Conferences

12th Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile

Financial Stability, Monetary Policy and Central Banking

Santiago, Chile, Thursday, November 6, and Friday, November 7, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Time Speaker Subject
  Session I Opening Remarks (Session in Spanish, with translation)  
9:00-9:15 José De Gregorio (Governor, Central Bank of Chile) Opening Remarks
  Session II Defining Financial Stability
Chair: José De Gregorio (Governor, Central Bank of Chile)
 
9:15-10:00 Garry Schinasi (International Monetary Fund)
Discussant: Rodrigo Cifuentes (Central Bank of Chile) Comments
Defining and Safeguarding Financial Stability
Presentation / Paper
10:00-12:00 Coffee Break  
12:00-12:45 Claudio Borio and Mathias Drehmann (Bank of International Settlements)
Discussant: Norman Loayza (World Bank) Comments
Towards an operational framework for financial stability: “fuzzy” measurement and its consequences
Presentation / Paper
12:45-13:45 Dale F. Gray (IMF), Robert C. Merton (HBS, Harvard University), Zvi Bodie (Boston University) New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinanial Risk and Financial Stability
Presentation / Paper
  Dale Gray (IMF), Leonardo Luna and Jorge Restrepo (Central Bank of Chile). Discussant: Felipe Zurita (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Comments Incorporating Financial Sector Risk into Monetary Policy Models: Application to Chile
Paper
  Session III Keynote Address  
13:45-15:00 Lunch  
  Lars Nyberg (Sveriges Riksbank) Macrofinancial Systemic Risk Analysis
Session IV Financial Stability and Monetary Policy
Chair: Pablo García (Central Bank of Chile)
 
15:00-15:45 Francis Diebold (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Dimitrios Tsomocos (University of Oxford) Comments
Measuring Spillovers in Financial market Returns and Volatilities
Presentation / Paper
15:45-16:30 Dimitrios Tsomocos (University of Oxford), Charles Goodhart (LSE Professor Emeritus of Banking and Finance), Alexandros Vardoulakis (University of Oxford).
Discussant: Simon Gilchrist (Boston University)
Modelling a Housing and Mortgage Crisis
Presentation / Paper
16:30-17:00 Coffee  
17:00-17:45 Ethan Cohen-Cole (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) and Enrique Martinez-García (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Discussant: Jonathan Kearns (Reserve Bank of Australia) Comments
Systemic Risk, Banking Regulation and Optimal Monetary Policy
Presentation / Paper

 

Friday, November 7, 2008

Time Speaker Subject
  Session V Financial Stress Testing Methodologies I
Chair: Kevin Cowan (Central Bank of Chile)
 
9:00-9:45 Jaime Ruiz-Tagle (University of Chile) and Marcelo Fuenzalida (Central Bank of Chile)
Discussant: Eric Parrado (Ministry of Finance - Chile) Comments
Households' Financial Vulnerability
Presentation / Paper
9:45-10:30 Miguel Segoviano (International Monetary Fund),
Charles Goodhart (LSE Professor Emeritus of Banking and Finance)

Miguel Segoviano and Pablo Padilla (International Monetary Fund).

Discussant: Enrique Martínez-García (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Comments
Banking Stability Measures Portfolio Credit Risk and Macroeconomic Shocks: Applications to Stress Testing Under Data-Restricted Environments
Presentation / Paper
10:30-10:45 Coffee
  Session VI
Keynote Address
 
10:45-11:30 Jaime Caruana (International Monetary Fund) Financial Market Turbulences, International Integration, and Systemic Risk
Presentation / Paper
  Session VII Panel 1
Chair: Manuel Marfán (Member of the Board, Central Bank of Chile)
 
11:30-12:30 Panelists:
Martin Wolf (Financial Times)
Martín Redrado (Central Bank of Argentina)
José Darío Uribe (Central Bank of Colombia)
Financial Risk Management in Emerging Countries
Presentation / Paper
12:30-13:50 Lunch  
  Session VIII Financial Stress Testing Methodologies II
Chair: Enrique Marshall (Member of the Board, Central Bank of Chile)
 
14:00-14:45 David Aikman (Bank of England), Piergiorgio Alessandri (Bank of England), Bruno Eklund (Bank of England), Prasanna Gai (Australian National University), Sujit Kapadia (Bank of England), Elizabeth Martin (Bank of England), Nada Mora (Bank of England) and Gabriel Sterne (Bank of England), Matthew Willison (Bank of England).
Discussant: Ethan Cohen-Cole (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Comments
Funding Liquidity Risk in a Quantitative Model of Systemic Stability
Presentation /
14:45-15:30 Prasanna Gai (Australian National University) and Sujit Kapadia (Bank of England)
Discussant: Jorge Selaive (Central Bank of Chile) Comments
A Network Model of Financial Contagion
Presentation / Paper
15:30-15:45 Coffee
Session IX Panel II
Chair: Sebastián Claro (Member of the Board, Central Bank of Chile)
 
15:45-17:00 Panelists:
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University)Presentation / Paper
Paul McCulley (PIMCO) Paper
Roberto Zahler (Zahler & Co.) Presentation
Financial Risk Management and Large Financial Institutions: Lessons from the Recent Turbulences
Session X Closing Remarks  
17:00-17:30 Charles W. Calomiris (Columbia University) The Subprime Turmoil: What’s Old, What’s New, and What’s Next
Presentation