Grimes Gives Talk on East Asian Monetary System at UPenn
William Grimes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania on February 27, 2018 on remaking the East Asian monetary system.
The talk was part of the University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies Colloquium on issues in contemporary East Asia. Grimes delivered a talk entitled “Remaking the East Asian Monetary System: Institutionalizing a New Order?”
Grimes said the talk was based on a paper that stems from work he did with Global Development Policy Center Associate Director William Kring under the auspices of the Global Economic Governance Initiative on a contract with the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Grimes, who has taught at Boston University since 1996, is a leading scholar of East Asian financial regionalism. His 2008 book Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism won the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and received Honorable Mention for the 2009 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. More recently, in conjunction with the Pardee School’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, he led a research project for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to develop a guide to best practices for regional liquidity arrangements.