Bewältigung von Finanzkrisen: Lehren aus Japans zwei verlorenen Jahrzehnten.

The Munich-Summit-associated seminar series entitled “Summit Lectures” is to be held before the Summit itself and aimes at discussing the main theme of the year’s Munich Economic Summit. The Summit Lecture will provide insights gained from Japan’s financial crisis in the 1990s that could prove useful in mending the world’s ailing financial markets.

Speakers: Yuji Osawa (Chief Representative of the Bank of Japan, Frankfurt), Franz Waldenberger (Professor for Japanese Economy at the Japan Centre and the Faculty of Business at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich), Hans-Werner Sinn (Moderator) (Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich;
President, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich), Jürgen Chrobog (Seminar Opening) (Chairman of the Board, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Munich and Berlin)