Nowadays, there is almost no economic phenomenon that is not influenced – at least to a certain extent – by what we call “globalisation”. “Globalisation” seems to be everywhere – a search on Google yields more than 25 million hits. Evidently, the process of globalisation has many different historical, political, social, and economic facets.
Some of the economic facets – in particular, those that are of interest to central banks – are going to be covered over the course of the next two days, as highlighted in the conference programme.