Time: 15:00-16:30, 2012 April 13 (Friday)

Venue: Classroom 113, Guanghua Building No.1

Host: Prof. ZHAO Longkai

Speaker: Prof. Leonardo Leiderman, Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Leonardo Leiderman istheProfessor of Economics at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics atTel Aviv University, and the Chief Economic Advisor for Bank Hapoalim,the leading commercial bank in Israel. Leonardo Leiderman's published work includes more than70 articles in top-tier, professional journals and publications, and has written and co-authored 7 books. His research covers a diverse number of topics ranging from macroeconomic policy and monetary theory to internationalfinance. However, his most recent work specifically deals with inflation targeting, exchange rate regimes and capital inflows to emerging market economies.