Prof Michael Landesmann, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and Johannes Kepler University, Austria.

External imbalances, disparate developments in export capacity and unbalanced growth patters characterise the wider European economy (i.e. the economy of the European Union and its neighbourhood). This talk reviews the major forces that push towards divergence and discusses the possibilities of resolving the dilemmas of policy frameworks that could tackle these. A positive political economy approach will be adopted to identify conflicts of interest between national and cross-border economic interest and the possibilities of policy developments will be discussed. A development and industrial policy perspective to deal with unbalanced growth and peripherisation within the EU and in its neighbourhood will be emphasised in particular.

Speaker(s): Prof Michael Landesmann (wiiw), Antonio Andreoni (SOAS)

Event Date:

26 April 2017

Released by:

SOAS Economics Podcast