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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 12.30 | End of Conference |
