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Fourth Workshop LACEA/IADB/UTDT in International Economics and Finance
August 19-22, 2001
Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS
MONDAY, AUGUST 19

"Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Rate and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina's Lessons"
Guillermo Calvo (IADB)
Discussant
: Martín Uribe (U of Pennsylvania)
"Speculative Attacks on Debts, Dollarization and Optimal Currency Areas"
Marcia Leon (Central Bank of Brazil), Aloisio Araujo
Discussant
: Timothy J. Kehoe (U of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
"Endogenous Financial Intermediation and the Real Effects of Capital Account Liberalization"
George Alessandria (Ohio State University), Jun Quian
Discussant
: Alejandro Hernández (ITAM)

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20

"Human Capital, Organizations, and Foreign Direct Investment"
Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Northwestern)
Discussant
: Hugo Hopenhayn (UTDT and U of Rochester)
"Anticipated Ramsey Reforms and the Uniform Taxation Principle: the Role of International Financial Markets"
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Rutgers University), Martin Uribe
Discussant: Pedro Teles (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
"Decades lost and found: Chile and Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s"
Raphael Bergoeing (Universidad de Chile), Timothy J. Kehoe, Patrick J. Kehoe
Discussant: Enrique Mendoza (UMD)

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21

"Short Run Pain, Long Run Gain: The Effects of Financial Liberalization"
Graciela Kaminsky (George Washington University), with Sergio Schmukler
Discussant
: Jeremy Bulow (Stanford Graduate)
"Banking on Foreigners: The Behavior of International Bank Lending to Latin America, 1985-2000"
Andrew Powell (UTDT), Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, Ivanna Vladkova Hollar
Discussant: Miguel Kiguel (Banco Hipotecario)
"On the Benefits of Capital Account Liberalization"
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Princeton), Olivier Jeanne
Discussant: Andres Velasco (Harvard)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22

"The Anatomy of A Multiple Crisis: Why Was Argentina Special And What Can We Learn From It"
Guillermo Perry (World Bank), Luis Serven
Discussant: Federico Sturzenegger (UTDT)
"Argentina's Financial Crisis: Floating Money, Sinking Banking"
Sergio L. Schmukler (World Bank), Augusto de la Torre, Eduardo Levy Yeyati
Discussant
: Ernesto Talvi (CERES)