International Economic Policies, Governance and the New Economics

Thursday 12 April 2012
St Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK
(all sessions in the Ramsden Room)



09.00 Registration and coffee

09.30


Session 1:
Chair: Dr Terry Barker, Founder of the Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics, Chairman of Cambridge Econometrics, Departmental Senior Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Prof Valpy FitzGerald, Professor of International Development Finance, University of Oxford
The Great Recession, Capital Market Failure and International Financial Regulation

Prof John Weeks, Professor Emeritus of Development Economics and Associate, Centre for Development Policy and Research, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
A Progressive International Monetary System: Growth Enhancing, Speculation Reducing and Cross-Country Equity


11.00

Coffee

11.30


Session 2:
Chair: Dr John McCombie, Director, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Prof Philip Arestis, Honorary Departmental Senior Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy (CCEPP), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Prof Malcolm Sawyer, Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
The Financial Transactions Tax: Its Potential and Feasibility

Prof Jesus Ferreiro, Associate Professor in Economics, Department of Applied Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Prof Patricia Peinado, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Prof Felipe Serrano, Professor in Economics, Department of Applied Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Global Imbalances and Capital Movements as Constraints to the International Economic Recovery


13.00

Lunch

14.00


Session 3:

Chair: Prof Malcolm Sawyer (see above for details)

Prof Emiliano Brancaccio, Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Sannio, Italy
Prof Giuseppe Fontana, Professor of Monetary Economics, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, and University of Sannio, Italy
Current Account Imbalances, Capital Flows and 'European Southernification'

Prof Luis Fernando de Paula, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prof Fernando Ferrari-Filho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Capital Flows, International Imbalances and Economic Policies in Latin America


15.30

Coffee

16.00


Session 4:

Chair: Prof Philip Arestis (see above for details)

Dr Nigel Allington, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Dr John McCombie (see above for details)
'The Past is Never Dead, It's Not Even Past': Global Imbalances and Capital Flows in South East Asia

Prof Howard Stein, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan
Africa and the Perversities of International Capital Flows


17.30

 


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