The
World Economy in the 21st Century
Graduate School, Yale University
Department of Economics Reunion
April 16–18, 1999 |
| Friday, April
16 |
| 4:00-5:30 |
PANEL 1: Economic Development,
Economic Growth and International Trade
Moderator: Christopher Udry, 1991 Ph.D., Professor of Economics,
Yale University |
Nancy Birdsall, 1979 Ph.D., Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
"Globalization and the
Developing Countries: The Inequality Risk" |
| Jonathan Conning, 1996 Ph.D., Williams College |
| Mark Gersovitz, 1975 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University |
Terry Sicular, 1983 Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
"Investment vs.
Institutional Transformation to Promote Growth: Perspectives from China" |
| John Whalley, 1973 Ph.D., University of Western Ontario |
|
| 6:30 |
RECEPTION AND DINNER
Janet Yellen, 1971 Ph.D., Chair, Council of Economic Advisers to the
President
"Yale Economics in Washington" |
| Saturday,
April 17 |
| 9:00-10:30 |
PANEL 2: The United States Economy
Moderator: William Brainard, 1963 Ph.D., Arthur M. Okun, Professor of
Economics Yale University |
Edward Gramlich, 1965 Ph.D., Federal Reserve System
"Macroeconomics Then and Now" |
Van Doorn Ooms, 1965 Ph.D., Committee for Economic Development
"The American Economy" |
Edmund Phelps, 1959 Ph.D., Columbia University
"Roundtable on the American
Economy" |
Jerome Stein, 1955 Ph.D., Brown University
"International Finance and
Debt" |
Thomas Synnott III, 1968 Ph.D., U.S. Trust Company of New York
"Comments" |
|
| 11:00-12:30 |
PANEL 3: Are We in a Global
Economic Crisis?
Moderator: Giuseppe Moscarini, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale
University |
Guillermo Calvo, 1974 Ph.D., University of Maryland
"On dollarization"
"Understanding the Russian
Virus with Special Reference to Latin America"
"Capital Flows: Emerging Issues" |
Jorge DeMacedo, 1979 Ph.D., University of Lisbon
"Financial Crises: A
Eurocentral Perception" |
Barry Eichengreen, 1979 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
"Are We in a Global
Economic Crisis?" |
| Joao Sayad, 1976 Ph.D., University of Sao Paulo |
Edwin Truman, 1967 Ph.D., Federal Reserve System
"Are We in a Global Economic
Crisis?" |
|
| 12:30-2:00 |
LUNCH
José Antonio Ocampo, 1976 Ph.D., United Nations Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean
"Consensus and Divergence on
International Financial Reform" |
| 2:00-3:30 |
PANEL 4: Labor and Capital Markets
Moderator: Jenny Hunt, 1995 J.D., Associate Professor of Economics,
Yale University |
William Cline, 1969 Ph.D., Institute of International Finance
"Trade and Income
Distribution: The Debate and New Evidence" |
Douglas Diamond, 1980 Ph.D., University of Chicago
"Notes on Talk" |
Koichi Hamada, 1965 Ph.D., Yale University
"A Tale of Two Cities:
Jakarta and New York" |
| Dan Hamermesh, 1968 Ph.D., University of Texas |
Frank Levy, 1969 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Comments" |
| Guillermo Mondino, 1991 Ph.D., IEERAL, Argentina |
|
| 3:30-6:30 |
FREE TIME |
| 6:30 |
RECEPTION AND DINNER
Jaime Serra, 1979 Ph.D., Former Cabinet Minister for Finance of Mexico |
| Sunday,
April 18 |
| 9:00-10:30 |
PANEL 5: Economic History: What
Does it Have to Teach Us?
Moderator: Gustav Ranis '65 Ph.D., Frank Altschul Professor of
International Economics and Director, Yale Center for International an Area Studies |
Jan de Vries, 1970 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
"Comments" |
Carol Heim, 1982 Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
"Comments" |
Margaret Levenstein, 1991 Ph.D., University of Michigan
"Comments" |
Joel Mokyr, 1971 Ph., University of Michigan
"Is There a Theory of Economic
History?" |
Gary Saxonhouse, 1971 Ph.D., University of Michigan
"Japan's Fiscal Past and
Economic Future" |
|
| 11:00-12:30 |
PANEL 6: Innovation, Technological
Progress and Competition
Moderator: T.N. Srinivasan, 1962 Ph.D., Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor
Economics and Chair, Economics Department, Yale University |
Stanley Besen, 1964 Ph.D., Charles River Associates
"Innovation, Competition, and
the Theory of Network Externalities" |
Richard Levin, 1974 Ph.D., Yale University
"Remarks" |
Paul MacAvoy, 1960 Ph.D., Yale University
"Fragmentation and Synthesis
in the Economics of Industries" |
| Alan Sykes, 1982 J.D., 1987 Ph.D., University of Chicago |
Sidney Winter, 1964 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
"Remarks" |
|
| 12:30 |
INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS LUNCH |
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