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| 8:00 - 8:50 am | Registration: Wintergarden |
| 8:50 - 9:00 am | Welcoming Remarks: James A Dorn, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cato Institute |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Keynote Address:
Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (conference paper, pdf, 26Kb, 7pp) |
| 9:30 - 11:00 am |
Panel 1: Reshaping the Global Financial Architecture and Reducing Moral Hazard
Moderator: Clive Crook, Deputy Editor, The Economist Michael Mussa, Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund Jeffrey D. Sachs, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University CREDITOR PANICS: CAUSES AND REMEDIES (conference paper, pdf, 27Kb, 8pp) William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute RESHAPING THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: A COMMENT (conference paper, pdf, 6Kb, 2 pp) Michael D. Bordo, Director, Center for Monetary and Financial History, Rutgers University INTERNATIONAL RESCUES VERSUS BAILOUTS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (conference paper, pdf, 33Kb, 11 pp) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 am | Break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 pm |
Panel 2: Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis
Moderator: Ian Vasquez, Director of Global Economic Liberty,Cato Institute Hubert Neiss, Director of the Asia Department, International Monetary Fund LESSONS FROM THE ASIAN CRISIS (conference paper, pdf, 16Kb, 5pp) Y.C. Richard Wong, Executive Director, Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University FINANCIAL MELTDOWNS AND EXCHANGE-RATE REGIMES (conference paper, pdf, 21Kb, 7pp) José Piñera, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Cato Institute THE "THIRD WAY" KEEPS COUNTRIES IN THE THIRD WORLD (conference paper, pdf, 15Kb, 4pp) |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm |
Luncheon: "An Inflation-Free Monetary Regime"
William Poole, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| 2:00 - 3:15 pm |
Panel 3: How Will European Monetary Union Change the Global Financial
Architecture?
Moderator: Mark Babunovic, Managing Director, Chase Manhattan Bank Robert Mundell, Professor of Economics, Columbia University Bernard Connolly, Executive Director and Chief Economist, AIG International HOW WILL EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION CHANGE THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE? (conference paper, pdf, 18Kb, 5pp) THE COMING OF THE EURO: INTERNATIONAL MONEY AND GLOBAL POLITICS (conference paper by Alan A. Walters, AIG Trading Group, Inc., pdf, 11Kb, 3pp) Charles W. Calomiris, Paul M. Montrone Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School THE COLLAPSE OF THE EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION (conference paper, pdf, 23 Kb, 8pp) |
| 3:15 - 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 - 4:45 pm |
Panel 4: Increasing Global Financial Transparency and Integrity
Moderator: Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr., Director of Policy Analysis, Citycorp Laurence H. Meyer, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System Alan Reynolds, Director of Economic Research, Hudson Institute THE OPACITY CAPACITY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (conference paper, pdf, 27Kb, 8pp) Randall S. Kroszner, Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business THE ROLE OF PRIVATE REGULATION IN MAINTAINING GLOBAL FINANCIAL STABILITY (conference paper, pdf, 19Kb, 6pp) |
| 4:45 - 5:45 pm |
Reception: Wintergarden
Sponsored by Crestar Bank |