The Politics and Economics of International Finance Research Group Meeting
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs with the generous support of the Andrew Quale, Jr. Fund
Conference Chairs:
Frankel, Jeffrey
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School.
Frieden, Jeffry A.
Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Location: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
8:20-8:50 AM: Continental Breakfast
8:50-9:00 AM: Welcome
9:00-10:20 AM: Anna Gelpern (Georgetown University Law Center), ““Sovereign Debt Contracts and Sovereign Debt Policy”
10:20-10:40 AM: Coffee Break
10:40 AM-12:00 PM: Andrew Rose (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley), “Endogenous Optimum Currency Areas: Where Do We Stand?”
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00-2:20 PM: Kenneth Scheve (Political Science, Stanford University),"The Political Economy of Taxation"
2:20-2:40 PM: Coffee Break
2:40-4:00 PM: A Dialogue on “Monetary Policy, Emerging Markets, and the IMF”
- Olivier Blanchard (Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Chief Economist, IMF)
- Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago; former Governor, Reserve Bank of India; former Chief Economist, IMF)
4:00-5:30 PM: Panel on “Liquidity in the U.S. and Global Financial System: Risks and Vulnerabilities”
- Tobias Adrian (Director, Monetary and Capital Markets, and Counselor to the Managing Director, IMF)
- Brian Leach (former head of franchise risk and strategy at Citigroup)
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Zoltan Pozsar (Director of U.S. Economics, Credit Suisse)