Events - World Economy and Finance - Workshop

Friday 5 May 2006, 10.30am - 5.00pm
Birkbeck - University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX - see map/directions
Room B34 (Refreshments in Room B02/B03)

Workshop's programme - pdf

Papers:

Simon Deakin (Cambridge)
"Law, Finance and Development"

Panicos Demetriades
"National and International Aspects of Financial Development"

Chengang Xu (LSE)
"Legal vs. Administrative Governance: Chinese Financial Market Regulation"

Stefan Dercon (Oxford)
“Risk, Credit Markets and Technology Choice: evidence from Ethiopia”

Alan Sutherland (St Andrews) and Michael Devereux (British Columbia)
“Country Portfolios in Open Economy Macroeconomic Models"

Chris Meissner (Cambridge)
"Currency Mismatches, Default Risk, and Exchange Rate Depreciation: Evidence from the end of Bimetallism"

Hamid Sabourian (Birkbeck) and Andreas Park (Toronto)
“Herd behaviour in financial markets with sequential trades”