Joint Conference of the Inter-American Development Bank and
the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Americas Center

September 30, 2005
Auditorium, IDB Conference Center
Washington, D.C.

Agenda

 
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00

Banking and Macroeconomic Crisis in Latin America
Chair: Agustín García López, Executive Director for México and Dominican Republic, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Presenter: Alejandro Izquierdo, Senior Research Economist, IDB

9:45 Coffee Break
10:00

Macro-Prudential Regulation
Chair: Eduardo Fernández Arias, Regional Economic Advisor, IDB

Presenters:
Anil Kashyap, Professor, GSB, University of Chicago
Jean-Charles Rochet, Professor, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, France
Mario Catalan, Economist, International Monetary Fund

Discussant: Claudio Borio, Head of Research and Policy Analysis, BIS

Noon Lunch (by invitation only)
Moderator:
Liliana Rojas-Suárez, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Keynote Speaker:
Raghuram Rajan, Economic Counselor and Director, IMF
1:45 p.m.

Money Laundering
Chair: Vito Tanzi, Consultant, IDB

Presenters:
Thomas Naylor, Professor of Economics, McGill University
Florencio López-de-Silanes, Visiting Professor of Economics, Ecole Normale Supérieur, France

Discussant: Edwin Truman, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

3:15 Coffee Break
3:30

Policymaker’s Roundtable
Chair: Robert Eisenbeis, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Panelists:
José De Gregorio, Vice President, Central Bank, Chile
Roque Fernández, Director, CEMA, Argentina
Daniel Schydlowsky, President of COFIDE and Director of the Central Bank of Peru