January 30-31, 2003
Washington, DC, January 30-31, 2003
International Monetary Fund
Meeting Hall A
The International Monetary Fund organized a conference on "Global Linkages" in Washington, D.C. on January 30-31, 2003, to explore how economic linkages across countries have changed in recent years and what implications these changes have for policy makers in developed and emerging markets. A main goal of the conference was to bring together researchers from academia, the IMF, and other policy institutions to discuss the policy implications of new empirical research in this area. The conference was jointly organized by Robin Brooks (IMF), Kristin Forbes (MIT) and Ashoka Mody (IMF).
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Thursday, January 30 |
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8:30am - 9:00am |
Coffee and pastries |
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9:00am - 9:10am |
Welcome and opening comments |
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9:10am |
Financial Market Comovement and Real Linkages |
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Chair: David Robinson, IMF |
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9:10am - 10:00am |
"Firm-level Evidence on International Stock Market Comovement" |
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By Robin Brooks (IMF) and Marco Del Negro (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) |
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Discussant: Kathryn Dominguez (University of Michigan) |
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10:00am - 10:50am |
"A Decomposition of Global Linkages in Financial Markets Over Time" |
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By Kristin Forbes (MIT-Sloan) and Menzie Chinn (University of California-Santa Cruz) |
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Discussant: Andy Rose (University of California-Berkeley) |
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10:50am - 11:20am |
Coffee Break |
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11:20am |
Global Linkages During Financial Crises |
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Chair: Montek Ahluwalia, IMF |
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11:20am - 12:10pm |
"The Center and the Periphery: The Globalization of Financial Turmoil" |
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By Graciela Kaminsky (George Washington) and Carmen Reinhart (IMF) |
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Discussant: Andrew Ang (Columbia Business School) |
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12:15pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm |
A Closer Look at Specific Linkages in Financial Markets |
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Chairs: Carmen Reinhart (IMF) (Before the Coffee Break) |
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Mark Allen (IMF) (After the Coffee Break) |
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1:30pm - 2:20pm |
"U.S. Investors' Emerging Market Equity Portfolios: A Security-Level Analysis" |
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By Hali Edison (IMF) and Frank Warnock (Federal Reserve Board) |
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Discussant: Robert Flood, IMF |
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2:20pm - 3:10pm |
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By John Griffin (Arizona State), Federico Nardari (Arizona State), and René Stulz (Ohio State) |
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Discussant: Steve Kamin (Federal Reserve Board) |
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3:10pm - 3:40pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:40pm - 4:30pm |
"Time Varying Synchronicity in Individual Stock Returns: A Cross-Country Comparison" |
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By Randall Morck (University of Alberta) and Bernard Yeung (New York University) |
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Discussant: John Campbell (Harvard) |
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4:30pm - 5:20pm |
"The Role of ADRs in the Development and Integration of Emerging Equity Markets" |
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By G. Andrew Karolyi (Ohio State) |
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Discussant: Sergio Schmukler (World Bank) |
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6:30pm |
Cocktails and dinner (by invitation only) |
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IMF Dining Room |
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Friday, January 31 |
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8:30am - 9:00am |
Coffee and pastries |
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9:00am |
Real Sector Comovements and Business Cycles |
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Chair: Barry Bosworth (Brookings Institution) |
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9:00am - 9:50am |
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By Jean Imbs (London Business School) |
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Discussant: Marianne Baxter (Boston University) |
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9:50am - 10:40am |
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By M. Ayhan Kose (IMF), Christopher Otrok (University of Virginia), and Charles Whiteman (University of Iowa) |
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Discussant: David Backus (New York University) |
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10:40am - 11:10am |
Coffee Break |
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11:10am |
Global Linkages over the Long Term |
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Chair: Gerd Häusler, IMF |
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11:10am - 12:00pm |
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By K. Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale), William Goetzmann (Yale), and Lingfeng Li (Yale) |
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Discussant: Yishay Yafeh (Hebrew University) |
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12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Economic Forum*: The 'Links' That Bind |
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Introduction and Moderator: Ashok Mody (IMF) |
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Panelists: |
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Randy Kroszner (Council of Economic Advisors and University of Chicago) |
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| Anoop Singh (IMF) | |
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Vincent Reinhart (Federal Reserve Board) |
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* Open to the public, IMF Auditorium R-710.
