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Dealing with debt

Jun
23
06:30 PM - 07:45 PM

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Insight

Thanks to his recent best-selling book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Ken Rogoff is widely regarded as one of the world’s leaders on the topic. This may explain why the main auditorium of the University of Zurich was much too small for the hundreds of people who wanted to hear what the former IMF Chief Economist had to say about the world’s current debt problems.

Read our full Insight on Continued weakness and debt write-downs by Maura Wyler, Head of Communication.

Thanks to his recent best-selling book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Ken Rogoff is widely regarded as one of the world’s leaders on the topic. This may explain why the main auditorium of the University of Zurich was much too small for the hundreds of people who wanted to hear what the former IMF Chief Economist had to say about the world’s current debt problems.

Read our full Insight on Continued weakness and debt write-downs by Maura Wyler, Head of Communication.

All eyes on Ken Rogoff in the main auditorium of the University of Zurich
All eyes on Ken Rogoff in the main auditorium of the University of Zurich
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Intro

It was a great honor for the UBS Center to present Prof. Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The public lecture took place on June 23, 2015, at the University of Zurich.

In his lecture Prof. Kenneth Rogoff explored options on how to reduce public debt in the long run. He compared debt-reduction approaches chosen in the past with potential options for the future.

Rogoff’s recent academic book "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" (joint with Carmen Reinhart) shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in both the run-up to, and the aftermath of, severe financial crises. His treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics (joint with Maurice Obstfeld) is the standard graduate text in the field worldwide, and his monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published regularly in over 50 countries.

It was a great honor for the UBS Center to present Prof. Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The public lecture took place on June 23, 2015, at the University of Zurich.

In his lecture Prof. Kenneth Rogoff explored options on how to reduce public debt in the long run. He compared debt-reduction approaches chosen in the past with potential options for the future.

Prof. Kenneth Rogoff
Prof. Kenneth Rogoff

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Speaker

Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Prof. Kenneth Rogoff
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Prof. Kenneth Rogoff

Venue

University of Zürich

Rämistrasse 71, Aula, KOL-G-201, 8006 Zurich
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