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Third Workshop on Emerging Markets

2425 November 2005
Madrid

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The Third Workshop on emerging markets was held at the Banco de España in Madrid on 24-25 November 2005. Gathered together at the workshop were central bank economists from the euro area, the new EU members and, for the first time, from Latin America. The workshop was structured in seven sessions comprising twenty papers, which explored varied issues of interest for emerging markets, such as inflation dynamics, monetary policy rules and transmission mechanisms, macroeconomic vulnerabilities, capital flows and financial crises. The welcome address was given by José Viñals, Director General of the Banco de España, who remarked on the importance of bringing together central bankers from a varied number of countries and with very different economic environments in a workshop that has become a fruitful framework for discussing research issues of relevance for emerging market economies.

Presentations

24 November 2005
 
09.15 - 09.30
Welcome address

José Viñals (Banco de España)

09.30 - 11.00
Session I: Inflation dynamics and monetary policy

Chair: Peter Mooslechner (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

"An alternative approach to measuring the output gap" File DOC: Opens in a new window (362 KB). Juraj Zeman (Národná banka Slovenska)

"Money and prices in Estonia" File PDF: Opens in a new window (255 KB). Aurelijus Dabusinskas (Eesti Pank)

"Does information matter? (for how interest rates and exchange rates comove)" File PDF: Opens in a new window (352 KB). Marcelo Sánchez (European Central Bank)

Discussant: Antonio Millaruelo (Banco de España)

11.30 - 12.45
Session II: credit growth and business cycle co-movements

Chair: David López Salido (Banco de España)

"Credit growth in central and eastern Europe: emerging from financial repression to new (over) shooting stars?" File PDF: Opens in a new window (333 KB). Balazs Egert (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

"Interactions between business, credit and interest rate cycles: a convergence or divergence? A comparison between Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and the Euro Area" File PDF: Opens in a new window (694 KB). Rafal Kierzenkowski (Banque de France) 

Discussant: Marina Vasjukova (Latvijas Banka)

14.30 - 16.00
Session III: Capital flows to emerging market economies

Chair: Paul Butzen (Banque Nationale de Belgique)

"Determinants of spreads on sovereign bank loans: the role of credit history" File PDF: Opens in a new window (289 KB). Peter Benczúr (Magyar Nemzeti Bank)

"Estimating the determinants of capital flows to emerging market economies: a maximum-likelihood disequilibrium approach” File PDF: Opens in a new window (64 KB). Guillermo Felices (Bank of England)

"What kind of capital flows does the IMF catalyze and when? File DOC: Opens in a new window (2 MB)". Alicia García-Herrero (Banco de España)

Discussant: Thomas Jensen (Danmarks Nationalbank)

16.15 - 17.45
Session IV: Macroeconomic vulnerabilities

Chair: Ágnes Csermely (Magyar Nemzeti Bank) 

"Financial openness and macroecnomic volatility in emerging market economies" File PDF: Opens in a new window (353 KB). Massimiliano Pisani (Banca d´Italia)

"Debt sustainability and procyclical fiscal policies in Latin America" File PDF: Opens in a new window (347 KB). Enrique Alberola (Banco de España)

"The determinants of "domestic" original sin in emerging economies" File PDF: Opens in a new window (299 KB). Arnaud Mehl (European Central Bank)

Discussant: Iikka Korhonen (Suomen Pankki)

25 November 2005
 
09.00 - 10.30
Session V: External accounts and exchange rates

Chair: Alfred De Marco (Central Bank of Malta)

"Is the FX derivatives market effective and efficient in reducing currency risk? Some evidence, with focus on Chile" File PDF: Opens in a new window (468 KB). Jorge Selaive (Banco Central de Chile)

"The effectiveness of discretionary intervention by the Banco de la Republica on the foreign exchange market" File DOC: Opens in a new window (301 KB). Jorge Toro Córdoba (Banco Central de la República)

"Trade balances of the Central and Eastern European EU member states and the role of FDI" File PDF: Opens in a new window (292 KB). Sabine Herrmann (Deutsche Bundesbank)

Discussant: Roland Beck (European Central Bank)

10.45 - 12.15
Session VI: Financial crises

Chair: Jorge Toro (Banco Central de la República)

"A spatial approach to modelling contagion among emerging economies" File PDF: Opens in a new window (139 KB). George Hondroyannis (Bank of Greece)

"Do migrants' remittances reduce the probabililty of financial crises in emerging markets?" File PDF: Opens in a new window (480 KB). Matteo Bugamelli (Banca d´Italia)

"A model for the analysis of the Paris Club debt buyback at par value" File DOC: Opens in a new window (756 KB). Arnaud Manas (Banque de France) 

Discussant: Juan Carlos Berganza (Banco de España)

12.30 - 14.00
Session VII: Monetary and exchange rate transmission mechanisms

Chair: Santiago Fernández de Lis (Banco de España)

"Looking for the optimal policy rule and optimal forecast horizon. The case of Poland" File PDF: Opens in a new window (788 KB). Jan Przystupa Narodowy (Bank Polski)

"Non-linear pass-through of the exchange rate: a Phillips curve model with threshold for Brazil" File PDF: Opens in a new window (314 KB). Arnildo da Silva (Banco Central do Brasil)

"Exchange rate pass-through in CIS countries" File PDF: Opens in a new window (173 KB). Iikka Korhonen (Suomen Pankki)

Discussant: Fernando Avalos (Banco Central de la República Argentina)

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