June 27 − June 30, 2007
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
- Mr. Željko Rohatinski, Chairman, Governor of the Croatian National Bank
- Mr. Boris Vujčić, Vice Chairman, Assistant Professor, Deputy Governor of the Croatian National Bank
- Mr. Mario I. Blejer, Member, Director of the Centre for Central Banking Studies, Bank of England
- Mr. Paul Wachtel, Member, Professor, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
- Mr. Randall K. Filer, Member, President, CERGE-EI Foundation
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Mr. Tomislav Presečan, Chairman, Vicegovernor of the Croatian National Bank, Chairman of the Committee
- Ms. Nina Srkalović, Head of the Office of the Governor, Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee
- Ms. Mirjana Šipić, Senior Advisor in the Accounting Department, Member of the Committee
- Ms. Vanja Orešković, Associate in the Office of the Governor, Secretary of the Committee
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
(participation by invitation only)
PAPERS DEC
Session I - BANKING
- Stijn Claessens and Neeltje van Horen: Location Decisions of Foreign Banks and Competitive Advantage
PRESENTATION
Discussion by Jan Svejnar - Steven Ongena, Elena Carletti and Philipp Hartmann: The Economic Impact of Merger Control: What is special about banking?
PRESENTATION
Session II - REGULATION AND CENTRAL BANKING
- James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr. and Ross Levine: "Bank Regulation Is Changing: But for Better or Worse?"
PRESENTATION
Discussion by Paul Wachtel - Iftekhar Hasan and Loretta J. Mester: "Corporate Governance and Effective Central Banking: Cross-Country Empirical Evidence"
PRESENTATION
Session III - DEMOGRAPHICS & LABOR ISSUES
- Angela Maddaloni, Alberto Musso, Philipp Rother, Melanie Ward-Warmedinger and Thomas Westermann: "Macroeconomic implications of demographic developments in Euro Area"
PRESENTATION - Jarko Fidrmuc, Neil Foster and Johann Scharler: "Labour Market Rigidities, Financial Integration and International Risk Sharing in the OECD"
Comments by Vedran Šošić
Session IV - SUPERVISORY ISSUES
- Lars Jonung: "Lessons from financial integration and financial crises in Scandinavia"
PRESENTATION
Comments by David G. Mayes - Natalia T. Tamirisa and Deniz O. Igan: "Credit Growth and Bank Soundness in Emerging Europe"
PRESENTATION
Comments by Evan Kraft
Session V - INFLATION DETERMINANTS
- Claudio Borio and Andrew Filardo: "Globalisation and Inflation: New cross-country evidence on the global determinants of domestic inflation"
PRESENTATION
Comments by Neven Mates - Ljubinko Jankov, Ivo Krznar, Davor Kunovac and Maroje Lang: "The Impact of USD/EUR Exchange Rate on Inflation in CEE Countries"
PRESENTATION
Discussion by Athanasios Vamvakidis
PANEL DISSCUSION
- Boštjan Jazbec: "Who Supervises Whom? Who Pays What?"
- Juergen Kroeger: "Will catching-up continue smoothly in the "new" EU Members?"
- Susan Schadler: "Enlargement of the European Union: Three Years Later"
- Zdenek Tůma: "A Disparity Between Economic Alignmentand Nominal Convergence"
PRE-CONFERENCE PAPERS
- Saša Žiković: "Measuring Market Risk in EU New Member States"
PRESENTATION - Josip Funda, Gorana Lukinić and Igor Ljubaj: Assessment of Balassa-Samuelson Effect in Croatia"
PRESENTATION
Discussion by Krešimir Žigić - Tomislav Galac, Lana Ivičić and Mirna Dumičić: "A Simple Model of Interest Rates in the Croatian Money Market"
Discussion by Iftekhar Hasan - Maruška Vizek and Tanja Broz: "Modeling Inflation in Croatia"
PRESENTATION - Lena Malešević: "Investigating non-linearities in the inflation-growth trade-off in transition countries"
PRESENTATION
Discussion by Iftekhar Hasan - Katja Gattin-Turkalj, Igor Ljubaj, Ana Martinis and Marko Mrkalj: "Estimating Credit Demand in Croatia"
PRESENTATION
Discussion by Krešimir Žigić