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本学期为硕/博研究生开设的《东亚经济体系研究》课程，由德国发展研究院Ulrich Volz教授与刘群艺老师一起讲授。授课语言为英文/中文，授课提纲如下，欢迎大家选修！
Instructors
Dr. Ulrich VOLZ, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) & Visiting Professor, Department of International Economics and Trade, School of Economics, Peking University
E-mail: ulrich.volz (at) die-gdi.de
Dr. LIU Qunyi, Associate Professor, Department of International Economics and Trade, School of Economics, Peking University
E-mail: lqunyi (at) gmail.com
Course Description
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the East Asian economies. Current challenges of Asian economies will be given particular attention. Topics that will be addressed include: economic growth in East Asia; the East Asian trade-production network; East Asia’s role in global imbalances; the Asian financial crisis; financial cooperation in East Asia; monetary cooperation in East Asia; East Asia’s role in global economic governance; inequality in East Asia; demographic challenges of East Asian countries; FTAs and economic integration in East Asia; corporate governance; trade and economic growth; measuring economic growth of Asian economies; and climate change and the move to sustainable economics.
Ulrich Volz is a Senior Economist at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). He also teaches graduate courses in International Finance and International Monetary Relations at Freie Universit?t Berlin. Recent visiting positions include Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, Visiting Scholar at the European Central Bank, and JSPS Visiting Researcher at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. He studied economics at Philipps University Marburg, the University of Kent at Canterbury, University College London, Yale University, and the Free University of Berlin, from where he obtained a doctorate in economics. Before joining the German Development Institute in 2007, Ulrich was a Fox International Fellow and Max Kade Scholar at Yale University and a DekaBank Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics. His past work experience includes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main. He also worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for International Monetary Policy of the Deutsche Bundesbank Foundation at Freie Universit?t Berlin, and as a Consultant to KfW Development Bank in Hanoi. His research interests focus on international finance, monetary and financial cooperation and integration, open macroeconomics, financial market development, and development and transition economics. Ulrich is the editor or co-editor of several books, including Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia (Edward Elgar Publishing, May 2009), Regional and Global Liquidity Arrangements (DIE, October 2010), and Regional Integration, Economic Development and Global Governance (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2011). He is the author of Prospects for Monetary Cooperation and Integration in East Asia, published by the MIT Press in June 2010.
