A Global Economic Outlook with the IMF's Director of Fiscal Affairs, Vitor Gaspar

07/11/2023 1h 6min

Listen "A Global Economic Outlook with the IMF's Director of Fiscal Affairs, Vitor Gaspar"

Episode Synopsis

Professor Kotlikoff is joined by Vitor Gaspar, one of the world's most important economists. As Director of Fiscal Affairs for the IMF Vitor has enormous influence on IMF policy and, thereby, global economic progress. Listen as Professor Kotlikoff and Vitor cover lots of economic ground:

U.S. deficit policy
Global economic outlook
Resolving the near depression in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession
Getting the IMF to do proper long-term fiscal gap accounting. 
Much more!

Vitor's is a remarkable success story. Before joining the IMF almost a decade back, Vitor served as Portugal's Minister of State and Finance, Director General of Research at the European Central Bank, Director of Economic Studies and Statistics at Portugal's Central Bank, and Director of Economic Studies at the Portuguese Ministry of Finance. 
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