5 Jul 2014

Has Europe lost the Currency War?

Session 16

While many countries conduct exchange-rate policies, which positively affect competitiveness and investments,Europe isthe only monetary zone that does not havean exchange-rate policy. In spite of its recent strategic changes, the European CentralBank’s mission is still the control of inflation.

What is the magnitude of these exchange rates’ misalignments on investment and off-shoring by European firms? Can this be remedied by extending the ECB mandate? How could such a turnaround be included in a global governance of exchange rates, which could contribute to the control of the “currency war”?

Introduction

Athanasios ORPHANIDES

Athanasios ORPHANIDES

Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management

MIT

Biography

Coordination

André Cartapanis

André CARTAPANIS

Membre du Cercle des économistes

Biography

Moderator


Christian SCHUBERT

Foreign economics correspondent

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Biography

Speakers


Jean BEUNARDEAU

CEO

HSBC France

Biography
Kathryn Dominguez

Kathryn DOMINGUEZ

Professor of Economics and Public Policy

University of Michigan

Biography

Hans-Helmut KOTZ

Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Studies

Goethe University, Frankfurt

Biography

LEE Hye Min

Ambassador of Korea to France

Biography

Emmanuel FARHI

Professor of Economics

Harvard University

Biography

Laurent MIGNON

Directeur général

Natixis

Biography
All the speakers
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