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Title:	The Case of the Great Recession by World Bank Senior Economist Jamus Jerome Lim	Add to Google Calendar
Date:	Tuesday, November 06, 2012	Add to Other Calendars
Time:	5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Address:	242 Elliott Hall 2200 North Squirrel Road Rochester, MI 80309 Map & Directions
Contact Name:	Mohamad Karaki
Contact Phone:	(248) 370-3282
Contact Email:	karaki@oakland.edu

Oakland University’s School of Business Administration
Presents the
2012 Economics Advisory Board Fall Lecture Series

Featuring
Dr. Jamus Jerome Lim
Senior Economist, World Bank

“The Political Economy of International Financial Crises”
(The Case of the Great Recession)

November 6, 5 p.m. in 242 Elliott Hall

Dr. Jamus Jerome Lim examines the political economy of the international financial crises and focuses on the channels that led to the Great Recession in 2008. Since then, the US economy has been recovering slowly and the European countries are still battling with high debt to GDP ratios. Dr. Lim, with his professional expertise and rigorous research background, will shed light on the causes and consequences of the crisis.

About Dr. Jamus Jerome Lim
Dr. Jamus Jerome Lim is a senior Economist at the World Bank in the Development Prospect Group unit. He is also currently a Research Associate at the Santa Cruz Institute for International Economics and a research consultant for the GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group). Previously, Dr. Jamus Jerome Lim was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Centre College (Kentucky) and a Research Associate in the Regional Economic Studies department at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

Dr. Lim received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his Master of Science in Economics from London School of Economics. His research interests are International Economics, Political Economics, Development Economics, Applied Econometrics and Positive Political Economy Theory. His research has been published in a number of academic journals, including the Journal of Policy Modeling, Economics of Transition, Journal of Bioeconomics, Journal of Economic Education, and the Journal of International Development. In addition to publishing in scholarly journals, Dr. Lim has presented his research at more than 30 conferences, workshops and seminars. Last March, he received a $68,000 research support grant from the World Bank to promote his research in International Economics.