financial globalization and transitions - Harriman Institute

F ORUM:
F INANCIAL GLOBALIZATION AND T RANSITIONS
Join the organizers of Harriman Institute’s 2014-15 Core Project, Learning from Transition: from
the Local to the Global, for an open forum on “Financial Globalization and Transitions.”
A distinguished panel of experts, including the world’s leading scholars and practitioners will
explore the consequences of financial globalization for transition economies in Eastern Europe
and around the world.
The forum is part of this year’s Core Project, which aims to unpack assumptions about the path
of political, social and economic reforms in the region by critically examining the conditions for
scalability and portability of institutions. The Core Project is co-directed by Katharina Pistor
and David Stark.
Panelists:
Erik Berglof, London School of Economics and Political Science
Karen Dawisha, Miami University
Daniela Gabor, University of West England, Bristol
Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan Kirshner, Cornell University
Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University
Dennis Quinn, Georgetown University
Martin Rapetti, University of Buenos Aires
Sergio Schmukler, World Bank
Organizers:
Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law,
Columbia Law School
Igor Logvinenko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harriman Institute
Please RSVP to Igor Logvinenko, il2298@columbia.edu, if planning to attend.
4:00-6:00 PM
FRIDAY, April 17th, 2015
Jerome Greene Hall, 807
(Columbia University Law School)