Intl Fin Spring 2003

Spring 2003
April 11	Robert Flood and Nancy Marion, "Perspectives on the Recent Currency Crisis Literature," NBER Working Paper no. 6360, January 1998 (presented by Ziyodullo Parpiev).
April 18	Gerardo Esquivel and Felipe Larrian B, "Explaining Currency Crises," June 1998(presented by Mizanur Rahman).
April 25	Jan Kakes, "A Survey of the Literature" (chapter 2), in his Monetary Transmission in Europe, Edward Elger, 2000 (presented by Elvira Kurmanalieva).
May 2	Eric Girardin and Nicholas Horsewood, "Regime Switching and Transmission Mechanisms of Monetary Policy in Japan at Low Interest Rates," mimeo, Universite de la Mediterranee & University of Birmingham, revised October 2001 (presented by Yang Lai Chow).
May 9	Francesco Paolo Mongelli, "'New' Views on the Optimum Currency Area Theory: What is EMU telling us?" European Central Bank Working Paper no. 138, April 2002 (presented by Monzur Hossain).
May 16	Paul Masson and Francisco J. Ruge-Murcia, "Explaining the Transition Between Exchange Rate Regimes," CDRE, University of Montreal, February 2002 (presented by Monzur Hossain).
May 23	Andrew Berg and Eduardo Borensztein, "The Choice of Exchange Rate Regime and Monetary Target in Highly Dollarized Economies," IMF Working Paper WP/00/29, February 2000 (presented by Keovisouk Dalasane).
May 30	Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz, "IS-LM and Monetarism," NBER Working Paper 9713, May 2003 (presented by Muysinaliev Utkirjon).
June 6	Daniel Cohen, "The HIPC Initiative: How Really Good Is It?" Ecole Normale Superieure & OECD Development Centre, 2000 (presented by Nguyen Chi Thanh).
June 13	Julian di Giovanni, "What Drives Capital Flows?: The Case of Cross-Border M&A Activity and Financial Deepening," University of California, Berkeley, CIDER Working Paper No. C02-122, January 2002 (presented by Elvira Kurmanalieva).
June 20	Graciela L. Kaminsky and Carmen M. Reinhart, "The Twin Crises: The Causes of Banking and Balance-of-Payments Problems," American Economic Review, 89:3, June 1999, pp.473-500 (presented by Suppakorn Chotika-arpa).
July 4	Kathryn Matthews, "Purchasing Power Parity, Nontraded Prices and the Terms of Trade," unpublished? (presented by Jonah Mushai).
July 11	Ronald McKinnon and Gunther Schnabl, "China: A Stabilizing or Deflationary Influence in East Asia?: The Problem of Conflicted Virtue," book chapter draft, May 2003 (presented by Keovisouk Dalasane).

Ph.D. course:	Ziyodullo Parpiev, Elvira Kurmanalieva, Keovisouk Dalasane
Master course:	Jonah Mushai, Mizanur Rahman, Monzur Hossain, Nguyen Chi Thanh, Yang Lai Chow, Muysinaliev Utkirjon, Suppakorn Chotika-arpa