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wiiw Global Economy
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Barry Eichengreen, University of California,
Berkeley |
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Solving the IMF's Existential
Crisis
Lecture jointly organized by Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
and wiiw, 10 October 2007, 4 p.m.
Venue: Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna 9,
Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 'Veranstaltungssaal' (ground floor) |
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This Gobal
Economy Lecture, organized by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank
(OeNB) and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
(wiiw), focuses on the International Monetary Fund (IMF). For
the past 60 years, the IMF has had the task of fostering international
monetary cooperation, securing financial stability, facilitating
openness in international trade, and promoting a framework for
macroeconomic sustainability of economic development in a large
number of economies. This lecture will consider the role for
the IMF in a world where emerging markets believe that they
no longer need the Fund to help protect them against financial
crises. It asks in which way the IMF needs to be reformed to
ready it for the 21st century. Barry Eichengreen, who is a former
Senior Policy Advisor at the IMF and an eminent expert on global
macroeconomic and financial developments, will discuss the issues
revolving around the future role of the IMF against the background
of current global imbalances and financial market instability.
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee
Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University
of California, Berkeley. He is international research fellow
at the Kiel Institute of World Economics, research associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and research
fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Recent
publications include: The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated
Capitalism and Beyond (Princeton University Press, 2007);
Toward an East Asian Exchange Rate Regime, co-edited
with Duck-Koo Chung (Brookings Institution Press, 2007); Global
Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (MIT Press,
2006). |
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register your participation in the lecture by 8 October by email
to sascha.urban@oenb.at
or by fax to (+43-1) 404-20-6697. |
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