Program

Lessons from the Global Crisis: A New Paradigm?

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
14.00-19.00
Franklin College Auditorium
Via Ponte Tresa 29, Sorengo (Lugano)
Switzerland

We hope that you join us. This conference is free of charge.
Please note that seating is limited.

R.S.V.P.
Tel. +41 91 986-3609
Fax: +41 91 986-3640
Email: mecpoc_symposium@fc.edu

Mosler Economic Policy Center Web Site: http://www.mecpoc.org

Speakers and Panels Participants

Keynote Speaker: Lord Robert Skidelsky, University of Warwick

Scott T. Fullwiler, Wartburg College
Francesco Lurati, Università della Svizzera italiana
Andrea Terzi, Franklin College Switzerland
Richard Werner, University of Southampton and ProfitFund

Program
All events take place in the Franklin College Auditorium unless otherwise noted.

14.00
REGISTRATION

14.30
Welcome and Introduction
Andrea Terzi, Franklin College Switzerland

14.45
HOW THE CRISIS HAS CHANGED THE ECONOMIC POLICY PARADIGM
Scott T. Fullwiler, Wartburg College

15.15
CENTRAL BANKS DURING TIMES OF FINANCIAL STRESS
Richard Werner, University of Southampton and ProfitFund

15.45
DISCUSSION

16.00
REFRESHMENT BREAK

16.30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: OBAMA’S FIRST 100 DAYS FROM A KEYNESIAN PERSPECTIVE
Lord Robert Skidelsky, University of Warwick

17:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL CRISIS: A NEW PARADIGM?
MODERATOR: Andrea Terzi, Franklin College Switzerland
Francesco Lurati, Università della Svizzera italiana
Scott T. Fullwiler, Wartburg College
Richard Werner, University of Southampton and ProfitFund
Lord Robert Skidelsky, University of Warwick

19.00
RECEPTION
Holman Hall

Guest Speakers

LORD ROBERT SKIDELSKY

Lord Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, the author of The World after Communism (1995) and the internationally acclaimed biographer of the economist John Maynard Keynes in a three-volume work which won five prizes including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council of Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. In 1991 he was appointed to the House of Lords and served as Chief Opposition Spokesman on Treasury Affairs (1998-1999). From 1991 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Social Market Foundation and since 2002 has been Chairman of the Centre for Global Studies. Skidelsky is also a non-executive director of Janus Capital, Inc. A Russian speaker, he is a non-executive director of Sistema, chairman of LabRus Investment Club, founder and executive secretary of the U.K.-Russia roundtable and a director of the Moscow School of Political Studies.

SCOTT T. FULLWILER

Scott Fullwiler is Associate Professor of Economics and James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics at Wartburg College in Iowa, USA. He is also a research associate with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability in Kansas City, Missouri. His research focuses on the details of monetary and fiscal policy operations, macroeconomic policy, interest rates, and large-scale macroeconometric models. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and working papers, and recently finished co-editing a book (with Wolfram Elsner and Tara Natarajan) on public policy analysis methodologies and applications. Fullwiler also presents his research frequently at regional, national and international conferences. At Wartburg College, he teaches Advanced Macroeconomics, Beginning and Advanced Corporate Finance, and Bank Management, and is also the director of the college's new program in social entrepreneurship. Fullwiler received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Nebraska.

RICHARD WERNER

Professor Richard Werner holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University in Economics. He is currently Chair in International Banking and Director of the Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development at the School of Management, University of Southampton. Werner is also a member of the School of Management's Executive Board, as well as of its Advisory Board.

In 1989, Werner graduated in International and Development Economics from the London School of Economics and entered the graduate program in Economics at Oxford University. In 1990, he joined the Graduate School at the University of Tokyo and became a researcher at the Nomura Research Institute. In the following year, he became European Commission-sponsored Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, to conduct doctoral studies on monetary economics and banking in Japan. He has worked for several years as senior staff consultant of the Asian Development Bank, Manila, including as Team Leader of a country study on the Asian crisis. He has been advisor to the ruling Japanese Liberal Democratic Party's Central Bank Reform Research Group and served on several Ministry of Finance advisory panels.

Werner has frequently appeared on Japanese and international TV commenting on economic and financial affairs. His book Princes of the Yen became a number one bestseller in Japan, and his other book, New Paradigm in Macroeconomics (Palgrave Macmillan), correctly predicted the collapse of the U.K. banking system and property market, highlighted the problem of “recurring banking crises” and suggested workable solutions. In 2003, the World Economic Forum selected him as “Global Leader for Tomorrow” in Davos.

Francesco Lurati teaches and carries out research in the field of corporate communication at the University of Lugano (also known as USI, Università della Svizzera italiana) where he is also the academic director of the Executive Master of Science in Communications Management (Executive MScom) program and the M.S. full-time program in Corporate Communication. He is a member of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Public Relations Institute. He was educated as an economist at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where, in 1992, he received his doctoral degree in Economics with a thesis entitled “National Financial System and Economic Development.” At the University of Fribourg he also taught International Economic Relations. Before joining the Faculty of Communication Sciences at USI, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside, U.S.A., and he taught Marketing at the University of Applied Science in Lugano. He has also held positions at the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics and in the banking sector. Today he regularly consults in the field of communications management.

ANDREA TERZI

Andrea Terzi is a Professor of Economics at Franklin College Switzerland. He has taught at Rutgers University, the Institute for International Studies in Florence, the Collegio Europeo di Parma and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. His areas of interest include macroeconomics, monetary theory, central banking, and financial instability. Terzi has published both in American and European scholarly journals and and his most recent book, Euroland and the World Economy: Global Player or Global Drag? (Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Jörg Bibow, centers on a key question for the future of Europe: will the single currency project contribute to world economic dynamism or will it be driven by the vigor and vitality of others?