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## **The Politics and Economics of International Finance Research Group Meeting**

*Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs with the generous support of the Andrew Quale, Jr. Fund*

Conference Chairs:

**Frankel, Jeffrey**  
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School.

**Frieden, Jeffry A.**   
Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University.

**Location**: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

**8:20-8:50 AM: Continental Breakfast**

**8:50-9:00 AM: Welcome**

**9:00-10:20 AM: Anna Gelpern** (Georgetown University Law Center), ““Sovereign Debt Contracts and Sovereign Debt Policy”

**10:20-10:40 AM: Coffee Break**

**10:40 AM-12:00 PM: Andrew Rose** (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley), “Endogenous Optimum Currency Areas: Where Do We Stand?”

**12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch**

**1:00-2:20 PM: Kenneth Scheve** (Political Science, Stanford University),"The Political Economy of Taxation"

**2:20-2:40 PM: Coffee Break**

**2:40-4:00 PM:** A Dialogue on “Monetary Policy, Emerging Markets, and the IMF”

- **Olivier Blanchard** (Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Chief Economist, IMF)
- **Raghuram Rajan** (University of Chicago; former Governor, Reserve Bank of India; former Chief Economist, IMF)

**4:00-5:30 PM:** Panel on “Liquidity in the U.S. and Global Financial System: Risks and Vulnerabilities”

- **Tobias Adrian** (Director, Monetary and Capital Markets, and Counselor to the Managing Director, IMF)
- **Brian Leach** (former head of franchise risk and strategy at Citigroup)
- **Zoltan Pozsar** (Director of U.S. Economics, Credit Suisse)

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