SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Dr Željko Rohatinski, Governor of the Croatian National Bank, Chairman of the Committee
• Dr Boris Vujčić, Assistant Professor, Deputy Governor of the Croatian National Bank, Deputy Chairman of the Committee
• Dr Paul Wachtel, Professor, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Member of the Committee
• Dr Randall K. Filer, President, CERGE-EI Foundation, Member of the Committee

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Tomislav Presečan, MSc, Vicegovernor of the Croatian National Bank, Chairman of the Committee
• Nina Srkalović, Head of the Office of the Governor, Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee
• Mirjana Šipić, Advisor at the Accounting Department, Member of the Committee
• Vanja Orešković, Associate in the Office of the Governor, Secretary of the Committee

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
(participation by invitation only)

PANEL DISCUSSION

Panel Discussion I − THE CRISIS OF 2008 AND THE FUTURE OF REGULATION
Chairman: Paul Wachtel (New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business)

Participants:

• Mario I. Blejer (former director, CCBS, Bank of England)
• Gerald P. Dwyer (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
  PRESENTATION
• Marc Uzan (The Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee)
• Johannes de Beaufort Wijnholds (former permanent ECB representative, Executive Board, IMF)
  PRESENTATION

Panel Discussion II − TWENTY YEARS SINCE THE BERLIN WALL: A GENERATION OF TRANSITION
Chairman: Oleh Havrylyshyn (University of Toronto) − "Is the Transition Over? Possible Definitions and Some Measurements"

Participants:

• Erik Berglöf (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
• Randall K. Filer (CERGE EI, Prague)
• Poul Thomsen (International Monetary Fund)
• Cristian Popa (National Bank of Romania)

PRESENTATION − Twenty Years Since the Berlin Wall

PAPERS DEC

Session I

• Uwe Böwer and Alessandro Turrini: Life after the hangover: Economic growth in the new EU member states between accession boom and adjustment bust
  PRESENTATION
• Aaron Tornell, Athanasios Vamvakidis and Romain Ranciere: Currency Mismatch and Boom-Busts in Emerging Europe
  PRESENTATION
  Discussion of Iryna Ivaschenko

Session II

• Bernardo Bortolotti, Veljko Fotak, William Megginson and William Miracky: Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment Patterns and Performance
  PRESENTATION
  Comments by Dubravko Mihaljek
• Patrick Honohan: Euro Membership and Bank Stability: Friends or Foes? Lessons from Ireland
  PRESENTATION
  Comments by Vedran Šošić

Session III

• Alex Cukierman: The Anguish of Central Banking: Another Look at the Great US Inflation and its Aftermath
  Comments by Ricardo V. Lago
• Nikola Bokan, Lovorka Grgurić, Ivo Krznar and Maroje Lang: The Impact of Financial Crisis and Policy Response in Croatia
  PRESENTATION

Session IV

• Rainer Haselman, Katharina Marsch and Beatrice Weder di Mauro: Real Effects of Bank of Bank Governance: Bank Ownership and Corporate Innovation
  PRESENTATION
  Discussion of Haselmann, Marsch and Weder di Mauro
• Ralph de Haas and Neeltje van Horen: The crisis as a wake-up call. Do banks increase screening and monitoring during a financial crisis?
  PRESENTATION

Session V

• Wendy Carlin, Andrew Carlton and Colin Mayer: Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investments
  PRESENTATION
• Peter L. Rousseau: The Q-Theory of Mergers: International and Cross-Border Evidence
  Discussion of Krešimir Žigić

PAPERS YES

Session I - Chairman: Randall K. Filer

• Vida Bobić: Income and Price Elasticities of Croatian Trade - A Panel Data Approach
  PRESENTATION
  Discussion of Krešimir Žigić
  Comments by Saša Žiković
• Saša Cerovac and Lana Ivičić: Credit Risk Assessment of Corporate Sector in Croatia
  PRESENTATION
  Discussants: Paul Wachtel and Randall K. Filer

Session II - Chairman: Paul Wachtel

• Saša Drezdić: Production Factor Contributions to the Economic Growth of OECD Economies at the Industry Lavel
  PRESENTATION
  Discussants: Evan Kraft and Randall K. Filer
• Bruno Ćorić and Geoff Pugh: "The Financial Accelerator, Globalization and Output Growth Volatility"
  PRESENTATION
  Discussants: Saša Žiković and Oleh Havrylyshyn
  Comments by Saša Žiković

Session III - Chairman: Oleh Havrylyshyn

• Maja Mihaljević Kosor: Examining the Determinants of Student Non-completion in Higher Education: An Application to Croatia
  PRESENTATION
  Discussants: Paul Wachtel and Randall K. Filer
• Lena Malešević Perović and Silvia Golem: Investigating Macroeconomic Determinants of Happiness in Transition Countries: How Important is Government Expenditure?
  PRESENTATION
  Discussion of Krešimir Žigić