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The Governance of Central Banks, August 31-September 1, 2006

Workshop, Sveriges Riksbank,

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31 August 2006

13:15	Welcome by Eva Srejber, Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank
13:30	Keynote Lecture by Alberto Alesina, Harvard Univeristy
14:30	Session 1: Term Limits “Squawk and capture: Influencing Appointed Regulators”, by Clare Leaver, Oxford Discussant: Torsten Persson, IIES Stockholm “Term Limits and Electoral Accountability”, by Michael Smart, University of Toronto, and Daniel Sturm, University of Munich and LSE Discussant: Marco Pagano, University of Salerno
16:30	Session 2: Globalization, goals and conflicts “Agency problems and goal conflicts“ by Robert Eisenbeis, Atlanta Fed. Discussant: Arnoud Boot, University of Amsterdam “Burden sharing in a banking crisis in Europe” by Charles Goodhart, LSE, and Dirk Schoenmaker, Free University Amsterdam Discussant: Philipp Hartmann, ECB

1 September 2006

09.00	Session 3: Governance I “The Value of Fed Board Memberships” by Renée Adams, Stockholm School of Economics Discussant: Franklin Allen, Wharton “Governing the governors: a clinical study of central banks” by Lars Frisell, Sveriges Riksbank and ECB, Kasper Roszbach, Sveriges Riksbank, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Stockholm School of Economics and Consip Discussant: Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam
11.00	Session 4: Governance II “Performance and governance of central banks” by James Barth, Auburn University, Gerald Caprio, Williams College, and Ross Levine, Brown University Discussant: Loretta Mester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia “Legal, actual and desirable independence: A Case Study of the Bank of Israel” by Alex Cukierman, Princeton and Tel Aviv University Discussant: Zvi Eckstein, Bank of Israel
13.30	Session 5: Auditing and Financial Law “Audit Committees in Central Banks” by Marie-Therese Camilleri, Tonny Lybek and Kenneth Sullivan, IMF Discussant: Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg, University of Lausanne “The economic impact of financial laws: the case of bank merger control”, by Elena Carletti, CFS, Philipp Hartmann, ECB, and Steven Ongena, Tilburg University Discussant: Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
15.15	Panel debate Chair: Ken Rogoff (Harvard) Participants: Axel Weber (Bundesbank), Stefan Ingves (Riksbank), Thomas Hoenig (Kansas City Fed), Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi), Claudio Borio (BIS), Mathias Dewatripont (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

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