27-29 June 2005
Basel, Switzerland
| Note: | The papers presented at this conference have been published as BIS Working Papers. See BIS Papers No 27 for further information. |
| 19.15 | Keynote dinner address: | Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa former member of the Executive Board, ECB |
Tuesday, 28 June
| 09.00 | Opening remarks (William White, BIS) | |
| Chairman: | Herman Baron Van Der Wee, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | |
| 09.15 | Session 1: | Central bank
cooperation and the BIS: An insider's perspective Claudio Borio, BIS and Gianni Toniolo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Duke University & CEPR (See Borio and Toniolo's accompanying slides) |
| Discussants: | Marc Flandreau, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego | |
| 11.15 | Session 2: | Almost a century
of central bank cooperation Richard Cooper, Harvard University |
| Discussants: | Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley Albrecht Ritschl, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| Chairman: | Harold James, Princeton University | |
| 14.00 | Session 3: | Architects of
stability? International cooperation among financial supervisors Ethan Kapstein, INSEAD (See Kapstein's accompanying slides) |
| Discussants: | Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics Peter Praet, National Bank of Belgium (Read Praet's observations, Goodhart's comments) | |
| 16.00 | Session 4: | The future of
central bank cooperation Beth Simmons, Harvard University (See Simmons' accompanying slides) |
| Discussants: | Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Edwin Truman, Institute for International Economics, Washington DC | |
| 17.30 | End |
Wednesday, 29 June
| Chairman: | Paul De Grauwe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | |
| 09.00 | Session 5: | Central
banks, governments and the European monetary unification process Alexandre Lamfalussy |
| Discussants: | Peter Kenen, Princeton University Yung Chul Park, University of Korea | |
| 11.00 | Policy panel discussion: | Reflections on the future of central bank cooperation |
| Chairman: | Malcolm D Knight, BIS. | |
| Participants: | Andrew Crockett, J P Morgan Chase, Jacques de Larosière, Paribas Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University Paul Volcker, International Accounting Standards Committee Yutaka Yamaguchi, former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan | |
| 12.30 | End of Conference |
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