Public Lecture by Mr. Masaaki Shirakawa “Monetary Policy Challenge: Agenda for Ukraine and Experience of Japan”

Description

Speaker:

Mr. Masaaki Shirakawa is a Japanese central banker and an academician who had an amazing opportunity  to embed his academic vision into development and implementation of state economic policies in  Japan. Having been the Governor of the Bank of Japan for over 5 years, his professional achievements brought him to the 6th world’s most powerful central banker by Newsweek ranking along with FRB’s Mr. Ben Bernanke and ECB’s Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet back in 2008.

Description:

The public lecture will be dedicated to the analysis of the current economic situation in Ukraine, the level of development and management of its financial markets as an indicator of state’s prosperity, the policy of the National Bank of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance and the other state financial regulators. The key question for the lecture is how monetary policy can be fine-tuned to achieve both low inflation rate and decent economic growth, as well as to resolve the situation with excessive non-performing loans in the banking system.

Key concepts to be covered:

NBU monetary policy, practicing the inflation targeting in slowdown of inflation, economic growth, limited lending capacity in the market, financial markets, state debt and government debt mechanisms, debt management policy of Ukraine.

Language: English