Readers of this blog may be interested in an event taking place tomorrow at the Dublin Writers Museum. José Manuel González-Páramo, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 2004, will be delivering an address entitled “Globalisation, international financial integration and the financial crisis: The future of European and international financial market regulation and supervision.”
More information can be found here
To register for this event call Shane on 01 874 67 56
There is a new CEPR report on this topic – this VOX column provides a summary.
In this letter to the Sunday Times, a group of economists call for a credible medium-term fiscal consolidation plan for the UK.
The signatories are listed below:
Tim Besley, Sir Howard Davies, Charles Goodhart, Albert Marcet, Christopher Pissarides and Danny Quah, London School of Economics;
Meghnad Desai and Andrew Turnbull, House of Lords;
Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir, University College London;
Sir John Vickers, Oxford University;
John Muellbauer, Nuffield College, Oxford;
David Newbery and Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge University;
Ken Rogoff, Harvard University;
Thomas Sargent, New York University;
Anne Sibert, Birkbeck College, University of London;
Michael Wickens, University of York and Cardiff Business School;
Roger Bootle, Capital Economics;
Bridget Rosewell, GLA and Volterra Consulting
A distinguished group of economists have written about the implications of the global crisis for the Nordic countries and the ‘Nordic model’ – summary (and link to the full report) available here.