NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

International Capital Flows, Pre-conference

 

July 15, 2004    

 

Sebastian Edwards, Organizer

 

National Bureau of Economic Research

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

      

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14:

 

 6:00 PM                       Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

THURSDAY, JULY 15:

 

 8:30 AM                       Coffee and Pastries

 

Chair: Sebastian Edwards

 

1.  Controls on International Borrowing: An Evaluation of Alternative Methods Used to Restrict Capital Inflows. 

 

Nicholas Magud (International Monetary Fund)

Carmen Reinhart (University of Maryland and NBER)

and Miguel Savastano (International Monetary Fund)

 

2. Is Trade in Securities Similar to Trade in Goods? 

 

Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University and NBER)

 

3.  Volatility of Capital Flows: Bad Policies or Bad Institutions?

 

Laura Alfaro (Harvard University)

and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Houston)

 

4. Banks, Capital Flows and International Borrowing

 

Ross Levine (University of Minnesota and NBER)

 

5. Capital Controls:  Mud in the Wheels of Market Discipline

 

Kristin Forbes (MIT and NBER)           

 

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6. Controls on International Flows and Economic Growth.

 

Barry Eichengreen (UC, Berkeley and NBER)

 

7. International Borrowing and Current Account Reversals

 

Sebastian Edwards (UC, Los Angeles and NBER)

 

Chair:  Carmen Reinhart

 

8. The Chinese Approach to Capital Inflows

 

Shang-Jin Wei (International Monetary Fund and NBER)

 

9. Korea's Experience with International Capital Flows

 

Marcus Noland (Institute of International Economics) and co-author

 

10. Chile

 

José de Gregorio (Central Bank of Chile)

 

11.   India's experience with capital flows

 

Ajay Shah, (Ministry of Finance)

and Ila Patnaik (NCAER)

 

12. Cronyism and Capital Controls: Evidence from Malaysia

 

Simon Johnson (MIT and NBER)

 

13. Argentina

 

Kathy Dominguez and and Linda Tesar (University of Michigan and NBER)

 

14. Brazil

 

Ilan Goldfajn (PUC-Rio) and Andre Minella (Central Bank of Brazil)

 

15. International Borrowing and Adjustment

 

Charles Calormiris, Columbia University and NBER

 

 5:00 PM                       Adjourn

 

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