Patrizio Lainà

Patrizio Lainà is Working as a Chief Economist at the Finnish Confederation of Professionals (STTK)He previously worked as an Economist at the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) and the Bank of Finland. He is a co-founder and chair of the Finnish monetary reform organization Economic Democracy Finland (“Suomen Talousdemokratia” in Finnish), where he is still active. He also holds a PhD from the University of Helsinki. His substantial contributions to monetary theory and reform are the following:

Lainà, Patrizio. 2015a. “Proposals for Full-Reserve Banking: A Historical Survey from David Ricardo to Martin Wolf”. Economic Thought, 4/2 (28 Sep 2015): 1-19.

Lainà, Patrizio. 2015b. “Money Creation under Full-reserve Banking: A Stock-flow Consistent Model”. Working Paper No. 851. Levy Economics Institute.

Lainà, Patrizio. 2017. “Seignorage from Full-Reserve Banking”. Published in Lainà, Patrizio, “Full-Reserve Banking: Separating Money Creation from Bank Lending”, PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki (November 13, 2017).

Lainà, Patrizio. 2018. “Full-Reserve Banking – Separating Money Creation from Bank Lending“. Dissertation, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

His presentation is titled "Monetary Reform: Key Findings and Future Research."