[rohrpost] Invitation: Robert Z. Aliber "The Source of Economic Turbulences" - Berlin, December 8, 2015

[Laura Sager]

Invitation
American Academy Lecture
The Source of Economic Turbulences
Monday, December 8, 2014 – 6:30 pm
Robert Z. Aliber
Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance,
University of Chicago
 
Words of Welcome by Albrecht Sommer, Chief of Staff of the President of the Berlin Headquarter of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Location: Historischer Sitzungssaal, Berlin Headquarter of Deutsche Bundesbank,
Leibnizstr. 10, 10625 Berlin
Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan’s book The Age of Turbulence (Penguin Books 2008), discusses the global economy and its ever faster, ever more unpredictable global flow. Robert Aliber postulates that one feature of this turbulence is a greater variability in the prices of commodities, bonds, stocks, real estate, and currencies than ever before. 
In the lecture, Aliber will examine the effect of greater variability on countries that have experienced banking and currency crises as well as sharp declines in employment and economic activity. He will consider whether floating currencies have been necessary because of an abundance of shocks, or whether most of the shocks that led to large changes in the prices of currencies and securities have resulted from changes in the demand for foreign securities.
 
Robert Z. Aliber, JPMorgan Fellow at the American Academy in fall 2002, joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago in 1965 and left the classroom in 2004 as Professor of International Economics and Finance Emeritus. Aliber has been a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, a Bundesbank Professor at the Free University of Berlin, and a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington. He has been a visiting professor at the Amos Tuck School of Dartmouth College, the London Business School, Williams College, and Brandeis University. 
Aliber has written extensively about the prices of currencies, international investment flows, banking issues, multinational corporations, international monetary arrangements, and financial crises. He has published a number of books, including Your Money and Your Life (Basic Books 1983, Stanford University Press 2011), and The Multinational Paradigm (MIT Press 1992). He has also written abundantly about the financial crisis in Iceland co-editing Prelude to the Icelandic Financial Crisis with Gyfli Zoega (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). 
 
The Lecture will be followed by a reception
Registration required by December 3, 2014
Please register online
http://www.americanacademy.de/home/program/upcoming/source-economic-turbulences
or send an e-mail: program at americanacademy.de
Limited seating available
 
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