The World Economy Annual Lectures

GEP is grateful to Wiley-Blackwell, proud publisher of  The World Economy for sponsorship of this Lecture Series.

2012

• 6th September
  Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics, University of California. 'Number One Country, Number One Currency?
• Lecture and Discussion (select Conferences and Events > Individual Events > CEPII-GEP-Ifo Conference on China and the World Economy)
• Interview with DAF
• Homepage DAF Interview
• Swiss Radio and TV  ECO Interview
• Swiss Radio Statement One
• Swiss Radio Statement Two

 

2011

• 8th June
  Professor Robert Staiger, Stanford University 'What Does Globalization Mean for the WTO? A View from Economics'
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2010

• 24th June
  Carl Davidson, Professor of Economics, Michigan State University. 'Trade Policy and Unemployment'

2009

• 18th June
  Peter Neary, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford. 'Two and a Half Theories of Trade'

2008

• 19th June
  Elhanan Helpman, Professor of International Trade, Harvard University. 'Trade and Labor Market Outcomes'

 

2007

• 18th October
  Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University.'Saving Globalisation from its Cheerleaders.'

 

2006

• 22nd June
  Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, on 'The Path to Global Free Trade: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs' 
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2005

• 27th October
  Hans-Werner Sinn, Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Munich, on 'Export Boom and Bazaar Economy in Germany' 
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2004

• 10th Spetember
  Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund on 'De Tocqueville's 'dangerous moment': the importance of getting reformsright'

 

2003

• 26th June
  Richard Freeman (Harvard University) on 'The Exaggerated Impact of Trade on the Labour Market'

 

2002

• 5th December
  Alan Deardorff (University of Michigan) on 'What the Sceptics Distrust About Globalisation' 
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2001

• 28th June
  Horst Siebert (Institut für Weltwirtschaft, University of Kiel) on 'Europe - Quo Vadis?' 
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2000

• 5th July
  Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University) on 'Is There Life After Seattle? Reflections on the Prospects for Globalisation

 

1999

• 28th October
  Sebastian Edwards (University of California, Los Angeles) on 'Financial Crises and Contagion'

 

1998

• 17th September
  Matthew Slaughter (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) on 'Globalisation and Wages: A Tale of Two Perspectives'