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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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