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Fifth Workshop LACEA/IADB/UTDT in International Economics and Finance
December 8-11, 2003
Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Monday, December 8th, 2003

Government Finance in the Wake of a Currency Crises
Craig Burnside, UVirginia; Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University, NBER and FRBChicago; and Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University, NBER and CEPR.
Discussant:
Claudio Irigoyen, BCRA.
On the Empirics of Sudden Stops
Guillermo Calvo, IADB; Alejandro Izquierdo, IADB; and Luis Fernando Mejía, University of Chicago.
Discussant: Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University, NBER and FRBChicago.
Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation
Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School; Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Houston; Vadym Volosovych, University of Houston.
Discussant. Federico Sturzenegger, Ph.D.in Economics, MIT.
Tough Policies: Incredible Policies?
Alejandro Neut, MIT; and Andres Velasco, Harvard University and NBER.
Discussant: Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003.

Apertura
Gonzalo Verdomar Weiss, Director Fundación Banco Francés.
Andrés Neumeyer, Director Departamento de Economía UTDT.
 
Crisis Financieras en América Latina
Guillermo Calvo, Professor, University of Maryland.
 
¿Cómo Evitar las Crisis Financiera?
Panelistas: Andrés Velasco, Kennedy School of Government.
Pablo Guidotti, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
Craig Burnside, University of Virginia.
Ernesto Talvi, CERES.
Moderador: Andrés Neumeyer, Director Departamento de Economía UTDT.
 
¿Para qué sirve el ALCA? 
Panelistas: Adalberto Rodríguez Giavarini, ex Canciller República Argentina.
Cristina Terra, Fundação Getulio Vargas.
Patricio Meller, CEA, Universidad de Chile.
Pablo Sanguinetti, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
Moderador: Juan Pablo Nicolini, Rector Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
 
Las Ventajas del Comercio Internacional
Robert E. Lucas Jr, Profesor, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1995.
 
Palabras Finales
Juan Pablo Nicolini, Rector Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Wednesday, December 10th, 2003.

Risk and Wealth in Models of Self-Fulfilling Currency Attacks
Bernardo Guimarães
, Yale University; and Stephen Morris, Yale University.
Discussant:
Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California at Los Angeles.
 
A Recontracting Sovereign Debt Model with Trade Credit
Emanuel Kohlscheen
, Stockholm University; and Stephen O'Connel, Swarthmore College, USA.
Discussant: William Fuchs, Stanford University.
 
Hedging Sudden Stops and Precautionary Recessions: A Quantitative Framework 
Ricardo Caballero, MIT; and Stavros Panageas, MIT.
Discussant: Dave Backus, NYU.

Thursday, December 11th, 2003.

Some Implications of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. University of Chicago.
Dicussant: Jonathan Eaton, NYU.
Standstills and an International Bankruptcy Court 
Jonathan Eaton
, NYU.
Discussant: Raquel Fernandez, NYU.