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Professor Dr. Peter Bernholz, Professor Emeritus speaks on “Central Bank Policies and Government Reactions Around The Financial Crisis: Dangers And Possible Consequences”

04 Oct 2010

Professor Dr. Peter Bernholz, Professor Emeritus, University of Basel, will give a lecture on "Central Bank Policies And Government Reactions Around The Financial Crisis: Dangers And Possible Consequences" at the University of Hong Kong on October 7 (Thursday) for the Egon Sohmen Memorial Lecture 2010.

In the lecture, Professor Bernholz will discuss how the policies of the central banks and the government reaction to the recent economic and financial crisis created dangers and possible consequences.

Professor Bernholz has been a full professor, and dean, of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Basel from 1971 until his retirement.

The Egon Sohmen Foundation was established in 1987 by Helmut Sohmen in memory of his late brother, an eminent economist who taught at MIT, Yale, etc.  The Foundation is a private non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of economic research and public policy debates.  Since 1970, under the initial guidance of the late Professor Herbert Giersch in Germany, the Foundation has held international symposia, organized lectures and published a series of books on topics such as economic reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, reform of the welfare state, international migration, privatization, climate protection, globalization and unemployment.

You are cordially invited to the lecture.  Details are as follows:

Date:          October 7, 2010 (Thursday)
Time:          5:00 - 6:30pm
Venue:        Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, HKU
Speaker:      Professor Dr. Peter Bernholz, Professor Emeritus, University of Basel
Language:   English

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