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NBER: NBER call for papers, Inter-American Seminar on Economics

Subject: NBER call for papers, Inter-American Seminar on Economics
From: Rob Shannon (rshannon@nber.org)
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 16:33:32 EDT


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>>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>>On July 11th, 2005 the NBER's Inter-American Seminar on Economics (IASE)
>>will have a one-day meeting in Cambridge, MA.
>>
>>The meeting - which is part of the Bureau's Summer Institute - will deal
>>with "Credit Risk Derivatives and Crises in Emerging Markets." We are
>>interested in papers that analyze the different aspects of macroeconomic
>>vulnerability in emerging economies. Some of the specific issues we are
>>interested on include: (1) Credit Swaps; (2) regulation of financial
>>markets and credit derivatives; (3) currency crises and credit derivatives;
>>
>>Papers do NOT have to be restricted to the Latin American experience. In
>>fact, we would like to encourage submissions that deal with other experiences.
>>
>>Please send proposals electronically (either paper or abstract) to
>>Roberto Rigobon (rigobon@mit.edu) and Sebastian Edwards
>>(sedwards@anderson.ucla.edu) by May 18, 2005.
>>
>>If you have any questions, please contact Rob Shannon at 617/868-3900 or
>>at rshannon@nber.org.