MONETARY AND BANKING CONFERENCE 2015
Money, Finance and the Real Economy: Towards Full Employment and Inclusive Development
The 2015 Monetary and Banking Conference took place on June 4 and 5 of that year, in the Versailles Room of the Alvear Palace Hotel.
Program
Thursday, June 4
09:00 – 09:30 | ACCREDITATION AND COFFEE
09:30 – 10:00 | WELCOME MESSAGE
Alejandro Vanoli – España | President, Central Bank of the Argentine Republic
10:00 – 12:00 | WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON INEQUALITY, EMPLOYMENT AND THE FOOD SITUATION
Richard Kozul-Wright | UNCTAD
Jomo Kwame Sundaram | IDEAS
Verónica Amarante – España | ECLAC
Raymond Torres – España | ILO
12:00 – 13:30 | RECESS
13:30 – 15:30 | RETHINKING ECONOMIC THEORY AND MACROECONOMICS IN LIGHT OF THE CRISIS
Marc Lavoie – España | University of Ottawa, Canada
Philip Mirowski – España | University of Notre Dame, United States
Kazimierz Laski – España | Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche, Austria
Mark Setterfield | New School for Social Research, United States
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | RECESS
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM | ANNOUNCEMENT WINNERS OF THE 2015 “DR. RAÚL PREBISCH” ANNUAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH AWARD
16:00 – 17:30 | MONEY: ITS SOCIAL ROLE AND ITS FUNCTIONS
Gianfranco Poggi – España | Università di Trento, Italy
Perry Mehrling | Barnard College, United States
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo – España | Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
Friday, June 5
08:45 – 09:00 | ACCREDITATION
09:00 – 10:45 | FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION AND THE DEGREE OF AUTONOMY OF ECONOMIC POLICIES
Kevin Gallagher | Boston University, United States
Dimitri Papadimitriou – España | Levy Economics Institute, United States
Luiz Eduardo Melin – España | International Economic Synergies, Brazil
Yu Yongding – España | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
10:45 – 11:15 | COFFEE BREAK
11:15 – 12:30 | RESTRUCTURING OF EXTERNAL DEBTS
Domenico Lombardi – España | Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
Lee C. Buchheit | Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, United States
Carlos Marichal Salinas – España | El Colegio de México, Mexico
12:30 – 14:00 | COFFEE BREAK
14:00 – 15:15 | FINANCIAL REFORM OR FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING: THE ROLE OF CREDIT
Andrew Sheng | Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong SAR, China
Avinash Persaud | Peterson Institute for International Economics, United States
C.P. Chandrasekhar | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
15:15 – 16:45 | CENTRAL BANKS’ MANDATES AFTER THE CRISIS
Adair Turner | Inet
Axel Leijonhufvud – España | University of California, Los Angeles, United States and Università Di Trento, Italy
Jan Toporowski – España | University of London, United Kingdom
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | COFFEE BREAK
17:00 – 18:00 | CLOSING REMARKS
Alejandro Vanoli – España | Central Bank of the Argentine
RepublicAxel Kicillof – España | Ministry of Economy and Public Finance of the Argentine Republic