Monday, December 8th, 2003, UTDT Campus, Buenos Aires |
9.00 - 9.30 Breakfast
9.30 - 11.00 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.
11.15 - 12.45 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.
12.45 - 15.15 Lunch
15.15 - 16.45 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.
17.00 - 18.30 Tough Policies: Incredible Policies? Alejandro Neut, MIT; and Andres Velasco, Harvard University and NBER. Discussant: Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago. | |
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2003. UTDT Campus Miñones 2177, Buenos Aires |
Policy sessions
15.00-15.15 Apertura Gonzalo Verdomar Weiss, Director Fundación Banco Francés. Andrés Neumeyer, Director Departamento de Economía UTDT.
15.15-15.55 Crisis Financieras en América Latina Guillermo Calvo, Professor, University of Maryland.
15.55-17.05 ¿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.
17.05-17.35 Refrigerios
17.35-18.45 ¿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 (2001-2009).
18.45-19.25 Las Ventajas del Comercio Internacional Robert E. Lucas Jr, Profesor, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1995.
19.25-19.35 Palabras Finales Juan Pablo Nicolini, Rector Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. | |
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2003. Resort de Campo y Polo |
9.00 - 9.30 Breakfast
9.30 - 11.00 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.
11.30 - 13.00 A Recontracting Sovereign Debt Model with Trade Credit Emanuel Kohlscheen, Stockholm University; and Stephen O'Connel, Swarthmore College, USA. Discussant: William Fuchs, Stanford University.
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 16.30 Hedging Sudden Stops and Precautionary Recessions: A Quantitative Framework Ricardo Caballero, MIT; and Stavros Panageas, MIT. Discussant: Dave Backus, NYU. | |
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Thursday, December 11th, 2003. Resort de Campo y Polo |
9.00 - 9.30 Breakfast
9.30 - 11.00 Some Implications of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade Robert E. Lucas, Jr. University of Chicago. Dicussant: Jonathan Eaton, NYU.
11.30 - 13.00 Standstills and an International Bankruptcy Court Jonathan Eaton, NYU. Discussant: Raquel Fernandez, NYU. | |