Jakob Vestergaard

PhD, International Political Economy; MSc, Economics
Senior Researcher, Head of the research unit on Global economy, regulation and development
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Personal CV

Expertise

International economics and development, international financial regulation, international science and innovation policy, political economy, economic sociology.

Selected publications

Vestergaard, J. and Wade, R. (2012). The new Global Economic Council: governance reform at the G20, the IMF and the World Bank. Global Policy, 3(3): 257-269.

Vestergaard, J. and Wade, R. (2012). The governance response to the great recession: the “success” of the G20. Journal of Economic Issues, 46 (2): 481-490.

Vestergaard, J. (2012). Disciplining the international political economy through finance, in Guzzini and Neumann (eds.), The diffusion of power in global governance: Foucault meets International Political Economy. London: Palgrave (forthcoming).

Jakob Vestergaard (2009): Discipline in the global economy. International finance and the end of liberalism. London: Routledge.

Jakob Vestergaard (2004): ‘The Asian crisis and the shaping of ‘proper’ economies'. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 28 (6): 809-828.

Selected commissioned work

2011 (with Robert Wade) 'The new Global Economic Council: Governance reform at
the G20, the IMF and the World Bank', DIIS Working Paper 2011:25

2011 (with Robert Wade) 'Adjusting to multipolarity in the World Bank: ducking and
diving, wriggling and squirming', DIIS Working Paper 2011:24

2011 'The G20 and beyond - Towards effective global economic governance', DIIS
Report 2011:04

2011 'The World Bank and the emerging world order - Adjusting to multipolarity at
the second decimal point', DIIS Report 2011:05

2007  ‘Malaysia and the Knowledge Economy. Building a world class higher
    education system’, World Bank study (Human Development Sector, Report No.
    40397), for the Malaysian Ministry of Education

Selected research related activities

Reforming the Bretton Woods Institutions conference, 2009

Impacts, responses and initial lessons of the financial crisis for low income
countries, 2010

Coordinator of the Global Economy Monday seminar series

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