Conference on Debt, Default, and Access to Credit – December 2011
SAET co-sponsored a conference on Debt, Default and Access to Credit with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on December 2, 2011.
The conference was organized by Daniel Dias and Anne Villamil and took place in the Levis Faculty Center.
Conference Program
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 08:30 AM | Coffee reception in 403 Levis Faculty Center |
| Session Chair: Christine Richmond (IMF) | |
| 09:00 AM | “The stock of external sovereign debt: Can we take the data at ‘face value’?,” Daniel Dias* (UIUC), Christine Richmond (IMF), and Mark L. J. Wright (Chicago FED and UCLA) |
| 10:00 AM | “Measuring Debt Stocks,” Daniel Dias (UIUC), Christine Richmond (IMF) and Mark L. J. Wright* (Chicago FED and UCLA) |
| 11:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| Session Chair: Stephen Parente (UIUC) | |
| 11:30 AM | “sovereign Default and Banking,” Igor Livshits* (Western Ontario) and Koen Schoors (Ghent University) |
| 12:30 PM | Luncheon |
| Session Chair: Nicholas Yannelis (University of Iowa) | |
| 01:30 PM | “Banking and Default in General Equilibrium,” Antonio Antunes (Bank of Portugal), Tiago Cavalcanti (Cambridge) and Anne Villamil* (UIUC) |
| 02:30 PM | “Underwriting Ventures: Trust But Verify,” Juan Sanchez* (St. Louis FED), Harold L. Cole (U Penn) and Jeremy Greenwood (U Penn) |
| 03:30 PM | Coffee Break |
| Session Chair: Stefan Krasa (UIUC) | |
| 04:00 PM | “Bankruptcy and Access to Credit in General Equilibrium,” Matthew Hoelle* (Purdue) |
| 05:00 PM | “Credit Crunches and Credit Allocation in a Model of Entrepreneurship,” Marco Bassetto* (Chicago FED), Marco Cagetti (Board), Cristina De Nardi (Chicago FED) |
| * denotes the speaker | |