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REGIONAL INTEGRATION NETWORK
Punta del Este, Uruguay, December 14-18, 2001
| 06:00 - 08:00 pm |
Registration |
Session I: Opening Dinner and Keynote Address
| 08:00 - 10:00 pm |
"Regionalism, the FTAA and the Multilateral
System: Where do we stand now?"
Speaker: Robert Devlin, Inter American Development Bank
(IADB)
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Session II: Brainstorming Sessions
| 09:00 - 10:45 am |
"On the Economic
Determinants of Free Trade Agreements"
Jeffrey
Bergstrand -parte I
Jeffrey
Bergstrand -parte II
(University of Notre Dame), joint with Scott Baier
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| 10:00 - 11:15 am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 01:00 pm |
"Free Trade
Agreements and Tariff Policy"
Ernesto
López-Córdova (IADB)
Discussant: TBA
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| 01:00 - 02:30 pm |
Lunch |
| 02:45 - 04:30 pm |
"Exclusions
for Sale: Evidence on the Grossman-Helpman Model of Free Trade
Agreements"
Pablo Sanguinetti (UTDT), joint
with Alok K. Bohara and Kishore Gawande
Discussant: TBA
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Session III: Brainstorming Sessions
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| 09:00 - 10:45 am |
"Limiting Currency Volatility
to Stimulate Goods Market Integration: A Price Based Approach"
Shang-Jin
Wei
(Brookings Institution), joint with David Parsley
Discussant: Eduardo Levy-Yeyati (UTDT)
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| 10:45 - 11:15 am |
Coffee Break
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| 11:15 - 01:00 pm |
"EU Institutions
and Fiscal Policy Coordination, 1991-2001"
Mark
Hallerberg
(University of Pittsburgh), joint with Jürgen von Hagen
Discussant: Federico Sturzenegger (UTDT)
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| 01:00 - 02:30 pm |
Lunch |
| 02:45 - 04:30 pm |
"Beyond Mercosur:
Costs and Benefits of Trade Agreements with Northern Blocs"
Gabriel
Sánchez (IERAL, Fundación Mediterránea)
Discussant: Alejandro Micco (IADB)
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Session IV: Brainstorming Sessions
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| 09:00 - 10:45 am |
"Courting FDI: Is Competition
Bad?"
Eduardo
Fernández-Arias (IADB), joint with Ricardo
Hausmann and Ernesto Stein
Discussant: Guillermo Mondino (Chief Economist, Ministry
of Finance, Argentina)
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| 10:45 - 11:15 am |
Coffee Break
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| 11:15 - 01:00 pm |
"Regional Integration
and the Location of FDI"
Ernesto
Stein (IADB), joint with Christian Daude and Eduardo
Levy-Yeyati
Discussant: Andrew Powell (UTDT)
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| 01:00 - 02:30 pm |
Lunch |
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| 08:30 - 10:30 am |
Round Table (open to the public) |
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"Argentina and Mercosur at a Crossroad: is there
Light at the End of the Tunnel?"
Panelists:
Guillermo Calvo, Chief Economist, IADB
Guillermo Mondino, Chief Economist, Ministry of finance, Argentina
Guillermo Perry, Chief Economist, LAC, The World Bank
Ernesto Talvi, Executive Director, CERES
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The panel will discuss
the following issues: i) current macroeconomic problems in Argentina,
the array of solutions being considered (covering both the domestic
and international dimensions) and the chances that they will
succeed in preserving stability and promoting economic recovery
and growth; ii) the potential impact of Argentina's problems
on Brazil and feedback effects on Argentina; iii) the future
of Mercosur, on the one hand threatened by current macroeconomic
tensions while on the other, beginning promising negotiations
with the US and the European Union.
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| Notes:
Brainstorming Sessions
Brainstorming sessions will have a duration of 1 hour and
45 minutes. Each speaker will have 45 minutes to present the
paper. Each paper will have a discussant and each discussant
will have 20 minutes to present their comments. There will
be 40 minutes for general discussion.
Round Table
The Round Table will be held in Montevideo on Tuesday, December
18th, from 8.30 to 10.30 am at the Sheraton Montevideo Hotel.
It will be open to the public and will have a duration of
2 hours. Each panelist will have 25 minutes for their presentation.
For RIN participants attending the Round Table there will
be a van departing from Punta del Este (Hotel Las Dunas) to
Montevideo on Tuesday, December 18th at 7 am.
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