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Dollars, Debt and Deficits - 60 Years after Bretton Woods

Dollars, Debt and Deficits - 60 Years after Bretton Woods

14 – 15 June 2004
Madrid

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On 14-15 June, the Banco de España and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) co-hosted this conference in Madrid to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Bretton Woods Agreements.

Prestigious national and foreign academics, high-ranking politicians and experts from international and private-sector institutions participated in the Conference, and exchanged views on several of the main themes pertaining to our present-day monetary and financial system. Specifically, discussions focused on public debt, its link to macroeconomic growth and its sustainability, external deficits, crisis-resolution strategies and exchange rates and exchange-rate regimes.

The opening ceremony was presided by Rodrigo Rato, Managing Director of the IMF, Pedro Solbes, Second Vice-President of the Government and Minister of the Economy and Finance, and Jaime Caruana, Governor of the Banco de España.

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Programme (102 KB)

Presentations

14 June 2004

09.00 - 10.00

Opening remarks

Rodrigo Rato (Managing Director, International Monetary Fund) Opens in a new window

Pedro Solbes (Second Vice President of the Spanish Government and Minister for Economy and Finance) File PDF: Opens in a new window (100 KB)

Jaime Caruana (Governor, Banco de España) File PDF: Opens in a new window (31 KB)

10.00 - 11.30

Session I. Global imbalances

Chair: José Viñals (Director General of International Affairs, Banco de España)

"A map to the revived Bretton Woods end game: direct investment, rising real wages and the absorption of excess labor in the periphery"
Michael Dooley (University of California, Santa Cruz and Deutsche Bank) and Peter Garber (Deutsche Bank)
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"The dynamics of the US net foreign liabilities: an empirical characterization"
Giancarlo Corsetti (European University Institute and University of Rome III) and Panagiotis Konstantinou (University of Rome III)
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Discussant: Jaume Ventura (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) (24 KB)

12.00 - 13.30

Session II. Exchange rate issues

Chair: Raghuram Rajan (Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, IMF)

"Financial globalization and exchange rates"
Philip Lane (IIIS/Trinity College Dublin and CEPR) and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (IMF)
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"What makes balance sheet effects detrimental for the country risk premium?"
Juan C. Berganza and Alicia García Herrero (Banco de España)
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    Presentation (155 KB)

Discussant: Daniel Cohen (University of Paris)

13.30 - 15.15

Lunch

Speaker: Agustín Carstens (Deputy Managing Director, IMF) File PDF: Opens in a new window (37 KB)

15.15 - 16.45

Session III. Debt in emerging economies

Chair: Miguel Savastano (Division Chief, IMF)

"Fiscal solvency and macroeconomic uncertainty in emerging markets: the tale of the tormented insurer"
Enrique Mendoza (University of Maryland and NBER)
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"Currency mismatch, uncertainty and debt structure"
Matthieu Bussiere and Marcel Fratzscher (ECB)
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Discussant: Carmen Reinhart (University of Maryland) File PPS: Opens in a new window (225 KB)

17.00 - 18.30

Panel: Global imbalances and exchange rates - present and future

Chair: Agustín Carstens (Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund)

Stanley Fischer (Vice Chairman, Citigroup)

Malcolm Knight (General Manager, BIS)

Ruogu Li File PPS: Opens in a new window (1 MB) (Deputy Governor, People´s Bank of China) (1 MB)

15 June 2004

08.30 - 10.00

Session IV. The role of the IMF

Chair: Hervé Hannoun (Deputy Governor, Banque de France) File PDF: Opens in a new window (37 KB)

"A model of the IMF as a coinsurance arrangement"
Ralph Chami and Sunil Sharma (International Monetary Fund)
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"Monitoring international borrowers: the IMF's role in blank and bond markets"
Kennth Kletzer (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Ashoka Mody (International Monetary Fund)
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Discussant: Lorenzo Bini-Smaghi (Director General, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy) File PDF: Opens in a new window (26 KB)

10.30 - 12.00

Session V. Innovations in private and multilateral lending

Chair: Jaime Caruana (Governor, Banco de España)

"Dollar, debts and the IFIs: de-dollarizing multilateral credit"
Eduardo Levy-Yeyati (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)
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"Optimal collective action clause threstholds"
Adrian Penalver (Bank of England)
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