009

Internal Supervisors

• Costas Lapavitsas

PhD Publications

“LIBOR as a Keynesian Beauty Contest: A Process towards Endogenous Deception”. RMF Discussion Paper, No. 40, October 2012.

“LIBOR Games: Means, Opportunities and Incentives to Deceive”. RMF Discussion Paper, No. 39, October 2012.

“Crisis in the Eurozone” (with Lapavitsas et al.). London: Verso. 2012.

“Breaking up? A Route out of the Eurozone Crisis” (with C. Lapavitsas, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Lindo, J. Meadway, J. Michell, J.P. Painceira, E. Pires, J. Powell, N. Teles and L. Vatikiotis). RMF Occasional Report 3, November 2011. (Also published as a book in Greek by Livanis, Athens 2012)

“Crisis en la Zona Euro: Perspectiva de un impago en la periferia y la salida de la moneda única común” (with C. Lapavitsas, A. Kaltenbrunner, G. Labrinidis, D. Lindo, J. Meadway, J. Michell, J.P. Painceira, E. Pires, J. Powell and N. Teles), Revista de Economía Critíca, 2011:11, pp. 131-171. (Also published as a book in Greek by Livanis, Athens 2011)

“The euro funding gap and its consequences” (with A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Lindo and J. P. Painceira). Quarterly Journal of Central Banking, Volume XXI, Number 2, November 2010, pp. 86-91.

“Eurozone crisis: beggar thyself and they neighbour” (with C. Lapavitsas, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Lindo, J. Michell, J.P. Painceira, E. Pires, J. Powell and N. Teles), Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies, Volume 12, Number 4, December 2010, pp.321-73. (Also published as a book in Greek by Novoli, Athens 2010)

”Explaining Devaluation Expectations in the EMS” (with U. Söderström). Finnish Economic Papers Volume 8 – Number 2. May 1995.

PhD Conferences

Political Economy and the Outlook for Capitalism. Joint conference AHE, IIPPE, AHE. July 5-7, 2012, Paris, France. Title of paper: "The LIBOR Illusion & the Structural Power of Central Banks"

IIPPE 2nd International Conference in Political Economy: Neoliberalism and the Crises of Economic Science, May 20-22, 2011, Istanbul University, Beyazit. Title of paper: "The Power Relationship between Central Banks and Banks"