Professor Paul de Grauwe Dealing with Macroeconomic Imbalances and Design Problems in the EMU

About the speech:

In his presentation at the Institute, Professor De Grauwe looked at the recent macroeconomic imbalances, relating them to the design problems in the economic structures of the EMU and considered how these problems could be addressed.

About the speaker:

Professor De Grauwe, John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy and Head of the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is one of the world's leading economists working on the European Union. He is the author of "The Economics of Monetary Union", which is the standard academic text on the EMU and has been translated in ten languages. His work has been widely praised and cited in recent debates on the economic crisis and the future of the EMU.