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4th BIS Annual Conference

27–29 June 2005 | Basel, Switzerland

About the conference

The 4th BIS Annual Conference focused on "Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation". The conference proceedings were published in the BIS Papers No 27 in February 2006.

Conference materials

William White, Bank for International Settlements

Chair

Herman Baron Van Der Wee, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Speaker

Claudio Borio, BIS and Gianni Toniolo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Duke University & CEPR | presentation

Discussants

  • Marc Flandreau, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
  • Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego

Chair

Harold James, Princeton University

Speaker

Richard Cooper, Harvard University

Discussants

  • Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
  • Albrecht Ritschl, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Speaker

Ethan Kapstein, INSEAD | presentation

Discussants

  • Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics | comments
  • Peter Praet, National Bank of Belgium | observations

Speaker

Beth Simmons, Harvard University | presentation

Discussants

  • Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  • Edwin Truman, Institute for International Economics, Washington DC

Chair

Paul De Grauwe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Speaker

Alexandre Lamfalussy

Discussants

  • Peter Kenen, Princeton University
  • Yung Chul Park, University of Korea

Chair

Malcolm D Knight, Bank for International Settlements

Panellists

  • 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