12th Asia Europe Economic Forum (AEEF)

13:45 – 14:00

14:00 – 14:15

Welcoming remarks

Sébastien Jean, Director, CEPII; Senior Scientist, INRAE

Introductory remarks

Guntram B. Wolff, Director

14:15 – 15:45

SESSION 1- THE RETURN OF GLOBAL IMBALANCES

Chair: Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute

Giancarlo Corsetti, Professor, Cambridge University

Il Houng Lee, Former G-20 Sherpa for Korea and President, KIEP

Natacha Valla, Dean of the School of Management and Innovation, Sciences Po

Jun Zhang, Director of the China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University

15:45– 16:15

16:15 – 17:45

SESSION 2- SLOWDOWN IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Chair: Yung Chul Park, Distinguished Professor, Korea University

Joseph Francois, Managing Director, World Trade Institute

Sébastien Jean, Director, CEPII; Senior Scientist, INRAE

Masahiro Kawai, Professor, University of Tokyo, and Senior Research Advisor, RIETI

Innwon Park, Professor, Division of International Studies, Korea University

19:30 – 21:00

Dinner

Keynote

Pascal Lamy, President, Paris Peace forum

9:00 – 10:45

SESSION 3- MONETARY POLICY, GROWTH AND EXCHANGE RATES

Chair: Zsolt Darvas, Senior Fellow

Chong-en Bai, Associate Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Michel Houdebine, Chief Economist, French Treasury

Kiyoto Ido, Vice Chairman IIES and former Executive Director Bank of Japan

Klaus Masuch, Principal Adviser, DG-Economics, ECB

10:45– 11.15

Introductory Remarks

Claude Blanchemaison, ASEF Governor for France

11:15 – 13:00

SESSION 4- THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE- PUBLIC SESSION

Chair: Andreas Esche, Director Programe Megatrends, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Björn Conrad, Associate Vice President for Research

Jean-Francois Di Meglio, President, Asia Centre in Paris

Guntram B. Wolff, Director

Mitsutsune Yamaguchi, Special Advisor, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth

Discussion

Chair: Andreas Esche, Director Programe Megatrends, Bertelsmann Stiftung

13:00 – 14:00

14:00 –14:45

Keynote address

Jean Lemierre, Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors, BNP Paribas Group

14:45 – 16:15

SESSION 5- IS THE MULTILATERAL SYSTEM COLLAPSING?

Chair: He Fan, Professor, Peking University

Bernard Hoekman, Professor and Director of Global Economics, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI)

Yung Chul Park, Distinguished Professor, Korea University

Francesco Giavazzi, Professor of Economics, Bocconi University

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Fellow

16.30