Foreword
THOMAS M. HOENIG
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
The Contributors
Symposium Introduction
STACEY L. SCHREFT
Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Opening Remarks
BEN S. BERNANKE
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System SHIFTS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND THEIR CAUSESAuthor: ANTHONY J. VENABLES
Professor, London School of Economics Paper: Shifts in Economic Geography and Their Causes
Discussant:
DOUGLAS A. IRWIN
Professor, Dartmouth College General Discussion CONSEQUENCES FOR PRODUCTION AND PRICES, EMPLOYMENT AND WAGESAuthors: GENE M. GROSSMAN
Professor, Princeton University ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG
Professor, Princeton University Paper: The Rise of Offshoring: It's Not Wine for Cloth Anymore
Discussant: JOHN B. TAYLOR
Professor, Stanford University General Discussion CONSEQUENCES FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS AND GLOBAL SAVING AND INVESTMENTAuthor: RAGHURAM G. RAJAN
Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund Paper: Patterns of International Capital Flows and Their Implications for Economic Development
Discussant: SUSAN M. COLLINS
Professor, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution General Discussion Luncheon AddressSTANLEY FISCHER
Governor, Bank of Israel
STRATEGIES FOR GROWTHPanelists: T. N. SRINIVASAN
Professor, Yale University JAN SVEJNAR
Professor, University of Michigan PAUL COLLIER
Professor, Oxford University
General Discussion IMPLICATIONS FOR MONETARY POLICYAuthor: KENNETH S. ROGOFF
Professor, Harvard University Paper: Impact of Globalization on Monetary Policy
Discussant: CHARLES BEAN
Executive Director and Chief Economist, Bank of England General Discussion OVERVIEW PANEL Panelists: MARTIN FELDSTEIN
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research ARMINIO FRAGA
Chief Executive Officer, Gavea Investimentos RAKESH MOHAN
Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India General Discussion
The Participants |