JIMFconference

3rd Annual JIMF Conference at UCSC

The Emerging Global Financial Architecture: What's New and What's Old?

May 1 & 2, 2009
University Center, Alumni Room, UC Santa Cruz

Organized by: Joshua Aizenman (SCCIE), Reuven Glick (SFFRB) & James Lothian (JIMF)

Sponsored by the JIMF, FRB of SF and SCCIE-UCSC

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Conference Agenda

Day 1
Friday, May 1, 2009 UCSC University Center Alumni Room

Session I Chair: Michael Hutchison (UC Santa Cruz - SCCIE Director)
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:15am Welcoming Remarks
9:15-10:15am Andrew Rose (UC Berkeley)
"Does Inflation Targeting Deliver Macroeconomic Stability"
Discussant: James Lothian (Fordham University)
10:15-10:30am Coffee Break
10:30-11:30pm Michael Hutchison (UC Santa Cruz), Mahir Binici (UC Santa Cruz) and Martin Schindler (IMF)
"Controlling Capital? Legal Restrictions and the Asset Compostition of International Financial Flows
Discussant: Clas Whilborg (Chapman University)
11:30-12:30pm Joshua Aizenman (UC Santa Cruz), Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin), Hiro Ito (Portland State University)
"The Emerging Global Financial Architecture - tracing and evaluating the new patterns of Trilemma's configurations"
Discussant: Helen Popper (Santa Clara University)
12:30-2:00pm Lunch

Session II Chair: Ken Kletzer (UC Santa Cruz - Econ. Dept. Chair)
2:00-3:00pm Michael Bordo (Rutgers University), Harold James (Princeton University & European University Institute)
"The Long-running Quest for IMF Reform"
Discussant: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
3:00-3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15-4:15pm Sebastian Edwards (UC Los Angeles)
"The Transmission of Global Financial Turmoil to Emerging Markets"
Discussant: Reuven Glick (SF FRB)

4:30-5:30pm  Reception (University Center Rotunda, Bar, Lanai)
5:30-8:00pm  Dinner (College 9/10 Multi-purpose Room)
*Keynote Address by Maurice Obstfeld (UC Berkeley - Class of 1958 Professor of Economics) "The Immoderate World Economy"

Day 2
Saturday, May 2, 2009 UCSC University Center Alumni Room

Session III Chair: Yin-Wong Cheung (UC Santa Cruz)
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Chris Meissner (UC Davis), Michael Bordo (Rutgers University)
"Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth: A Long Run Exploration"
Discussant: Mark Spiegel (SF FRB)
10:00-10:15am Coffee Break
10:15-11:15am Oscar Jorda (UC San Diego, Alan Taylor (UC Davis)
"The Carry Trade and the Real Exchange Rate: Nothing to Fear but FEER itself"
Discussant: Eric Fisher (California State Polytechnic University)
11:15-12:15pm Zhiwei Zhang (IMF), Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University)
"Does the Global Fireman Inadvertently Add Fuel to the Fire? New Evidence from Institutional Investors Response to IMF Program"
Discussant: Michael Melvin (Barclays Global Investors)

12:15-12:30pm Closing Remarks
12:30pm Lunch