Policy
Solutions to Global Economic and Financial Crises- Are We On the
Right Course?
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see the Session Background Information
and Speaker's Material
March 2, 1999
Registration 11 am-5:30
pm
Columbia Wall
Luncheon
12:30-2:00 pm
Columbia A/B
Welcome and review of events contributing to the world’s economic
woes and the rescue efforts to date.
Joel L. Prakken, presiding
NABE President
Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
Honorable Lawrence Summers
Deputy Secretary
U. S. Treasury
A View from the Congress
2:00-2:30 pm
Yorktown
The Economic and Regulatory Agenda of the New Congress
Diane C. Swonk, presiding
NABE Vice President
Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist
BANK ONE
Honorable Jim Leach
U. S. House of Representative
Chair, Banking and Financial Services Committee
The Exchange Rate System:
Can Humpty-Dumpty Be Put Back Together
2:30-3:45 pm
Yorktown
Wild swings in emerging market exchange rates wreck havoc. Can we
salvage the fixed exchange rate regimes? Should we salvage them?
What’s best—stable or fluctuating exchange rates? A panel
of experts on world currencies will address these issues and the
implications for business.
Nariman Behravesh, presiding
Chief International Economist
Standard & Poor’s DRI
Steve Hanke
Professor of Economics
John Hopkins University
John Makin
Resident Scholar
American Enterprise Institute
Is the Financial and
Banking System at Risk?
3:45-5:00 pm
Yorktown
Do unregulated financial markets encourage speculative behavior?
Is more thorough regulation necessary to prevent crises from happening?
A senior official from the financial sector will provide her insight
on these questions.
Richard B. Berner, presiding
Chief U.S. Economist
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Julie Williams
Chief Counsel
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Re-envisioning the World
Bank
4:30-5:15 pm
Yorktown
Does the World Bank have the structure to cope with global turmoil?
If not, what should be done?
Stuart G. Hoffman, presiding
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
PNC Bank Corp
Gary Perlin
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
The World Bank
Reception
6:00-7:30 pm
Residence of the Ambassador
of Japan, 4000 Nebraska Avenue NW. Hosted by the Embassy of Japan.
Remarks by Minister Hideaki Kobayashi, Deputy Chief of Mission.
Bus transportation provided.
March 3, 1999
Registration 7:00am -
3:00 pm
Breakfast
7:15-8:30 am
Yorktown
Joel L. Prakken, presiding
NABE President
Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
Monetary Policy Financial
Regulation and the Global Crises
Diane C. Swonk, introduction
Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist
BANK ONE
Honorable Roger Ferguson
Governor
Federal Reserve Board
Does the World Need
a New Global Financial Architecture?
8:45-10:15 am
Ticonderoga
We’ve had major
economic crises. Eastern Asia is crippled. Do we need a new architecture
to keep this from happening again? What reforms are necessary? What
do we need to change? Hear the view from the IMF. Listen to a critic
challenge that view
Robert J Shapiro, presiding
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
U.S. Department of Commerce
Michael Mussa
Economic Counsellor and Director, Department of Research
International Monetary Fund
Robert Litan
Director of Economic Studies Department
Brookings Institution
10:15-10:30 am
Coffee and Networking Break
Sponsored by Haver Analytics and Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
A Tale of Three Countries
in Crisis—Japan, Brazil and Russia
10:30-12:00 pm
Ticonderoga
What challenges to economic
growth and stability do they face? Will they pull themselves out?
Are they still in trouble? What policy options do they have? Experts
on these three countries will comment on what’s in store for
these economies. Are there lessons to be learned?
Brian Horrigan, presiding
Vice President and Senior Economist
Loomis Sayles & Company LP
Desmond Lachman
Managing Director, Emerging Market Research
Salomon Smith Barney
Adam Posen
Senior Fellow
Institute for International Economics
Jeffrey Anderson
Director of European Development
Institute for International Finance
Luncheon
12:00-1:30 pm
Yorktown
Consider the resiliency
of the financial system with a Wall Street guru. Is the financial
system inherently fragile?
Joel L. Prakken, presiding
NABE President
Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
Richard B. Berner, introduction
Chief U.S. Economist
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Henry Kaufman
President
Henry Kaufman & Company
Global Economic Impacts
on U.S. Industries and Regions
1:30-3:00 pm
Ticonderoga
Sponsored by the Corporate
Planning Roundtable
Richard S. Mueller, presiding
Principal
R. J. Rudden Associates, Inc.
Ross C. DeVol
Director of Regional and Demographic Studies
Milken Institute
Sara L. Johnson
Chief Regional Economist
Standard & Poor’s DRI
Briefing on Capitol
Hill
4:00-6:00 pm
Health Care Reform Proposals in the New Congress.
Sponsored by the NABE
Health Economics Roundtable and the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Location and speakers to be determined.
 Policy Seminar
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