XVI Workshop in International Economics and Finance, Santo Domingo, 2013
The XIII Workshop in International Economics and Finance took place in Santo Domingo on June 6-7, 2013.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
8.30-8.45 Registration
8.45-9.10 Opening Remarks
Pablo Andrés Neumeyer, Director Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Héctor Valdez Albizu, Gobernador del Banco Central de la República Dominicana
9.10-13.00 Sovereign Debt and Sovereign Default
Moderator: Pablo Andrés Neumeyer
9:10-10:20 Cristina Arellano (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Ban Yai, Linkages across Sovereign Debt Markets
Discussant: Alexander Monge Naranjo (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis)
Coffee Break
10:40-11:50 César Sosa-Padilla (McMaster University), Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Leonardo Martinez, Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk
Discussant: Guido Sandleris (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
11:50-13:00 Alessandro Dovis (University of Minnesota), Efficient Sovereign Default
Discussant: Pablo Kurlat (Stanford University)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14.00-15.10 Invited Lecture
Moderator: Guillermo Calvo
14:00-15:10 Manuel Amador (Stanford University), Mark Aguiar, Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath, Crisis and Commitment: Inflation Credibility and the Vulnerability to Sovereign Debt Crises
Discussant: Eduardo Fernandez Arias (Inter-American Development Bank)
Coffee Break
15.30-16.30 Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Global and Regional
Moderator: Tito Cordella
Panelists
Andrew Powell, Principal Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank
Frank Fuentes Brito, Director, Departamento Internacional, Banco Central de la República Dominicana
20:30 Conference Dinner | Pat’e Palo http://www.patepalo.com/
Friday, June 7, 2013
10.00-11.10 Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Guillermo Calvo
10:00-11:10 Ivan Werning (MIT), Guido Lorenzoni, Slow-Motion Sovereign Debt Crises
Discussant: Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)
Coffee Break
11.30-16.40 Wages, Employment and Macroeconomic Shocks in Latin America
Moderator: Guido Sandleris
11:30-12:40 Julián Messina (The World Bank), Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries
Discussant: Hernan Ruffo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:10 Marcela Eslava (Universidad de los Andes), John Haltiwanger, Young businesses, Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Employment and Output in Colombia’s Manufacturing Industry
Discussant: Maya Eden (The World Bank)
Coffee Break
15:30-16:40 Javier Garcia-Cicco (Universidad Católica Argentina), Alberto Naudon, Rodrigo Heresi, The Real Effects of Global Risk Shocks in Small Open Economies
Discussant: Andrés Fernández Martín (Inter-American Development Bank)
