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Market Discipline: The Evidence across Countries and Industries

30 October – 1 November 2003 | Chicago, United States

Agenda

Welcome
Michael Moskow, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Claudio Borio, Bank for International Settlements
W. Curt Hunter, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Session 1: Theory of Market Discipline
Literature ReviewJean-Charles Rochet, Toulouse University
Elements of Effective Discipline: Information, Incentives, Mechanisms, Legal SystemsRobert Bliss, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Regulated versus Nonregulated Industries and Private versus Sovereign Activities

Hal Scott, Harvard Law School

Discussant

Kostas Tsatsaronis, Bank for International Settlements

Session 2: Evidence of Market Discipline in Banking
United StatesMark Flannery, University of Florida
Stanislava Nikolova, University of Florida
EuropeReint Gropp, European Central Bank
Japan and AsiaMitsuhiro Fukao, Keio University
Emerging Economies

Eduardo Levy-Yeyati, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Maria Soledad Martinez-Peria, World Bank
Sergio Schmukler, World Bank

Discussant

David Llewellyn, Loughborough University

Dinner and Keynote SpeakerThomas Jones, Vice Chairman, International Accounting Standards Board
Session 3: Evidence of Market Discipline in Other Industries
Breakfast and Keynote SpeakerAnne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
InsuranceScott Harrington, University of South Carolina
Market Discipline, Agency Problems and Conflicts of Interest in Financial Services FirmsIngo Walter, New York University
Nonfinance

Clifford Smith, Jr., University of Rochester

Discussant

Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago

Session 4: Evidence of Market Discipline for Countries
Ex-Ante Discipline before CrisesNouriel Roubini, New York University
Ex-Ante Discipline before CrisesKristen Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ex-Post Discipline after Crises

Andrew Rose, University of California at Berkeley

Discussant

Andrew Haldane, Bank of England

Lunch and Keynote SpeakerMalcolm D. Knight, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements
Session 5: Current State of Corporate Governance
United StatesFrank Edwards, Columbia University
United StatesMichael Jensen, Monitor Group and Harvard University
EuropeColin Mayer, Oxford University
Japan and AsiaHugh Patrick, Columbia University
Cross CountryAndrew Crockett
Session 6: Interaction of Market Discipline and Public Policy
Accounting and DisclosureGeorge Benston, Emory University
Accounting and DisclosureMary Barth, Stanford University
Legal Framework

Charles Elson, University of Delaware

Discussant

Shyam Sunder, Yale University

Dinner and Keynote SpeakerSusan Schmidt Bies, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Session 7: Interaction of Market Discipline and Public Policy
Breakfast and Keynote SpeakerJaime Caruana, Governor, Bank of Spain and Chairman, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Can the Unsophisticated Market Provide Discipline?Gerard Caprio, World Bank
Patrick Honohan, World Bank
Supervisory ReviewRichard Herring, University of Pennsylvania
Sovereign Countries

Richard Portes, London Business School and Columbia University

Discussant

Charles Freedman, Bank of Canada

Session 8: Policy Panel
Charles Calomiris, Columbia University
Christine Cumming, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Lawrence Harris, Security and Exchange Commission
Patricia Jackson, Bank of England and Basel Committee on Banking Supervision TBA, International Association of Insurance Supervisors
Organising Committee
Claudio Borio, Bank for International Settlements
W. Curt Hunter, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
George G. Kaufman, Loyola University Chicago and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Kostas Tsatsaronis, Bank for International Settlements