NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

INTER-AMERICAN SEMINAR ON ECONOMICS

 

CREDIT RISK TRANSFERS: IMPLICATIONS TO EMERGING MARKETS SOVEREIGN DEBT PRICING, REGULATION, AND CRISES

 

Sebastian Edwards and Roberto Rigobon, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 11, 2005

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 11:

 

 

 

Joint meeting with the INTERNATION FINANCE AND MACROECONOMICS GROUP

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

MICHAEL TOMZ, Stanford University

 

MARK WRIGHT, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Sovereign Debt and Defaults Bailouts

 

 

 

Discussants: CARMEN REINHART, University of Maryland and NBER

 

              FABRIZIO PERRI, New York University and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

VIVIAN YUE, University of Pennsylvania

 

Sovereign Default and Debt Renegotiation

 

 

 

Discussants: JONATHAN HEATHCOTE, Georgetown University

 

              JING ZHANG, University of Minnesota

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

JUN PAN, MIT

 

KENNETH SINGLETON, Stanford University and NBER

 

Default and Recovery Implicit in the Term Structure of Sovereign CDS Spreads

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:10 pm

Panel: CREDIT RISK TRANSFERS AND THEIR REGULATORY CHALLENGES.

 

TRISH MOSSER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

ANDREW POWELL (slides), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

 

 

 4:10 pm

Panel: CEDIT RISK TRANSFERS: A VIEW FROM THE MARKET.

 

PETER GARBER, Deutsche Bank

 

ILAN GOLDFAJN, Gavea Investment, Brazil

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 7:00 pm

Group Dinner

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

6/13/05