Global Economy

The Global Economy Area at CESifo aims to break new ground in working on contemporary problems facing the global economy rather than using a sterile, abstract, overly theoretical approach focused largely on geographical trade in goods. How and why globalization speeds up technical change, does or does not generate inequality and marginalization, facilitates increased speed of transactions, and needs global institutions way beyond the current World Bank, IMF, WTO structure will be stressed. Major barriers to flows of goods and factors such as standards, rules of origin, immigration restrictions and others, on which there is limited literature, will be explored. The challenge is a 21st century response to 21st century problems.
Assistant to this area is Sebastian Benz.

Area Directors


John Whalley is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations at the Department of Economics of the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He is also Professor of International and Development Economics and Director of the Development and International Economics Research Centre at the University of Warwick, UK.	Peter Egger headed the International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment department at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. In August 2009 he accepted a position as Professor of Applied Economics, with particular focus on Innovation and Internationalization, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich).

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CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy