Programme Part II

promoted by ESRC Debt and Development project and CSGR 

Friday, July the 13^th

1.00 - 2.30pm

Warwick/CSGR Registration and Lunch

2.30pm

Opening Address - Avinash Dixit (Princeton)

2.45 – 3.30pm

‘Bargaining, moral hazard and sovereign debt crisis’ Sayantan Ghosal (Warwick) and Kannika Thampanishvong (St. Andrews)

3.30 – 4.00pm

Tea/Coffee Break

4.00 – 5.30pm

Global Imbalances

Chair: Dennis Novy

a) 'Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances' Enrique Mendoza (University of Maryland), V. Quadrini and J.-V. Rıos-Rull

b) 'Fear and Market Failure: Global Imbalances and 'Self-insurance'’ Marcus Miller (Warwick) and Lei Zhang (Warwick)

5.30pm

Early supper prior to Stratford departure

6.30pm

Departure for evening event at Stratford-upon-Avon: Macbeth by RSC

Saturday, July the 14^th

9.00 – 10.30am

Law and Global Finance

a) ‘The Dilemma Of Odious Debts’ Lee Buchheit (Cleary Gottlieb), Mitu Gulati (Duke) and Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt University)
Discussant: Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal (Warwick)

b) ‘Public Symbol in Private Contract: A Case Study’ Anna Gelpern (Rutgers) and Mitu Gulati (Duke)
Discussant: Dania Thomas (CSGR, Keele)

10.30 – 10.45am

Tea/Coffee Break

10.45 – 11.30pm

‘Globalisation and Public Finance’ Michael Kremer (Harvard)

11.30 – 1.15pm

Round Table: Emerging issues in Law and Global Finance

Chair: Mitu Gulati (Duke)

a) Michael Kremer (Harvard)

b) Lee Buchheit (Cleary Gottlieb)

c) Anna Gelpern (Rutgers)

d) Trisha Rogers (Jubilee Debt Campaign)    

1.15 – 2.15pm

Buffet Lunch

2.15 – 3.45pm

Issues in Global Finance

a) 'Foreign Capital and Economic Growth, 1880-1913' Chris Meissner (Cambridge)

b) 'Financial Globalisation and Monetary Policy' Michael B. Devereux (UBC) and Alan Sutherland (St. Andrews)

3.45 – 4.15pm

Tea/Coffee Break

4.15 – 5.45pm

Debt Write-Downs

a) ‘A Sovereign Debt Model with Trade Credit and Reserves’ Emanuel Kohlscheen (Warwick) and S. A. O’Connell (Swarthmore)

b) ‘Optimal Sovereign Debt Write-downs’ Kannika Thampanishvong (St. Andrews) and Sayantan Ghosal (Warwick)

6.00pm

Warwick Walks (optional)

7.00pm

Warwick/CSGR Conference Dinner at Arden House

Sunday, July the 15^th

9.30 – 11.00am

Catastrophic Events

a) ‘CATalytic Insurance: the case of natural disasters’ Eduardo Levy-Yeyati (UTDT) and Tito Cordella

a) ‘Contagion in Financial Networks’ Prasanna Gai (Bank of England) and Sujit Kapadia

11.00 – 11.30am

Tea/ Coffee Break

11.30 – 1.00pm

Round Table on the Future of Global Finance

Chair: Marcus Miller

a) Eduardo Levy-Yeyati (UTDT)

b) Misa Tanaka (Bank of England)

c) Paul Blustein (Brookings Institute)

d) Enrique Mendoza (University of Maryland/IMF)

1.00 pm

Lunch

2.00 pm

End

Draft Programme in PDF format can be downloaded here