Events

Economics Symposium Series

The Economics Symposium Series aims to enhance the understanding of economics amongst policymakers, particularly on issues such as the government's role in business, taxation, subsidies, industrial policy, and the use of market incentives in public policy.

Centre for Public Economics
MTI-CSC Economics Speaker Series
Beyond Growth Metrics: Rethinking Singapore's Economic Model for the Post-Crisis World
18 February 2009

Linda Lim is Professor of Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she is also Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was a member of the executive committees of insitutes such as the Center for International Business Education and the Office of International Programs; and a faculty associate of the Center for Japanese Studies and the Center for South Asian Studies. She has also served as Associate Director of the International Institute, is a board member of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows, and a member of the President’s China Task Force, all at the University.

A native of Singapore, Prof Lim obtained her degrees in economics from the universities of Cambridge (BA), Yale (MA) and Michigan (PhD). She has authored and published many books and journal articles, and is the founder and editor of the refereed Journal of Asian Business. Besides teaching MBA courses and executive education sessions on The World Economy and Business in Asia, Prof Lim also does consultancy works for organisations and associations such as Coca-Cola, Motorola, Ford Motor Company; private think tanks, United Nations agencies and the OECD.

Centre for Public Economics
MTI-CSC Economics Speaker Series
The Product Space, Capabilities and Growth: Implications for Singapore
19 January 2009

Ricardo Hausmann is the Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000), where he created the Research Department. He has served as Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He was Professor of Economics at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) (1985-1991) in Caracas, where he founded the Center for Public Policy. His research interests include issues of growth, macroeconomic stability, international finance, and the social dimensions of development. He holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University. See Lecture Notes and Lecture Slides.

Centre for Public Economics
MTI- CSC Economics Speaker Series
The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009: Understanding it Causes, Consequences – and its Possible Cures
5 January 2009

Bradford DeLong is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley; chair of the Berkeley International and Area Studies Political Economy major; a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. From 1993 to 1995, he worked for the U.S. Treasury as a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy. While in the Clinton administration, reporting to Assistant Secretary Alicia Munnell, Prof Delong worked on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and on many other issues.

Before joining the Treasury Department, he was Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He has also been a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at M.I.T. Prof Delong has written on, among other topics, the evolution and functioning of the U.S. and other nations’ stock markets, the course and determinants of long-run economic growth, the making of economic policy, the changing nature of the American business cycle, and the history of economic thought. Please visit Prof Delong’s blog for his lecture slides and notes.

Experimental Economics: Implications on Public Policy
13 March 2008

Professor Vernon L. Smith, together with his colleagues Professor Stephen Rassenti and Associate Professor Bart Wilson, shared how insights drawn from experiments in Experimental Economics have had a profound influence on public policy debates, and how the lessons drawn can help us mitigate the law of unintended consequences. See Lecture Notes

Vernon L. Smith is currently Professor of Economics and Law and a research scholar in the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University, California. Professor Smith received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for his work in experimental economics. By devising markets and electronic trading systems, with actual participants as market actors, Professor Smith established a means of helping researchers better understand why different markets work the way they do. His groundbreaking work has led to an explosion in the application of laboratory experimental methods. Volumes of experimental papers are being published each year, and the number of laboratories is rapidly growing around the world.

Regulation and the Limits of Competition
Date to be confirmed later

This Symposium Series focuses specifically on market regulation and the limits of competition. By providing a platform for Singapore's economic regulators to share on the evolution of their policies, articulate their regulatory philosophies and exchange best practices, the Symposium will study the Singapore government's experience in regulatory and governance issues. The forthcoming Symposium will feature presentations by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of National Development, and commentaries from academics.

The Proceedings of the inaugural Symposium held on 23 March 2007 is now available [RRP: S$25, not including GST; produced by SNP International; ISBN-13: 978-981-248-175-7]. Please contact cscollege_cgl@cscollege.gov.sg if you are interested in obtaining a copy.

Symposium Papers

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