July 16th, 2013

“Challenges for Fiscal and Monetary Policies -Effects on Economies and Societies-”

On July 16th 2013, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany and the IIMA had a workshop on “Challenges for Fiscal and Monetary Policies –Effects on Economies and Societies-“. Economists from Germany, China, Korea,Thailand, India and Philippine gathered and discussed how fiscal and monetary policies, especially quantitative easing policies of Japan and the US affect the individual economies and societies, and what measures are to be taken to make sweeping structural reform.

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Main speakers
(in the order of speech)
Andreas Hermes
 Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany
Yoshihiro Watanabe
 Managing Director, Institute for International Monetary Affairs, Japan
Qing Wu
 Senior Research Fellow, Financial Research Institute, Development Research Center of the State Council of P.R.C., China
Ki-young Park
 Associate Professor, School of Economics, Yonsei University, Korea
Rajat Kathuria
 Director and Chief Executive, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, India
Angelo Taningco
 Assistant Professor, School of Economics, De La Salle University, Philippines
Andre Schmidt,
 Professor, Macro-and International Economics, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany

※The contents of this workshop were published as Occasional Paper No.26 on this website.