The Politics and Economics of International Finance Research Group Meeting

Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

Location: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Conference Chairs

Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School.

Jeffry A. Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Schedule

8:30–9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast

9:00–9:10 a.m. | Welcome

9:10–10:40 a.m. | Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School), “Trade and Capital Flows in the Twentieth Century: The Role of China”

• Background Material:

11:40–11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break

11:00–12:30 p.m. | Oleg Itskhoki (UCLA), “Exchange Rate Puzzles and Policies”

• Background Material:

12:30–1:30 p.m. | Lunch

1:30–3:00 p.m. | Erica Owen (University of Pittsburgh), “Skills, Labor, and the Political Economy of Globalization”

3:00–3:15 p.m. | Coffee Break

3:15–4:30p.m. | Policy Panel: "Global Recession?"
Catherine Mann, member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England; former global chief economist at Citibank; former chief economist of the OECD
Karen Dynan, Harvard Kennedy School and Department of Economics; former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Eswar Prasad, Cornell University and Brookings Institution; creator of the Brookings-Financial Times world index (TIGER: Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery

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