Harvard Argentine Society (HAS) invites you to: 

“Developing after the Crisis: 
Reflections on Argentina’s Economy, two years after the collapse"

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

6:00-7:30 PM 

Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building Kennedy School of Government Harvard University  
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Moderator: Professor Andres Velasco 

Argentine guest speakers: 

Alejandro Izquierdo, Senior Economist at the Inter American Development Bank. 
Sergio Schmukler, Senior Economist at the World Bank. 
Domingo Cavallo, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard and former Minister of Economy of Argentina. 

Together they will analyze different aspects of Argentina’s economic crisis of 2001/2002, and extract lessons for the years to come. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for International Development. 
Following the panel please join us for a reception. Space limited to the first 100 participants. To sign up Click here.

Alejandro Izquierdo is Senior Economist at the Inter American Development Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, an M.S. from the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina, and a B.A. in Economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previously he worked at the World Bank in the Department of Economic Policy, and taught courses on macroeconomics and international finance at several Latin American universities. His current research interests include issues in international finance such as the amplification effects of collateral constraints on the real exchange rate and output, identification and determinants of sudden stops in capital flows, and fiscal sustainability under sudden stops. He has also worked on the impact of macroeconomic external shocks and public expenditure allocation on poverty reduction for developing countries using computerized general equilibrium models. His presentation is entitled “Sudden Stops in Capital Flows, the Real Exchange Rate, and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina’s Lessons”. 

Sergio Schmukler is a senior economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth team, Development Research Group at the World Bank. He also works at the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and he has been a visiting scholar at the Center for International Economics, Department of Economics, University of Maryland College Park. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. Before joining the World Bank, he worked at the Federal Reserve Board, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Argentine Central Bank. His research area is international finance and international financial markets and institutions. He has published several articles in academic journals on topics such as exchange rate regimes, financial globalization, financial crises and contagion, and financial development. His presentation is entitled "The Rise and Fall of Argentina's Currency Board". 

Domingo Cavallo is the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard. He was previously the Henry Kaufman Visiting Professor at New York University, and served as Minister of Economics of Argentina during two periods: 1991-1996, and during 2001. Previously, he served as president of Argentina's Central Bank in 1982 and as minister of foreign relations from 1989-1991. Cavallo, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard, will share his firsthand knowledge of the effects of the Argentine economy on the global economy. His presentation is entitled: “Was the implosion of the Argentine Economy at the beginning of 2002 inevitable?”

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