In June 2010 the Research Group Social Economic History at Utrecht University will organize an international workshop on the theme of intermediation in capital markets.

Markets are the meeting place of demand and supply – this is one of their central roles. This central role is not accomplished without intermediaries, whose role is to mediate between the information asymmetries that inevitably arise. These interactions between intermediaries and actors and markets do not exist in a vacuum. They are the product of their past political, institutional, regional and economic context. Taking these differences as a backdrop, the workshop intends to start a conversation across disciplines, geographic regions and time periods. See the call for papers for more details.