East Asian Seminar on Economics
June 21-22, 2013
Wellington, New Zealand

Friday, June 21

1

Capital Controls and Prudential Measures: What Are They Good For?

Kristin Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Marcel Fratzscher, DIW Berlin
Roland Straub, European Central Bank

2

Transaction Tax and Housing Market Speculators

Yuming Fu, National University of Singapore
Wenlan Qian, National University of Singapore
Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore

3

Capital Controls in Brazil - Stemming a Tide with a Signal?

Yothin Jinjarak, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Ilan Noy, Victoria University of Wellington
Huanhuan Zheng, National University of Singapore

4

Effects of Quantitative Easing on Asia: Capital Flows and Financial Markets

Dongchul Cho, Bank of Korea
Changyong Rhee, International Monetary Fund

5

A Bayesian DSGE Model of Stock Market Bubbles and Business Cycles

Jianjun Miao, Zhejiang University
Pengfei Wang, Peking University
Zhiwei Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

6

Trade Credit, Bank Credit and Financial Crises: The Case of Taiwan

Ju-Yin Tang, National Taiwan University
Chung-Shu Wu, CIER

7

Exchange Rate Implications of Reserve Changes

Kathryn M.E. Dominguez, University of Michigan and NBER

8

Financial Disintermediation and Financial Fragility

Kosuke Aoki, The University of Tokyo
Kalin Nikolov, European Central Bank

9

A Regime Switching Skew-normal Model for Measuring Financial Crisis and Contagion

Joshua C. C. Chan, Centre for Applied Macoeconomic Analysis (CAMA
Renée A. Fry-McKibbin, The Australian National University
Cody Yu Ling Hsiao, The Australian National University

10

Rational Housing Bubble

Bo Zhao, Peking University

11

Finance at Center Stage: Some Lessons of the Euro Crisis

Maurice Obstfeld, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER

12

Preparing for the Next Crisis in the JGB Market

Tokuo Iwaisako, Hitotsubashi University