The Berkeley-Haas Africa Business Club held its 5th Annual Africa Business Forum to explore and discuss how to position Africa’s challenges as opportunities with other visionaries, thought leaders and home-grown innovation enablers.
The Institute for South Asia Studies is hosting a lecture, On “Evidence-based Economic Policy” in Pakistan on Friday, March 8, 2019, by Atif Mian, Professor, Economics, Public Policy and Finance (Princeton University) and Co-Founder & Board Member, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP); Asim I. Khwaja, Professor, International Finance and Development (Harvard University) and Co-Founder & Board Member, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP); Maroof A. Syed, President & CEO, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) and Director of Pakistan Strategy & Development, Evidence for Policy Design (EPOD-Harvard); Saad Gulzaar, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. The event will be moderated by Munis Faruqui, Chair, Institute for South Asia Studies, Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies. The Clausen Center is co-sponsoring this event.
Around the world, governments have delegated political independence to central banks that wield tremendous power based on the belief that independence would allow these institutions to keep inflation in check. From the mid-1990s, Japan’s economy charted a unique trajectory: it fell into deflation and never fully emerged from it for nearly the next twenty years. Only with the election of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe at the end of 2012 and his appointment in early 2013 of new leadership at Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ), did Japan finally launch a policy course capable of pulling Japan fully out of deflation. This presentation explains the shift in BOJ policy and factors behind it.
Gene Park, Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University
James A. Wilcox, Professor, Haas School of Business
Steven Vogel, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Richard Baldwin will give the Joan and Egon von Kaschnitz Lecture this Spring.
While globalization and robotics, “globotics”, will eventually make a better world, they are today creating competition for service-sector jobs that is coming faster than most believe and in ways that will seem incredibly unfair. If the displaced office workers join with the displaced factory workers, the result could be a disruptive upheaval. Richard Baldwin argues that workers need to prepare for the the future of work in new ways, and governments regulate the pace and unfairness of the competition from globots. Richard Baldwin is a Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and Founder and Editor of the economic policy portal, VoxEU.org.
The Lecture will take place on February 14 at 3 PM in Spieker Forum,
6th Floor Chou Hall.
This conference will focus on three major themes in the global economy: the global backlash against the liberal trade order, national industrial strategies in key states, and the effect of technological change on the global economic order. Over two days, participants will examine empirical trends within these three areas and their likely impacts on global trade. The conference will close with a forum of participants from leading multinational corporations on business-government relations in this new global context. The participants in the conference will include prominent academics and members of the business community both from the United States and abroad.
The first day of the conference will focus on globalization, anti-globalization movements, and the strategies of multinational corporations in this volatile and changing global economy. With the rise of protectionism and nationalist movements in the United States, Britain, and many other developing countries, there has been increasing doubts about the durability of the liberal trading order that has prevailed since the end of World War II, as well as about its success at ensuring free trade and economic gains for all. Paralleling this movement has been a democratic recession, whereby authoritarianism is once again rearing its ugly head. The rising power, in military, political, and economic terms, of China raises important questions about China’s attitudes and intentions towards the current Western-dominated global political and economic system. Participants will analyze the important drivers in the global backlash against the liberal world order and the democratic recession and discuss what impact this may have on multinational corporations and the larger global order.
The second day of the conference will focus on data competition, industrial policy, and business-government relations. Technological change and the rise of Big Data presents a new challenge to countries on how to order and regulate technology and data transfer both within and between countries. Participants will analyze trends in data competition and national technology and industrial strategies and discussing the impacts on multinational corporations and business-government relations.
Conferences
Doe Library
Oct 18-19, 2018
https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=118488
This workshop consists of semi-regular meetings for a combination of presentations of different lengths, including preliminary work, on topics related to macroeconomics and international finance, broadly defined. The presenters are UC Berkeley PhD students, faculty, and visitors.
Seminars
Evans Hall # 639
Sep 13 – Jan 10, 2019