Global Interdependence Center Quarterly Bulletin

GIC saw a great start to the new year with programs in Philadelphia, Sarasota, and our first event in San Diego, as well as conferences in Singapore and Madrid. We welcomed an impressive lineup of speakers to discuss topics such as Chinese direct investment, financial technology, monetary policy, and the economic outlook for Europe, China and the US.

The programs were covered by news outlets in the US and abroad, and interviews with our speakers were featured on TV, radio, and in print. News coverage of GIC programs and speakers is available at www.interdependence.org.

We invite you to watch the interview of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Evans by Bloomberg’s International Economics and Policy Correspondent Michael McKee at GIC’s recent Central Banking Series program in Madrid, held in partnership with the Rafael del Pino Foundation and BBVA.

The interview took place before President Evans spoke to an assembled audience of over 300 on a panel titled “Monetary Policy in a New Economic Environment.” Fellow panelists included Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, José M. González-Páramo, Executive Board member of BBVA, and Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board at the European Central Bank.

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GIC was also pleased to welcome a group of MBA students from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business who joined the group in Madrid for an exceptional networking and educational experience.

Each program in the U.S. and abroad boasted an impressive roster of economists, researchers, and business leaders from around the world. We invite you to explore the resources from each event below.

Chinese Direct Investment
Philadelphia | January 13
Program Video

• Chinese Direct Investment: Trends to Date, Outlook for Tomorrow

Payment Systems in the Internet Age
San Diego | February 6
Program Video

• What is a CBDC?
• Existing, real-life, innovation: when faxes coexist with digital currencies
• Internet Cash
• SupiPay Mobile-payment platform
• What is IoT?
• Digital Currencies and Issues Concerning Moneyness
• What History Can Teach Us About Digital Currencies

The Economic Outlook with Daniel Sullivan
Sarasota | February 17

• Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy

Central Banking Series Event
Singapore | February 20-21
Program Videos

• Politics and Macroeconomics of Populism and Its Consequences
• Investing in Mexico; a vision towards trade uncertainty
• Global Investment Outlook – A U.S. Perspective
• China’s 21st Century “Go-out Initiatives”: A Dialogue on Belt and Road and the Americas
• Outlook for China
• A New Way of Looking at Trade

Central Banking Series Event
Madrid | March 27-28
Program Video

• Will Soft Foundations and Financial Vulnerabilities Derail the Modest Recovery?
• Economics and Finance in a Two-Percent Economy
• Enterprise Introduction and the Sanford World Clinic
• Audit the Fed
• Financing Corporate Investment Along the Recovery: The Case of Spain
• Dude, Where’s My Tax Cut?
• Economic Environment and Insurance Industry
• Crude Oil Price Expectation Drivers

In San Diego: A Focus on Financial Technology

Read the full text and watch President Harker of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia deliver his speech at GIC's "Payment Systems in the Internet Age" on February 6, 2017.

In Singapore: A Serenity Prayer for Monetary Policymakers

Read the full text and watch President Mester of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland deliver her speech on "A Serenity Prayer for Monetary Policymakers" at GIC's Central Banking Series event in Singapore on February 20, 2017.

Don't miss our upcoming programs!

• Held in partnership with the Bronze Buffalo Foundation and featuring a keynote by Charles Evans, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
• GIC will also present former President Lockhart of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta with the 2017 Global Citizen Award.

• Three-day program of meetings with government and business leaders, and a day for cultural activities. Space is limited.

• Featuring Patrick Harker, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Held in partnership with Asset Management One Co, Inc.

• Held in partnership with the Deutsche Bundesbank