MONETARY AND BANKING CONFERENCE 2008
Financial Turbulence: Impact on Developed and Emerging Economies
Posadas Room. Park Hyatt Buenos Aires.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
September 1 and 2, 2008
Program
Monday, 1 September 2008
08:30 – 09:00 | Accreditation
09:00 – 10:30 | The Global Economy and Financial System: Risks and Prospects
Martín Redrado – España | President, Central Bank of the Argentine
Republic Lucas D. Papademos | Vice-Chairman of the Board, European
Central Bank Jacob Frenkel | Chairman, Group of Thirty (G-30) and Vice Chairman, American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
10:30 – 12:00 | The United States, China and Europe: Different Instruments and Different Realities
Randall Kroszner – España | Member of the Board, Federal Reserve, USA
Hu Xiaolian | Vice President, People’s Bank of China
William White | Former Head of the Department of Economic and Monetary Studies, Bank for International Settlements
12:00 – 13:30 | Food Prices and Inflation
Stephen Cecchetti – España | Head of the Economic and Monetary Studies Department, Bank for International Settlements
José Viñals | Deputy Governor, Bank of Spain
Durmus Yilmaz | Governor, Central Bank of Turkey
13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 | Policy Challenges for the U.S. Economy
Allen Sinai – España | Founder and President, Decision Economics, Inc.
Thomas M. Hoenig – España | Chairman, Federal Reserve, Kansas City
Economic Policy Lessons from the Current Financial Crisis
Edmund Phelps | Professor, Columbia University and Nobel Prize in Economics 2006
José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria | Professor, Columbia University