Conference on International Cooperation in Times of Global Crisis: Views from G20 Countries – Delhi
Agenda

Registration

Inaugural Session

Opening Comments
Rajiv Kumar, Director & CE, ICRIER, India
Agnes Benassy, Director, CEPII, France
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director, Bruegel, Belgium

Keynote Speech - Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, India

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 1: Financial Reform: The End of International Coordination?
Chair: Shigeo Kashiwagi, Senior Fellow, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, Japan

Speaker 1 - Avinash Persaud, Chairman, Intelligence Capital, UK

• Paper: The Locus of Financial Regulation: Home versus Host [ PDF 478.8KB | 13 pages ]

Speaker 2 - Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Belgium

• Presentation: Prospects for Global Financial Regulation [ PDF 591.2KB | 9 pages ]

Speaker 3 - Aditya Narain, Deputy Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF

• Presentation: International Coordination in Regulatory Reform – Challenges and Prospects [ PDF 389KB | 14 pages ]

Discussant 1 - Andrew Sheng, Chief Adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission.

Discussant 2 - Olena Havrylchyk, Economist, CEPII, France

• Presentation: Financial Reform: The End of International Coordination? [ PDF 459KB | 16 page ]

Q & A

Luncheon Session
Chair: Jean Pisani Ferry, Director, BRUEGEL, Belgium

Keynote speech - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, President, Notre Europe

Lunch

Session 2: Trade and Investment: How to Avoid Protectionism and Foster Openness?
Chair: Anwarul Hoda, Professor and Member, Governing Body, ICRIER

Speaker 1 - Richard Baldwin, Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva and Simon Evenett, Professor, University of St Gallen and CEPR, Switzerland

• Presentation: Avoiding Protectionism and Fostering Openness [ PDF 869.5KB | 10 pages ]

Speaker 2 - Peter Draper, Trade Program Head, South African Institute of International Affairs, South Africa

• Presentation: Trade Frictions Arising from Global Imbalances [ PDF 425KB | 9 pages ]

Speaker 3 - Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director General, WTO

Discussant 1 - Sinan Ulgen, Chairman, EDAM, Turkey

[No Discussant 2]

Q & A

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 3: Global Rebalancing: What Can Be Delivered?
Chair: Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor, ICRIER, India

Speaker 1 - Yiping Huang, Professor, Peking University, China

• Paper: Cost Distortions and Structural Imbalances in PRC [ PDF 600.7KB | 17 pages ]

Speaker 2 - Heribert Dieter, SWP, Germany and Co-Director of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform

• Paper: Imbalances do matter, but how to reduce them? [ PDF 494KB | 10 pages ]

Speaker 3 - Gian-Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Assistant Director, Research Department, IMF

• Presentation: Global Rebalancing [ PDF 358KB | 15 pages ]

Discussant 1 - Ku-Hyun Jung, Senior Advisor and Former President, Samsung Research Institute (SERI), Korea

Discussant 2 - David Vines, Professor, Oxford University, UK

• Presentation: The 1938 Problem and Global Rebalancing [ PDF 516.2KB | 21 pages ]

Discussant 3 - Enrique Alberola, Executive Coordinator, International Affairs Associate Directorate, Bank of Spain.

• Presentation: Global imbalances as a public sector affair [ PDF 432.8KB | 8 pages ]

Q & A

Welcome Dinner by ICRIER

Chair: Parthasarathi Shome, Director & CE (Designate), ICRIER

Keynote Speech - Andrew Sheng, Chief Adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission

Session 4: Can The International Monetary System Be Reformed?
Chair: Carlo Monticelli, Head of International Department,Treasury, Italy

Speaker 1 - Masahiro Kawai, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan

• Presentation: Reforming the International Monetary System: An Asian Perspective [ PDF 151KB | 32 pages ]

Speaker 2 - Ilan Goldfajn, Chief economist at Itaú Unibanco, Brazil

Speaker 3 - Marcel Fratzscher, Head of Division, European Central Bank

• Presentation: The reform of the IMS: Getting the Policy Mix Right [ PDF 402.9KB | 22 pages ]

Discussant 1 - Isabelle Mateos y Lago, Deputy Division Chief, Policy Development and Review Department, IMF

Discussant 2 - Michel Aglietta, Professor, University of Paris X, Nanterre, France

• Presentation: Conference on International Cooperation in Times of Global Crisis [ PDF 686.9KB | 11 pages ]

Q & A

Keynote speech - Changyong Rhee, Secretary General of the Presidential Committee for the G-20 Summit

Tea/Coffee Break

Special Session
Chair: Agnes Benassy, Director, CEPII, France

Keynote speech - Shri. Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister, India

Luncheon Session
Chair: Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER, India

Keynote speech - Changyong Rhee, Secretary General of the Presidential Committee for the G-20 Summit Committee

Lunch

Session 5: Financial Safety Nets: How Can Regional and Multilateral Schemes Coexist?
Chair: Bruno Cabrillac, Director for Economics, International and European Relations, Bank of France

• Presentation: Financial Safety Nets: How Can Regional and Multilateral Schemes can Coexist? [ PDF 272.5KB | 9 pages ]

Speaker 1 - Daniel Gros, Director, CEPS, Belgium

• Presentation: How Can Regional and Multilateral Schemes Coexist? [ PDF 338.4KB | 13 pages ]

Speaker 2 - Valerie Rouxel Laxton, European Commission, DG ECFIN

• Presentation: Financial Safety Nets: Complementarities between Regional and Global FSN [ PDF 256.5KB | 8 pages ]

Discussant 1 - Raden Pardede, Former Chairman of Indonesian Financial Stability Forum

• Presentation: FSN : How Can Regional and Multilateral Coexist [ PDF 312.5KB | 11 pages ]

Discussant 2 - Biswa Bhattacharyay, Advisor to Dean, ADBI

• Presentation: Developing Financial Safety Net Framework-An Asian Perspective [ PDF 704.9KB | 12 pages ]

Discussant 3 - Natalia Volchkova, Assistant Professor, New Economic School and Lead Economist, Russia

• Presentation: Financial Safety Nets: How Can Regional and Multilateral Schemes Coexist? [ PDF 338.8KB | 14 pages ]

Q & A

Tea/Coffee Break

Round Table on International Cooperation in Times of Global Crisis: The Way Ahead
Chaire: Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor, RBI, India

Panelists:
Richard Baldwin, Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

• Presentation: G20 cooperation: The way forward [ PDF 254.4KB | 6 pages ]

Reza Moghadam, Head of the IMF's Strategy, Policy and Review Department
Yiping Huang, Professor, Peking University, China and ANU, Australia
Peter Draper, Trade Program Head, South African Institute of International Affairs, South Africa

Q & A

Summing Up:
Parthasarathi Shome, Director & CE, ICRIER, India
Agnes Benassy, Director, CEPII, France

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