CRISIS PROVIDED AN UNUSUAL DRIVE FOR ACADEMICS AND CENTRAL BANKS TO WORK TOGETHER

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS ACADEMICS attending an international conference on how their work can promote financial stability have stressed how universities can play an important role in helping the world recover from the recession. Indeed Dr Jean-Pierre Zigrand, Reader in Finance at the London School of Economics (LSE) told University World News at the Brussels event that there was a new, unusual drive for academics to work together with economists and central banks in the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis: "That's because they [central ...


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