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CASE 2009 International Conference on "The Return of History: From Consensus to Crisis", Warsaw, November 20-21 (2009-11-20 - 2009-11-21)
The thematic focus of the conference were the causes of the current global financial and macroeconomic crisis, shock transmission from developed countries to emerging market economies, crisis management, policy responses, and short and long-term consequences of the crisis both in a global and a regional scale. We are also acknowledged twenty years of post-communist transition but taking the perspective of current and future policy challenges rather than anniversary's celebration.
The global financial crisis, which started in mid-2007, forced the entire world to rethink its recent economic history, the policies adopted as well as the inherent institutional and regulatory imperfections. This thinking over might lead to a reassessment of both economic performance and development perspectives.
From the beginning of 2000s the global economy, including most of developed, developing and transition countries, experienced rapid economic growth and even bigger expansion of trade, decreasing share of population living in deep poverty combined with record-low inflation and exceptional calm on financial markets. With the global financial crisis this ‘gold’ era of prosperity came definitely to its end in 2008. Was this prosperity just a by-product of accommodative monetary policies of major central banks or were there deeper endogenous roots for this extraordinary performance (for example, effects of market-oriented reforms or global trade liberalization)? Will emerging markets be able to easily return to a high-rate growth trajectory or will they be required to launch a new round of policy reforms?
These and other fundamental questions were discussed during CASE 2009 International Conference which included 4 thematic sessions and 2 keynotes addresses. Each session will had at least two panelists and two to four commentators. Panelists and commentators represented the highest level of international expertise in the relevant topics.
The conference gathered almost 100 participants from various countries, mostly from Europe, Asia, Middle East and North America. The conference was addressed to researchers, policy experts and analysts, mostly from the academia, economic policy research institutes, international organizations and financial institutions. A limited number of invitations was also addressed to business community, policymakers and media. An international audience implies that papers, comments and discussion focused on global and European perspective rather than on any particularly country.
Before this conference, five such events were organized:
- Ten Years After: Transition and Growth in Post-Communist Countries (Warsaw, October 15-16, 1999)
- Beyond Transition: Development Perspectives and Dilemmas (Falenty, April 12-13, 2002)
- Europe after the Enlargement (Warsaw, April 8-9, 2005)
- Winds of Change: The Impact of Globalization on Europe and Asia (Kyiv, March 23-24, 2007)