'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession

Tuesday, December 1, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
(Pacific)
Philippines Conference Room
3rd floor, Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305
Speaker: 
  • Mathias Hoffmann, Professor of International Trade and Finance, University of Zurich

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Mathias Hoffmann is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the macroeconomic aspects of international financial integration and on the link between financial markets and the macro-economy more generally. His recent published articles include papers on the determinants of international capital flows and imbalances, the international transmission of business cycles, on international risk sharing and banking regulation. Prior to arriving in Zurich, he was Professor at the University of Dortmund in Germany and a Lecturer at Southampton University (UK). He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence and obtained his undergraduate education in economics and mathematics at WHU School of Management, Brandeis University and the University of Bonn.

Mathias Hoffmann is a fellow of CESifo Munich and has held visiting positions, at the University of California at Berkeley, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Keio University.

http://www.voxeu.org/person/mathias-hoffmann

http://www.econ.uzh.ch/faculty/hoffmann.html