Schedule


	8:30 am

	9:00 am


		MONDAY: April 20, 1998

	Coffee, H Auditorium, HB1-201, 1914 G Street, N.W.

	Opening address by JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, World Bank


	Knowledge for Development: Economic Science, Economic Policy and Economic Advice


	9:30 am


	Keynote address by JAMES TOBIN, Yale University


	*Financial Globalization: Can National Currencies Survive?*


	10:00 am


	Tenth Anniversary address by STANLEY FISCHER, IMF


	ABCDE: Past Ten Years, Next Ten Years


	Is Geography Destiny?


	10:30 am


	The Role of Geography in Development


	PAUL KRUGMAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


	Chairperson


	ZHANG SHENGMAN, World Bank


	11:45 am

	12:15 pm


	Discussants:


	PAUL A. DAVID, University of Oxford


	JAMES E. RAUCH, University of California, San Diego


	Coffee break

	Geography and Economic Growth


	JOHN LUKE GALLUP, Harvard Institute for International Development


	JEFFREY SACHS, Harvard Institute for International Development


	Chairperson


	JEAN-CLAUDE MILLERON, World Bank


	1:30 pm


	Discussants:

	Lunch


	J. VERNON HENDERSON, Brown University

	ANTHONY VENABLES, London School of Economics


	Competition and Regulation Policy in Developing Countries


	3:00 pm


	Regulatory Priorities for Reforming Infrastructure Sectors in Developing Countries


	4:15 pm

	4:45 pm

	6:00 pm

	6:15 pm


	PAUL JOSKOW, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


	Chairperson


	LYN SQUIRE, World Bank


	Discussants:


	ISHER JUDGE AHLUWALIA, Centre for Policy Research, India


			KOTARO SUZUMURA, Hitotsubashi University

	Coffee break

	Competition, Information and Development

	JEAN JACQUES LAFFONT, Universite des Sciences Sociales


	Chairperson


	RUGHVIR K. KHEMANI, World Bank


	Discussants:


	ANA JULIA JATAR, Inter American Dialogue


	RICHARD SCHMALENSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


	End of the session

	Cocktails for participants and Bank staff hosted by DECVP

	MC12 Gallery, 1818 H Street, N.W.


	TUESDAY, April 21, 1998


	8:30 am

	9:00 am


	Coffee, H Auditorium, HB1-201, 1914 G Street, N.W.

	Welcoming address by JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN, World Bank


	Financial Market Liberalization in Developing Countries: Theory and Practice


	9:30 am


	International Adjustment in the Face of Imperfect Financial Markets


	10:45 am


	BRUCE GREENWALD, Columbia University


	Chairperson


	JOHN WILLIAMSON, World Bank


	Discussants:

		Coffee break


	GERARD CAPRIO, World Bank

	RONALD McKINNON, Stanford University


	11:15 am


	Financial Liberalitzation and Financial Fragility


	12:30 pm

	Ethnic Conflicts

	2:00 pm

	3:15 pm

	3:45 pm


	ASLI DEMIRGüÇ-KUNT, World Bank


	ENRICA DETRAGIACHE, International Monetary Fund


	Chairperson


	MASOOD AHMED, World Bank


	Discussants:


	CHARLES A.E. GOODHART, London School of Economics


			THOMAS HELLMANN, Stanford University

	Lunch

	Sructure and Strategy in Ethnic Conflict

	DONALD L. HOROWITZ, Duke University


	Chairperson


	JOANNE SALOP, World Bank


	Discussants:


	ROBERT BATES, Harvard University/World Bank


			MICHAEL CHEGE, University of Florida

	Coffee break

	The Political Economy of Ethnicity

	PAUL COLLIER, University of Oxford


	Chairperson


	JANE ARMITAGE, World Bank


	Discussants:


	PAULINE PETERS, Harvard University


	JENNIFER A. WIDNER, Michigan University


	5:00 pm


	Closing remarks by JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, (DECVP), World Bank


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