MONETARY AND BANKING CONFERENCE 2011
Monetary and Balance of Payments Policy, Restructuring and Financial Regulation: Towards a Sustainable and More Equitable Economy
Grand Salon, Four Seasons Hotel.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
June 30 and July 1, 2011.
Program
Thursday, June 30
08:30 – 09:00 | Accreditation
09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome message
Mercedes Marcó del Pont – President, Central Bank of the Argentine Republic
09:15 – 11:15 | Post-crisis macroeconomics: new approaches and the role of governments vis-à-vis markets
Steve Keen – University of Western Sydney
Thomas Palley – New America Foundation
Thomas Ferguson – University of Massachusetts/Boston and Roosevelt Institute
Axel Kicillof – CENDA / CONICET / UBA
11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee break
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM | Policies for developing countries
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – UN
Paulo Dos Santos – SOAS, University of London
Esteban Pérez Caldentey – ECLAC
13:15 – 15:30 | Recess
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Reform of the international financial architecture and the international monetary system
Leonardo Burlamaqui – Ford Foundation
Marcello De Cecco – Scuola Normale di Pisa
Warren Coats – ex IMF
17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Global imbalances, capital movements and their regulation
Yilmaz Akyuz – South Centre
Luigi Spaventa – Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Constantinos Lapavitsas – SOAS, University of London
Friday, July 1
09:00 – 10:30 | Labour market policies and the problem of inequality
Raymond Torres – ILO
Jan Toporowski – SOAS, University of London
Martín Abeles – ECLAC
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00 | Re-regulation and restructuring of the financial system
Jane D’Arista – PERI, University of Massachusetts
Y. V. Reddy – Former President, Reserve Bank of India
Avinash Persaud – London Business School
Robert Boyer – Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
13:00 – 15:00 | Recess
15:00 – 15:30 | Presentation of the Annual Economic Research Award – BCRA 2011
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 | Panel of Central Bank Authorities: Traditional and New Mandates
José De Gregorio – President, Central Bank of Chile
Mario Bergara – President, Central Bank of Uruguay
Mercedes Marcó del Pont – President, Central Bank of the Argentine Republic
18:00 – 18:30 | Coffee break
6:30 PM | Remarks by the President of Argentina
Dr. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner