Together with the Bank of Italy (Banca d’Italia), the Bank of Finland will organise an international high-level conference entitled ‘Challenges of the Global Crisis to Macroeconomic Theory and International Finance’. The conference will be held in Helsinki on 11 June 2010 and commemorates the academic career of Pentti Kouri.
Pentti Kouri served as an associate professor or professor at Stanford, Yale, New York and Helsinki universities 1975–1988. His research focused in particular on international macroeconomics and finance and over his relatively short career he made several key contributions to the science of economics.
The conference will address three key areas of economic research: ‘Macroeconomics and the great recession’, ‘Exchange rates and global adjustments’ and ‘Financial stability and growth’. The conference will end with a panel discussion on ‘Current policy challenges’.
The conference brings together top-level academicians and central bank governors as speakers, commentators and panelists. The conference will be hosted by the Governors of the Bank of Italy and the Bank of Finland, Mario Draghi and Erkki Liikanen.
In addition to the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences, Prof. Edmund S. Phelps (Columbia University) and Prof. Robert Mundell (Columbia University), other participants include
– Prof. Olivier Blanchard, Chief Economist, IMF
– Dr. José De Gregorio, Governor of the Central Bank of Chile
– Prof. Jorge Braga de Macedo, Nova University, Lisbon
– Prof. Ricardo Caballero, MIT
– Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti, European University Institute
– Prof. Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley
– Prof. James K. Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin
– Prof. Francesco Giavazzi, Bocconi University, Milan
– Prof. Bengt Holmström, MIT
– Prof. Seppo Honkapohja, Member of the Board, Bank of Finland
– Prof. Philip Lane, Trinity College
– Prof. Assar Lindbeck, University of Stockholm
– Dr. Guillermo Ortiz, former Governor of the Bank of Mexico
– Dr. Ignazio Visco, Deputy Director General, Bank of Italy
Entry is by invitation only.
For further information, please contact: Antti Suvanto, Head of General Secretariat, tel. + 358 10 831 2503.