The 2009 Collapsed Global Economy: Asia in the Global Financial Crisis

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The 2009 Collapsed Global Economy: Asia in the Global Financial Crisis

Due to overwhelming response, please note that the talk venue is now changed to Lecture Theature 13.
Directions and Locations are as given in the table below.

Speaker:	Professor Danny Quah Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in Banking and Finance, Department of Economics, NUS and Professor of Economics, LSE
Chairperson:	Professor Ivan Png Lim Kim San Professor Head, Department of Strategy and policy, NUS Business School & Professor of Economics, NUS
Date:	Friday, 12 February 2010
Time:	4:00pm - 5:30pm
Venue:	Lecture Theatre 13 (Direction / Location), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Admission:	Admission is complimentary. Please Register to confirm seat.
Enquiries:	Call Sean Peh 6516-5835 / 4552 or e-mail

Programme

3:30pm Registration

4:00pm –5:00pm: Lecture

5:00pm – 5:15pm: Q & A

5:15pm - 5:30pm: Light Refreshments & End

About the Lecture

The largest, most significant recent event for the global economy was likely the 2008 global financial crisis. Critical causes of this world event, in the view of many, included the global savings glut that emerged from the East after the late 1990s and the global imbalances that resulted. Then, again in this view, so too would the East suffer the worst as export markets shrank from economic downturn. The reality, however, has so far turned out at odds with such predictions, as Asia has continued to lead the global economy out of recession. This lecture addresses why --- examining the secular shift in the distribution of global economic activity --- and suggests a range of likely outcomes that might emerge from this episode.

About the Speaker

Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science; he is also Co-Director of LSE Global Governance and Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. In 2006-2009 he was Head of Department for Economics at LSE. Quah holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the LSE.

He recently spoke on the global economy and global imbalances at the Korea Development Institute, Khazanah Megatrends Forum, the Hay Literary Festival, and the British Embassy in Beijing. Early in 2009 he delivered the Goh Keng Swee Lecture in Singapore on China's economic growth, and the World Economy Asia lecture ("Will Asia save the world?") in Kuala Lumpur. Together with Lord Charles Powell and Sir David Tang, he opposed Gurcharan Das, Deepak Lal, and Mark Tully, in debating the motion "The future belongs to India, not China" at the Royal Geographical Society in London in May 2009.

Quah has consulted for among others the World Bank, the Bank of England, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He currently serves on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council and is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances.

Prof Quah's research is now on the global economy, economic growth and development, income inequality, international economic relations, economic geography, and new technologies. He has also previously worked in time series econometrics, inflation, and business cycles. At the LSE he used to lecture in the largest course (Introductory Economics) taught in the School. He now teaches macroeconomics and econometrics in the MSc programme, and lectures on The Global Economy for the LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing and Executive Summer School in London.

Prof Quah was born in Malaysia and is now a British citizen. He holds a blackbelt in taekwon-do.

Organizers

Saw Centre for Quantitative Finance and Department of Economics, NUS