International Economic Policy and Political Economy Archive
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 28 | Athanasios Orphanides, MIT | "Politics, Economics, and the Euro Area Crisis" |
| February 7 (Thursday, 4:00-5:30 pm, Devlin Hall 101) | Rony Hamaui, Mediofactoring (Intesa Sanpaolo) | "Desperate for Democracy" |
| February 18 | Carlo Cottarelli, International Monetary Fund | "Mountains of Debt: The Cliffs, Slopes and Uncharted Territories of Today's Public Finances in Advanced Economies" |
| February 25 | Raymond Duch, University of Oxford | "Insights into Responsibility Attribution for Macroeconomic Outcomes" |
| March 11 | Sergio Schmukler, World Bank | "Challenges in Financial Development and International Financial Integration" |
| March 18 | David Cutler, Harvard University | "The Coming Revolution in Health Care" |
| March 25 | Alberto Alesina, Harvard University | "Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession" |
| April 8 | Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University | "Social Solidarity after the Crisis of Finance Capitalism" |
| April 22 | Joseph Felter, Stanford University | "Aid Under Fire: Economic Assistance and Counterinsurgency" |
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 17 | Lorenzo Bini Smaghi Harvard University | "The European Crisis in Perspective" |
| October 4 (Thursday, Devlin 101) | James Poterba, MIT and NBER | "Economic Policy Challenges of Aging Populations" |
| October 15 | Michael Klein, Tufts University | "Capital Controls: Gates versus Walls" |
| November 5 | David Cameron, Yale University | "The Eurozone Debt Crisis: Stumbling Toward a 'Genuine' EMU" |
| November 12 | Laura Alfaro, Harvard University | "Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production" |
| November 16 (Friday, 3:30-5:00, Higgins 300) | Nazli Choucri, MIT | "Cyberspace and Sustainability" |
| December 4 (Tuesday, Devlin 101) | Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University | "The Euro Crisis through the Lens of Capital Flow Reversals" |
| December 10 | Claudia Buch, University of Tuebingen | "The European Debt Crisis and the Banking Union Proposal" |
Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 23 | Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University | "Fixing America" |
| February 20 | Joseph Joyce, Wellesley College | "The IMF and the Global Financial Crisis: Phoenix Rising?" |
| February 27 | Daniel Sargent, U.C. Berkeley | "The End of Bretton Woods Revisited" |
| March 19 | Francesco Giavazzi, Bocconi University, Milan | "The Euro Area Crisis and Its Policy Implications" |
| March 26 | Anton Korinek, University of Maryland | "The New Economics of Prudential Capital Controls" |
| April 2 | Andrew Rose, U.C. Berkeley | "Protection Isn't Counter-Cyclic (Anymore)" |
| April 3 (Tuesday), 4:00 PM, Robsham Theater | Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times and CNBC, organized by the Winston Center for the Clough Colloquium Series | |
| April 18 (Wednesday), 7:00 PM, Devlin 008 | John Perkins, co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the International Studies Program | "Hoodwinked! What Wrecked Our Economy? How to Fix It" |
| April 23 | Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University | "The Ongoing Employment Crisis: Its Nature and Policy Responses" |
| April 30 | James Alt, Harvard University | "The Politics and Economics of Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe" (w/D. Lassen and J. Wehner) |
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 26 | Col. Michael J. Meese (United States Military Academy at West Point) | "Economics in Conflicts: The Case of Afghanistan" |
| October 17 | David Cameron (Yale University) | "The Eurozone Crisis: Stumbling Toward Economic Government" |
| October 24 | N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) | "The Challenges Facing Monetary and Fiscal Policy" |
| November 2 (Wednesday) Devlin 101 | Vivien Schmidt (Boston University) | "The European Union's Eurozone Crisis: A Failure of Economics or of Leadership?" |
| November 7 | George Akerlof (University of California, Berkeley and IMF) | "Phishing Phor Phools" |
| November 14 | Takeo Hoshi (University of California, San Diego) | "Post 3/11 Japanese Economy" |
| November 21 | Jorge Braga de Macedo (Nova University, Lisbon) | "Euro Zone, North Atlantic, G20: Together Alone?" |
| November 28 | Luis Felipe Cespedes (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago) | "Macroeconomic Policy in Emerging Market Economies: The Case of Chile" |
| December 5 | Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis) | "International Migrations in the Last 30 Years: Economic Effects and Policy Concerns" |
Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 11 (Friday) Higgins 310 | Francesco Giavazzi, Bocconi University, Milan | "Why the Current Account May Matter in a Monetary Union: Lessons from the Financial Crisis in the Euro Area" (w/L. Spaventa) |
| Feb. 28 | William Grimes, Boston University | "Financial Regionalism in East Asia in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis" |
| Mar. 21 | William Clark, University of Michigan | "The Fed May Be Politically Independent, But It Is Not Politically Indifferent" (w/V. Arel-Bundock) |
| Mar. 28 | Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University | "After Copenhagen & Cancun: What is the Politically Feasible Path to Comprehensive Targets for Greenhouse Gas Emissions?" |
| Mar. 30 (Wednesday), 4:45 PM, Devlin 008 | Ayhan Kose, International Monetary Fund | "Emerging Markets: Resilience and Growth Amid Global Turmoil" |
| Apr. 11 | Frank Smets, European Central Bank | "Monetary Policy Strategy, Non-Standard Measures and the Lower Bound on Interest Rates" (w/H. Pill) |
| Apr. 29 (Friday) Higgins 225 | Jeffrey Fuhrer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | "Inflation, Expectations, and the Fed's Exit Strategy from Post-Crisis Expansion" |
| May 2 | Martin Feldstein, Harvard University | "What's Next for the American Economy?" |
Fall 2010
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
Oct. 4 | Guillermo Calvo, Columbia University | "Looking at Financial Crises in the Eye" |
Oct. 18 | David Cameron, Yale University | "The Eurozone Crisis and the EU's Elusive Quest for Economic Governance" |
Oct. 25 | Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University | "The Political Economy of Global Crisis and Recovery" |
Nov. 8 | Lawrence Schembri, Bank of Canada | "A Brave New International Monetary System" (w/E. Santor) |
Nov. 22 | Ila Patnaik, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi | "In the Eye of the Storm: Exchange Rate Policy and Emerging Market Responses to U.S. Policy" |
Nov. 29 | Ricardo Caballero, MIT | "Thoughts about the Global Economy and its Imbalances" |