Austerity and the domestic foundations of global imbalances

Seminar MAXPO : SCOOPS (Seminars and Colloquia On Ökonomie, Politics and Society)

Guest speaker : Peter GOUREVITCH, University of San Diego 

 Discussant: Pierre-Olivier GOURINCHAS, Sciences Po & UC Berkeley 

Peter A. Gourevitch is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, of which he is also the Founding Dean. As a world-renowned expert on international relations and comparative politics, Gourevitch specializes in corporate governance systems in a globalizing world economy, comparing differences in the way countries structure companies and their relationship to shareholders. He is an expert on international political economy with a particular focus on national responses to pressures arising from international trade and economic globalization, trade disputes among countries, and international trade negotiations. Recently he has been working on corporate social responsibility and the relationship between NGO’s, regulation and international institutions.
Read Prosessor Gourevitch’s full CV:
http://ussc.edu.au/ussc/assets/media/docs/bios/peter_gourevitch.pdf

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas grew up in France where he attended Ecole Polytechnique. He received his PhD in 1996 from MIT and taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University before joining UC Berkeley department of economics. Professor Gourinchas’ main research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. He is the laureate of the 2007 Bernàcer Prize for best European economist working in macroeconomics and finance under the age of 40, and of the 2008 Prix du Meilleur Jeune Economiste for best French economist under the age of 40. 
Read Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas’s full CV:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pog/pog_vita.pdf

 

Please make sure to register before April 12^th with Marina Abelskaïa-Graziani at marina.abelskaiagraziani@sciences-po.fr