Conference on 9th Dec 2011
Location: Hotel Shilla, Seoul, Korea
On 9-10 December 2011 the Korean Institute for Finance, on behalf of the Asia Europe Economic Forum, organised a conference entitled "Impact of eurozone debt crisis on East Asian countries".
The conference included the following topics:
1. Debt sustainability in the US, Europe and Japan
2. Eurozone crisis and its impact on Asia
3. Reform of the International Monetary System
4. G20 - assessment and future prospects
5. Prospect of the Chinese economy
The AEEF is a forum that consists of two regional partners:
- Bruegel, CEPII, European Commission FP7
- Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Keio University, Korea University, Korean Institute ofFinance (KIF)
Event materials
Don’t let the euro-area crisis go east Asia-Europe Economic Forum Paper, January 2012 by Agnès Bénassy-Quéré (CEPII, Paris), He Fan (IWEP/CASS, Beijing), Masahiro Kawai (ADBI, Tokyo), Tae Joon Kim (Korea Institute of Finance, Seoul), Yung-Chul Park (Korea University, Seoul), Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel, Brussels), David Vines (Oxford University), Yu Yongding (IWEP, Chinese Academy of Socia Sciences, Beijing)
Agenda of the event here
Presentations
Session 1
- Sandro Momigliano - Debt sustainability in Europe here
- Jun Saito - Debt sustainability in Japan - presentation here and paper here
- Jakob Funk Kirkegaard - Debt Sustainability in U.S., Europe and Japan - Is There A Role for the Asset Side? here
- Peter Morgan - Government debt sustainability in Japan here
Session 2
- Jean Pisani-Ferry - The euro crisis and the new impossible trinity - presentation here and paper here
- Haizhou Huang - Euro Area Crisis and Its Impacts on EMs and China here
- Takatoshi Ito - Eurasian Contagion?: Age of Fiscal Tightening presentation here and paper here
Session 3
- Masahiro Kawai - Asian Monetary integration: A Japanese Perspective here
- Agnès Bénassy-Quéré - A multipolar IMS: likelihood, desirability, transition here
- Gongpil Choi - A Reform of the International Monetary System here
Session 4
- David Vines - After Cannes: The G20MAP, Global Rebalancing, and Sustaining Global Economic Growth here
- Joong Beom Shin - Challenges toward Los Cabos Summit here
Session 5
- Yu Yongding - China’s macroeconomic situation and policy presentation here, Internationalization of RMB paper here, Beijing will not ride to eurozone’s rescue op-ed here, The China Bears' Feeble Growl op-ed here
- Changyong Rhee - The PRC Economy: Short-run and long-run challenges here
- Shahin Vallée - The Internationalisation path of the RMB - presentation here and paper here
- Mario Lamberte - Prospects of the Chinese Economy and ASEAN-China Linkages here
Keynote speech
- Kiyoto Ido - East Asian Economic Growth here