Foreword
THOMAS M. HOENIG
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

The Contributors

Symposium Summary

Opening Remarks
ALAN GREENSPAN
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Long-Term Tendencies in Budget Deficits and Debt
PAUL MASSON
Assistant Director of Research, International Monetary Fund

MICHAEL MUSSA
Director of Research, International Monetary Fund

Commentary
KUMIHARU SHIGEHARA
Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Table 2

General Discussion

What Do Budget Deficits Do?
LAURENCE BALL
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
N. GREGORY MANKIW
Professor, Harvard University

Commentary
ROBERT A. JOHNSON
Moore Capital Management

Commentary
ALLAN H. MELTZER
Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University

General Discussion

Monetary Policy Implications of Greater Fiscal Discipline
JOHN B. TAYLOR
Professor, Stanford University

Commentary
MERVYN KING
Chief Economist and Executive Director, Bank of England

Commentary
HELMUT SCHIEBER
Member of the Directorate, Deutsche Bundesbank

General Discussion

The Canadian Experience in Reducing Budget Deficits and Debt
PAUL MARTIN
Minister of Finance, Canada

Solutions for Developed Economies
ALAN J. AUERBACH
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Solutions for Developed Economies
ALBERTO GIOVANNINI
Professor, Columbia University

Solutions for Developed Economies
PETER PETERSON
Chairman, The Blackstone Group

Solutions for Developed Economies
JURGEN STARK
Under-Secretary for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Germany

General Discussion

Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Economies
SEBASTIAN EDWARDS
Chief Economist, Latin American and Caribbean Regional Office, The World Bank Edwards -
Tables 1, 6, 7, and 9

Commentary
JOSE PABLO ARELLANO
Budget Director, Ministry of Finance, Chile

Commentary
JOHN FLEMMING
Warden, Wadham College, Oxford University

General Discussion

Overview Panelists

MARTIN FELDSTEIN
President, NBER

GORAN PERSSON
Minister of Finance, Sweden

JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN
President, The World Bank

General Discussion

The Participants