Inter-american Seminar on Economics

STRENGTHENING GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS


ORGANIZERS:

Sebastian Edwards - NBER
Márcio Garcia - Department of Economics - PUC-Rio

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

 

PROGRAM

  

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st                        
Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões - Rua Visconde Silva, 52 – Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro

 

5:00 PM

Welcome and opening remarks

5:30 PM

Inaugural lecture

Chair: Rogério Werneck (PUC-Rio)
Anne Krueger (IMF, Stanford University, NBER)

Mutual reinforcement: economic policy reform and financial market strength

7:00 PM

Cocktail

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd
RDC, PUC-Rio – Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225 – Gávea – Rio de Janeiro

 

8:30 AM

Registration

9:00 AM

Session 1

Finance and Trade

Chair: TBA

 

Joshua Aizenman (University of California at Santa Cruz and NBER)

Endogenous financial and trade openness in a volatile world

 

Comments:

Maria Cristina Terra (EPGE)

Thierry Verdier (PSE)

 

10:15 AM

Coffee Break

 

10:45 AM

Discussion Panel

The revival of populism and economic policy in Latin American Countries

Chair: Pedro Malan (PUC-Rio)*


Panelists:

Sebastian Edwards (UCLA and NBER)

Albert Fishlow (Columbia U. and NBER)

Dionisio Carneiro (PUC-Rio)

 

1:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:30 PM

Session 2

Capital Flows and Crises

Chair: Afonso Bevilaqua (BCB and PUC-Rio)

 

Márcio Garcia (PUC-Rio)

Ineffective controls on capital inflows under sophisticated financial markets: Brazil in the nineties

 

Comments:

Gustavo Franco (PUC-Rio)

Marcelo Abreu (PUC-Rio)

 

3:45 PM

Sebastian Edwards (University of California at Los Angeles and NBER)

Financial openness, crises and output losses

 

Comments:

Ilan Goldfajn (PUC-Rio)

Marcelo Muinhos (Banco Central do Brasil)

 

5:00 PM

Coffee Break

 

5:30 PM

Session 3

Global Financial Integration

Chair: TBA

 

Viviana Fernandez (Universidad de Chile)

The international CAPM and a wavelet-based decomposition of value at risk

 

Comments:

Marcelo Medeiros (PUC-Rio)

Caio Ibsen (IBMEC)

 

6:45 PM

Sergio Schmukler (The World Bank)

Internationalization and stock market liquidity

 

Comments:

Ugo Panizza (IADB)

Eduardo Loyo (IMF)

 

8:00 PM

Cocktail

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3rd
RDC, PUC-Rio – Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225 – Gávea – Rio de Janeiro

 

9:00 AM

Session 4

Credit

Chair: TBA

 

Anyl Kashyap (The University of Chicago and NBER)

Zombie lending and depressed restructuring in Japan


Comments:

Vinicius Carrasco (PUC-Rio)
Walter Novaes (PUC-Rio)

 

10:15 AM

João Manoel Pinho de Mello (PUC-Rio)

Judicial risk and creditor expropriation: micro evidence from Brazilian payroll loans


Comments:

Renato Flôres (EPGE/FGV)

Beny Parnes (BBM and PUC-Rio)

 

11:30 AM

Coffee Break

 

12:00 PM

Session 5

Economic Policy in Emerging Markets

Chair: Daniel Gleizer (Unibanco)

 

Eduardo Levy-Yeyati (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)

Liquidity management in a partially dollarized economy


Comments:

Marco Bonomo (EPGE)

Alejandro Werner (Subsecretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico do México)

 

1:15 PM

Barry Eichengreen (University of California at Berkeley and NBER);

Sudden stops and IMF programs


Comments:

Edmar Bacha (BBA-Itaú and IEPE/CdG)

Affonso Celso Pastore (ACPastore & Associados)

 

2:30 PM

Closing remarks

 

2:45 PM

Adjourn

 


* To be confirmed.