VIII Summer School (2005)

Redefining the role of international economics organisations:
Poverty, debt, trade and transition

Preliminary Schedule

July 26 | 27 | 28 | 29

 

July 26th, 2005

8:30	Registration
9:00	The Internacional Economic Organizations: Issues , Challenges, and Plan for the Course Ricardo Lago Florida International University, former official of the EBRD, IADB, and World Bank
10:00	Multilateral development banks: What the do and what should they do? [Paper] Willem Buiter Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development & London School of Economics
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	New Financial architecture: proposals for reform Anne Sibert [Paper] Head of the School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck College, London.
12:15	Defining fiscal and debt sustainability: analytics and IMF practice Willem Buiter [Paper]
13:30	Lunch
15:00	Economic Policy in Cuba: Approaching the Crossroads Ernesto Hernandez-Cata [Paper] John Hopkins University and former IMF head negotiator with Russia.
15:45	Contributed paper: The Determinants of Ownership Costs after privatization: the case of Russia Carsten Sprenger [Paper] Universitat Pompeu Fabra

July 27th, 2005

9:00	The WTO , the Doha Round and beyond lessons from The World Bank’s multi-country empirical study on Trade Liberalization Demetrios Papageorgiou [Paper] Managing Director Rubicon Capital and former World Bank Senior Official
10:00	Volatility to external shocks in small open developing economies: how can the IFIs help ? Edgardo Favaro [Paper] Head of Growth Department, The World Bank
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Economic Policy, Transition and the Role of the IFIs. An Eyewitness View Ernesto Hernandez-Cata [Paper] John Hopkins University , former IMF head negotiator with Russia, and President of ASCE
12:15	Croatia's Transition: Stabilization, Privatization, Debt Restructuring, EU Accession. What Role have the Multilaterals Played? [Paper] Boris Vujcic Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Croatia and Professor University of Zagreb
13:30	Lunch
14:45	Poverty Trends, Policies, and Programs -Drawing on Peru's Experience and International Financial Institution Practice ¦ Architecture ¦ Proposals for Reform Javier Iguiñiz [Paper] Chairman of the Economics Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru , Lima
15:45	Contributed paper: New patters of trade, off-shoring, and migration in the enlarged European Union Helena Marques [Paper] Lecturer, University of Loughborough (UK)

July 28th, 2005

9:00	Economic Reform, Poverty and the Multilateral Development Institutions Paulina Beato Senior Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank
10:00	Managing the Argentine Financial Crisis - 2002 Mario I. Blejer [Paper] Director Central Banking Studies Department, Bank of England, former Governor of Central Bank of Argentina and IMF official and Professor of the Hebrew University
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	The Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative of the IMF and the World Bank, ups, downs, past and future Piroska Nagy Senior Official of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, and the IMF, Washington DC.
12:15	Promoting Transition from Plan to Market in Central and Eastern Europe: the Role of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Kurt Geiger, Head of the Financial Institutions Group of the EBRD
13:30	Lunch
14:45	The Export Credit Agencies, Bilateral Debt Defaults and Paris Club Debt Restructurings Joaquin de la Herran Chief Executive Officer of Spain Export Insurance Agency (CESCE) and former IMF Official
15:45	Contributed paper: Who’s afraid of Globalization? Academic and Political discourses on the Internationalization of the Economy and Redistribution Maria Jimenez Buedo [Paper] European University Institute
16:15	Contributed paper: A two step approach to assess the costs of sovereign defaults Gisella Chiang and Francisco Coronado [Paper] Universitat Pompeu Fabra

July 29th, 2005

9:00	Romania’s Transition and Accession to the European Union: How much have the Multilateral Institutions Helped? Cristian Popa Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania
10:00	Round Table on Redefining the Role of the International Economic Organizations and on Resolution of Sovereign Defaults Beato, Blejer, de la Dehesa, Favaro, Geiger, Iguiniz, Hernandez-Cata, Lago, Papageorgiou, Popa and Vujcic
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Questions and Answers and General Debate Session: Active Participation of Students
12:15	Reform of the International Institutions wrap-up: tentative conclusions Ricardo Lago and Mario I. Blejer
13:30	Lunch
15:00	Keynote closing address: Development challenges and reform agenda of the International Economic Institutions? Enrique Iglesias President of the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington Michel Camdessus Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Guillermo de la Dehesa (moderator) Chairman of the Center for Economic Policy Research (London)

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