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5th BIS Annual Conference

19–20 June 2006 | Basel, Switzerland

About the conference

The 5th BIS Annual Conference focused on "Financial Globalisation". The conference proceedings were published in the BIS Paper No 32 in December 2006.

Conference materials

William White (Bank for International Settlements) | remarks

Chair

Kazumasa Iwata (Bank of Japan)

Speaker

  • Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) | paper
  • David Leblang (University of Colorado, Boulder) | presentation

Discussants

  • Marc Flandreau (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris)
  • Harold James (Princeton University)

Speaker

Geert Bekaert (Columbia University) | paper, presentation

Discussants

  • Alan Bollard (Reserve Bank of New Zealand) | presentation
  • Sushil Wadhwani (Wadhwani Asset Management)

Chair

 Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (ECB)

Speaker

Guillermo Calvo (Inter-American Development Bank) | paper, presentation

Discussants

  • Randall Kroszner (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | presentation
  • Takatoshi Ito (University of Tokyo) | presentation

Presenter

Christine Cumming (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) | presentation

Panellists

Chair

Donald Kohn (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

Speaker

  • René Stulz (Ohio State University) | paper, presentation
  • Bong-Chan Kho (Seoul National University)
  • Francis E Warnock (University of Virginia)

Discussants

  • Philip Lane (Institute for International Integration Studies) | presentation
  • José Viñals (Banco de España) | presentation

Speaker

Ricardo Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | paper, presentation
Emmanuel Farhi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussants

  • Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard University) | presentation
  • Michael Mussa (Institute for International Economics)

Chair

Malcolm Knight (Bank for International Settlements)

Panellists

  • Vittorio Corbo (Banco Central de Chile) | presentation
  • Raghuram Rajan (IMF)
  • Usha Thorat (Reserve Bank of India)
  • Zdenik Tuma (Czech National Bank)