Sponsored by WAGE, CIBER, and Robert M. La Follette School of Public
Affairs
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Economics, European Union Center of Excellence, WI Dept. of Commerce, the International
Credit Executives Group,
MITA, and World
Trade Center Wisconsin
Global Imbalances and the U.S. Dollar: Doing Business
in the World Economy
Menzie
Chinn and Charles Engel,
Organizers
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Fluno Center for Executive Education
Agenda
11:30-Noon Conference Registration
Noon-1:30 Luncheon
Reflections on the Current Outlook
Michael Knetter, Dean UW School of Business.
1:30-1:45 Break
1:45-3:15 Panel I
Global imbalances and currencies …and
how they affect US Business
Panelists:
Charles Engel
Professor of Economics, UW-Madison
Catherine Mann
Professor
of Economics, Brandeis
University. Senior Fellow, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International
Economics
Michael Melvin
Managing Director, and Head of Currency Research,
Barclay’s
Global Investors. Co-editor of Journal
of International Money & Finance
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 p.m. Panel II
The United States, China and the Policy Choices
Panelists:
Menzie Chinn
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, UW-Madison
Jeffrey Frankel
James
W. Harpel Professor, Harvard
University. Former member, President’s Council of
Economic Advisers. Member of NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee
Shang-Jin Wei
Professor
of Finance and Economics, Columbia
University. Former Division Chief, IMF, and former Senior
Fellow, the Brookings Institution
5:15-6:15 p.m. Reception; Study Pub on 8th Floor
(note change of venue)
All speakers are confirmed. Exact schedule and
specific panel topics may change slightly
Abbreviated biographies
Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital
Formation and Growth at Harvard
University’s Kennedy
School of Government. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Member of the President’s
Council of Economic Advisers. He also directs the Program in International
Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where
he is also on the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declared
the 2001 recession.
Catherine Mann
Catherine L. Mann is a professor at International
Business School
at Brandeis University, and a senior fellow at the
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. She has also held
positions at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the President's Council of
Economic Advisers, and the World Bank. Her books include Accelerating the
Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology (2006) and Global
Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer (2000); as well Is the US Trade Deficit
Sustainable? (1999).
Michael Melvin
Michael Melvin is a Managing Director, at Barclay’s Global
Investors. He leads the currency research team in the Global Market Strategies
Group. Prior to joining BGI in 2005, he
was Professor of Economics and Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar at Arizona State University. He also serves as Co-editor of the Journal of
International Money & Finance, the leading scholarly journal devoted to
international finance. His research on
foreign exchange and global equity markets has been published in the leading
academic journals. He received his PhD
from UCLA.
Shang-Jin Wei
Shang-Jin Wei is a Professor of Finance and Economics and
N.T. Wang Chair in Chinese Business and Economy at Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Business. His previous positions include Chief of Trade and
Investment Division at the International Monetary Fund, the New Century Chair
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Associate Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of
Government. Professor Wei has published extensively on topics on international
finance, trade, and the Chinese economy in leading academic journals.
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