Global Economy Lecture

Organized by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).

The political economy of Putin’s war in Ukraine

Speaker
Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics and Provost, Sciences Po, Paris

Introduction
Robert Holzmann, Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Chair
Robert Stehrer, Scientific Director, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)

Date
Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 4:00 p.m. (CET)

Venue
Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1090 Vienna
or online via Webex

Speaker biography
This year’s Global Economy Lecture will be delivered by Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics and Provost at Sciences Po in Paris and former chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Before that (2004-2013) he was rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. Sergei Guriev’s research interests include contract theory, corporate governance, political economics and labor mobility. He has published numerous articles in international refereed journals. Recently he published the book “Spin Dictators” together with Daniel Treisman (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Professor Guriev will discuss the causes of Vladimir Putin’s invasion in Ukraine as well as its consequences for Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the rest of the world.