Prof. Stefan Collignon - A Different Approach to Regional Imbalances - 11 June 2014
Channel: IIEA
Date: 2014-06-16

About the Speech:
 
In his address, Prof. Collignon will reconsider one important dimension often used to explain the Euro crisis: competitiveness. He will argue that the conventional focus on excessive current account imbalances is a harmful misdiagnosis of the problem and that there is a risk of the resulting medicine of austerity killing the patient. Instead, he will put forward another framework for analysis and suggest it is necessary to take monetary union seriously.
 
About the Speaker:
 
Stefan Collignon is Professor of Political Economy at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and International Chief Economist of the Centro Europa Ricerche, Rome. Previously, he was Centennial Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He has also served as Deputy Director General for Europe in the German Federal Ministry of Finance. He is author of numerous books on Monetary Economics and most recently edited the collection, 'Competitiveness in the European Economy'.
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