15th BIS Annual Conference
24 June 2016
24 June 2016, Palace Hotel, Lucerne, Switzerland
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Opening remarks |
Jaime Caruana, Bank for International Settlements | |
| Session 1: | International prices, exchange rates and growth | |
| Chair: | Haruhiko Kuroda, Bank of Japan | |
| Author: | Gita Gopinath, Harvard University (paper) (presentation) | |
| Discussants: | Philip Lane, Central Bank of Ireland (presentation) Richard Baldwin, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (presentation) |
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| Session 2: | Inequality and globalisation | |
| Chair: | Raghuram Rajan, Reserve Bank of India | |
| Author: | François Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics (presentation) | |
| Discussants: | Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley (presentation) Raquel Fernández, New York University (presentation) |
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| Session 3: | Financial structure and economic growth | |
| Chair: | Stefan Ingves, Sveriges Riksbank | |
| Author: | Thomas Philippon, New York University, Stern School of Business (paper) (presentation) | |
| Discussants: | Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute Ross Levine, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (presentation) |
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| Session 4: | Population ageing, debt and economic growth | |
| Chair: | Stanley Fischer, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |
| Author: | Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics (paper) (presentation) | |
| Discussants: | Masaaki Shirakawa, Aoyama Gakuin University (presentation) Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley (presentation) |
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| Wrap-up panel: | Long term challenges for monetary policy/central banks | |
| Chair: | Guillermo Ortiz, BTG Pactual Mexico | |
| Panellists: | Jeffrey Sachs, the Earth Institute, Columbia University (cancelled) Kevin Warsh, Hoover Institution and Stanford Graduate School of Business |
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