Global Economy Lectures

These annual lectures are designed to present issues of global economic development by eminent international economists to a wider public. Organized in cooperation with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

05  November 2025    4:00 pm CET

Global Economy Lecture 2025 - Save the date

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) .

Global Economy Lecture 2025 with Silvana Tenreyro, FBA, CBE

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02  October 2024    4:00 pm CEST

Global Economy Lecture 2024

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) .

Rethinking Ricardo: Environmental Comparative Advantage and the Environmental Gains from Trade

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28  September 2023    4:00 pm CEST

Global Economy Lecture 2023 with Carmen Reinhart

China’s Overseas Lending: From Boom to Bust

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10  January 2023    4:00 pm CET

Sergei Guriev gives the Global Economy Lecture 2023

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

The political economy of Putin’s war in Ukraine

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03  November 2021    4:00 pm CET

Global Economy Lecture: Viewing the future from the population-consumption-environment nexus (Webinar)

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge

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26  November 2020    4:00 pm CET

Global Economy Lecture: Globalization and Pandemics (Webinar)

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

Pol Antràs, Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics, Harvard University

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11  November 2019    4:00 pm CET

Demand and supply in a new world order: The role of non-great powers

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

Danny Quah, Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

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01  October 2018    4:00 pm CEST

Trade, Inequality, and Populism

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

Caroline Freund, Director, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment, The World Bank

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11  October 2017    4:00 pm CEST

The rise of the machines – how computers have changed work

In cooperation with Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

David Dorn, Professor of International Trade and Labor Markets at the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich

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28  November 2016    4:00 pm CET

How should Europe meet the duty of rescue towards the displaced and the poor?

Paul Collier, Oxford University & Oxford and London School of Economics

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16  November 2015    4:00 pm CET

Globalization and the art of designing policy

Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President World Bank

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01  December 2014    4:00 pm CET

Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows

Hélène Rey, London Business School

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10  October 2013    4:00 pm CEST

Multinational firms, Intellectual property and taxation

Rachel Griffith, President of the European Economic Association and Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

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22  October 2012    4:00 pm CEST

Trade-Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

JOHN VAN REENEN, Director, Centre for Economic Performance, The London School of Economics and Political Science

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14  November 2011    4:00 pm CET

21st Century Regionalism: Filling the Gap between 21st Century Trade and 20th Century Trade Rules

Richard Baldwin, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and CEPR, London

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01  December 2010    4:00 pm CET

Monetary Policy in Difficult Times: Lessons and Challenges from the European Central Bank Experience

Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School

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07  May 2009    4:00 pm CEST

The Global Distribution of Income: Past Trends and Future Prospects

Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford

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17  April 2008    4:00 pm CEST

China’s Main Challenges and Its Janus-faced Boom

Yu Yongding, Institute of World Economics and Politics, CASS

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10  October 2007    4:00 pm CEST

Solving the IMF's Existential Crisis

Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley

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08  February 2007    4:30 pm CET

Globalization and its Impact on Labour

Robert C. Feenstra, University of California at Davis

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05  April 2005    4:00 pm CEST

China's Economic Growth and the Global Economy: Structural Obstacles to Policymaking and Exchange Rate Adjustment

Wing Thye Woo, University of California at Davis

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26  April 2004    5:00 pm CEST

The Globalization Debate: Rhetoric versus Reality

James R. Markusen, University of Colorado

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26  February 2004    5:00 pm CET

Globalization and Market Structure

Peter Neary, University College Dublin

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24  April 2003    5:00 pm CEST

Miracles and Debacles: Do Free-Trade Skeptics Have a Case?

Arvind Panagariya, University of Maryland

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27  June 2002    5:00 pm CEST

WTO Under Fire: Is Dispute Settlement Destroying the WTO?

Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard University

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21  February 2001    5:00 pm CET

Is Integration into the World Economy a Substitute for a Development Strategy?

Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

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19  September 2000    5:00 pm CEST

Trade Policy as Development Policy. The Lessons of Fifty Years

L. Alan Winters, University of Sussex

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17  April 2000    5:00 pm CEST

Productivity of Nations

Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and Tel-Aviv University

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27  March 2000    5:00 pm CEST

The New International Financial Architecture and the IMF

Charles Wyplosz, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

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27  January 1999    5:00 pm CET

Global development patterns and international financial crisis

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID), Director, Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University

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