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Claude
Nom de l'expert
MEYER

Intitulé du poste

Former Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Domaine d'expertises En

Research Interests:

  • Economic and strategic relations between China and Japan
  • China’s technological catching-up
  • China’s financial expansion and future role of the yuan
  • Commercial and financial integration process in Asia
  • China’s soft power
Biographie En

Claude Meyer has pursued a dual career as an international banker and an academic specialized in Asian economies, successively at the EHESS, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris.

He is presently a Senior Advisor of the Ifri Center for Asian Studies and a Senior Fellow at GEM-Sciences Po. He teaches International Economics at PSIA-Sciences Po and has also lectured at universities and think-tanks in the US, China, Japan and Korea. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (EHESS, Paris) and degrees in Philosophy and Sociology (both from the Sorbonne) and Japanese Studies (National Institute of Oriental Studies, Paris).

He has published extensively on China and Japan, in particular:

  • La puissance financière du Japon, Paris, Economica, 1996
  • Chine ou Japon, quel leader pour l’Asie ? Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2010. This book, translated in English, Chinese and Japanese, has been nominated for the 2012 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the American Association for Asian Studies.
  • La Chine, banquier du monde, Fayard, 2014 (translations in process). Nominated for the 2015 Turgot Prize in Financial Economics.

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Analysis from Claude MEYER
Publications
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Japon : la cure de jouvence d'Abe

Date de publication
31 January 2014
Accroche

À rebours de la stratégie européenne d'austérité et de réduction des déficits, Tokyo a fait le choix de la relance et de l'investissement pour redresser une économie mise à mal depuis vingt ans.

 

La Chine, banquier du monde

Date de publication
15 January 2014

Is the Japanese Economy a Looking-Glass on Our Future?

Date de publication
01 March 2011
Accroche

Supposedly bogged down by a drawn-out crisis, Japan currently produces as much as China.