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wiiw Global Economy
Lecture Series |
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Wing Thye Woo, University of California at Davis |
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China's Economic Growth
and the Global Economy: Structural Obstacles to Policymaking
and Exchange Rate Adjustment
Lecture jointly organized by Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
and wiiw, 5 April 2005, 4 p.m.
Venue: Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna 9,
Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, OeNB Auditorium (ground floor) |
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Wing Thye
Woo is Professor at the Department of Economics, University
of California at Davis. He is Special Advisor for East Asian
Economics in the Millennium Project of the United Nations and
Director of the East Asia Program within the Center for Globalization
and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Wing Thye
Woo was a member of the Consultant Team to China's Ministry
of Finance that helped to design the tax and exchange rate reform
implemented in January 1994. During 1997-1998 he served as a
special advisor to the US Treasury. He founded the Asian Economic
Panel (AEP) as a joint venture of Harvard University, Keio University
and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy -
a forum of about 50 leading specialists on Asian economies which
meets twice a year to discuss economic issues that are of particular
importance to Asia. Wing Thye Woo is presently Editor of the
Asian Economic Papers and the Journal of Chinese Economic
and Business Studies, and Associate Editor of Economics
of Planning and the Asian Economic Journal. He is
also a member of the editorial advisory boards of various other
economic journals on Asia and China in particular. He was President
of the Chinese Economists Association of North America (2001-2002)
and Vice-President of the Chinese Economists Society (2000-2001
and 2002-2003), and is now a member of the Executive Council
of the American Association for Chinese Studies.
Wing Thye Woo has published over 100 articles in professional
economic journals and books on topics including exchange rate
economics and current accounts, technological innovation and
competitiveness, economic management in Asia, and competing
interpretations of China's growth mechanisms. His article 'The
Monetary Approach to Exchange Rate Determination under Rational
Expectations: The Dollar-Deutschemark Case', Journal of International
Economics (JIE), February 1985, was identified by JIE in
2000 to be one of the twenty-five most cited articles in its
30 years of history. His current research focuses on international
financial architecture, economic growth, exchange rate economics,
and the economic development of East Asia (particularly China
and Indonesia). |
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