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X Workshop in International Economics and Finance

March 2008

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Co-sponsored with Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, and the World Bank.

Program

Restructuring the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism

Mark Wright (UCLA) and Rohan Pitchford (University of Sydney)

Discussant: Johnathan Eaton (NYU)

Real Business Cycles in Emerging Countries?

Martin Uribe (Duke University and NBER) Javier Garcia-Cicco (NBER), Roberto Pancrazi (NBER)

Discussant: Enrique Mendoza (University of Maryland)

Uncertainty and Public Funds: Managing Abundance with Politicians

Pierre Yared (Columbia University) Ricardo Caballero (MIT and NBER)

Discussant: Tito Cordella (The World Bank)

Bankruptcy Law and Credit Market: A General-Equilibrium Approach

Bruno Funchal (FUCAPE Business School) Aloisio Araujo (EPGE/FGV and IMPA)

Capital Flows and Asset Prices

Gianluca Benigno (LSE) Kosuke Aoki (LSE), Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University)

Discussant: Emilio Espino (Universidad T Di Tella)

A Theory of Credit Scoring and Competitive Pricing of Default Risk

Dean Corbae (University of Texas at Austin) Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (University of Minnesota)

Discussant: Larry Christiano (Northwestern University)

Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults

Cristina Arellano (University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Narayana Kocherlakota (University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, NBER)

Discussant: Guido Sandleris (Universidad T. Di Tella)

Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory

Marco Battaglini (Princeton University) and Stephen Coate (Cornell University)

Discussant: Ivan Werning (MIT)

Solving the Country Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect: Endogenous Output Dynamics in a Model of Sovereign Default

Vivian Z. Yue (NYU) and Enrique G. Mendoza (University of Maryland and NBER)

Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors

Francisco J. Buera (Northwestern University), Joseph P. Kaboskiz (Ohio State University) Yongseok Shinx (University of Wisconsin)

Equilibrium Default

Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)and Iván Werning (MIT)

Discussant: Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)

A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation

Aleh Tsyvinski (Harvard University and NBER) Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University and NBER), Mikhail Golosov (MIT and NBER)

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