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Current account imbalances.


NBER Research Associate Richard H. Clarida of Columbia University organized an NBER Conference on "G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment", which was held on June 1 and 2. These papers were discussed:

Richard H. Clarida, and Manuela Goretti and Mark Taylor, University of Warwick In the 1960s and 1970s, Warwick had a reputation as a politically radical institution.[3] More recently, the University has been seen as a favoured institution of the British New Labour government. , "Are There Thresholds of Current Account Adjustment in the G7?"

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: Robert E. Cumby, NBER and Georgetown University

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, NBER and University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , and Helene Rey, NBER and Princeton University, "From World Banker to World Venture Capitalist: The U. S. External Adjustment and the Exorbitant Privilege"

Discussant: Jose De Gregorio, Central Bank of Chile The Central Bank of Chile (Spanish: Banco Central de Chile) is the central bank of Chile. It was created by President Arturo Alessandri in 1925 and incorporated into the current Chilean Constitution by President Augusto Pinochet in 1980.  

Philip R. Lane, Trinity College Dublin, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, International Monetary Fund, "A Global Perspective on External Positions"

Discussant: Richard Portes, NBER and London Business School Around 800 degree students, from 70 countries, graduate from the school each year. Over 80 percent of students, and over 70 percent of faculty, come from outside the UK. A further 6,000 executives attend the school executive education programmes each year.  

Harold Faruqee and Douglas Laxton, International Monetary Fund; Dirk Muir, Norges Bank; and Paolo Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Bank of New York, abbrieviated to BNY, was a global financial services company that existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007.[1] The bank now continues under the new name of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. , "Smooth Landing or Crash? Model-Based Scenarios of Global Current Account Rebalancing"

Discussant: Lars E.O. Svensson, NBER and Princeton University

Aart Kraay, World Bank, and Jaume Ventura, NBER and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account"

Discussant: Joseph Gagnon, Federal Reserve Board

Michael P. Dooley, NBER and University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university, one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ; David Folkerts-Landau, Deutsche Bank; and Peter Gather, NBER and Brown University, "Direct Investment, Rising Real Wages, and the Absorption of Excess Labor in the Periphery" (NBER Working Paper No. 10626)

Discussant: Shang-Jin Wei, NBER and IMF IMF

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Menzie D. Chinn, NBER and University of Wisconsin, and Jeffrey A. Frankel, NBER and Harvard University, "Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading international Reserve Currency?" (NBER Working Paper No. 11510)

Discussant: Edwin Truman, Institute for International Economics

Maurice Obstfeld, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, and Kenneth S. Rogoff, NBER and Harvard University, "The Unsustainable U.S. Current Account Position Revisited" (NBER Working Paper No. 10869)

Discussant: Kristin Forbes, NBER and MIT

Muge Adalet, Victoria University, Wellington, and Barry Eichengreen, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, "Current Account Reversals: Always a Problem?"

Discussant: Frederic S. Mishkin, NBER and Columbia University

Catherine L. Mann and Katharina Plueck, Institute for International Economics, "The U.S. Trade Deficit: A Disaggregated Perspective"

Discussant: Peter Kenen, Princeton University

Caroline Freund, World Bank, and Frank Warnock, University of Virginia, "Current Account Deficits in Industrial Countries: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall?" Discussant: Assaf Razin, NBER and Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU, אוניברסיטת תל־אביב, את"א) is Israel's largest on-site university.  
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