PROGRAM

 

The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School

 presents the 2001 Journal of Financial Intermediation Symposium

BANKING IN EMERGING MARKETS

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

June 15-17, 2001

Friday, June 15

6:00 PM Keynote Address:  Dr. Michael Moskow, President and CEO     
                                Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
6:45 PM Welcome Reception and Dinner

Saturday, June 16

  SESSION I:  ISSUES IN BANK REGULATION
Chair:  Patrick Bolton, Princeton University
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM Viral V. Acharya (New York University)
  "A Theory of Systemic Risk and Design of Prudential Bank Regulation"
  Discussant:  Richard Rosen, Indiana University
   
9:30 AM Haizhou Huang (International Monetary Fund)
  Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics)
  "Financial Institutions, Financial Contagion, and Financial Crises"
  Discussant:  George Pennacchi, University of Illinois
10:30 AM Break
   
11:00 AM Jun Qian (Boston College)
George Alessandria (Ohio State University)
  "The Development of Financial Intermediation and Real Effects of Capital Account Liberalization"
  Discussant: Loretta J. Mester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
   
Noon Lunch
 
  SESSION II:  FINANCIAL SYSTEM DESIGN
Chair:  Anjan V. Thakor, University of Michigan
   
1:00 PM Ross Levine (University of Minnesota)
  "Bank-Based or Market-Based Financial Systems: Which is Better?"
  Discussant:  Artyom Durnev, University of Michigan
   
2:00 PM Break
   
2:15 PM Solomon Tadesse (University of South Carolina)
  "Financial Architecture and Economic Performance: International Evidence"
  Discussant:  Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Harvard University
   
3:15 PM Break
   
3:30 PM Thomas F. Hellman (Stanford University)
Marco Da Rin (University of Torino)
  "Banks as Catalysts for Industrialization"
  Discussant: Sugato Bhattacharyya, University of Michigan
   
4:30 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Conference Dinner

Sunday, June 17

  SESSION III:  ISSUES IN EMERGING MARKETS
Chair:  Jan Svejnar, William Davidson Institute, UMBS
   
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
   

8:30 AM

Roundtable Discussion:  

                                          Emerging Research and

                                          Policy Issues in Emerging Markets

 

  Patrick Bolton (Princeton University) 
Stuart Greenbaum (Washington University)
Anna Meyendorff (William Davidson Institute)
Jan Svejnar (WDI and University of Michigan)
9:30 AM Darius P. Miller (Indiana University)
  John Puthenpurackal (Texas A&M University)
  "The Costs, Wealth Effects, and Determinants of International Capital Raising:  Evidence from Public Yankee Bonds"
  Discussant: Josh Coval, University of Michigan
   
10:30 AM Break
   
11:00 AM James E. McNulty (Florida Atlantic University)
  "Legal Systems, Financial Intermediation and the Development of Loan Relationships in the Transitional Economies of Central and Eastern Europe"
  Discussant: Serdar Dinc, University of Michigan
 
Noon Adjourn

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